Heathkit? Are they back in business? I loved those kits. My first was an HW-16 and then the VFO that went with it. I built an HW-101 and the 100kc tuner, HW-2036 (bad rig but the A model wasn't bad) and a few other little clocks, and other things. I thought about the SB series amps but by then they were on the way out.
Kevin, WB5RUE EL09uf I stopped asking people "how stupid can you be?" Too many were taking that as a challenge.
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Alexander Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 12:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Phase 4B
If it's a matter of getting it assembled cheaply then send me...I'll go. I've built plenty of Heathkit and Elecraft equipment and last summer I changed the brake pads on my Toyota, so I'm feeling pretty certain I can handle the work. The only problem is I don't have much vacation time built up, so they would have to send me up on a Friday afternoon and I would have to be back home Sunday evening. Otherwise my boss won't be too happy! If they could land the Soyuz spacecraft somewhere near Toronto I could take a cab the rest of the way home!
I'm probably a 2XL in a spacesuit.
Ready any time!
73,
Ken Alexander VE3HLS
On 2016-06-17 3:09 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote:
If we could afford to pay astronauts to assemble a HEO, then we could afford to launch six of them to GTO without bothering.
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Kevin Muenzler, WB5RUE [email protected] wrote:
I'd be happy with another AO-40 style bird that worked as advertized. Given that there is always the possibility of something going wrong along the way I was sorely disappointed that it happened to THIS one. I'm sure that someday AMSAT will give us a long period orbit bird, standing by -- antennas dusted off... It would be nice, but probably not practical given the huge workload of the ISS crew, that they could send the major parts up in sections and have it assembled there and then pushed out the airlock to be launched. Yes, I know "Welcome to
Fantasy Island!"
Kevin, WB5RUE I am Voltohn of Borg, resistance is E/I, you will be attenuated!
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert McGwier Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:16 PM To: amsat bb Subject: [amsat-bb] Phase 4B
Neglect the "First geosynchronous" article. I did not write it and it is like all mistakes, firmly in archives and not fixable.
73s Bob
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