RE: [amsat-bb] ECHO Voice operations

[Bob K0NR <k0nr-list@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Bruninga wrote:
> That is not what I envision at all.  A good example is a ARISS or SAREX
> contact.  In 8 minutes, with a net-control op, they crank through 16 or more
> kids with questions and 16 or more relatively long winded responses.
> Compare that throughput to what happens on an FM bird...  

  Perhaps the term "net" takes people to a strange place.
  This sounds more like a "Special Event", since the concept is
  to dedicate a pass to a particular type of activity. 
  While I see that there are challenges with doing this, I think
  the idea has merit and is worth trying on a limited basis.
  I like the "Kids Pass" idea and the "Demonstration Pass" for
  during a major convention, for example.
  
  There are a number of problems in making this work. One of which
  is deciding what activities are worthy of a special event pass.
  There is already the perception that certain "big guns" dominate
  the FM birds. We wouldn't want the Special Event passes to
  be perceived as just a different way to dominate the bird
  (which is what it is, just on a single-pass basis).
  
  Of course, I'd like one of the Special Event passes to be
  for those with Zero callsigns with suffixes that start
  with N  :-)

  73,
  Bob K0NR
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