Quoting i8cvs domenico.i8cvs@tin.it:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Oler" cvn65vf94@msn.com To: kc6uqh@cox.net; domenico.i8cvs@tin.it; vk6xh@arach.net.au; amsat-bb@amsat.org Cc: iz1dsj@sparks.it Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 4:56 AM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: The Eagle has died.
If Eagle dies, so does technoloigy for AMSAT, and the Amateur Radio Community!
What is next? Quenched Arc? Spark? 200 KHz and down?
Art , KC6UQH
Hello Art.
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I close with this thought. Instead of Oscar 40, had the community
gotten
two more Oscar 13's. Pretty plain jane birds with not a lot of gizmos
and
Amsat engineers would have had to have been content with reinventing
the
wheel...but say instead of AO-40 as a pile of junk we had two more
Oscar
13's that worked.
Dont you think it would have been a better deal then we got? Do you
think
that there would have been more or less people involved in HEO communications?
I think more...and I think that is a good thing.
Robert G. Oler WB5MZO/portable Life member AMSAT ARRL and a few other organizatiions.
I agree Robert
Much more content satellite users with reinventing the wheel !
Look at many are actually operating CW and SSB on OSCAR-7 , FO-29 and VO-52 waiting for the next viable HEO
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
Happily, two of the three birds you mention above, AO-7 and VO-52, are in exactly the mode that analog Eagle users will be using, U/V. As I understand it, the plan is to have this link working 24/7. (Yes it will primarily use a software-driven transponder, but that will be transparent to the analog user.) In this regard, I can't see how the design team can be accused of unnecessarily innovating.
73, Bruce VE9QRP