Michael, Thanks for labeling me and tons of other Hams as IDIOTS for participating in an aspect of Amateur Radio that WE ENJOY! You have a LOT of apologizing to do!!! Here's a suggestion for you. Do what you like and let everyone do what they like without being called viles names in front of the entire World. 73, Bob K8BL (AMSAT Member since 1979)
From: Michael <mat...@charter.net> To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 11:48 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: status 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
