[amsat-bb] AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 14, Issue 292 (HEO's, AMSAT perception)

[John Brier]

Are you aware of GOLF? [1]

It is about getting to a "higher orbit, whether LEO, MEO, HEO, or
GEO." It sounds like it has a lot of challenges, but this is already a
goal AMSAT has declared.

I am assuming HEO or GEO would require a more challenging setup.

73, John Brier KG4AKV

1) https://www.amsat.org/greater-orbit-larger-footprint-an-introduction-to-the-amsat-golf-program/


On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 4:23 PM Michael via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>
> Just from the outside looking in...
>
> AMSAT APPEARS only to be interested in hoisting flying repeaters and
> PACSAT/APRS and showing the average ham how "easy" it is to work sats
> with a handheld and a simple antenna. I guess that's all well and good
> but I didn't get in the sat end of the hobby for "easy".  I wanted a new
> challenge. I was too late for A0-40 because of lack of funds for a
> station but I did have fun for awhile chasing AO-51, FO-29, AO-7 etc.
> with a TS-2000X and a homebrew rotator and antenna system.
> Unfortunately, life got in the way and I needed family funds so the
> Kenwood hit Ebay and I'm inactive on the birds now. I sometimes consider
> buying a couple of Baofengs (you should ALWAYS operate full duplex but
> that's another thread) and getting back in on the cheap, I even recently
> bought a beat up old telescope with a computer tracking tripod system I
> spotted at Goodwill, but honestly, the challenge isn't there to give me
> motivation.
>
> Before everyone flames me, as I said, this is from the outside looking
> in and just one man's opinion. I really wish AMSAT would do something,
> anything, to change my perception. Seems to me I saw something about a
> YL running for the board who's interested in open sourcing stuff.  Her
> candidate statement was IMHO, a much needed breath of fresh air but I'm
> no longer a member and don't keep up so no idea if she got elected. If
> AMSAT wants my membership and donation dollars back, they need to change
> perception and I suspect there are many out here in the community who
> feel the way I do.
>
> 73,
>
> Michael, W4HIJ
>
>
> >>   Somewhere in AMSAT there is someone who has "Project Managed" long enough
> >> (or has access to process-flow diagrams) and can publish a generic work
> >> breakdown of both the steps and resources needed to put a highly elliptical
> >> (presumably less expensive) or Geostationary (presumably more expensive)
> >> bird into orbit and manage it.
> >>
> >> If that person (or people) could publish that along with a "checkmark"
> >> next to the items that are "already in place", "in active progress", and
> >> "needs sponsor/enthusiast" then we are more likely to fill-in the gaps.
> >>
> >> Remember the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game (a.k.a. "Bacon's Law")?
> >> Let's play it out here!
> >> Ev, W2EV
> >>
> >>      On Tuesday, July 30, 2019, 6:15:19 PM EDT, Jerry Buxton via AMSAT-BB <
> >> amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>   On 7/28/2019 18:46, Ev Tupis via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> >>> What are the top barriers to revisiting highly elliptical and AO-40 type
> >>
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