[amsat-bb] Phase 4B

[Kevin Muenzler, WB5RUE]

Heathkit?  Are they back in business?  I loved those kits.  My first was an
HW-16 and then the VFO that went with it.  I built an HW-101 and the 100kc
tuner, HW-2036 (bad rig but the A model wasn't bad) and a few other little
clocks, and other things.  I thought about the SB series amps but by then
they were on the way out.

Kevin, WB5RUE
EL09uf
I stopped asking people "how stupid can you be?"  Too many were taking that
as a challenge.

-----Original Message-----
From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Ken
Alexander
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 12:13 AM
To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Phase 4B

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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