12 Aug
2022
12 Aug
'22
4:44 p.m.
On 8/12/22 11:27, Paul Andrews wrote:
Yes! Find a commercial GEOsat with room to support an amateur payload. Leverage commercial economics for launch and platform reliability. The commercial operator can donate (tax break) the value of the ham (STEM) capability. Maybe ham bands at 10 GHz and above. Simple bent pipe.
Enlist the help of universities with active ham clubs.
Equipment manufacturers might contribute to the program to help build an "Americas" market for GEO capable radios.
If this GEOsat capability used a hemispheric beam the coverage would be Antartica to Alaska. Wow.
Hello Paul,
Do I hear a willing volunteer to make this happen? :-)
Everything is simple to do in concept, nothing is easy to do in reality.
--- Zach N0ZGO