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    "sender_name": "Jim Jerzycke",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: a little perspective",
    "date": "2011-08-05T04:25:20Z",
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    "content": "Phil, let me start by saying that I hold in the highest respect for all \nyou've done for Amateur radio, and digital communications in particular. \nI appreciate your foresight in many areas, and rooted for you even when \nother people were griping about \"That Crap Phil Is Pushing\".\n\nI've been involved in Amateur Radio for almost 50 years, so I'm no rank \nbeginner, and I've been employed in the Aerospace industry for the last \n30 years. I've BUILT satellite components, and integrated them into \nspacecraft. Some of the Really Neat Things I built at Hughes Aircraft \nare still up there. For the last 7 years I've been employed by a company \nthat launches satellites to GTO, and I'm extremely familiar with \neverything that goes into getting the customer's package into space.\n\nWe joke about \"The rocket won't lift-off until the stack of paperwork is \nas high as the payload fairing\".\n\nThis deployment was NOT done properly. To call it the rousing \"success\" \nthat some are trumpeting out here is wrong.\n\nA fully functional spacecraft was delivered to the launch service, and \nthey screwed up.\n\nA important part of the spacecraft was damaged, and the attitude was \n\"Gee, it had another antenna thing on it? Well, we don't know what \nhappened to it, and we really don't care, as this toy is interfering \nwith our real work\".\n\nIf this was such a now-or-never deployment because of the limited life \nof the batteries, then the deployment should have been carried out to \nthe letter. To hear that nobody knows (or admits) what level of training \nthe crew had is very disturbing.\n\nTo hear what amounts to \"Don't worry, it was designed to be idiot-proof\" \nis also disturbing as it clearly was not.\n\nIf \"things\" had to be attached to the spacecraft before deployment, \nthere should have been a concise, detailed checklist, and the stowage of \nthose items should also have been handled with care so they didn't get \n\"lost\".\n\nI'm happy that it appears to be working, as I know a lot of sweat went \ninto it. Everybody involved, except the ISS crew that deployed it, \ndeserve a hearty pat on the back.\n\nAnd as far as using a satellite to communicate with people \"That could \nbe done much more easily over the Internet\" misses the whole point.\n\nWe're trying to get young people involved with Amateur RADIO; they \nalready qualify as Internet Experts.\nThe allure to many young people is being able to do this *without* \nwires, and an ISP, and a monthly bill.\n\nA piece of wire is just a wire, but radio is magic. It's what made it \nappealing to me 50 years ago, and a lot of other people, too.\n\nAnd if the radio just happens to be whizzing by 250 miles above you, \nthat adds to the magic.\n\nI apologize if I came across as a bit cranky in my first few posts, but \nhaving \"Ben There, Done That\" with space hardware, I couldn't believe \nwhat I was hearing and reading.\n\nThese guys wouldn't last 30 days in a real company.\n\nIf they worked for Elon Musk, they probably wouldn't last 30 minutes.....\n\n73, Jim\n\n\n\n\nOn 08/05/2011 02:13 AM, Phil Karn wrote:\n> On 8/3/11 8:21 PM, Jim Jerzycke wrote:\n>\n>> At least AO-40 had a usable life for some. This thing is just another\n>> squawk box in space, like all the \"student\" satellites that are using\n>> the Amateur Radio frequencies for a free downlink.\n> Jim,\n>\n> With the successful transponder tests it would seem that you spoke too\n> soon. Besides, I really like lemonade.\n>\n> As far as I'm concerned, educational satellites carrying student\n> scientific experiments are a perfectly legitimate use of the amateur\n> spectrum as long as licensed amateurs are centrally involved and the\n> experimental data is in the clear and publicly documented.\n>\n> I certainly have no objection to two-way transponders for open ham use.\n> I'm as delighted as anyone that the ARISSat-1 transponder seems to be\n> working well despite its damaged 70cm antenna.\n>\n> But AMSAT has been flying linear transponders for over 40 years now, and\n> you have to admit they're pretty old hat. When I became a ham in 1971,\n> just hearing a satellite direct from space was pretty interesting.\n> Actually talking through one was totally beyond cool. You just can't\n> expect today's kids to feel that way when they already use the Internet,\n> mobile phones, GPS, Sirius/XM and DirecTV every day.\n>\n> Ham radio can't possibly survive as a mere communications medium. We\n> must emphasize all its other uses, some of which are still unique.\n>\n> At the top of that list is *EDUCATION*. Ham radio remains the only way\n> for ordinary individuals to learn radio technology hands-on. If you just\n> want to talk to people, mobile phones are great. But just try taking one\n> apart to see how it works!\n>\n> Ordinary individuals can also advance radio technology through ham\n> radio. And they can use it for other technical and scientific\n> investigations. Although mobile phones and the Internet now provide\n> inexpensive, near-ubiquitous communications between any two points on\n> earth, they still don't go everywhere. Like near outer space, which ham\n> radio reaches easily.\n>\n> So using a ham satellite just to link points on the earth that could\n> communicate much more easily over the Internet doesn't interest me as\n> much as using ham radio to communicate with the satellite itself. And\n> satellites have much to \"talk\" about: camera images, information about\n> the satellite itself (i.e., telemetry), scientific data from experiments\n> and human-human communications from any astronauts or cosmonauts on\n> board. Instead of trying to compete with the Internet, it can complement\n> our radio links (e.g., KA2UPW's telemetry repository). This is\n> especially handy for satellites in low orbits with short passes over any\n> one location.\n>\n> Amateur satellites can be so much more than simple transponders; in\n> fact, they'll have to be. And I think that's a good trend.\n>\n> --Phil\n>\n>\n>\n>\n\n",
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