[amsat-bb] Re: Students call space station with home-built radio

--- On Tue, 3/2/09, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:

I didn't know that Icom was selling kits.

I did wonder myself, the story doesn't actually say which part of the system was "home-built".

Back in the 1920's Radio Amateurs build their own components (resistors etc), these days things have moved on and we develop systems that can embody complete transceivers as a component-part.

73 Trevor M5AKA