[amsat-bb] Re: New Sats

[Alan P. Biddle]

Stefan,

As Steve says, providing turnkey communications is of significant interest,
both to AMSAT and potential users.  Of course, one always has to be aware,
and wary of ITAR issues for even such relatively mundane equipment.

Alan
WA4SCA

 

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From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On
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Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:49 AM
To: Stefan Wagener
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Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: New Sats

Stefan,

I believe that AMSAT-NA plans to offer semi-complete communications packages
to the Cubesat community.  That is one of the expected outcomes of the Fox
project, which is AMSAT-NA's first cubesat.

73, Steve N9IP
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From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On
Behalf Of Stefan Wagener
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:42 AM
To: Kevin Deane
Cc: amsat-bb at amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: New Sats

Yes,

Kevin, point made. The only way we can change that is by working closely
together with these projects and having a tangible influence in their
hardware and software development. Out of curiosity, I always wondered why
AMSAT would not offer semi complete communication packages, (Data, Rx, Tx)
for cubesats for sale, which automatically would have a set of interesting
protocols, tools and options embedded.
Using RF components from DataTech or Radiometrix would potentially simplify
the task. The end user could spend more time and effort focusing on
experiments and other additional payload.
Don't know if AMSAT ever did a market analysis for this. However, it might
something to consider as a proof of concept for FOX or other following
cubesats by AMSAT.

Stefan, VE4NSA


On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Kevin Deane <summit496 at live.com> wrote:
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> With all these new sats that are not voice, I was thinking people would
probly be more interested and get more invovled if there were something more
than just decoding the telemetry like SEEDS II offers Qsl cards and secret
words, stuff like that.
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> Just thought I would throw that out there see what people think.  :)
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> Kevin
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