Any new Challenge for 2025? (Part 1)

That’s a rather substantial outlay for many of us (including travel to another continent). Having a QSO-volume-based event would also greatly burden the existing birds especially since activators will lend a preference toward the few FM birds to get started with lower operational complexity (and just which passes are available). There’s a reason Field Day and WFD only offer bonus points for one QSO via sat for the whole event/contest. Waiting for a second GEO bird in any slot would be nice, but that’s a 10 year proposition unless someone with a lot of money speaks up now and still won’t provide global coverage. Global amateur GEO with laser links between birds for sub-bands that are repeated to a different portion of the globe? A long, long, far-off dream.

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