Cool George! it's not the building and concepts that's difficult. It's getting the damn things up there. We should have a division of AMSAT that does rockets, and launch our own. Like my Dad told me, "the difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer".
73 Bob W7LRD
----- Original Message ----- From: "George Henry" ka3hsw@att.net To: "AMSAT" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 10:06:39 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Satellite Satire
Better yet, take the 10.8 MHz IF output from one of their old Bearcat scanners,
programmed for a 2-meter uplink, add an appropriate local oscillator and high pass filter, feed the resulting signal to the final stage from one of their old
sideband CB's, and you've got a mode A *LINEAR* satellite!!
We could call it OSCAR 10-4!
George, KA3HSW
----- Original Message ----
From: K4FEG K4FEG@K4FEG.COM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tue, November 29, 2011 8:49:31 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellite Satire
OK I have a suggestion: a new inexpensive satellite, It will be designated:
*ReNe-Sat-3, *that will be an abbreviation for: *Red Neck Satellite #3 (
Dale
Ernharts Sr. NASCAR #).
*We will take 2 Woxun HT's, 2 Larsen Mag-mounts, 2**1/4 wave antennas, a
solar
panel with charger from Northern Hydraulics and last but not least about 100
feet of NASCAR 200mph duct tape.
We take the 2 radios set them up for our frequencies, duct tape them
together
mount the antennas on the solar panel hook the solar panel up to the HT batteries and last but not least we send two of the south's finest:
*Astronaut
"Bubba & Cooter"* up with the new bird to deploy it. We will tell Bubba & Cooter that they can have free passes to all the NASCAR races for 2012 when
they get this satellite working and in orbit.
I promise they will have that thing (or should i say "thang") up and
running
in HEO and be back before the first race in February 2012.
For those that are not sure, YES I AM MAKING A JOKE!
/*It is difficult work to keep these satellites working and the control operators deserve a round of applause from us for all that they have done to
extend the life of AO51 and all of the other birds.
THANK YOU ONE AND ALL! A JOB WELL DONE! */ Frank K4FEG
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