Thats a neat idea. We'd have to build the whatever to the physical specs provided, and pay for the extra fuel needed. Sadly, I think in order to make this work we're talking real money, but perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps there is a tax-writeoff somehow? I'd like to hear of what the amsat folks have thought of along these lines; they know of the conditions of business in the field.
--STeve Andre' wb8wsf wn82 On Wednesday 01 July 2009 12:43:39 David - KG4ZLB wrote: > I know it would be expensive but on the "if you spread your net wide > enough" view of thinking, could we not approach commercial satellite > projects prior to launch and bung a transponder on them only to be used > when the primary mission fails? OK, so you might win some, might lose > some and I know it would be expensive but it seems better than the > situation we have now, plus we could be potentially building in some > long term birds that would replace the current ageing fleet. It would be > a long term view, but it would be something! > > Presumably this has been brought up before but no harm in re-hashing it > for any new ideas especially with the BoD voting soon to happen! :-D > > 73 > > David > > - > David > KG4ZLB > www.kg4zlb.com > > STeve Andre' wrote: > > About the only thing we could do is use them as training guides for > > receiving weak signals. Satellities are not designed to qsy, or do > > anything other than they actual function(s), specified long before > > they were ever built. Add more to a bird increases complexity, and > > also failures. > > > > I'll bet they turned it off to free up that frequency for something > > else. If that is the case then we can't even really try monitoring. > > > > I've often wondered about the ham community using old systems > > but except for really rare cases, they are just too specific to do > > anything for us. > > > > --STeve Andre' > > wb8wsf en82 > > > > On Wednesday 01 July 2009 12:13:19 [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sent via [email protected]. 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 > > - > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via [email protected]. 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 _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. 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
