Looks like I stirred up a hornet's nest here, and I apologize for that. I do not mean to condemn Cubesats.. as someone else said I tend to generalize and say Cubesat when I mean EasySat. I guess I miss the days of the Molniya orbit birds when you didn't have to do much for antenna pointing for quite a while and could enjoy unhurried, casual QSOs night after night...
I support AMSAT and will continue to do so no matter what..
VY 73 de W1ICW
On 8/28/2012 6:25 PM, Clayton Coleman W5PFG wrote:
And I thought CubeSat was just a platform. Why condemn it to one mode/variety?
We have all kinds of CubeSats -- Beep Beeps, FM repeaters, Photo bugs, Linear transponders, AX.25 beep-beepers, science fair projects. Sounds a lot like the ham community -- diverse.
73 Clayton W5PFG
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Jim Jerzycke kq6ea@verizon.net wrote:
I think most American hams associate "cube sat" with "easy sat", which equals an FM satellite, like AO-51.
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