My Prog Line works just fine thank you and 6BH6's are a dime a dozen...plus...less worry about EMP....did anyone else see the Gonset Gooney Box amplifier in this week's "Jerico?" I know I'm o/t...I'll go back into my hole....
Roger WA1KAT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Oler" cvn65vf94@msn.com To: smeuse@mara.org; k4shf@k4shf.com Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 10:52 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Why do the amsats get more and more complex?
Steve
" This is a classic argument. Let's step into a time machine for a
moment..."
here is the problem with your point. I agree that technical advancement
is
important...but to have technical advancement for no real purpose isnt.
Unlike most of the modes you mention, amateur satellite communications has really "not" caught on in the amateur community.
A main reason is that there is not a dependable reliable source of high altitude (or even low altitude) satellites that are the essential part(perhaps the ultimate part) of the equation.
Imagine if there were the same number of amateur FM repeaters as their are linear transponders on amateur radio satellites.
Do you think we would have gotten much past tube strip line radios?
I dont.
Robert Oler WB5MZO/5
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