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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: Let's Go!",
    "date": "2009-10-14T21:57:27Z",
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    "content": "Hi Bill (and others)!\n\n> Many thanks for your appreciated words of support. The decision was\n> very, very hard and I know we'll receive many slings and arrows for it,\n> but while it sure wasn't our preferred project - it is a realistic one.\n>\n> We all want a HEO or would even settle for a MEO but until someone can\n> \"show us the money\" to get our satellite there, we're stuck in LEO,\n> plain and simple.\n\nThis is the message that must go out from last weekend's AMSAT\nSymposium.  Acknowledge what can - and can't - be done, and\nwork on what we can do.\n\nThe 1U cubesat project, along with AMSAT working toward an\nagreement with the University of Florida and the collaboration with\nSUNY-Binghamton, need to proceed and all be successful.  All of this\nneeds support from us - monetary contributions for the construction and\nlaunch of the new satellite, as well as contributions of time from those\nwho are able to work with the SUNY-Binghamton students as well as\nwhatever is needed with the Florida efforts if an agreement is reached\nthere.\n\nMinutes after the end of the annual meeting Saturday, I was signing up\nfor a life membership.  Earlier today, I used the online store to make\nanother contribution toward this new $100K fundraising goal for 2010.\nMy skills are not those that are needed for the SUNY-Binghamton project,\nso I'll contribute in other ways - monetary donations, plus my time at\nhamfests or other events representing AMSAT.  By the way, I will be at\na hamfest in Tucson AZ on Saturday (17 October) morning with an\nAMSAT table and doing demonstrations on various satellites, which I'll\nelaborate on in another message later.\n\nLike many, I'd love to have an HEO satellite.  From here in Arizona,\ngeography limits me to a relative handful of countries I can hear on\nour current crop of satellites.  I was not on the satellites in the days of\nAO-10, AO-13, or AO-40.  AO-7 doesn't get me to Europe or Asia\nfrom here.  I'm a DXer at heart, so the thought of being able to work\nthese places via satellite without the lack of propagation getting in the\nway is an appealing thought.  Until that happens, I'm enjoying the LEO\nsatellites, working different stations when close to home or on the road,\nand the friendships that have come from thousands of QSOs over the\nlast 4 years.  I'm hoping for an HEO bird, and at the same time I'm\ngetting on the air.\n\nAs for the AMSAT board's choice of an FM satellite compared to a\nlinear transponder, it seems simple to me when I look through my\nsatellite log over the last 4 years.  Many more work FM than SSB.  I\nwish it wasn't that way, but the data doesn't lie.  Drew pointed this\nout during a presentation at the Symposium, and his findings mirror\nwhat I see in my own logs.  I am lucky to get 4 or even 6 QSOs on\nVO-52 or FO-29 on a single pass over the last 14-15 months I've been\non those birds, and that would only happen during a hamfest\ndemonstration.  Admittedly, there are some passes on VO-52 where I\nhave worked exactly one station - having a nice chat for the entire\npass.  VO-52 may be the best of our current crop of satellites, with a\nvery strong downlink copyable with something other than a directional\nantenna (I've used a telescoping whip with my FT-817s to make a\nQSO not long ago).  It also hears well, and I regularly cut my transmit\npower down to 500mW during many passes just to see how well I hear\nmyself.  If I'm looking to work a lot of stations on my road trips, the FM\nbirds are the only way to go.  I'm not going to work 20 or almost 30\nstations on VO-52, but that's possible on AO-51 or even the 7-minute\npasses on AO-27 are good for sometimes up to 20 QSOs.  Rather than\nwaiting and hoping for an HEO satellite, I am happy to make good use\nof what we currently have - while waiting and hoping for an HEO satellite.\n\nThe plans for a U/V FM satellite are great, to have an FM satellite but\nswap the uplink and downlink bands around.  I made 2 QSOs via\nSO-35 in 2000, using two HTs with long duckie antennas through that\nU/V FM satellite.  There are also many QSOs that I've made through\nthe ISS cross-band U/V repeater when it has been available, also\nenjoyable.  It will be a nice change of pace, even if it means more of\na challenge in having to deal with Doppler on the uplink instead of the\ndownlink.  I look forward to that.\n\n> I can tell you personally that one answer is to modify a LEO orbit. It's\n> no at all easy but it is an intuitive alternate for a better orbit. I am\n> also optimistic, given the papers on the subject at the Symposium, that\n> creative thought will be given by AMSAT-NA on the subject. It's not an\n> answer for next year or even five years out, but it's coming.\n\nYes, some of what was presented looks intriguing, and may be our way\nout of strictly LEO orbits.\n\nI apologize if this message is a bit long.  After the past year or so, it was\ngreat to see the plan unveiled last weekend by the AMSAT board.  Maybe\nonce we see the fruits of this plan will the radio manufacturers look closer\nat adding satellite capabilities to future offerings.  It is exciting\nto see a plan\nwhich is more than \"build one satellite\", but lay the groundwork for many\nsatellites and create partnerships and relationships with universities that\nare already building and launching their own satellites.  None of this may\nbe HEO, but we do need to have a plan for more satellites.  This plan is\na good one.\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n",
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