Fred A Parker wrote:
SuitSat 2 is coming off from the drawing board to assembly. I just sent Lou a piece of hardware. Lou and his crew are working hard on this project. Lou hope's to have the flight hardware ready by June 07 for testing. Thank you all for the support. It is said the only difference between a man and boy is the cost of there toys. Fred
AMSAT is an official supporter of HPSDR. The Suitsat transponder project is being partially carried out in HPSDR because the hardware and software have such widespread applicability.
http://hpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=ODYSSEY
The HPSDR project is called ODYSSEY and our Ulysses will be Suitsat-2. Steve Bible, Joe Julicher, Frank Brickle, and I are the Homer's for the low power, QRP, high performance SDR.
Frank and I are teaching a software defined radio class at TCNJ.
http://n4hy.smugmug.com/gallery/2134280/1/110523265
The students are working on various aspects of the SDR for Suitsat 2 as well as other projects. Lou is the engineering project manager and Frank Bauer is ARISS chairman.
Bob N4HY