[amsat-bb] Clarification on Satellite Friends of 50 Award

[Jean Marc Momple]

Bob,

Additional food for though on the Friends of 50 Award:

1) With LEO’s: 50 different callsigns on FM birds may be quite easy to achieve in some part of the world but impossible in my region as only a dozen of OM’s active in the within LEO footprint.
2) With QO-100: 50 different callsigns can be worked in a few days right now. 3B8FA is already above 150 and myself around 50 in a few weeks, just not a real challenge.

Above cases to show that the Award may be very challenging or a piece of cake depending where your QTH is located.

I am not chasing Awards, just sharing an opinion.

73


Jean Marc (3B8DU)


> On Mar 24, 2019, at 4:41 AM, Bob <WB4SON at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> Well, thanks for the clarification, and poop!
> 
> My reading of the rule was that 50 contacts need to be made on 50 different
> days, as in "To achieve this award, you must work 50 amateur radio
> operators on any satellite (limit of 1 contact per day) during 2019".  I
> believe a reasonable person could read that either way (50 different
> stations, or simply 50 contacts.
> 
> May I suggest that the addition of a single word would make the rule MUCH
> easier to understand:
> "To achieve this award, you must work 50 DIFFERENT amateur radio operators
> on any satellite (limit of 1 contact per day) during 2019"
> 
> And with that -- dang, I had just finished 50 days worth of QSOs.  Since I
> have only worked about 250 different stations in 45 years, this may well be
> nearly impossible, so a much larger challenge!
> 
> 73, Bob, WB4SON
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:30 AM Robert Bankston via AMSAT-BB <
> amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> 
>> Ed, you are correct.  The Friends of 50 Award requires 50 different call
>> signs on 50 different days.
>> 73,
>> Robert Bankston, KE4ALAMSAT-NA VP of User Services
>> Twitter:  @KE4ALabamaWebsite:  KE4AL.wordpress.com
>> 
>>    On Friday, March 22, 2019, 4:18:38 AM CDT, HUGH EMPEY <
>> wa7eth at frontier.com> wrote:
>> 
>> This may be "obvious to the most casual observer"  but I do not want to
>> assume anything.  The rules for this award state that "you must work 50
>> amateur radio operators on any satellite (limit one per day) during 2019.
>> Does this mean 50 "different" call signs or can you count the same call
>> sign
>> more than once if you work them on different days.  I interpret this to
>> mean
>> "50 different call signs."  Am I correct.  I have my flameproof suit on
>> just in case.
>> 
>> .
>> 
>> 73'.Ed  WA7ETH
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> *    Chuck Yeager
>> 
>> 
>> 
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