9 Sep
2006
9 Sep
'06
12:24 p.m.
Greetings All!
As many of you have done, I have been tracking satellite design and construction for years. If we have learned one thing, it is that this is not your Dad's Amateur Radio. Legacy ground gear investment is irrelevant. We must go where the engineering constraints lead us. If that is to 10 GHz, then so be it. And, digital is the future of Amateur Radio (and all other radios) anyway.
Besides, I will do nearly anything not to have to mess around on the roof again with that huge long-boomed 145 MHz cross-polarized yagi. You could shoot you eye out! (HI)
John - K8OCL