Hello Andre, > Has anyone ever considered piggybacking on a geosat in a simular > way the rs11 to 13 did? > Sure you would need a very good lobbyist to get a ride with a multi > milion dollar broadcast sat and it would only see one continent but it > will give that continent 24/7 coverage, using 3 cm as downlink it would > give pleny bandwith for all kinds of experiments and if you can use the > host sat's powerbus there would also be no power restrictions.
Yeah, we still have dreams! At various times it had been called AMSAT-Eagle, Phase IV Lite, C-C Rider, and other things. You'll notice from the dates on these papers how long we've had this dream of a millions dollar rideshare with a millions dollar satellite ... http://www.arrl.org/news/amsat-announces-plans-for-2008 http://home.comcast.net/~k9jkm/Education_AMSAT_Eagle.pdf http://home.comcast.net/~k9jkm/CQVHF_Eagle_ACP_Emcomm.pdf Microwave downlinks were initially proposed here ... http://www.cnssys.com/files/amsat/cc_amsat.pdf http://www.cnssys.com/files/amsat/cc-revisited.pdf http://www.cnssys.com/files/amsat/SDX_and_Future_AMSAT_Missions.pdf -- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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
