Bob,
A hearty thank you to you and all the folks sitting around the table on April 13, 2015 contemplating possibilities how to fast forward our Amateur Radio Satellite capabilities by leaps and bounds. The FOX program has been looking great, this is more in the unbelievable category (but we can certainly work under these conditions...<grin>).
On the note of Radio Scouting / K2BSA - National Jamboree (as one of the staff at that event)
...We sure kept the birds we had available busy at the K2BSA Boy Scouts of America Jamboree in July of 2013 in West Virginia where we had more than 25,000 Scouts in attendance, and couple thousand visit our K2BSA operation in one way or another probably more.
I'm not sure if this satellite will fly before the July 2017 National Scouting Jamboree, but it would be great if we could showcase it, that would be an outstanding opportunity. Else, the World Jamboree happens in Summer 2019 at the same location I believe.
For annual Radio Scouting:
Imagine the impact for JOTA, Jamboree on the Air, where we know lots of Scouts eventually become Amateur Radio Operators, because when we do Radio Scouting events, we find lots of folks say, I started my interest in radio in Scouting.
Just dreaming, Thanks for giving us the opportunity to dream, and see what comes to fruition.
Mike W4UOO
P.S. I knew I needed to hang on to that Primestar dish from AO-40 for the eventual possibilities, here we are...
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Robert McGwier rwmcgwier@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, but we will have to have a tracking antenna flown and mounted on the truss. When you find the millions to get beyond manned space flight hurdles, I would LOVE to do it.
Bob
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Gus gus@8p6sm.net wrote:
On 04/25/2015 11:45 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote:
Well, there is some truth to that. Minimal Doppler shift, no checking Keps, no running predictions to check mutual footprints with those you want to work. Just point your dish at the satellite and talk to the entire hemisphere!
Hmmm. Would the ISS be able to use it to extend school contacts? I
mean,
any school in the footprint would not need to use a telebridge, and the contact could begin as soon as ISS entered the footprint and last until
it
exited. Or more correctly, for the entire time the two coverage circles overlapped, unless my brain is misfiring. The question is, i) would the ISS be able to carry a suitable transceiver and antenna? And ii) would it be able to point/aim said antenna?
-- Gus 8P6SM The Easternmost Isle
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