[amsat-bb] an opinion

[John Brier]

Personally for me, just imagining the reward of putting together a station
required for this would be huge. It is not as trivial as buying an Arrow
antenna for your HT, even if you don't have to worry about doppler, or
tracking it.

Even if someone makes a ready built station they are still going to have to
learn about the sat, aiming the antennas right, etc. It will probably be
expensive too. I doubt it will interest most hams.

I imagine all kinds of new ham culture/community will emerge on a
tranponder that is available 24/7.

Maybe it will get more people into sats too. All hams will hear about it
and I bet many will see the stations of the one or two hams in their area
who have stations for it and learn and get excited about sats in general.

73, John Brier KG4AKV

On Sat, Nov 17, 2018, 18:46 JoAnne K9JKM <joanne.k9jkm at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> > Yes once established one can “work” lots of dx somewhat
> > analogous to a phone call.
>
> I'd guess that "DX Phone Call" would use up about 3 KHz of a 10 MHz pipe.
> How about full-duplex DVB-S video QSOs ... a box to receive that mode is
> about $30 on AliBaba's emporiums.
>
> All that bandwidth is looking for real-time or recorded amateur radio
> services. Weekly video nets ... all those ham youtube videos ... we could
> do a weekly ham radio cooking show like "JoAnne's Half Baked Ideas" ... you
> get the idea.
>
> A portable GEO satellite terminal in a disaster zone with video and enough
> bandwidth to deliver internet protocol services to the responders would be
> priceless.
>
> We could go nuts!
>
> --
> 73 de JoAnne K9JKM
> k9jkm at amsat.org
>
>
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