Not being an RF guy myself, I would not have thought so. But I saw this mail earlier and suggested to Jonathan that he contact Bill and Chris because of his "ideas about pacsats". Given that his ideas come from playing with an GreenCube and not from hardware, I thought maybe this was a software/operation suggestion.

Up to you all, of course.

73,

Burns Fisher, WB1FJ *AMSAT(R) Engineering -- Flight Software*

On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 10:23 AM Jonathan Brandenburg via pacsat-dev < pacsat-dev@amsat.org> wrote:

I should have also pointed out that even though his professional background is "analog RF engineer", his desire as a volunteer with AMSAT is in the area of packet sats. We often allow people to exercise what I'll term "hobby skills" as a volunteer. Jonathan

On 8/28/2023 9:17 AM, Bill Reed via pacsat-dev wrote:

Does anyone on the team think we need an analog RF engineer at this point. Let me know if you think we do. I don't want to dilute our team meetings with "observers"....

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Fwd: ITAR/EAR "Clearance" Process Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:12:44 +0000 From: Jonathan Brandenburg jonathan@jonathanbrandenburg.com jonathan@jonathanbrandenburg.com To: Bill Reed bill@brconnect.com bill@brconnect.com

His background is analog RF engineering, I believe. Jonathan

On 8/28/2023 9:04 AM, Bill Reed wrote:

Any idea what his skill set is? On 8/28/2023 8:36 AM, Jonathan Brandenburg wrote:

Bill,

Dave Benzel (email address below) is expressing an interest in discussion packet sats... If you want (it's entirely up to you) would you like to contact him as a potential volunteer?

He attended one weekly engineering meeting and I take it he doesn't want to participate in structured meetings so I'm not sure how to engage him but I figure I'll let you know there's interest from him in packet sats.

Jonathan

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Hi Jonathan -

Thanks for note. No, nothing specific. At this point in my career, I am just looking for less structure... which doesn't really seem to fit in with your perfectly appropriate way of conducting projects.

Thanks for keeping me in mind - I would really enjoy making what ever contribution I can, that may help unload some of your other folks. Seems like a great bunch, and can't wait to see us get more hardware in orbit.

I'd like to send you some ideas I had on packet sats - working with the really fun IO-117 sat gave me a few ideas on how to improve this general system. Haahaaha - probably nothing you all haven't already thought of though !!

• dB KD6RF

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