the end of shuttle ops will mean a higher orbit...there are other cool things
happening like a new cubesat launcher mechanism.
Robert Oler WB5MZO
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To: amsat-bb@amsat.org; ve3...@cogeco.ca
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 11:51:32 +
Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS orbit -
HMMMnot for sure of who flies these days with the shuttle docked...but the
shuttle orbiter is a crummy reboost tool for ISS...the engines point the wrong
way while docked...Robert WB5MZO
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 03:25:36 -0800
From: ka1...@yahoo.com
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org; ve3...@cogeco.ca
We can celebrate many things about Yuri Gagarin, but one of them is not his
space walk.
You probably meant space flight...Alex Leoniv did the first space walk
followed by Ed White..
As for ArISSat... oh dear. so many thoughts...Robert G. Oler WB5MZO 5N
something and ARRL AMSAT NARS life
It is the radar off of an E2-C...heard it many many times while playing cat and
mouse games with it... Robert Oler WB5MZO
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 05:04:30 +
From: kq...@verizon.net
To: glasbren...@mindspring.com
CC: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: RADAR QRM on FO-29 video on
- Original Message -
From:
Rocky
Jones
To: domenico.i8...@tin.it ; g7...@btinternet.com ; Amsat BB
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:16
AM
Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] Re: Satellite
OPS9328 Launched 1967?
By the way it is possible that the downlink frequency was
very close
Steve. thank you for your gentle corrections and you are right. Should have
remembered that better
Robert G. Oler WB5MZO
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:19:45 -0600
From: melac...@verizon.net
To: orbit...@hotmail.com; g7...@btinternet.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: Re: Satellite OPS9328
By the way it is possible that the downlink frequency was very close
to the 2 meters band but I was not able to find any information about
the frequency.
73 de
i8CVS Domenico
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John. Initial defense satellite communications system...The first real
communications system that the US military had. YOu can look on the web and
get more information...but there is an amateur radio connection. The theory of
the satellite constellation was that the satellites were
Thats my 2 cents worth AGAIN
WA4HFN Damon EM55
I've worked the fm birds and listen to them, even in Africa (well just listened
so far) and I am really not sure what people are expecting is going to happen
on a single channel device that has a comparatively low access threshold
(meaning
One more curious thing
If the sat package can be switched on and run for some period of
time...then why not just keep it on the space station and hook it up to
external power...and well then its a better package...? Because if it cannot
be hooked up to external power and the battery
Indeed, the Russian Federal Space website says that Kedr
(ARISSat-1) will be Activated on April 12 and you can see this can be
acheived by connecting ARISSat-1 to the ISS antenna as they did on Feb
10..
curious how that works with battery life. It is kind of interesting that the
Energia
Clint...I will be surprised if the battery last well a month.
The environment in the Orlan suits is very very unique. The battery is not
designed for the charge/discharge cycles of a free flyer...and as I recall the
Russians keep good tabs on the charge/discharge cycles of the batteries...
This seems to have caught the AMSAT folks by surprise...I would be curious
about any comments from them.
Having said that...someone somewhere should at least be doing a thought
experiment about what would have to happen to leave the payload in the station
as a permanent device...not as a free
Interesting comments:
During the test, RSC-Energia decided to keep the transmitter on
until Friday morning.
Hmmm curious about a few things but... what impact this test has had on
battery life, considering the vehicle now sits until at least July...
Robert G. Oler WB5MZO life member
Hello All.. A basic rule of the internets is in the discussion of orbits when
Hohmann transfers are brought up the easy discussion is over (grin)...but
everyone below has the essential points. When a velocity vector modification
is made in an orbit the area rule means that the changes to the
Celestial mechanics is a brain teaser...but most of what has been said here is
more or less correct. The trick is to realize that the ONLY orbit where the
velocities (and energy) are constant is a perfectly circular one...and
that really doesnt happen but in theory (although some come very
Rick.
on the cheap antenna front I've tried and had pretty good success with two
things.
First there is a 5 element Yagi design that was published in QST that
uses/modifies an Archer 5 element FM yagi. I built one and added some 70 cm
elements 90 out of phase and thats worked great. My
I just missed it...correct continent (AFrica) but to far south (Ivory
Coast)...good news is that I will be back and have in works a Chad, Nigeria,
and Congo reciprocal license...with a good operating room agreement with the
Sheraton Abuja...The Sheraton is going to let me put up some permanent
Dave. It is not ideal, but I've made it work even on Oscar 6 and 7 from a
college dorm (until I snuck the antennas up on the roof...)
