[amsat-bb] Is This AMSAT's Future?

[Clint Bradford]

These new projects - seems like they are “marketed” towards a very small segment os satellite operators.

Is there truly a worthwhile “return on investment" when a ground station might have to include …

 “ … radio system is a 10 GHz downlink that will support 1 Mbps.  
You'll need a 10 GHz antenna that can be steered to track a LEO 
satellite and probably a low-noise block downconverter (LNB) 
feeding an SDR.  I think similar receivers are used for QO-100, 
so a Google search may yield some designs that are currently 
working, although QO-100 is nearly stationary … “

Feels like a very few hams will partake … Exciting, indeed. But surely 
not geared to the masses …

Clint Bradford K6LCS