AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates
It is my pleasure to announce that the following have been nominated to serve on the AMSAT Board of Directors for two year terms:
Tom Clark, K3IO Lou McFadin, W5DID Tony Monteiro, AA2TX Gould Smith, WA4SXM
Candidates will be afforded the opportunity to have statements of their qualifications and positions circulated to the membership. In accordance with the bylaws of the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, the ballots will be mailed no later than July 15th, and must be returned no later than September 15h to be counted.
Since there are four candidates for three seats, the three candidates having the greatest number of votes will be elected to full terms. The forth candidate will serve as an alternate until the next annual election.
Alan Biddle WA4SCA AMSAT Corporate Secretary
At 01:22 PM 6/16/2010 -0500, APBIDDLE@mailaps.org wrote:
It is my pleasure to announce that the following have been nominated to serve on the AMSAT Board of Directors for two year terms:
Tom Clark, K3IO Lou McFadin, W5DID Tony Monteiro, AA2TX Gould Smith, WA4SXM
Which of these candidates would support adding a Mode A linear transponder to FOX, or any type of linear transponder for that matter. FOX will already have a 2m receiver all you'd need to add is a 10m downlink transmitter. Use a tape measure tape for the antennas.
Why does everything always have to be FM all the time.
KB7ADL
At 02:58 PM 6/16/2010, you wrote:
At 01:22 PM 6/16/2010 -0500, APBIDDLE@mailaps.org wrote:
It is my pleasure to announce that the following have been nominated to serve on the AMSAT Board of Directors for two year terms:
Tom Clark, K3IO Lou McFadin, W5DID Tony Monteiro, AA2TX Gould Smith, WA4SXM
Which of these candidates would support adding a Mode A linear transponder to FOX, or any type of linear transponder for that matter. FOX will already have a 2m receiver all you'd need to add is a 10m downlink transmitter. Use a tape measure tape for the antennas.
Why does everything always have to be FM all the time.
Vince, I've been asking the same thing for years; as others have.
I hope we are getting great financial support from the fm'ers. I assume the reason for fm is the assumed cost of ssw/cw rigs in comparison to fm. I have no idea of member numbers, but assume that graph could be made available....
I've never been a big donor, but I've stopped my pittances since the FM promotions....
73, Dave, WB6LLO dguimon1@san.rr.com
Disagree: I learn....
Pulling for P3E...
To All... I just got off FO-29. It sure sounded very nice and it didn't have any pileups. I made 2 contacts with no one else heard. AMSAT-NA has been doing its best to follow through on original Phase 3 type birds, however, launches For these type birds are not an every day opportunity being presented to us. (yes, we[us] are all part of AMSAT just by being interested in satellites) Withholding donations at the present time is not really in our interests. We need funds to keep up the present offerings for satellite launches. This is the time membership should rise and show support for our future efforts. ARRISsat-1 has a linear transponder and you can Listen to Gould's presentation from Dayton & find out more on the RF setup on the website. We just had a DARA matching funds campaign and I hope that Those that realize what funding can accomplish have made that a success and I personally thank those that contributed. We have the expertise to put together a great bird but limitations of actual launches holds us back. Our "Engineering team" Has assured us that they are ready to be called on to supply us a phase 3 comparable satellite. HEO is not a magic word, just one That is still upfront and waiting for that timely spark. If you look at the BOD candidates, when they present their thoughts and objectives just go down the list and find those fitting Your requirements for a BOD member. This is certainly a member society and exercise your selective powers when the time comes around. If you read the ANS bulletins, members were advised on giving their inputs to BOD nominees. I see a list of volunteers that provide Us with ideas we can all deal with. So as I have pronounced before, let your feelings, ideas & comments be heard by those that you Intend on electing. It's your call.....Hear you on the birds! 73, Dee, NB2F NJ AMSAT Coordinator Remember-Dee is really a three letter word for HEO
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Dave Guimont Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 7:41 PM To: Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates
At 02:58 PM 6/16/2010, you wrote:
At 01:22 PM 6/16/2010 -0500, APBIDDLE@mailaps.org wrote:
It is my pleasure to announce that the following have been nominated to serve on the AMSAT Board of Directors for two year terms:
Tom Clark, K3IO Lou McFadin, W5DID Tony Monteiro, AA2TX Gould Smith, WA4SXM
Which of these candidates would support adding a Mode A linear transponder to FOX, or any type of linear transponder for that matter. FOX will already have a 2m receiver all you'd need to add is a 10m downlink transmitter. Use a tape measure tape for the antennas.