There is an entire group of articles by Steve Ford of the ARRL about what I
call low impact Oscar antennas (including Attic ones). I've seen him post on
this
Art..one of the best explanations I have read of the allocations. FB
Robert WB5MZO Life member Amsat ARRL
From: afel...@ieee.org
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:18:31 -0500
To: m5...@yahoo.co.uk
CC: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Amateur Satellite Frequency Allocations (LF)
Hi,
http://onorbit.com/node/2309
interesting story
Robert G. Oler WB5MZO life member AMSAT ARRL
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and look at his nano sat transponder satellite
http://www.qsl.net/pe1rah/mysat2.htm
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Skype VE2DWE
www.qsl.net/ve2dwe
DSTAR urcall VE2DWE
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It
It is headed to Venus (or there abouts) and it went out of range of my 8 ghz
system the other day...pretty neat.
Robert G. Oler
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:39:30 -0500
From: reid.cr...@gmail.com
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: IKAROS Solar Sail Successfully Deployed
Is
Bill. there are none now. The vehicle was powered in total by batteries
(second stage and the Dragon mockup) and they have expired. The vehicle is
essentially inert now. Decay is expected about 21 June give or take. Next
launch with a full up Dragon is this summer. They have some roll
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1003/27iridium/`
these are all going on Musk Falcon. Robert WB5MZO Life member AMSAT ARRL
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there are going to be more ballast payloads particularly as commercial ops to
the space station gens up. Just saw a thing today where almost all the folks
who are planning to do commercial ops are looking at ballast rides.
Robert G. Oler
I'l second that about Dave's shop. Never a complaint. Robert WB5MZO Life
member AMSAT ARRL
From: lafri...@earthlink.net
To: morse...@optonline.net; rswa...@twcny.rr.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:34:12 -0800
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Excellent Supplier of RF Adaptors
Hmm...it certainly would under certain circumstances raise the noise floor for
a space RX...but a lot would depend on the analysis given the spacecrafts orbit
RX antenna, etc. I can see times when the affect would not be that bad. I
assume that the PRC vehicles will have some sort of beam
Glen. while I might quibble with some numbers, the sentiments you expressed
are right on.
The pejorative statements that a few made about life members (old etc)
as well as the claim that people who are life members are making claims
which are never stated, by saying that they are life
What have you done for AMSAT recently? - is a much more appropriate
discussion.
Clint Bradford, K6LCS
AMSAT President's Club member - for each of the past few years
AMSAT benefactor
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NOT
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On 1/15/2010 3:43 PM, Rocky Jones wrote:
This is almost farcical. Unable to launch effective satellites and more
or less flailing as an organization the board has now turned to a
acceptable use policy which is so
to the
organization since you gave it your dues ages ago.
Bob McGwier, N4HY
Life Member AMSAT and ARRL
P.S. And by the way. I have done a few other minor things along the way
in addition to giving these organizations less money than I spend on
coffee in a year.
On 1/16/2010 8:35 AM, Rocky
outstanding...
Robert WB5MZO Life member
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:40:15 +
From: w7...@comcast.net
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-7 feat!
To break away from the current irrelevant thread. A momentous QSO from WC7V
in DN45 to RN1NW in KP71 took place today on
From: kevin.j.sm...@comcast.net
To: orbit...@hotmail.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 5, Issue 25
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:35:01 -0500
Robert,
Of course you would give a D minus. (I thought Clinton's analogy had
merit but then I guess I
Since we are going down that path, I just wanted you to know that when I
read Life Member I hear the words cheap, discount, looking for a
deal, old fart in my head.
Jeff, KE9V
Jeff. I am sure you do and thanks for sharing. It takes a bit of
sophistication and some knowledge to
Luc...while one hopes..there is in addition to your point, almost no chance
that this launcher will fly. There are very very big changes coming to human
spaceflight in the US..and Falcon is the launch vehicle to (in my view) bet on
Robert WB5MZO Life Member
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:43:56
This is almost farcical. Unable to launch effective satellites and more or
less flailing as an organization the board has now turned to a acceptable use
policy which is so broad as to be useless...it boils down to things we like
are good and things we dont like are bad.
entertaining
Robert
Clint. I dont agree with much of that.
