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G1KQH > AMSAT 16.03.05 23:14l 31 Lines 1149 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : F31644G1KQH
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Subj: Re: Ham sats - no longer worth it?
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From: G1KQH@GB7COV.#29.GBR.EU
To : AMSAT@WW
GM7HUD wrote:-
> It's a right royal pain that AO-40 is broken now. It had so many cool
> things to play with. But there'll be something else along soon. In the
> meantime there's high speed data to play with.
>
The more variables that are added to a project, the more risk of things
going wrong! Again thats why its now dead like a dodo! The IHU that
controlled A040 was a really bit of over the top cleverness, without much
thought for problems. You have got to hand it to the ground controllers
and designers who did manage to recover it remotely in its early life. But
when you get too clever and add too many toys, the risks get higher for
gremlins to seek their way in. Keep It Simple Stupid is not a bad set of
words or rules to use when building an Amateur Sat. After all you can run
up the hill and reset a repeater, change the radio, or the Logic. But I
don't foresee Amsat asking NASA if it can call in on AO40 when passing
next time its in space?
73 - Steve, G1KQH @ GB7COV
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