Why does everything always have to be FM all the time.
Vince, I've been asking the same thing for years; as others have.
I hope we are getting great financial support from the fm'ers. I assume the reason for fm is the assumed cost of ssw/cw rigs in comparison to fm. I have no idea of member numbers, but assume that graph could be made available....
I've never been a big donor, but I've stopped my pittances since the FM promotions....
73, Dave, WB6LLO dguimon1@san.rr.com
Disagree: I learn....
Pulling for P3E...
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The important thing to remember is that radio communications must be hard to do, require extra effort, if not repeated failure as well as persecution by those who have succeeded one time before, and it is most vital that anyone with existing equipment should never be required to change gear. But those with incompatible gear must buy old stuff to meet the approval of those who have spent the past 50 years talking to the same people using the same mode and antennas to prove, repeatedly that they can say 73 and Roger while holding their mic, tuning their transceiver and switching antenna polarization all while eating a donut.
It is important to get the facts right and not do anything that would make there be no reason to get another box of donuts for the coming week of Roger-73s.
After all amateur radio is about socialization and personal communications.
Gregg Wonderly W5GGW
On Jun 16, 2010, at 7:28 PM, Dee morsesat@optonline.net wrote:
To All... I just got off FO-29. It sure sounded very nice and it didn't have any pileups. I made 2 contacts with no one else heard. AMSAT-NA has been doing its best to follow through on original Phase 3 type birds, however, launches For these type birds are not an every day opportunity being presented to us. (yes, we[us] are all part of AMSAT just by being interested in satellites) Withholding donations at the present time is not really in our interests. We need funds to keep up the present offerings for satellite launches. This is the time membership should rise and show support for our future efforts. ARRISsat-1 has a linear transponder and you can Listen to Gould's presentation from Dayton & find out more on the RF setup on the website. We just had a DARA matching funds campaign and I hope that Those that realize what funding can accomplish have made that a success and I personally thank those that contributed. We have the expertise to put together a great bird but limitations of actual launches holds us back. Our "Engineering team" Has assured us that they are ready to be called on to supply us a phase 3 comparable satellite. HEO is not a magic word, just one That is still upfront and waiting for that timely spark. If you look at the BOD candidates, when they present their thoughts and objectives just go down the list and find those fitting Your requirements for a BOD member. This is certainly a member society and exercise your selective powers when the time comes around. If you read the ANS bulletins, members were advised on giving their inputs to BOD nominees. I see a list of volunteers that provide Us with ideas we can all deal with. So as I have pronounced before, let your feelings, ideas & comments be heard by those that you Intend on electing. It's your call.....Hear you on the birds! 73, Dee, NB2F NJ AMSAT Coordinator Remember-Dee is really a three letter word for HEO
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Dave Guimont Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 7:41 PM To: Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates
At 02:58 PM 6/16/2010, you wrote:
At 01:22 PM 6/16/2010 -0500, APBIDDLE@mailaps.org wrote:
It is my pleasure to announce that the following have been nominated to serve on the AMSAT Board of Directors for two year terms:
Tom Clark, K3IO Lou McFadin, W5DID Tony Monteiro, AA2TX Gould Smith, WA4SXM
Which of these candidates would support adding a Mode A linear transponder to FOX, or any type of linear transponder for that matter. FOX will already have a 2m receiver all you'd need to add is a 10m downlink transmitter. Use a tape measure tape for the antennas.
Why does everything always have to be FM all the time.
Vince, I've been asking the same thing for years; as others have.
I hope we are getting great financial support from the fm'ers. I assume the reason for fm is the assumed cost of ssw/cw rigs in comparison to fm. I have no idea of member numbers, but assume that graph could be made available....
I've never been a big donor, but I've stopped my pittances since the FM promotions....
