[amsat-bb] Re: new to amsat

24 Nov 2007


      Pathfinder should of course be Sojourner....
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Glasbrenner" glasbrenner@mindspring.com
To: "Bob Stewart" bob@evoria.net; "truckwiz" truckwiz@bwig.net; 
"Amsat-BB" amsat-bb@amsat.org
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: new to amsat
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I think you'd have to be extremely clever to do it in a rover, but it's 
possible to upload and download _small_ data files (<100kb) like  .jpgs via 
GO-32. This would need to be a BIG rover just to handle the comm gear to do 
this. Think Spirit or Opportunity vs. Pathfinder. You'd need a very good 
set of circular omni antennas for 2m and 70cm, a hot preamp for 70cm, and 
probably some muscle on the uplink on 2m.
73, Drew KO4MA