[amsat-bb] Working in the "Field"

[Don KB2YSI]

I think you missed my point.

All of my satellite contacts have been while holding 2 radios and an Arrow.
I take that back, I think I had a few with the D72 in full duplex mode
before I sold it.

The only antenna that I can operate from inside is a HF OCF Windom.


On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 10:54 AM Brad Smith via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> <More arm chair operators should attempt to make QSO's in the field. They
> might get an idea of what manual everything entails.> What I see is ops
> sitting in front of their SDR computer screen, and criticizing someone who
> is out in a field, holding an Arrow in one hand and an HT in the other, and
> combating fading, because they missed something in a call, or did something
> that they don't like. I only work satellite portable and don't know the
> luxury of working from a temperature controlled room with computer screens,
> rotating and elevating antenna, pen and paper, etc. But we handheld ops are
> still giving them the grids.  Brad KC9UQR
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-- 
73,
Don KB2YSI
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