[amsat-bb] eShail Qatar-OSCAR 100

[Zach Metzinger]

On 06/17/20 15:54, Matthias Bopp wrote:
> A big credit goes to the president of AMSAT-DL Peter DB2OS who personally initiated / arranged this opportunity
> and to him and his team for guiding the development of the payload and building the groundsegment with multiple
> groundstations in Qatar and Germany.

This is no small feat, to be sure, but here's why it doesn't "blow my 
skirt up":

1) No tracking, store-and-forward, or Doppler correction -- Might as 
well be a repeater on a very tall tower. Plus, RF doesn't propogate 
through the planet very well. :-)

2) No amateur-built hardware on the satellite -- Yes, specifying and 
overseeing development takes a LOT of work. I do this for my day job, 
not satellites, but just as complex. However, designing, building, 
testing, and deploying amateur-built hardware is what I feel AMSAT is 
all about.

3) No management of the satellite by control stations, with all the 
planning and problems-to-be-solved that brings.

I find that the journey is the part I like, with the destination being a 
fleeting moment at the end.

This is my $0.02 and I speak only for myself.

--- Zach
N0ZGO

(Now where did I put the rest of those parts for my rotator ...)