Six Amateur Radio Satellites to Launch in March
It looks like they'll be six Amateur Radio satellites launching in March including Delfi-C3, see
73 Trevor M5AKA
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I wish some of these sat launchers would put as much effort into their webpages as their satellites.
Most don't list frequencies and seem to me to be a completer afterthought.
I get frustrated searching page after page of just rubbish to turn up nothing.
Enlighten me
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-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org]On Behalf Of Trevor Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2008 6:16 AM To: AMSAT BB Subject: [SPAM] [amsat-bb] Six Amateur Radio Satellites to Launch in March Importance: Low
It looks like they'll be six Amateur Radio satellites launching in March including Delfi-C3, see
73 Trevor M5AKA
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I think what seems to be rubbish to you is directed at different audiences: the local media, colleagues in the university and funding organizations, for example, none of whom are interested in frequencies.
Happily, we hams have the summarizing website of Ralf Wallio, W0RPK, http://showcase.netins.net/web/wallio/CubeSat.htm
Frequency information is also available from IARU: http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/
73, Bruce VE9QRP
On Jan 16, 2008 6:54 AM, Andrew Rich vk4tec@people.net.au wrote:
I wish some of these sat launchers would put as much effort into their webpages as their satellites.
Most don't list frequencies and seem to me to be a completer afterthought.
I get frustrated searching page after page of just rubbish to turn up nothing.
Enlighten me
Andrew Rich VK4TEC vk4tec@people.net.au mailto:vk4tec@people.net.au http://www.tech-software.net
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org]On Behalf Of Trevor Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2008 6:16 AM To: AMSAT BB Subject: [SPAM] [amsat-bb] Six Amateur Radio Satellites to Launch in March Importance: Low
It looks like they'll be six Amateur Radio satellites launching in March including Delfi-C3, see
73 Trevor M5AKA
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Thanks for the links Bruce, I too couldn't find any frequency info after Trevor's initial posting!
Sadly I see that with the exception of Delfi, everything else is digital. Surely it is imperative that we get more easy sats up there for the newbies to cut their teeth on and then progress! With the loss of FO-29 to virtually everyone out of the JA footprint, its becoming a specialised hobby - there is a need to get back to basics here I would have thought!
David KG4ZLB AMSAT UK
Bruce Robertson ve9qrp@gmail.com wrote: I think what seems to be rubbish to you is directed at different audiences: the local media, colleagues in the university and funding organizations, for example, none of whom are interested in frequencies.
Happily, we hams have the summarizing website of Ralf Wallio, W0RPK, http://showcase.netins.net/web/wallio/CubeSat.htm
Frequency information is also available from IARU: http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/
73, Bruce VE9QRP
On Jan 16, 2008 6:54 AM, Andrew Rich wrote:
I wish some of these sat launchers would put as much effort into their webpages as their satellites.
Most don't list frequencies and seem to me to be a completer afterthought.
I get frustrated searching page after page of just rubbish to turn up nothing.
Enlighten me
Andrew Rich VK4TEC vk4tec@people.net.au http://www.tech-software.net
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org]On Behalf Of Trevor Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2008 6:16 AM To: AMSAT BB Subject: [SPAM] [amsat-bb] Six Amateur Radio Satellites to Launch in March Importance: Low
It looks like they'll be six Amateur Radio satellites launching in March including Delfi-C3, see
73 Trevor M5AKA
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Hello David,
Sadly I see that with the exception of Delfi, everything else is digital. Surely it is imperative that we get more easy sats up there for the newbies to cut their teeth on and then progress! With the loss of FO-29 to virtually everyone out of the JA footprint, its becoming a specialised hobby - there is a need to get back to basics here I would have thought!
At the Symposium in Pittsburgh and in recent Journal articles there has been discussion of the new reality of civilian spaceflight. Its also mentioned at http://www.amsat.org in the President's Report. In summary this is what the report says:
1) There is excess launch capacity on most lifters but their owners (ie: primary mission) expects to be paid for it.
2) These costs are not trivial. The price tag is in the millions which amateur radio is not able to raise on its own.
3) To get funding you need to present your plans for a complete mission. Student research, scientific instruments stand a better chance of being funded as compared to 'flying a radio so a bunch of guys can talk with each other'.
4) For AMSAT to get funding our mission must also excite potential funding sources. By proposing a mission that revolutionizes amateur emergency communication or introduces TDRSS-like capability for ARISS amateur radio projects are more likely to be funded as well. That's how we get our next transponders into orbit.
The cubesat webpages are not about neat radios. The radio is a subsystem. They have a mission to get funded. In other words, they were not written for us but for the professors who grade them and for those who control the grant monies.
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org
Frankly most of the guys who are making these launches happen are most likely clueless when it comes to web development, besides perhaps 1995- era hand-written HTML. That's not to disparage their work in bringing these sats online, but they ought to be working with some of the (presumably) younger hams to get some simple to edit wiki-style content management systems up in place so there aren't 500 out of date web pages with stale information that look like they're over a decade old and have no last-edited date.
Regards, Alex Perez Systems Administrator Trulia.com - Real Estate Search
On Jan 16, 2008, at 2:54 AM, Andrew Rich wrote:
I wish some of these sat launchers would put as much effort into their webpages as their satellites.
Most don't list frequencies and seem to me to be a completer afterthought.
I get frustrated searching page after page of just rubbish to turn up nothing.
Enlighten me
Andrew Rich VK4TEC vk4tec@people.net.au mailto:vk4tec@people.net.au http://www.tech-software.net
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org]On Behalf Of Trevor Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2008 6:16 AM To: AMSAT BB Subject: [SPAM] [amsat-bb] Six Amateur Radio Satellites to Launch in March Importance: Low
It looks like they'll be six Amateur Radio satellites launching in March including Delfi-C3, see
73 Trevor M5AKA
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