AMSAT has two serious projects underway - for both GEO and HEO.
There aren't many details available at this point. P4B, in a geosynchronous orbit will be 5 GHz up and 10 GHz down. Bands for P3E, going to a Molniya orbit, have not been determined yet.
Not only that, but AMSAT's partnership with Ragnarok for the Lunar CubeQuest challenge could result in a transponder in lunar orbit, which would be an interesting challenge. Again that will use 5 GHz up and 10 GHz down.
And AMSAT is continuing with LEO projects, of course. Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D launch 1Q 2016. RadFXSat (Fox-1B) launches November 2016 and Fox-1E is also being worked on.
Lots of exciting stuff in progress over the next few years!
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Saturday, November 7, 2015, John Becker w0jab@big-river.net wrote:
Agreed ! Bob is so dead on this. Seems that LOW EARTH ORBIT for some reason is stuck in a lot of heads. AO-40 was so much fun and so easy to use.
John, W0JAB
On 11/7/2015 3:46 PM, Bob- W7LRD wrote:
Why not L/S on a geo bird? I may have missed the memo on that idea. Many of us still have AO40 (sobsob) gear.
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