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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/SDH4FILJICRZJ6TDCYDRVL7JZUJLWVXD/",
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    "sender": {
        "address": "zleffke (a) vt.edu",
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    "sender_name": "Zach Leffke",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: External Amplifier Legality Questions",
    "date": "2014-03-19T20:24:13Z",
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    "content": "Haha! I knew I was going to get questions about the peak power levels.  \nI should have mentioned this in the first email, but it was already \npretty long winded (so here goes a long winded reply).\n\nFirst up about my original question about legal issues:\nIt looks like the consensus is I'm good to go.  Right now based on \ncalculation, I should be legal with enough suppression.  I will measure \nthe system performance before going on the air to ensure that I am legal.\n\nTo address the numerous concerns about peak power:\nSo the 100W figure is the peak power the amp can deliver.  I will /not/ \nbe operating this amp anywhere near its peak power levels when working \nthe birds.  So do not fear! I won't be blasting the birds.\n\nHowever, increasing the scope of my interests in the hobby a bit from \nAmateur Satellites to Amateur Radio in general, having a canned system \ncapable of about 100W (a little higher at VHF, and just about 100W at \nUHF) could come in handy for things like VHF and up contesting.  This \nsystem has overlapping amateur radio goals, of which satellites are one.\n\nThe Radio:\nI am not using a traditional hardware radio, but rather an SDR (ettus \nresearch B210) my wife bought me for my birthday (best present ever) \nthat only puts out about +10dBm (plenty to drive this amp).\n\nThe Antennas:\nI'll be using M2 Antennas products with \"gobs\" of gain, further reducing \nthe needed TX power requirements.  I do want to experiment in the future \nwith some homebrew omnis (lindenblad, eggbeater, etc..) and being able \nto bump up the power a bit on TX without having to worry will be a nice \nfeature.\n\nTo address Paul's note about control:\nMy involvement to date with the Fox project is with the camera card, not \nwith control ops.  However, I am VERY interested in the possibility of \njoining the Operations team and becoming a control station for AMSAT for \nthe Fox series (and beyond).  However, for all my \"book-learning,\" and \nLOTS of RX only ops on the birds, I only have a handful of actual \ncontacts under my belt.  So right now I'm just trying to get a station \nup and running to increase my activity on the birds.  Maybe down the \nroad when the bugs have been worked out of the system and I am a little \nless green, then I'll look at control ops a little more closely, and \nhaving a decent amp could come in handy there as well (assuming of \ncourse the AMSAT ops team needs/wants me to participate in control ops).\n\nThank you very much to everyone for the quick feedback.  I appreciate \neveryone taking the time to help educate me.\n\n-Zach, KJ4QLP\n",
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