[amsat-bb] PSAT2 preps for delivery (maybe June launch)

[Jean Marc Momple]

Hi Guys,

For 1$ I am interested and we will lunch it a s a 3B8 sat…

Probably will never happen, just a joke,  but just to say that a few remote hams in the indian ocean are fully with you guys and with our modest means if we may help please shout.


73


Jean Marc (3B8DU)



> On Feb 8, 2018, at 2:19 PM, David G0MRF via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Bob.
> 
> That's a sad story.  Sounds like some interesting payloads.
> 
> 1)  How about a DoD licence for comms ?
> 2) Sell it to someone South of the border for $1 and launch it as a foreign satellite.......(where did I get that idea?)
> 
> 73
> 
> David G0MRF
> 
> 
> As of tonight, PSAT2 finally has some photos as it prepares for final
> testing in our long arduous 3 year campaign.
> 
> http://aprs.org/psat2.html
> 
> The Status is that the FCC still has not processed our 2 y ear pending API
> notice as an Amateur Satellite because they claim there is some Federal
> "mission".   But they have not said what they perceive that Federal
> mission is?  Maybe its because  our undergraduate students are "DoD
> employees" even though the satellite is 100% Amateur Radio with four
> transponders including AX.25, DTMF, Voice Synthesizer, PSK31, SSTV and
> HF,VHF and UHF amateur bands built as an undergraduate senior engineering
> project purely for hands on education in the radio art.
> 
> Even the construction used only surplus student senior project electronics
> from student bins and any purchases used non-DoD and no-federal GIFT
> funds.
> 
> We have tried every argument in the book, but because the FCC is
> sensitized to some past abuses of some Federal Labs in crossing the line,
> we are being tossed into the same dirty bathwater.
> 
> Oh well.  We have 2 weeks to resolve this long going 2 year SNAFU with the
> FCC or lose this long awaited launch.
> 
> Oh, and it is going up on the next SpaceX HEAVY launch.... Either to space
> or the ocean... or into the closet if the FCC does not act favorably
> 
> Bob, WB4APR
> 
> 
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