I agree that the 1st amendment only applies to government at all levels
(through the 14th)...but moderating the discussion to delete such things as
death threats or whatever is far different then moderating it to put a
particular group or sub group in
I find the entire thing rather silly. If the organization were flying
satellites and functioning well that might be something but as it is...it is
sort of like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeqVGP-GPMfeature=related
Gentleman you can't fight in here, This is the war room
courtesy
When you are using the private resources of the AMSAT corporation, they can
do whatever they like.
-Steve
N1JFU - http://n1jfu.blogspot.com - sme...@twitter
that probably holds true (I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV but I have
been associated in a governing capacity
Yo Clint
bad comparison. Your house, my house(s) (grin), (insert names) house is
private property with an expectation both in common law, law, and ethics of
privacy.
It is no where near the same as a public board which would not exist without
the funds of members who pay dues. If the AMSAT
Clint...being on a listening tour and doing the will of the people are two
different items.
I have no doubt that any elected representative you have takes your calls,
emails...etc...that is different from responding to them by actually voting
that way.
Amsat is an organization that has
lol
Robert WB5MZO life member
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:55:09 -0900
To: kg4...@gmail.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org
From: kl...@acsalaska.net
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: It's NOT Censorship
At 02:09 PM 1/15/2010, David - KG4ZLB wrote:
It's not altogether surprising that this topic is being
Peter. this has to have been a win win situation for everyone. It essentially
puts the final nail in the coffin of sea launch, the US has no real competition
to the equatorial launch site...(OK Kwaj but thats still sometime in the
future) and positions that side of the pond with a rocket
my project along your lines came from the third edition of the ARRL VHF
handbook...page 102 it is an 829B amp for 144mhz. I've built a couple of them
over the years...and they all played pretty easy just following the
instructions in the article. There are some other 'easy amps the 6360 was
in 2010 DE WB5MZO
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thanks Robert WB5MZO
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:20:59 -0800
From: clintbra...@earthlink.net
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org; amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Battery Charger Deal - TODAY ONLY
Today only, Amazon has the La Crosse BC-9009 AlphaPower Battery Charger for
$34.99 shipped. And in
Just
yesterday I spent a half hour wondering why my printer didn't print. When
you remove the wrong ethernet cable earlier in the day and assumed it was
the correct one for another device...well, you know the rest of the story.
73
Greg
N3MVF
Ah the old It was unplugged
Nice
Robert WB5MZO
From: ce3...@gmail.com
To: AMSAT-BB@amsat.org
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:29:46 -0300
Subject: [amsat-bb] Wouxun Dual Band Chine in AO-51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhMda5btD6w
my Setup is Rx Wouxun Chine Radio Dual Band Great Rx
in Tx Motorola GP-300 + 5/8
Alex and Joanne...thanks for the correction...sorry I misread
Robert WB5MZO
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:22:02 -0500
From: am...@elkmtn.org
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT NextGen Program Progress
So Arisssat or suitsat 2 whatever it is called is now going to be
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/10solarsails/
neat visually...wonder if the telemetry is in the ham bands?
Robert WB5MZO
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it seems to be gone
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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:01:15 -0800
From: k1...@yahoo.com
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] ultimatecharger website
Does W0LMD still maintain the ultimatecharger website, or
http://www.onorbit.com/node/1460
Nice story on the Russians preparing their next module..
Robert WB5MZO
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There are two neat concepts from the early days of communications experiments
using satellites and Echo is one of them (the other is SCORE).
There were a lot of ideas for follow on echos...one used a gravity gradient
pole to stop the balloon from spinning and keeping it pointed to the earth,
Drew. I had forgotten about West Ford...but they are all gone. While in grad
school we tried some reflection test using the then prototype of the SPS 48E
and there was nothing...
Robert WB5MZO
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:12:54 -0400
From: glasbren...@mindspring.com
To:
It is kind of funny. more will be spent on this launch (for 2 minutes of
flight give or take) then Elon Musk has spent so far on his entire effort to
develop Falcon 9 and he is going to try and go to orbit late November (give or
take).
Robert WB5MZO
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:00:54 -0400
WX did them in...
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This is a great paper and solid work. It doesnt have a chance of being
implemented on an amateur radio budget or time scale to the point where a solid
reliable platform can be flown.
