[amsat-bb] Re: PE1RAH's transponder

[Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF]

I'd be happy to build one if it could be "kitted" at a reasonable cost.


James Duffey wrote:
> This might be a good package for one or more of the ham radio balloon  
> groups. They often fly FM repeaters; perhaps a linear one would  
> encourage more activity from the weak signal group. - Duffey
> On Feb 8, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Bruce Robertson wrote:
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>> Somewhere in all this discussion about the future of AMSAT we need to
>> recognize the work that William did on the 10cm^2 U/V transponder that
>> was featured in the most recent Journal. Here we have a young person
>> -- by the reckoning of most of us -- taking the very component-based
>> approach to satellite building that has been seriously suggested as a
>> way forward. He has made something that will fit the most narrow and
>> most cheap form in launches today, the cubesat, and the result would
>> fulfill our interests in analogue communications satellites.
>>
>> I suppose I see this as something of a challenge for our forward
>> thinking. As a group, how do we respond to this? I would like to see
>> his work tested on ground, perhaps in more than one locale, perhaps in
>> an urban environment where it would get lots of traffic. Perhaps his
>> design could go through some sort of audit so that some of our
>> technical team could ensure that the most performance is being derived
>> from the least power.
>>
>> 73, Bruce
>> VE9QRP
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