[amsat-bb] AO92 L/V mode??

[Matthew Stevens]

As somebody who has waited up until 3am many times, standing out in my yard holding an arrow antenna, hoping that AO-7 would be active in mode B and not have been flipped to mode A by a qro station, only to be disappointed, or hoped that HF propagation would go my way, so I could work some particular DX... I don’t really understand so many people having the attitude that these mode changes and stuff are to be treated like an airline or train schedule.

This is a hobby. It’s for fun. Volunteers put in time and effort to enable us to play with sats in our free time. These guys make a reasonable effort to advise everybody of mode changes, in consistent, publicly accessible ways. If you’re capable of operating a complex multi band/mode sat station with automated rotors, then you probably also have the technical skills to check twitter.com/amsat (no account needed!) along with your BB email...

- Matthew nj4y

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> On Sep 22, 2019, at 23:48, Devin L. Ganger via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> 
> From: Eli Caul wrote:
> 
>> I love this BB, and I am one of those that has never had a Facebook or Twitter
>> account.   I hope that the folks in the know remember that not everyone
>> uses Social Media, and post info where the rest of us can get at is as well.
> 
> This is a valid point.
> 
> At the same time, there are often compromise positions that can be taken. For example, Twitter can entirely be used to follow a team's updates simply by pointing your web browser to the URL for that team's account. You don't have to have a Twitter account, or logon, or anything. Instant status updates are literally what Twitter is designed for.
> 
> The problem with email lists is that email, despite its reputation today (thanks to the hard work of hundreds of thousands of engineers and architects), is *NOT GUARANTEED* to be instantaneous in delivery -- or, even, to guarantee delivery at all. I can't tell you how many messages from this very list I've received with 1-2 days of delay or more, or find them squirreled away in Junk Mail for whatever reason. I'm a professional email architect, I practically live on my computer, and there's nothing I can do about these delays and reroutes.
> 
> Some teams want the overhead of using multiple communication methods. Some don't. It's a choice of what is the most bang for the buck.
> 
> Every choice we make has consequences. Sometimes it is not possible to have it all.
> 
> --
> Devin L. Ganger (WA7DLG)
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