What the satellite group needs is more Oscar 7's (or VO 52's) and Oscar
10...Arsene and Oscar IV were not
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/SpaceX_Completes_First_Stage_9_Engine_Rocket_Firing_999.html
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Dan.
But Amsat-BB is not read only by Amsat members. Anyone who Google's Amsat
will find Amsat-BB very quickly. Negative and unprofessional comments on
Amsat-BB hurt our image as professional satellite builders and could quite
possibly kill our chance of finding our next ride to orbit. In
interests at heart followed that, I think
we'd have much better exchanges on this list. Just a thought...
73, Ken N2WWD
-Original Message-
From: Robert Bruninga bruni...@usna.edu
Sent: Oct 20, 2009 12:22 PM
To: 'Rocky Jones' orbit...@hotmail.com, n8...@usa.net, 'Amsat BB
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0910/18iran/
bird and launcher...
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Why would they fly ballast on their rocket when they could have flown a ham
satellite?...
I didnt ask why.
Your list sounds a lot like my 10 year olds explaining why something didnt get
done when they know that they should have done it. Their first inclination
(and that is a hallmark of
Dan
4. Ballast does not have an e-mail group full of whining little people who
think they could have designed it better or that it operates on the wrong band
or mode, and complaining loudly when the mission falls months or years behind
its original launch date.
this is the one I always
Bob...
LOL really it is funny.
If one person can knock them off their stride then the deserve to bilge...
I guess that any explanation for poor performance works
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Samudra, N3RDX and S21X
interesting post...there are lots of volunteer organizations and all of them
managed to do things without the endless whining of they are all
volunteers...gee if that could lift things into orbit
Robert WB5MZO
Peter...as I said, someone is building a cubesat.
or something slightly bigger.
Robert WB5MZO
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:29:44 +0200
From: peter.guel...@kourou.de
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Mesbah-2
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/mesbah2.htm
Bob
It is OK, maybe suitsat 2 or whatever it is called with be a success or at
least occur..if it flops then all the folks who are always gung ho to make
excuses can have something else to do! Work is also needed for those
protecting inertia
Robert WB5MZO
Bill..well done...nice tower shots as well
Robert WB5MZO
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
From: mrbill...@mac.com
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:55:21 -0500
Subject: [amsat-bb] MIR sound clip
Here's a MIR clip I recorder years ago, using a cassette recorder
with vox, hooked to a Radio Shack
There are all sorts of reasons why flying digital transponders is a
good idea. Your cell phone (presuming you have one)
73 Mark K6HX
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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:44:57 +
From: ni...@ngunn.net
To: orbit...@hotmail.com
CC: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: According to Rocky Jones
I guesswe need to get you on the design/construction team to show the
experts how to do it.
the experts were very successful with Suitsat 1
We have a unique opportunity with the Atlas 5/DMSP launch, as DMSP is
a relatively lighter spacecraft than many of those that fly on Atlas.
For that reason, we have a tremendous amount of performance margin.
That's certainly not the case for some future missions that Atlas will
be flying. So
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:57:34 -0400
From: b...@innismir.net
To: orbit...@hotmail.com
I wrote:
In my view better engineering doctrine would imply that we try and
put the digital transponder ON ISS and let it cook there for a bit.
you replied
Yup, that would be ideal, I'm
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0910/18iran/
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successful.
On a more practical note, could there be some sort of failsafe battery
went phut so disconnect it device? I'm guessing a perfectly ordinary
inline fuse would be too simple, but perhaps some sort of mechanical
latch that would just pop the battery terminal if it lost power
Diane. I concur in you're comments particularly that failure is not alone an
indicator of incompetence. (my words but hopefully it is fair to you're
thought)
What in engineering (and in life) signals incompetence is moving outside of
established engineering design parameters. Hence if one
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:20:24 -0700
To: apbid...@mailaps.org
From: anto...@qualcomm.com
CC: amsat-bb@amsat.org; k...@arrl.net; n...@bellsouth.net
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: On the possibility of imaging AO-40
At 04:56 AM 10/16/2009, Alan P. Biddle wrote:
Getting an image is clearly
Tim Lilley - N3TL
Athens, Ga. - EM84ha
After seeing Mr. Bauer's post to the AMSAT-BB the other day, I
correctly deduced that the silly and humorless title of this email was
your attempt at being cute and clever in response.
obviously no one is going to slip something past you
When you
Bruce. I changed the title. I didnt like Frank doing what he did in public
and as far as I am concern the exchange is over.
