Eric:
AMSAT is designing these ground station widgets to be sold in our store at or near cost or similarly in the TAPR store, etc. or from some contract manufacturer. We fully understand that to be accepted it needs to be as cheap as possible. We are designing the ground widgets because they will need to have very small implementation losses to work right and the system needs to work as a system from feed to computer. But you are an SSB user so you can ignore the digital widget and operate Mode B.
As a person who has been a ham radio operator for over 40 years, and an AMSAT technical contributor since 27 years ago, people do not get rich quick on amateur radio. They can make a few bucks, but they will kill themselves trying to do a really breakout product. I <<DID>> design a killer product for AEA. I lost my shirt. If you want to make money on what you have learned in amateur radio, you sell it outside of amateur radio. Amateurs, outside of buying the big rig, are the absolutely cheapest bums in existence. They would make my Scotch ancestors look like spendthrifts.
Bob N4HY
Eric H. Christensen wrote:
Who is designing the ground equipment? It sounds like someone has a get-rich-quick scheme up their sleeve...
73s, Eric KF4OTN kf4otn@amsat.org http://www.ericsatcom.net