73, Dave, WB6LLO dguimon1@san.rr.com Disagree: I learn.... Pulling for P3E...
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At 07:59 PM 6/16/2010 -0500, Gregg Wonderly greggwon@gmail.com wrote:
The important thing to remember is that radio communications must be hard to do, require extra effort, if not repeated failure as well as persecution by those who have succeeded one time before, and it is most vital that anyone with existing equipment should never be required to change gear. But those with incompatible gear must buy old stuff to meet the approval of those who have spent the past 50 years talking to the same people using the same mode and antennas to prove, repeatedly that they can say 73 and Roger while holding their mic, tuning their transceiver and switching antenna polarization all while eating a donut.
ROFL,
Hey you, I resemble that! Don't MAKE me use caps-lock!
Pass the donuts. ;-)
KB7ADL
At 07:40 PM 6/16/2010, Dave Guimont wrote:
I hope we are getting great financial support from the fm'ers. I assume the reason for fm is the assumed cost of ssw/cw rigs in
Dear Dave and Vince and the group,
You guys have to know that I would love to put up a linear HEO and resurrect the +20 net!
The reality is that AMSAT just cannot afford to pay for a HEO launch. I do think we need to work as hard as we can to find another way to get there but we haven't found a way just yet.
The ARISSat-1 satellite, which many of us are hard at work on right now, will have a linear transponder but of course it is a LEO.
The AMSAT-Fox project is FM because we need a replacement for AO-51 before it dies (perhaps THE most popular satellite at present) and it is hard to generate enough power from a 1U CubeSat to have a really good linear transponder.
Hang in there. The world has changed and it is much more difficult than it used to be but we are trying really hard to get there.
73, Tony AA2TX AMSAT VP Engineering
On 16 Jun 2010 at 22:27, Anthony Monteiro wrote:
Date sent: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:27:29 -0400 From: Anthony Monteiro aa2tx@comcast.net Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates To: Dave Guimont dguimon1@san.rr.com, "Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL" vlfiscus@mcn.net Copies to: amsat-bb@amsat.org
At 07:40 PM 6/16/2010, Dave Guimont wrote:
I hope we are getting great financial support from the fm'ers. I assume the reason for fm is the assumed cost of ssw/cw rigs in
Dear Dave and Vince and the group,
You guys have to know that I would love to put up a linear HEO and resurrect the +20 net!
The reality is that AMSAT just cannot afford to pay for a HEO launch. I do think we need to work as hard as we can to find another way to get there but we haven't found a way just yet.
The ARISSat-1 satellite, which many of us are hard at work on right now, will have a linear transponder but of course it is a LEO.
The AMSAT-Fox project is FM because we need a replacement for AO-51 before it dies (perhaps THE most popular satellite at present) and it is hard to generate enough power from a 1U CubeSat to have a really good linear transponder.
Hang in there. The world has changed and it is much more difficult than it used to be but we are trying really hard to get there.
73, Tony AA2TX AMSAT VP Engineering
Just have a look at PE1RAH William Leijenaar web page http://www.qsl.net/pe1rah/
and look at his nano sat transponder satellite
http://www.qsl.net/pe1rah/mysat2.htm
Technology is there but is the AMSAT-NA mentality will change? I wrote in the past at numerous time that it's will be through an international effort amateur radio satellite launch will succeed. It's already done! Look at all the cubes sat launch in the past 5 years nothing came from an AMSAT-NA project.. here is the international effort i refer too.
Yes AMSAT-NA is having projects but AMSAT-INDIA gets help from William PE1RAH for his VO-52 transponder. Just for the record AMSAT-DL is still working on an HEO P3E. There will be no salute if AMSAT-NA persist to fold on themselves trying to make his own 50 states affair as if they are too ashamed to work and i mean really work on an international cooperation base.
We are in 2010 and i don't know if the AMSAT-NA BOD is aware that we are in a globalized world? Your telephone call center is in India and your cars are manufactured in Mexixo. Having the very same people always playing the musical chair in the AMSAT-NA BOD will only lead to the same old paradigm who is by definition :a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated; broadly a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind. Is it not a characterization of the past 7 years of AMSAT-NA actions? I think yes and it's lead to nothing.
