[amsat-bb] Re: Stop Your Whining Already! / Satellite FIeld Day!

["Gary \"Joe\" Mayfield" <ka0yos@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Dennis Morris <denmorr@bellsouth.net>
To: <amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
Cc: <kk5yy@arrl.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 7:12 AM
Subject: Fw: Stop Your Whining Already! Re: [amsat-bb] Satellite FIeld Day!


 > I share KK5YY's sentiments - several groups - 2 in particular, including a
 > group using the call of an AMSAT officer - assembled mega-stations for
Field
 > Day with hundreds of watts and huge antennas. They then dominated UO-14
and
 > AO-27 every pass, preventing many groups (including mine) from making any
 > contacts.  I thought the intent of the satellite bonus was to encourage
 > satellite exposure, not to pile up points.
 >
 > Until the rules are changed, my group is planning a mega-station for next
 > year - guess we'll just add to the problem.
 >
 > I would suggest to ARRL changing the rules - perhaps a power limit and
only
 > one contact on each FM bird for points.
 >
 > 73,
 > Dennis C. Morris
 > WA4ZJJ

^^^^^^  A great deal clipped. ^^^^^^^

The ARRL does not encourage this.  We do (you, me and the rest of the AMSAT
community).  The way the ARRL scores satellite contacts there is no real
reason to make more than one satellite contact, but the AMSAT Field Day
competition is another matter.  I am as "guilty" as the next guy in
competing the AMSAT competition (it's fun!).  In fact, I submitted a log
this year as well.

The real question is do we want to have contests on the satellites?  These
conditions will persist as long as we operate under contest conditions.
People running stacked 5 element monobanders have an advantage on HF, other
operators have come to accept this.

In the past we strongly discouraged contesting on satellites.  The more I
think about this maybe it was the right thing to do.

My Opinion - 73,
Joe

P.S. Please send all flames to ka0yos@amsat.org


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