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        "address": "eric (a) christensenplace.us",
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    "sender_name": "Eric H. Christensen",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: Keep It Simple Silly",
    "date": "2007-09-30T22:25:56Z",
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    "content": "And now I'll take a turn at giving my opinion.\n\nI've been an active member of AMSAT going on four years and a member of\nProject OSCAR for a little less than that.  I'm glad that we, amateur\nscientists that we are, are using new technologies to produce our\n\"product\" to the amateur community.\n\nAmateur radio has changed since the early 1900s where people\nexperimented and built their equipment and learned from their failures\nand, most importantly, learned from their successes.  Ever since the\nvery beginning the world has looked at the amateur radio community,\ndirectly and indirectly, for the latest and cutting edge (sometimes\nbleeding edge) ideas and technologies.  Unfortunately since the early\nninety's I feel that amateur radio has slipped in this technology arena.\n No one hardly ever builds anything anymore and too many of us younger\ncrowd expect the older crowd to get everything going for them (not always).\n\nI got involved in AMSAT and Project OSCAR because they were still\ncutting edge.  They still had the world's ear and they were not afraid\nof trying new things.  We have had almost 60 (or maybe more now) \"OSCAR\"\nsatellites flown since OSCAR 1 was built and launched and we're not done\nyet.  If we want to ever make it in this world and not get run over by\nthe commercial world then we'll have to stay on top of technology and\nkeep developing new ideas.  We have to keep building on our successes\nand fixing our failures or else we'll just have to wait for HRO (Ham\nRadio Outlet) to start selling satellite parts (or maybe the entire\nsatellite) in order for us to get our satellites in orbit.\n\nSomeone mentioned that AO-7 was probably the biggest success in AMSAT's\nhistory.  I have to say that AO-7 is a very nice satellite and one that\nI hope to operate on it more in the future.  But it should also be noted\nthat AO-7 was silent for twenty-one years before it came back to life to\nbe operational when in the sun's illumination.  Before it went silent in\n1981 it had been operational for six and a half years which is great.  I\ncan only hope that all of our satellites will operate that long and\nlonger in the future.\n\nI think that if we have the opportunity to fly equipment that will allow\nfor a better power budget (something that has always been a problem on\nsatellites and probably always will), that will provide more/better\nfunctionality, and that will allow for upgrades later on down the road\n(it's software after all) then I say go for it.  If you haven't had\nenough time to get a lot of testing on it?  Well then fly a second\ntransponder, one that is built smartly using \"traditional\" technology.\nThat way you can use it as an experimental platform.  We can also take\nadvantage short lived LEO satellites and maybe even use the ISS as an\nexperiment platform (as was done with PCSAT2).\n\nIf we don't cross the SDX bridge now then when?  If you say never then\nyou don't understand what our amateur radio \"fore-fathers\" were thinking\nand feeling when they built the very technology and laws that allow us\nto communicate the way we do today.\n\n\n73s,\nEric Christensen, W4OTN\nAMSAT Area Coordinator - Southeastern Virginia USA\nAMSAT Member 35360\nhttp://www.ericsatcom.net\n\nDonate to the Eagle Fund - http://www.amsat-na.com/donation.php?donate=eagle\n\n",
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