[amsat-bb] Re: Students call space station with home-built radio

[Trevor]

--- On Tue, 3/2/09, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't know that Icom was selling kits.

I did wonder myself, the story doesn't actually say which part of the system was "home-built". 

Back in the 1920's Radio Amateurs build their own components (resistors etc), these days things have moved on and we develop systems that can embody complete transceivers as a component-part.

73 Trevor M5AKA