Hi Dan, You have some good points and your thoughts are appreciated. But why are you diminishing the students efforts by making these statements:
should set their sights higher than that of building short lived beepsats that > are considered successful if they transmit a signal for one day before going > silent. The RF system must be > engineered for space flight, not adapted from data sheets and application > notes that are better suited for baby monitors or garage door openers, or > taking the plastic case off of a store bought handietalkie and hoping that it At least they are building, studying, learning and actually many times successfully have an operational satellite. Thanks for reading. Stefan, VE4NSA _______________________________________________ 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
