[amsat-bb] Re: Satellite Satire

[Lowell White]

OK.. a LARGE "punkin' chunker" or two really tall and flexible trees for a
slingshot...

More seriously, it seems that for anything of reasonable size to be launched,
particularly into an orbit that we rapidly enter not only the perview of
costly specialization but also of military / government permissions, etc.,
probably  much more delicate than ITAR considerations. 

Please enlighten me if indeed there might be a way to get something up (and to
stay up) more economically.

Would there be any feasiblity to an initial "launch" by using high-altitude
weather ballons and THEN firing a small booster with appropriate guidance and
CCC (command, control, and communications) to steer it into an orbital
insertion? If the bird and booster weights were small enough, could a wx
balloon lift them adequately?

Just wondering...

Lowell
K9LDW
EM12sr

------ Original Message ------
Received: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:38:33 PM CST
From: Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd at comcast.net>
To: George Henry <ka3hsw at att.net>Cc: AMSAT <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Satellite Satire

> 
> 
> Cool George! it's not the building and concepts that's difficult.  It's
getting the damn things up there.  We should have a division of AMSAT that
does rockets, and launch our own.  Like my Dad told me, "the difficult we do
immediately, the impossible takes a little longer". 
> 
> 73 Bob W7LRD 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Henry" <ka3hsw at att.net> 
> To: "AMSAT" <amsat-bb at amsat.org> 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 10:06:39 AM 
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Satellite Satire 
> 
> Better yet, take the 10.8 MHz IF output from one of their old Bearcat
scanners, 
> 
> programmed for a 2-meter uplink, add an appropriate local oscillator and
 high 
> pass filter, feed the resulting signal to the final stage from one of
 their old 
> 
> sideband CB's, and you've got a mode A *LINEAR*  satellite!! 
> 
> We could call it OSCAR 10-4! 
> 
> 
> George,  KA3HSW 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > ----- Original Message ---- 
> > > From: K4FEG <K4FEG at K4FEG.COM> 
> > > To: amsat-bb at amsat.org 
> > > Sent: Tue,  November 29, 2011 8:49:31 AM 
> > > Subject: [amsat-bb] Satellite  Satire 
> > > 
> > > OK I have a suggestion: a new inexpensive satellite, It  will be
designated:   
> > 
> > >*ReNe-Sat-3, *that will be an abbreviation  for: *Red Neck Satellite #3
( 
> >Dale   
> > 
> > >Ernharts Sr. NASCAR #). 
> > > 
> > > *We will take 2 Woxun HT's, 2 Larsen Mag-mounts,  2**1/4 wave
 antennas, a 
> >solar 
> > 
> > >panel with charger from Northern Hydraulics and   last but not least
about 100 
> > 
> > >feet of NASCAR 200mph duct tape. 
> > > 
> > > We take the  2 radios set them up for our frequencies, duct tape  them

> >together 
> > 
> > >mount the  antennas on the solar panel hook the solar  panel up to the
HT 
> > >batteries and last  but not least we send two of  the south's finest: 
> >*Astronaut 
> > 
> > >"Bubba &  Cooter"* up with the  new bird to deploy it. We will tell
Bubba & 
> > >Cooter that  they  can have free passes to all the NASCAR races for
2012 when 
> 
> > >they get  this  satellite working and in orbit. 
> > > 
> > > I promise they will  have that thing  (or  should i say "thang") up
and 
> >running 
> > 
> > >in  HEO and be back before the  first race in February 2012. 
> > > 
> > >  For those that are not sure, YES I AM MAKING  A JOKE! 
> > > 
> > > /*It  is difficult work to keep these satellites working and the
 control 
> > >operators deserve a round of applause from us for all that they  have
 done to 
> > 
> > >extend the life of AO51 and all of the other  birds. 
> > > 
> > > THANK YOU ONE  AND ALL! A JOB WELL   DONE! 
> > > */ 
> > > Frank 
> > > K4FEG 
> > 
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