Clayton,
You're certainly entitled to your opinion as I am to mine. I wasn't
insulting anyone. I expressed an opinion. To me it's idiotic to stand
outside in the cold or the summer heat juggling an antenna and an HT and
it proves nothing "good" or "great" about satellites. A well equipped
sat base station is much much more impressive to me. You won't run me of
this mailing list either so don't get your hopes up. All of us would
like to see this branch of the hobby flourish and prosper. Just because
some of us have a different vision of how that should be accomplished
doesn't make us bad people.
73,
Michael, W4HIJ
On 1/26/2014 12:37 PM, Clayton Coleman wrote:
Hey Michael,
Insulting the many fellow radio amateurs who enjoy making contacts
outdoors with the stroke of one email is quite an accomplishment.
Momma must be proud.
It is obvious from your lack of knowledge on presently active and
future, planned satellites that you really are just hear to stir up
crap and not contribute anything but a whiney email. Unfortunately
W0JAB didn't live up to his promise back in September 2013 to leave
the BB. Maybe you'll pick up the slack?
73
Clayton
W5PFG
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
I wasn't going to touch this as I've made my opinion about P3-E known
before but I can't be silent about some other things. I don't believe it
will ever fly because of the economic realities of today's world but hey,
stranger things have happened. Cubesats seem to be the wave of the future
as they are more affordable to get launched but if you ask me we are still
going in the wrong direction with them in a couple of areas. AMSAT seems to
be bent and determined to keep building and flying FM repeaters even when
ground based FM repeaters are slowly falling into disuse and projects like
Funcube AO-73 are showing how viable linear transponder cubesats are. There
also seems to be some continued fascination with showing how we can all
stand out in the frigid cold or the blazing sun balancing an HT in one hand
and a handheld yagi in the other to work the flying repeaters....... YAWN!!!
The novelty of that has worn off just as quickly as it did on exchanging
nothing but grid squares and calls and calling it a sat QSO. The focus not
only needs to be on more linear transponder cubesats and developing new and
efficient ways to communicate with them but also on developing affordable
ground equipment like complete SDR transceiver systems along the lines of
the funcube dongle except maybe abandoning the "dongle" concept and going
more with a desktop "black box" approach. A computer driven SDR base station
with tracking and doppler correction and digital and CW as well as voice
mode communication is infinitely more interesting to me than seeing some
idiot balancing an antenna and an HT at a hamfest. Just my opinion.... That
and five bucks will get you a fancy Starbucks coffee blend but I had to put
it out there!
73,
Michael, W4HIJ
On 1/25/2014 2:44 PM, i8cvs wrote:
Hi John, W0JAB
At the moment there is no hope to see again a satellite like AO40
If we are like in the future probably we will see P3E, a satellite
similar to OSCAR-13 built by AMSAT-DL
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Becker" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 8:01 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] status
Whats the status of a replacement for the likes of AO 40?
I know I ask this from time to time but never seem to see anything.
I for one would very much like to see this type the a boat load
of small FM only type while there is still a place to park one.
John, W0JAB
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