On 10/15/2012 05:55 PM, Clayton Coleman wrote: > I don't agree with these elitist arguments for intentionally making > things difficult. This "anti-easy-sat" mentality doesn't buy us > anything. Let the dead horse decompose.
I don't think anybody actually wants to make things deliberately harder. But hams have always pushed the boundaries. Going further with less power and less bandwidth. Fooling around with useless frequencies above 1 MHz. And so forth. And the satellite operator is no different. It may be easy to reliably work a future generation of satellites with an HT and a rubber duckie. But that won't be challenging. And we (the operators) won't be learning anything new. > Driving innovation and spawning a new generation of experimenters is a > more realistic vision. Create opportunities for people to step > outside their "box" and homebrew equipment. That excites people. Which is a long way of saying "I want hard sats!" :-) -- 73, de Gus 8P6SM The Easternmost Isle _______________________________________________ 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
