I think the issue is that people are worried about radiation damage to the SDX CPU. If the DSP dies so are we. We really need to subject that puppy to a brutal amount of radiation in our testing and indeed test to destruction.
Bob N4HY
Matt Ettus wrote:
I know that the current documented thinking is to have two SDX's and no analog transponder, however we did say we'd bring up for discussion at a telecon prior to the Symposium. I know that this was brought up in July 2005 where it was clear that the answer to the members was yes, we'd have a backup _analog_ linear transponder.
Why stop there? We should have a backup to the analog transponder in the form of a CW transponder. Then we can back that up with a spark transponder. Finally, we should have some sort of semaphores or smoke signals to back that up.
Seriously, if we have 2 SDX's, aren't they backups for each other?
Matt
Via the Eagle mailing list courtesy of AMSAT-NA Eagle@amsat.org http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/eagle