[amsat-bb] Fiberglass Cross-boom Alternative?

[Stefan Wagener]

Hi Roy:


...."“You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say
anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking
a long time to say.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
<https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2963845>

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 6:30 PM Roy Dean via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> >
> >  These antennas will have no metal parts except the active elements and
> the purpose is to be prepared or the future Lunar and eventually Mars
> repeaters, but also for own experimentation.
> >
> >
> How would a mars repeater work, being that the closest it will ever be is 3
> minutes away by way of light speed (each way)?   Everybody is a lid when
> nobody can hear themselves on the downlink.   Not sure even a store and
> forward system would work.   And that's even IF we can build a yagi thats
> short enough to fit in our sub-acre plots (and has enough gain).   :D
>
> --Roy
> K3RLD
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