Will this FOX project succeed as the many past one we can only hope but IMHO we are still in the same bad tracks even if the folks involved are the most dedicated ones. ARISSAT-1 is probably the best tangible assets actually but how can we really think AMSAT-NA is only promoting his new projects on paper when peoples are actually reading stuff on their I Pod and I Pad? Is this will help them attracting new blood in the amateur radio satellite field?
If the new AMSAT-NA BOD candidates are asking for inputs it's probably because they cannot provided any new ideas only refurbishing ideas from the past over and over again.
For those who are not accepting criticism even the constructive ones just have the BOD implementing ways and means to work on an international satellite project will be a step in the right direction.
It's my opinion and i know you shared it...
"-"
Luc Leblanc VE2DWE Skype VE2DWE www.qsl.net/ve2dwe DSTAR urcall VE2DWE WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE
Just have a look at PE1RAH William Leijenaar web page http://www.qsl.net/pe1rah/
and look at his nano sat transponder satellite
http://www.qsl.net/pe1rah/mysat2.htm
Luc Leblanc VE2DWE Skype VE2DWE www.qsl.net/ve2dwe DSTAR urcall VE2DWE WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE
It is a clever device. I've never been clear as to why AMSAT NA is not using it. Works great on the Indian satellite..
Robert G. Oler WB5MZO Life member AMSAT ARRL _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:W...
Hi Rocky,
The ARISSat-1 uses a linear transponder that is significantly more efficient.
The COMM RX, CMD RX and the half watt output linear COMM TX only draws 420 mA at 8 VDC. The entire design can also be configured to run directly from 3.6 Vdc, which is conveniently the voltage of a Lithium Ion cell. In the absence of the battery cell (if troubles arise with the battery), it could also run directly from a pair of series connected solar cells (but not at the 0.5 watt output level), which typically run about 4.6 V. Additionally, the design can also fit into the CubeSat physical configuration.
So William's design isn't there yet - at least the last I heard.
So you ask, why don't we use it in FOX?
Well 420 mA is still too to close to the current output capability for the typical CubeSat solar cell setup. Remember, you also need current to run the IHU, the MPPT etc. But we're always working on improving the efficient in the linear mode - so who knows.
The AMSAT-UK FUNCube folks will be designing a linear U/V transponder for their CubeSat, so we'll be watching their results closely.
Regards...Bill - N6GHz ARISSat Team Member
Rocky Jones wrote:
Just have a look at PE1RAH William Leijenaar web page http://www.qsl.net/pe1rah/
and look at his nano sat transponder satellite
http://www.qsl.net/pe1rah/mysat2.htm
Luc Leblanc VE2DWE Skype VE2DWE www.qsl.net/ve2dwe DSTAR urcall VE2DWE WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE
It is a clever device. I've never been clear as to why AMSAT NA is not using it. Works great on the Indian satellite..
Robert G. Oler WB5MZO Life member AMSAT ARRL _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:W... _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL vlfiscus@mcn.net wrote:
At 01:22 PM 6/16/2010 -0500, APBIDDLE@mailaps.org wrote:
It is my pleasure to announce that the following have been nominated to serve on the AMSAT Board of Directors for two year terms:
Tom Clark, K3IO Lou McFadin, W5DID Tony Monteiro, AA2TX Gould Smith, WA4SXM
Which of these candidates would support adding a Mode A linear transponder to FOX, or any type of linear transponder for that matter. FOX will already have a 2m receiver all you'd need to add is a 10m downlink transmitter. Use a tape measure tape for the antennas.
Why does everything always have to be FM all the time.
KB7ADL
Vince --
The Fox plan intends to get AMSAT back into space in budget and punctually. The only game in town for this is the cubesat launches, and that requires us to master new technologies. With only a litre per cube unit, adding another mode is just the sort of creeping featureism that would turn the first doable AMSAT project in many years into one of many wonderful ideas that won't get launched.
However, if each cube launch is only roughly $100,000 all-in, and we develop the skills and processes necessary, there will be many future launch possibilities after Fox. And I'd have to agree that a mode A transponder would be a great idea for one of these.
73, Bruce VE9QRP
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Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL