Es’HailSat is a Qatari satellite. They donated space and power on their satellite. That’s worth millions of dollars.
No one else has donated that to the amateur radio community. We wish they would, but it seems we’ll need to raise millions of dollars to do it over the Western Hemisphere.
Keep in mind that total donations worldwide for Phase 3D were around $4 million. That was collected over more than a decade and worldwide. The amateur community has shown no ability to raise the millions of dollars necessary for a Phase 3 or Phase 4 satellite.
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 19:51 Andrew Rich [email protected] wrote:
So I watched the amsat-uk talks
A rich ham radio guy is splurging on a geo satellite and the germans are driving it
What happened USA ?
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