[amsat-bb] Re: Geostationary Satellites

[Tom Schaefer, NY4I]

Has anyone run the numbers? Are we talking 20 million, 100 million?

Let's see, there are at best 5000 satellite ops. So, if it cost $20,000,000 we are each in it for $4000. I'm game. Now to convince 4999 of my friends. :)

Seriously, you think it gets boring talking to us same guys on AO-51 each day? Try that for a giant repeater in space. That would be wide area. I know we hear that something like P3D would just cost too much, but this is a lot of dough to talk to friends across the country at drive time. The wider orbits make for more interesting conversations. Not that I don;t want to talk to you every day :)


Tom


Tom Schaefer, NY4I
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On Oct 10, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Alan P. Biddle wrote:

> Don,
> 
> Cost, which is enough to drop any other issues to noise level.  That is the
> High Rent District, and given how much the commercial users pay, they would
> not want to have an "amateur" satellite wandering around.  More practically,
> it would be nice to have a package on a commercial satellite.  They provide
> the power, pointing, and control.  We just provide the RF.  Again, cost,
> though we have been looking for the right opportunity.  
> 
> Another drawback is that a geosynch only provides coverage to _about_ a
> third of the earth, and it is always the same third.  Birds like AO-13 and
> AO-40 covered just about all of it over the space of a few days.  Did I
> mention cost?  It is fun to think about having 3 which could be linked for
> true global coverage. 
> 
> Alan
> WA4SCA
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [amsat-bb] Geostationary Satellites
> 
> Hello Hope Everyone is doing Well, I know people say no such thing as a dumb
> question So here goes What is the reason We do not have any Type of
> geostationary Satellites. Is it because they are for World Wide Use and If
> stationary one could Hit it 24/7 and Maybe park there butt on it and Run a
> Beam and Amp and take it over 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> 
> 
> 73 De Don KA9QJG
> 
> 
> 
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