I got three points from you're piece...and they are good ones.
First..the educational benefits of suitsat 1 and 2.
I have no doubt thanks to folks like you (and
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:54:47 -0700
From: k...@philkarn.net
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] DMSP F18's launch vehicle far exceeds mission
requirements
Seems like a missed opportunity for a secondary payload. Sigh.
Yeap there were two oppurtunities. 45 pounds of
Mark
the two points you raise are interesting
Education...you wrote in part
.
It does list intercommunication, but it also lists self-training
and technical investigations, which certainly have a clear
educational mandate.
you can interpret that anyway you want to...but I dont see a
see how it works...SpaceX is going to launch a Falcon9 into orbit this
year...All Ares1x is going to go for is a couple of minutes!
Robert WB5MZO
From: josepharmbrus...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:06:15 -0400
To: AMSAT-BB@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Ares 1-X in highbay 3
The
Peter.
In the current configuration (or the last known config) of the vehicle does the
vehicle have sufficient solar illumination to spin and maintain the DC busses
without a battery?
Robert WB5MZO
. This time I'll be kind and just chalk
it up to you having gone zero impedance to ground over how things are going.
I did find the
Or are you using another alias besides Robert Oler or Rocky Jones? amusing.
It is the weakest of the internet flame tactics you use and the most amusing .
It is also
spin axis.
Only when it shines on top or bottom, we will have problems...
73s Peter
Rocky Jones wrote:
Peter.
In the current configuration (or the last known config) of the vehicle
does the vehicle have sufficient solar illumination to spin and
maintain the DC busses without
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0910/15dscovr/index.html
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it will be entertaining to see how this progresses...most of the bleep sats die
quickly...to much satellite for to little space...but lets see how suitsat 2
turns out
I agree we need more Oscar 7's...
Robert WB5MZO
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Behalf Of Rocky Jones
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:58 AM
To: n...@bellsouth.net; luclebla...@videotron.ca; Amsat BB
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Symposium News Posted to the Web
http://www.qsl.net/pe1rah/HAMSAT.htm
I am just trying
transponder design in ARISSsat and according to the
last newsletter no foreign national has signed the agreement that ITAR
requires.
73,
John
KD6OZH
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From: Rocky Jones orbit...@hotmail.com
To: n...@bellsouth.net; luclebla...@videotron.ca; Amsat BB
Larry...
to add a few things to my post (and I admit this is speculation, someone from
the command team can shoot me down at anytime).
As a spinner -40 was in trouble power wise. I dont know but wonder if how
the arrays were folded they would produce power while folded? If not then
the
The national intellegence assets which would be needed to get an image of
AO-40 that showed things are probably there...but if you see the pictures
they have to kill you (grin).
I know amateurs who have imaged -40 and done so enough to measure the light
curve from it.
Robert WB5MZO
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0910/13tdrs/
as I recall there were 50 some odd pounds of ballast launched with the
bird...to bad it wasnt an amateur repeater.
Robert WB5MZO
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From: Rocky Jones orbit...@hotmail.com
To: Rocky Jones orbit...@hotmail.com
Cc: Amsat BB amsat-bb@amsat.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7:57:03 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [amsat-bb] Good story on TDRSS 1
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0910/13tdrs
dont like simple questions?
Robert WB5MZO
From: g0...@aol.com
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 03:16:45 -0400
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Understanding ITAR
In a message dated 06/10/2009 04:49:14 GMT Standard Time,
orbit...@hotmail.com writes:
Bob...why dont you give
I would trade everyone of them that launched in the last 3 years for the first
five on the list being active ...OK we have 1 out of the first 5 but all five
would be nice...
BTW I am quite sure Oscar V is still in orbit...but without ANY solar cell
ability...we wont be hearing from it
sats!
David KG4ZLB
Rocky Jones wrote:
The hamsat bands are slowly being converted into
cheap telemetry bands...
Robert WB5MZO
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Perhaps when commercial vehicles like the Falcon 9 begin launching,
we'll see a sufficient reduction in payload boosting costs to make
raising the money for a HEO satellite with significant mass reasonable.
We shall have to see.
Mark K6HX
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Finally, a truism that probably bears repeating, though not addressing
the two comments quoted above: if we call cubesats 'not amateur
radio', then we should tar OSCAR 1 with that same brush.
73, Bruce
VE9QRP
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