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Subj: Reminder-2011 AMSAT Field Day Competition
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 163.07
> From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
June 12, 2011
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-163.07
Field Day is June 25 & 26.
Annual readiness excersize is a great way to demo Satellite Operations.
AMSAT Director of Awards, Bruce Paige, KK5DO says, "It's that time of
year again: Summer and Field Day!"
Each year the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) sponsors Field Day
as an emergency preparedness exercise. The event takes place during
a 24-hour period on the fourth weekend of June. For 2011 the event
takes place during a 27-hour period from 1800 UTC on Saturday
June 25, 2011 through 2100 UTC on Sunday June 26, 2011.
Those who set up prior to 1800 UTC on June 25 can operate only
24 hours.
The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) promotes its own version
of Field Day for operation via the amateur satellites, held concurrently
with the ARRL event.
Bruce advises, "If you are considering ONLY the FM voice satellites like
AMRAD-OSCAR-27, SaudiSat-Oscar-50, or AMSAT-OSCAR-51 for your AMSAT
Field
Day focus. Don't, unless you are simply hoping to make one contact for
the
ARRL rules bonus points."
The congestion on FM LEO satellites was so intense in prior years that
we
must continue to limit their use to one-QSO-per-FM-satellite. This
includes the International Space Station. You will be allowed one QSO
if the ISS is operating Voice. You will also be allowed one digital QSO
with the ISS or any other digital, non- store-and-forward, packet
satellite
(if operational).
Please refer to these links for the full document of the AMSAT Field
Day rules:
http://www.amsat.org/ (link on AMSAT.org front page to PDF file) And,
an alternative site is:
http://www.amsatnet.com/2011fd.doc (MS-Word Doc File)
http://www.amsatnet.com/2011fd.pdf (PDF File)
These documents also cover the message exchange format, scoring
requirements, reporting requirements, station classes, etc.
[ANS thanks AMSAT Director of Awards, Bruce Paige, KK5DO for
the above information]
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