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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/2ITLYJCWL24C2OJHGWJ4GYP3IDDS2FQA/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "2ITLYJCWL24C2OJHGWJ4GYP3IDDS2FQA", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/2ITLYJCWL24C2OJHGWJ4GYP3IDDS2FQA/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "whiteld (a) usa.net", "mailman_id": "64092cdf17de46d2bbf0a5ab7a58e6f9", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/64092cdf17de46d2bbf0a5ab7a58e6f9/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Lowell White", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: Satellite Satire", "date": "2011-11-30T00:57:26Z", "parent": null, "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/FU7PFQFUBZFC4BBAOBYD4UXH24TSV6T2/?format=api", "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/PATBC4ANFSU5D4W47VGGXEERKRNFF4UC/?format=api" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "OK.. a LARGE \"punkin' chunker\" or two really tall and flexible trees for a\nslingshot...\n\nMore seriously, it seems that for anything of reasonable size to be launched,\nparticularly into an orbit that we rapidly enter not only the perview of\ncostly specialization but also of military / government permissions, etc.,\nprobably much more delicate than ITAR considerations. \n\nPlease enlighten me if indeed there might be a way to get something up (and to\nstay up) more economically.\n\nWould there be any feasiblity to an initial \"launch\" by using high-altitude\nweather ballons and THEN firing a small booster with appropriate guidance and\nCCC (command, control, and communications) to steer it into an orbital\ninsertion? If the bird and booster weights were small enough, could a wx\nballoon lift them adequately?\n\nJust wondering...\n\nLowell\nK9LDW\nEM12sr\n\n------ Original Message ------\nReceived: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:38:33 PM CST\nFrom: Bob- W7LRD <[email protected]>\nTo: George Henry <[email protected]>Cc: AMSAT <[email protected]>\nSubject: [amsat-bb] Re: Satellite Satire\n\n> \n> \n> Cool George! it's not the building and concepts that's difficult. It's\ngetting the damn things up there. We should have a division of AMSAT that\ndoes rockets, and launch our own. Like my Dad told me, \"the difficult we do\nimmediately, the impossible takes a little longer\". \n> \n> 73 Bob W7LRD \n> \n> \n> ----- Original Message -----\n> From: \"George Henry\" <[email protected]> \n> To: \"AMSAT\" <[email protected]> \n> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 10:06:39 AM \n> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Satellite Satire \n> \n> Better yet, take the 10.8 MHz IF output from one of their old Bearcat\nscanners, \n> \n> programmed for a 2-meter uplink, add an appropriate local oscillator and\n high \n> pass filter, feed the resulting signal to the final stage from one of\n their old \n> \n> sideband CB's, and you've got a mode A *LINEAR* satellite!! \n> \n> We could call it OSCAR 10-4! \n> \n> \n> George, KA3HSW \n> \n> \n> \n> \n> > ----- Original Message ---- \n> > > From: K4FEG <[email protected]> \n> > > To: [email protected] \n> > > Sent: Tue, November 29, 2011 8:49:31 AM \n> > > Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellite Satire \n> > > \n> > > OK I have a suggestion: a new inexpensive satellite, It will be\ndesignated: \n> > \n> > >*ReNe-Sat-3, *that will be an abbreviation for: *Red Neck Satellite #3\n( \n> >Dale \n> > \n> > >Ernharts Sr. NASCAR #). \n> > > \n> > > *We will take 2 Woxun HT's, 2 Larsen Mag-mounts, 2**1/4 wave\n antennas, a \n> >solar \n> > \n> > >panel with charger from Northern Hydraulics and last but not least\nabout 100 \n> > \n> > >feet of NASCAR 200mph duct tape. \n> > > \n> > > We take the 2 radios set them up for our frequencies, duct tape them\n\n> >together \n> > \n> > >mount the antennas on the solar panel hook the solar panel up to the\nHT \n> > >batteries and last but not least we send two of the south's finest: \n> >*Astronaut \n> > \n> > >\"Bubba & Cooter\"* up with the new bird to deploy it. We will tell\nBubba & \n> > >Cooter that they can have free passes to all the NASCAR races for\n2012 when \n> \n> > >they get this satellite working and in orbit. \n> > > \n> > > I promise they will have that thing (or should i say \"thang\") up\nand \n> >running \n> > \n> > >in HEO and be back before the first race in February 2012. \n> > > \n> > > For those that are not sure, YES I AM MAKING A JOKE! \n> > > \n> > > /*It is difficult work to keep these satellites working and the\n control \n> > >operators deserve a round of applause from us for all that they have\n done to \n> > \n> > >extend the life of AO51 and all of the other birds. \n> > > \n> > > THANK YOU ONE AND ALL! A JOB WELL DONE! \n> > > */ \n> > > Frank \n> > > K4FEG \n> > \n> _______________________________________________ \n> Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. \n> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! \n> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb \n> \n> \n> _______________________________________________\n> Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author.\n> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\n> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }