[amsat-bb] Phase 4B

[Ken Alexander]

If it's a matter of getting it assembled cheaply then send me...I'll 
go.  I've built plenty of Heathkit and Elecraft equipment and last 
summer I changed the brake pads on my Toyota, so I'm feeling pretty 
certain I can handle the work.  The only problem is I don't have much 
vacation time built up, so they would have to send me up on a Friday 
afternoon and I would have to be back home Sunday evening.  Otherwise my 
boss won't be too happy! If they could land the Soyuz spacecraft 
somewhere near Toronto I could take a cab the rest of the way home!

I'm probably a 2XL in a spacesuit.

Ready any time!

73,

Ken Alexander
VE3HLS



On 2016-06-17 3:09 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote:
> If we could afford to pay astronauts to assemble a HEO, then we could
> afford to launch six of them to GTO without bothering.
>
> 73,
>
> Paul, N8HM
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Kevin Muenzler, WB5RUE
> <kevin at eaglecreekobservatory.org> wrote:
>> I'd be happy with another AO-40 style bird that worked as advertized.  Given
>> that there is always the possibility of something going wrong along the way
>> I was sorely disappointed that it happened to THIS one.  I'm sure that
>> someday AMSAT will give us a long period orbit bird, standing by -- antennas
>> dusted off...  It would be nice, but probably not practical given the huge
>> workload of the ISS crew, that they could send the major parts up in
>> sections and have it assembled there and then pushed out the airlock to be
>> launched.  Yes, I know "Welcome to Fantasy Island!"
>>
>> Kevin, WB5RUE
>> I am Voltohn of Borg, resistance is E/I, you will be attenuated!
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Robert
>> McGwier
>> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:16 PM
>> To: amsat bb
>> Subject: [amsat-bb] Phase 4B
>>
>> Neglect the "First geosynchronous" article. I did not write it and it is
>> like all mistakes, firmly in archives and not fixable.
>>
>> http://www.hume.vt.edu/geo/
>>
>> 73s
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bob McGwier
>> Founder, Federated Wireless, Inc
>> Founder and Technical Advisor, HawkEye 360, Inc Research Professor Virginia
>> Tech Chief Scientist:  The Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security
>> and Technology Senior Member IEEE, Facebook: N4HYBob, ARS: N4HY Faculty
>> Advisor Virginia Tech Amateur Radio Assn. (K4KDJ) Director of AMSAT
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