[amsat-bb] eShail Qatar-OSCAR 100

[73 Bob W7LRD]

AO-40 (sobsob) type orbit-everyone gets it
Bob W7LRD
> On 06/17/2020 2:45 PM Zach Metzinger via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> 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 ...)
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