[amsat-bb] Re: AO40 contacts and P3-E

[Art McBride]

To All,
 It takes more than 1000 LEO's to equal an HEO. I really enjoyed AO40 and
All I had was a speaker tripod for my 13 cm dish and a 6' stepladder to
support my 10 T helix.
Art, KC6UQH

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From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On
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Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 12:10 PM
To: Peter Guelzow; Amsat - BBs
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO40 contacts and P3-E

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Guelzow" <peter.guelzow at kourou.de>
To: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 5:17 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO40 contacts and P3-E

Hi All,

> You guys are making me all teary-eyed!  I loved that bird, especially for
all the "challenges" it presented.

Ughh..      this really hit's me hard and I'm getting very sentimental
reading all email's to this topic.
But it gives me also

The launch campaign in french Guiana, were I was staying in Kourou for
more than quarter of the year, and the re-birth of AO-40 on Christmas
were the most exciting days in my life.

I haven't made many contacts, I was more among the "listeners" and
enjoyed the fun.

It's sometimes very frustrating to me that 10 years after the launch of
AO-40 we still haven't got P3-E into orbit.
We have been going to many up's and down's during this time, but we are
not giving up.
There are new challenges we are working on presently and some of them
give us a good hope of success.
Indeed and I'm sorry for that, It has been very quiet about the progress
of P3-E in the last year.
While most mechanical work is done, there was also progress on the
electronics, mostly the IHU.
However, one of the biggest challenges is indeed funding and a launch we
can afford.
That's where we a concentrating most of our efforts and time at the moment

Indeed, we need the support of the community. There will only a P3-E, if
we all really want it..

If you want to support P3-E, than please visit
http://www.p3e-satellite.org/?lang=en_EN and make a direct donation to
the project - THANKS!

73s Peter, DB2OS

Peter Gülzow
President AMSAT-DL

Hi Peter, DB2OS

In my opinion AO40 was the best satellite ever made by AMSAT-DL and it
was very fun until lasted.

We all hope that AMSAT-DL will find a launch opportunity with ESA and
a ARIANE-5 launcher with P3-E inside the SPELDA adapter as soon as
possible.

Pulling for P3-E ! !

73" de

i8CVS Domenico

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