Hi Bruce, VE9QRP
Belive or not believe you and me and nobody never made a QSO via a Cubesats.
The Satellite Amateur Radio Community is not made only by Ham Radio scientist working for the Universities but mostly they are working people belonging to all working classes.
Be sure that once the Universities have the ESA/NASA/JAXA-sponsored GENSO project running, they will probably even not need our help anymore, but only our frequencies !!!
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Robertson" [email protected] To: "i8cvs" [email protected] Cc: "AMSAT" [email protected] Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 11:45 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: 9 Cubesats selected for free ESA ride to space
Dom:
I greatly respect the knowledge you bring to this list, but I think you are incorrect here on several fronts.
In at least one instance, the cubesat is, in fact, directly involved in amateur communications: "OUFTI-1 (University of Liège, Belgium): a mission to test the use of the D-STAR amateur radio digital communication protocol in space"
As for the others, I think we should consider our telemetry-collecting services paid for in arrears by projects like Delfi C3. Like it or not, this is the place where small satellites are being routinely and cheaply launched. We should give this momentum an occasional nudge in the direction of our interests, not decry it.
Finally, I and others find telemetry transmission and collection a wholly appropriate and very interesting use of amateur spectra. This may sound crazy, but I've come to consider those signals that tell me about conditions of the hardware in space often to be more interesting than signals bounced from earth through space back to earth.
I think much of the opposition to cubesats derives from the mistaken opinion that they represent a lost opportunity to apply the same energies to a HEO satellite. My experience within the university makes me believe this is false: it is not the case that their universities and sponsors would, under other circumstances, pitch in for an amateur communications HEO bird.
73, Bruce VE9QRP
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:24 PM, i8cvs [email protected] wrote:
Hi David, G0MRF
It seem to me that while the Universities are becaming tennis players we collect telemetry without to be involved in their experiments and this is like to only pick up their balls and run with it.