Re: [amsat-bb] ISS QSO's during Field Day

["Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL" <vlfiscus@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:04 PM 6/27/01 -0400, Estes Wayne-W10191 <W10191@motorola.com> wrote:

>Wayne replies:
>
>I hope I'm not being too nit-picky here.  You violated two ARRL Field Day
>rules if you and your club members used personal callsigns and a "Field Day
>station" to contact another field day station (NA1SS was a field day station
>operating "1A battery").

You're correct, but we made the QSO's for fun and we won't be counting any 
of them for field day points.  I felt it would be neat to get new hams 
hooked on satellites by using the ISS.  I don't know yet whether I hooked 
any, but they were all smiles.

KB7ADL

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