About 50 years ago during the SSB wars, Dubya TOO Ole Yankee, W2OY, was notorious for calling, *"CQ CQ, don't want any KIDS, LIDS or BUS PATROLS, just good clean A M signals!" * This describes at least three groups in ham radio today, not just on HF.
Kids *having fun* LIDS *being LIDS* Bus Patrols*commenting on the first two and jealous that they can't participate "their way"*. Only thing changed is 50 years have passed and the topic is satellites, not AM. Jim On 6/27/2011 12:12 PM, Gregg Wonderly wrote: > In my several years of being a licensed ham, this is the theme of most > contacts > about SAT work. The OSCAR class stations always just do whatever they want. > It > seems that the attitude is, I've spent the time and money to have this kind of > station, and I'm entitled to use it at my discretion. I think it is great to > see this kind of dedication to operating, but as many are saying here and have > said before, it seems a little bit more than unfair that a single resource on > the other end, is not shared fairly, especially for equipment which was > intended > to be shared. > > Satellites are limited resources. If you put a lot of time and money into > your > station to use that limited resource, you might also consider putting some > time > and money into getting additional resources up in the air so that it's easier > for you to make good use of your system. > > Nothing is free in this world... > > Gregg Wonderly > W5GGW > > On 6/27/2011 10:54 AM, wa4...@comcast.net wrote: >> Field Day to my understanding is to see how ops can get on the with the bare >> minimum of equipment needed to make the contact.NOT to blast the **** out of >> the bird and walk all over the little guy trying to play fair. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jeff KB2M"<k...@comcast.net> >> To: "AMSAT"<amsat-bb@amsat.org> >> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 10:35:35 AM >> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: FD Mess >> >> If it wasn't for the Oscar class stations making "HI POWER multi contacts" >> who would help the vast majority of weak portable FD stations make their one >> FD contact? Certainly not a weak station calling CQ for 5 passes! I've >> never heard two OCS making contact with each other, it's always with a much >> weaker station. This is the other side of the same argument heard every year >> after FD. Anyway I got my contact :) >> >> 73 Jeff kb2m 2A SNJ >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On >> Behalf Of wa4...@comcast.net >> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 11:14 AM >> To: AMSAT >> Subject: [amsat-bb] FD Mess >> >> It took me 5 satellite passes before I could make 1 contact There were too >> many ops making what sounded like HI POWER multi contacts .This should not >> have happened. Maybe someone with good writting skills could send the ARRL >> world above 50 an artical on how to work the birds during FD >> WA4HFN em55 Damon >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
