[amsat-bb] Re: AO-40 range record ??

[JoAnne Maenpaa]

Hi Pete,

I'm sending you a couple of links of more possible ham operating
possibilities a HEO could provide ... in addition to the nice DX we enjoyed.

A few years ago when another HEO seemed feasible I let my imagination go to
work and wrote a couple of "proposals" for amateur radio missions ...

1. Use HEO for communication links in large-scale Incident Command Systems.
I wrote a symposium paper for 2008 on this topic and CQ VHF Magazine also
published it:
http://home.comcast.net/~k9jkm/CQVHF_Eagle_ACP_Emcomm.pdf

2. Use HEO to expand ARISS School Contact time from 10 minutes to whole
orbit coverage (AMSAT Symposium 2009):
http://home.comcast.net/~k9jkm/Education_AMSAT_Eagle.pdf

(Note both of these were strawman proposals that haven't gone anywhere until
flying high becomes a viable option again. Had AO-40 survived we could have
started on these projects as well.)

Perhaps this will give an additional talking point or two in addition to the
DX. Good luck with the talk!

--
73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9jkm at amsat.org