Good evening, Dee!
By the way, I saw your mention in this evening's ANS bulletins that my Fox flyer is now posted on the Fox web page. I don't know who put it on the web page, but many thanks to you for mentioning it - and to whoever put it up there. I also had a good friend translate that flyer into Spanish. If that doesn't go up on the web page, I'm happy to e-mail that PDF to anyone interested in it.
Wow, Here we go again.
<snip> Attitudes seemed to be "when you launch an HEO, I'd be interested in supporting this." No matter how I explained the urgency of hams supporting NOW for future projects, most seemed deaf to our plea Patrick, we must continue to circulate these ideas and promote our growth so as launches become available and worked to fruition By our people, we have enough in the kitty to finish a project to meet them. Let's all stay on the same page.
I'm all for supporting an HEO project like P3E. My comment about waiting until we have an HEO satellite related to building a station to work a satellite that - at the moment - is nonexistent, not to the fundraising effort. I can buy or build what I need to work an HEO satellite at the appropriate time in the future. At this point, the $$$ I might use to build a bigger satellite station has been used in part toward satellite projects.
My question about how close AMSAT-DL is to paying for a launch is still a valid question. It would give me (and others) some idea on how close AMSAT-DL is to getting that launch. I've heard and read about P3E for many years, but have no idea how close we really are to seeing it launched. I'm just wanting to hear how much is in the "kitty" for P3E. That's why I have been happy to make one or two contributions a year to KiwiSAT. Those guys have been good at updating us on their progress, between AMSAT-BB posts and their web site. I'm hoping we can continue that with Fox-1, as it is built this year and the fundraising is (hopefully) successful.
Congrats to Tony, AA2TX, and his team for long hours of hard work to get his proposal recognized. Hoo-Rah.
Agreed, 100%!
So much work went into that, and I am happy that the hard work was recognized by NASA in their decision. Now our challenge is to first get that formal agreement with NASA signed, then to deliver a satellite for launch.
Time to get ready to work VO-52 outside....
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/