On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:51 PM, john heath<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bruce and the bb, > > Re: Amsat-UK FUNcube > > What a great name "Space Communicators Club" > > With potential worldwide participation by schools in the telemetry and > physiscs experiments I hope that amsat-uk can come up with a receiver that > can be mass produced and achive an easily affordable unit for schools. > > 73 John G7HIA >
That's a great idea, John. And, as Simon points out, the softrock arena shows this to be quite achievable. Moreover, the one thing that just about every school has in volume is old computers! I think if AMSAT-UK came up with such a receiver design, the rest of us should work together on a curriculum that builds soldering skills and explains radio and orbital mechanics, or on localizing the curricula that they produce. Of course, we would want this to be win-win: ideally, a telemetry collection system like the one provided with Delfi C3 would be part of the system. I must have had the AMSAT award in my mind when I thought of 'Space Communicators' Club' as the possible name for a club in a local school, but the namespace collision was not intentional, of course. What I mean to express is the idea that students would be aiming towards receiving information from space. 73 Bruce, VE9QRP _______________________________________________ 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
