[amsat-bb] Re: Planning for the future, downconverter options

Tue Sep 12 10:30:53 PDT 2006

Micheal,

You can use it right now on AO51 !

Jules

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Tondee" <mat_62 at netcommander.com>
To: "Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL" <vlfiscus at mcn.net>
Cc: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 10:33 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Planning for the future, downconverter options.

> At the rate things seem to be going.  I would avoid planning anything
> for the future until the designers figure out exactly what it is they
want.
>  I planned for the future a year ago and bought a dish and AIDC 3731 for
> S band. Now according to the "experts", it's going to be useless in a
> short while!
> 73,
> Michael, W4HIJ
> AMsat # 36017

Hi Michael, W4HIJ

You can use the actual S-band setup when P3E will be in orbit.

Read please

http://www.amsat-dl.org/pic/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_i
temId=6497

A 5.6 MB long pdf file about P3E

73" de

i8CVS Domenico