[amsat-bb] Re: Weekend on the Birds

2009-10-21 Thread Tim - N3TL
John and all, Well-said. It's sad that some continue to intentionally and maliciously jam AO-51 during operations like Richard's, but it appears to be something with a history. I heard (off the board) of cases just like the one I posted about over the weekend that date back almost a decade inv

[amsat-bb] Re: Weekend on the Birds

2009-10-20 Thread Dale Hershberger
John Papay wrote: > This past weekend on the birds was second to > none that I've experienced in the past two > years. We had grid dxpeditions on the east and > west coast, two hamfest demonstrations, the Boy > Scout Jamboree stations and an Alaska Statehood > special event station operating. > >

[amsat-bb] Re: Weekend on the Birds

2009-10-20 Thread Rodney Waln
i have to say the same thing, that it was a good weekend lots of good grids to be had and some new people on at least that i heard, and those that went out of there way to give them grids out,   also i would like to thank the AO-51 team for the short period of L-band (L/U) last week, i think i g

[amsat-bb] Re: Weekend on the Birds

2009-10-19 Thread Glenn AA5PK
On Monday, October 19, 2009 at 9:19 PM, John Papay wrote: > Activity is on the rise on the SSB birds in general. Many that have > been active on the FM birds are getting equipment set up for the > SSB/CW birds. It's nice to be able to have a qso that involves more > than a callsign and grid exch

[amsat-bb] Re: Weekend on the Birds

2009-10-19 Thread Bob- W7LRD
DITTO! 73 Bob W7LRD Seattle - Original Message - From: "John Papay" To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 7:19:46 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [amsat-bb]  Weekend on the Birds This past weekend on the birds was second to none that I've experienc