Agreed, Nigel!
A few years back, Bob was kind enough to give my wife and me a brief tour of his lab on a rainy August day. Among the many amazing things we saw was the early development of PCSat 2, bread-boarded into a roasting pan. This was at least a couple years before it made it up to the ISS.
73 de W0HV, Jim in Raymore, MO Light travels faster than sound... This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
-----Original Message----- From: Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF [mailto:nigel@ngunn.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:51 AM To: Reicher, James Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Officer Assistance
And an excellent job he does too, with many spinoffs made available to the amateur community.
Reicher, James wrote:
An example of this would be WB4APR, who uses Amateur Radio to teach satellites to the midshipmen at Annapolis.