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
John Champa wrote:
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
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Hi, John, Glad you are giving an honest opinion to this thread (mailbox filler!!??). Yes, I have always said that it is easier to use the Higher bands with the size of antennas being a constraint. I read Rick's, W2GPS, note on this and he has the posture of time being on his side and he is correct. With the areas inside Eagle for experimentation and inclusion, we can get a 2.4 ghz transmitter built to be included before launch time.(Volunteers and efforts stepping up in time, of course) This being farther away than initial ideas planned. Rick knows that I do a lot of grass roots work for our organization and we need to re-interest our base of "operators" to rejoin our ranks. The standing non-scientific polls I take at Hamfests, demo's etc. are overwhelmingly in favor of HEO birds and "not" obsoleting what a ham has presently accumulated for satellite use. We have a good chance to do this now and quell those that believe our elected officials have been born without ears(HI!). I have spent many conversations with our officials explaining this to them-with purpose. Remember, Friday September 15th, is the deadline for voting in new board members- I suggest you use this leverage as a direct entusiastic stamp of approval (or dis-approval) towards what you believe. Keep those 145 arrays pointing in the proper direction ! 73, Dee, NB2F NJ AMSAT Coordinator LM 2324
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