[amsat-bb] Poor Operators

[Mike Wilhelm]

I've been collecting equipment and waiting for the right time to try and
get on a bird.  Life is too busy...
Anyway, it might be helpful if there were a few audio examples we could
pass on to newbies and uninformed operators of good and bad operating.  I
would recommend beeping out any parts of the call sign for any examples of
poor operation.  I'd sure like to hear them.  Maybe even post them to a
section on the AMSAT page covering operating?  I apologize if this is
already out there...back to that too busy thing again.  I haven't had many
opportunities to take my FT-470 outside with my Arrow and chase a bird.
The QSOs I've heard seem like they go so fast and I'd hate to annoy anyone
by being the slowpoke.
73!  Mike AF5AT

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:52 PM Brad Smith via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> I am a minimalist because I want to be a minimalist. I understand that the
> FM bird is nothing more than a repeater and the strongest signal takes the
> bird, even if someone else is talking. "Someone else is talking" is the
> rude part. Last weekend, I was chasing a rover and got "KC9" out and into
> the bird (I work full duplux, so know that I was in) and someone took over
> by stepping on me. Luckily, I got him anyway, but someone was high power
> and more important than me. That's the way contesters work. But, I don't
> want to plaster someone's call on the board. I just hope that the person is
> a member and thinks about it. Getting into a peeing contest with someone is
> not beneficial to anybody, including the hobby. It used to be that if one
> said "handheld" or "portable" guys would give them a break, but that
> doesn't happen anymore. The birds are too crowded for that. There are
> several people in my ham clubs that want to try satellite operation and
> myself and my friend Rick (WA9JBQ) loves to
>  mentor them and teach them the proper way to operate. Not everyone has
> this benefit. I don't know what the answer is. Last Spring one ham was an
> extremely poor operator on the birds, but is now a better operator. So,
> something works. But there is always the tendency to crank up the power to
> get the station that you want, if you have the power available. It is like
> guys who I know that run 1,500 watts on FT8 to get what they want. I guess
> it is going to happen and we have to live with that fact.
>
> As soon as I solve my equipment problem with my 847 and the weather turns
> warmer, I will be back on the linear birds. I sure do miss FO-29. Brad
> KC9UQR
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