When Fox-1 is completed, the whole design kit and kaboodle will be
published to shed the ITAR shroud (as we have done with what has been
developed as we go along, in the AMSAT-NA Space Symposium Proceedings)
and anyone who wants to build one can use it or adapt it (hopefully
keeping the ham transponder!) for their CubeSat RF design and fly it
in/from/for another country with their experiments. The idea being as
JoAnne said, the radio part is proven and provides a platform so they
can concentrate on their experiments and build a CubeSat that handily
just happens to contain a transponder for hams during, or when they are
done with, their experiments.
Of course if ITAR restrictions are eased or removed, then AMSAT-NA could
collaborate with other countries as well and incorporate their
experiments as we are doing with our U.S. partners now.
Jerry
N0JY
On 3/28/2014 8:31 PM, JoAnne Maenpaa wrote:
Hi Bernhard,
Now if I could only convince them to include a
transponder for us hams ...
FUNcube boards and the AMSAT-NA Fox-1 boards include the capability to
transmit telemetry data modes and support a voice transponder. Not
sure what ITAR issues prevent Fox-1 boards being used in other
country's satellites.
The Fox-1 boards supply the avionics radio half of the satellite
leaving the students to concentrate on designing their scientific
payload. Fox boards have a documented interface for experimenters to
use.
FUNcube switches between ham voice/cw modes and full power telemetry.
Fox-1 boards would provide the capability to support both voice and
low-rate telemetry stream simultaneously or switch to a high speed
data link with no voice.
--
73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9...@amsat.org
Editor, AMSAT Journal
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