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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/72HDFGCMAJPBOLNAUZPK6YMR2BCJDYUL/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "72HDFGCMAJPBOLNAUZPK6YMR2BCJDYUL", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/NIXRGDSU3DRULEMDGRNZH4RAUOJMATIY/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "ve3gyq (a) amsat.org", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "David B. Toth", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: Keep It Simple Silly", "date": "2007-10-01T03:51:24Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/G6B53P4D26XVNHKDNWW246TFGZD423BC/?format=api", "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/5YV6O5YFXZDMR7CYXHM5OW2UF3OOVTLX/?format=api" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "At 05:27 PM 9/30/2007, Bob Stewart wrote:\n\n\n>I've seen a few comments about AO-40, but where is it?\n\nIt's motor blew up, and that wasn't really new technology - someone \nforgot to remove a pin.\n\n\n>As far as digital stuff goes, well, yawn. I find it totally disinteresting,\n>but I'm happy that it's there for the people who enjoy it. When\n>digital communications gets to the reliability level of analog, then\n>someone please wake me. I don't mean to be insulting, but I just\n>don't see it happening because of the direction digital has taken.\n\nDigital is more than sending keyboard to keyboard or files. It is \ndigital voice. It is Software-Defined Radio and transponders.\nThe SDX(s) in the Advanced Communication Package(s) is designed to \nmake it possible for folks with antenna restrictions to\nwork satellites with nothing more than a dish the size of one for DirecTV .\n\n>To sum it up, I've spent most of my years in ham radio on HF. I\n>like the idea of being able to contact people in foreign countries. Two\n>of my most exciting contacts on satellite were with VO10R and our\n>own VE9QRP. Because of my QTH and finances, I'm not sure if I'll\n>ever be able to contact Hawaii or Alaska via satellite. Europe is\n>a dream that's probably way out reach. In any case, what\n>works for me are challenges that are just meetable with my resources.\n\nSee above re the reduced requirements for ground stations. Sounds \nlike just what you are looking for ... stay tuned for info re future \nworld-wide coverage 24/7 by satellite.\n\n\n>IMHO, projects that are usable by an ever narrowing group of people\n>(microwaves, nanowaves, extremely weak signals, etc) are doomed to\n>an eventual failure of large-scale support.\n\nWe are already doomed to extinction if we do not make fundamental changes.\nThe average age of US hams is 57 yr., and it is rising by 1 yr. per \nyr. Do the math and you see if we do not make it more relevant to \nyoung people, then it will not matter.\nSimply looking to HF and DXing and contesting to excite kids is not \ngoing to do it. If it was, we would have seen it already. Check with \nthe kids - it's a digital world out there.\nIf we build for the old and disgruntled, then with all due respect we \nare building our own coffins.\n\nLest you think this is being done to exclude people, nothing could be \nfurther from the truth .... the goal is to accommodate many people \nwith simpler antennas and gear.\n\nReally.\n\n73,\nDave\nVE3GYQ/W8\nSpencerville, OH\n \n\n", "attachments": [] }