Keep in mind that there are many great folks working behind the scenes on their own time to make things work. ARISS members and the ARISS board are a great example of dedicated folks working on our behalf. Things happen in due time. You can always contact your ARISS rep for your region and get updates.
73, Stefan, VE4NSA
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Ing. Pavel Milanes Costa <[email protected]
wrote:
El 03/06/13 07:00, M5AKA escribió:
--- On Mon, 3/6/13, K5VOU[email protected] wrote:
Possibly because when it is made available, the duty cycle rises to near 100% and the unit consumes too much power from the ISS power budget.
Hi, I'm baffled as to why you mention the ISS power budget. Do you have any references, ARISS or elsewhere, to confirm that the ISS power budget has ever been raised as an issue ? The one thing the ISS appears to have in abundance is Solar Power.
The equipment to be installed on the ISS for the HAM-TV project will consume far more power than the Kenwood TM-D700 ever did.
The KuPS power supply that was built to power the HAM-TV transmitter was designed to supply power to up to three separate payloads.
73 Trevor M5AKA
The issue of the Kenwood radio being "power hungry" in this thread is my fault...
I remember to read a info related to this in some place time ago, but now I can't point you to a reliable source, maybe I'm remembering a comment in a forum post elsewhere and this (wrong) idea stick to my mind...
Sorry to all about that.
73 de CO7WT
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