AMSAT Field Day wrap up - reminder send your logs

AMSAT Director Contests and Awards Bruce Paige, KK5DO reminds everyone who participated in the AMSAT Field Day that you need to email your results to him. Per the rules....

The Satellite Summary Sheet, available on-line at:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/awards/amsatfd.php should be used for submission of the AMSAT Field Day competition. It must be received by KK5DO (email or postal mail) by 11:59 P.M. CDT, Monday, July 12, 2010.
The preferred method for submitting your log is via e-mail to: kk5do@amsat.org or kk5do@arrl.net.

You will receive an email back (within one or two days) from Bruce when he receives your email submission. If you do not receive a confirmation message, try sending it again or send it to Bruce's other email address.

Tim, N3TL noted, "I've never heard AO-7 so busy. I heard more stations on AO-7 than I've heard in the two years I've been working the satellites and I stayed in the CW portion of the passband! If CW was that busy, I suspect the SSB going on above 145.950 was even busier."

Tim used an FT-817ND as the transmit radio, and a Yaesu VR-500 handheld all-mode receiver as the receive radio connected to an Elk antenna with a Diamond diplexer.
In addition to hand-holding the Elk and manually tracking AO-7, Tim said he tuned for Doppler manually and used a straight key for CW.
His goal was to show that effective satellite communications doesn't require significant expense and many satellites can be worked with the equipment you already own.

Patrick, WD9EWK/VA7EWK, operated from the Garland Prairie Vista picnic ground in the Kaibab National Forest 20 miles/32km west of Flagstaff AZ, along old US-66 in grid DM45ag.

Patrick reported, "For AMSAT Field Day, 14 QSOs on 6 satellites - 6 on AO-7, 4 on FO-29, and one each on the
other 4 (AO-27, AO-51, SO-50, VO-52). All done on battery power with a pair of 12V/20Ah jumpstart battery packs, 5W transmitter power, without generators or running off my truck's electrical system."

Andy W5ACM, wrote "Everything worked right this year for the Houston MosQRPitos, operating as W5MSQ near Brookshire, Texas. We were set up for all possible satellite configurations including Mode S down via AO-51. It was great to find AO-7 and FO-29 in good shape and fantastic
ops via HO-68. It may have only been one pass at the end of the event, but it was a GOOD one. Thanks to all for the many satellite QSO's."

George, KA3HSW, Satellite op for W9CCU said, "We managed 21 contacts in all ... one on each FM bird and the remainder on the linear sats.I was very impressed at how well AO-7 held up. AO-51 V/S was a treat, and some observers couldn't believe how strong the downlink was with just a corner reflector on the K5GNA downconverter. Nice to have SO-67 back, too!"

A report received from Andrew KE5GDB says, "Field day was quite amazing down here in Houston too. I was one of the operators for K5HOU. I had never heard SO-50 with so many people!"

Bob W7LRD, reported, "We had an absolute blast on field day. AO-7 sounded like a 20M pile up. Even the S band operation on AO-51 was busy. With so many stations on the satellites should we not have more AMSAT members?"

Thanks to ANS, Bruce KK5DO and all the reporting stations for the above information