[CQ-Contest] ISS Field Day

[N7MAL]

Well then what does it count for DX.?.?.? If you're not going to give it credit why publish a special bulletin.?.?.?

""ARRL Contest Branch Manager Dan Henderson, N1ND, notes that ISS
voice or direct packet contacts with the ISS do not count for bonus
satellite contact points because the ISS is not an ''Amateur Radio
satellite'' as event rules specify. Packet contacts relayed via the
ISS are valid.

''The ISS contacts do not count for satellite credit, since they are
point-to-point, whereas the traditional satellite QSO is a relayed
Earth-satellite-Earth two-way contact,'' he explained. Field Day has
no specific rules relating to ARISS operation because there's no
guarantee that the crew will be able to get on the air for the
annual exercise.""

At what point with the ARRL does common sense apply.?.?.?




MAL              N7MAL
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
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