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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/ZCFAUWA35YSPPNT3DLQDD24CDZWOTKBV/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "ZCFAUWA35YSPPNT3DLQDD24CDZWOTKBV", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/XIQRIAAGHYFDEDLW4FDBHVTGDWMVVUGZ/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "ve9qrp (a) gmail.com", "mailman_id": "4d6061838db34aba9a1c4722addebfaf", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/4d6061838db34aba9a1c4722addebfaf/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Bruce Robertson", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: Why do hamsats? (Or anything else...)", "date": "2009-10-18T17:08:45Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/BOTY456VL4O5O7U6E53BFLGFV6X2R2JX/?format=api", "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/6UUUBUN2HDIGEBRLHX3P7NG3HT6YUP4H/?format=api" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Rocky Jones <[email protected]> wrote:\n\n> As it is, with the knowledge that suitsat 1 died on deployment...we would never know if the transponder was just not working or wasnt put together well.\n\nI wonder if the misunderstandings I infer in the above sentence might\nbe part of the basis of the disagreement on this list. It was my\nunderstanding that no transponder flew on SS1: rather the plan was to\ntransmit SSTV and messages from kids, as well as some telemetry.\nHere is a typical document outlining the plan for the project:\n\nhttp://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/26jan_suitsat.htm\n\nSecond, the word 'died' suggests that ground stations never received\nthe signals from SS1. They did: even with my modest equipment I was\nable to reach this challenge. However, the signals were highly\nattenuated, and after two weeks they stopped altogether. Some of the\nfun that hams and educators had during this time is documented at:\n\nhttp://www.aj3u.com/blog/\n\nA further point of fact that might inform this discussion: amateur\nsoftware defined transponders have been under design by Bob and others\nfor years. Granted, they were originally planned for P3-E and Eagle,\nbut it is an exaggeration to suggest that something that has Howard\nLong first had working in 2005, and that Tom Clark W3IWI, Rick Hambly\nW2GPS, and Bob McGwier N4HY ran a QSO through in August, 2005 is not\nready for prime-time. Hear that QSO at\nhttp://www.gpstime.com/files/amsat/Eagle_SDT_1st_Contact.mp3\n\n73, Bruce\nVE9QRP\n", "attachments": [] }