Drew,
I was once a member of AMSAT when I felt it was representing my
interest however I don't feel that way anymore so I now choose to spend
my hobby dollars somewhere else. That's my perogative. I "voted" against
some of the decisions made by spending my money elsewhere. Of course
when you express an attitude like you just did simply because someone
has a differing opinion on what the sat hobby should be about then that
doesn't exactly " warm" my checkbook towards AMSAT either. You guys
can't apparently can't take any criticism . You're all right and the
rest of us are wrong. Must be nice to live in such a black and white
world. I mean how dare us insignificant non members have the audacity
to doubt the all might AMSAT right?
Michael, W4HIJ
On 1/26/2014 12:22 PM, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
The last satellite AMSAT-NA built and flew was an SDR based linear transponder.
Fox-1 and RadFXsat are FM, and the comms capability got us the launches for
free. Fox-2 will be a SDR based transponder. At current count AMSAT orgs have
four operable transponder satellites, another in orbit awaiting activation,
one at the launch site, and one lonely FM satellite built by the Saudis almost
a decade ago.
That seems pretty balanced and forward thinking to me. Maybe your research is
faulty.
However, as one of the "idiots" routinely doing hamfest demonstrations and
volunteering way too much for the org, and a Life Member of AMSAT, your opinion as a
non-member means almost nothing to me.
73, Drew KO4MA
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 26, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Michael <mat...@charter.net> wrote:
I wasn't going to touch this as I've made my opinion about P3-E known before
but I can't be silent about some other things. I don't believe it will ever
fly because of the economic realities of today's world but hey, stranger things
have happened. Cubesats seem to be the wave of the future as they are more
affordable to get launched but if you ask me we are still going in the wrong
direction with them in a couple of areas. AMSAT seems to be bent and determined
to keep building and flying FM repeaters even when ground based FM repeaters
are slowly falling into disuse and projects like Funcube AO-73 are showing how
viable linear transponder cubesats are. There also seems to be some continued
fascination with showing how we can all stand out in the frigid cold or the
blazing sun balancing an HT in one hand and a handheld yagi in the other to
work the flying repeaters....... YAWN!!! The novelty of that has worn off just
as quickly as it did on exchanging nothing but grid !
squares and calls and calling it a sat QSO. The focus not only needs to be on more linear
transponder cubesats and developing new and efficient ways to communicate with them but also on
developing affordable ground equipment like complete SDR transceiver systems along the lines of
the funcube dongle except maybe abandoning the "dongle" concept and going more with a
desktop "black box" approach. A computer driven SDR base station with tracking and
doppler correction and digital and CW as well as voice mode communication is infinitely more
interesting to me than seeing some idiot balancing an antenna and an HT at a hamfest. Just my
opinion.... That and five bucks will get you a fancy Starbucks coffee blend but I had to put it out
there!
73,
Michael, W4HIJ
On 1/25/2014 2:44 PM, i8cvs wrote:
Hi John, W0JAB
At the moment there is no hope to see again a satellite like AO40
If we are like in the future probably we will see P3E, a satellite
similar to OSCAR-13 built by AMSAT-DL
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Becker" <w0...@big-river.net>
To: <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 8:01 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] status
Whats the status of a replacement for the likes of AO 40?
I know I ask this from time to time but never seem to see anything.
I for one would very much like to see this type the a boat load
of small FM only type while there is still a place to park one.
John, W0JAB
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