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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/5ABZRCGZ6UAB6RAEAKVULJLJKT342JXE/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "5ABZRCGZ6UAB6RAEAKVULJLJKT342JXE", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/COHRCSKE2BB3OXES4ZCPEUCWGMEIUZOL/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "ke9vee (a) gmail.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Jeff Davis", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: HEO naivete", "date": "2009-02-06T22:09:00Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/P45UBCDTP5Y24LV7GFGCY3IM4RHLXABV/?format=api", "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Bruce Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:\n>\n> I know the following is something some of us do not want to hear, but\n> this new economic reality also has presented us (and others) with some\n> interesting opportunities in LEO.\n\nBingo.\n\nOurs is no longer a launch/cost problem -- paying for a ride to HEO is\njust out of the question.\n\nOur real problem is facing the reality that radio amateurs may never\nhave another opportunity for HEO. I have previously (and frequently to\nno avail) written that we are __long__ past the time when we should\nstill be crying in our beer over HEO.\n\nWe need to let that go and follow a new path. And as Bruce pointed out\nso well, there are multiplied opportunities that are actually very\nfeasible at LEO. We should be developing scientific payloads that use\namateur radio to downlink and share data with a global audience. There\nis so much to explore with global climate change and other similar\nareas that are interesting and in high demand -- and it would garner\nus no end of publicity and new members.\n\nInstead, many continue to cry for nothing but HEO. Having been an\nactive AO-13 operator I really understand that desire; heck, I would\nalso like to believe in Santa Claus but it ain't happening. If you\nfactor AO-40 out of the equation, AMSAT last placed a bird in HEO in\n1988. That was 21 years ago -- how many decades are we going to keep\nhoping for a magic ride to HEO before we accept reality and move on?\n\nThe longer we wait, and spin our wheels hoping for a miracle, the more\nthis all becomes a moot point. If all the action is going to be at\nLEO, and AMSAT is firmly determined not to plan for a LEO future, then\nAMSAT becomes more irrelevant with each passing year until it is no\nmore.\n\n73, Jeff KE9V\nAMSAT-NA\nAMSAT-DL\n", "attachments": [] }