Howie,
I think $50SAT MO-76 is innovative and COOL. I also think the previous email about MO-76 was in jest and not meant to demean or belittle the project. I have been impressed with what "three guys working in their hamshacks" did in a 2" x 2" x 3" satellite. Some folks might gripe because it doesn't have a transponder but they would be missing the the big picture. Without innovation, the ham satellite community will waste away into obscurity.
Who knows? Maybe we will have a $50HEOSATwithTRANSPONDER someday.....I can dream.
73 Clayton W5PFG
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Howie DeFelice howied231@hotmail.com wrote:
While it is true that MO-76 does not have a transponder, the satellite WILL send you a signal report if you send it a correctly formatted data packet. To do this requires some technical ability. The satellite uses an RFM-22 transceiver and receives FSK, not AFSK, data signals. The packet must be formatted to the RFM-22 specification, it's not AX.25. All the required information for doing this is outlined in the $50sat communications document available from our dropbox account. The dropbox can be accessed through a link at www.50dollarsat.info. The MO-76 team will even award a Certificate of Technical Achievement to anyone that can confirm the two way QSO with the satellite. Hey, it's the best three guys working from their hamshacks can do in a 2" x 2" x 3" satellite.....at least until next time :)
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