[Ground-station] Update: Rent-a-GEO

[Michelle Thompson]

Thank you for the support. It's very appreciated.

If there's anything we can learn from the remarks for future work, that
would be helpful.

No review committee feedback has been received for any of our grant
proposals. If the review committee believes that their review comments are
being sent to applicants, then that has not been the case for ORI
proposals.

Rent-a-GEO proposal is now shelved. We should not argue with ARDC about the
decision. If it had been in the ballpark of what the ARDC board wants to
fund, and if there were questions about applicability or utility, then I
believe we would have been contacted for clarification or expansion.

We're in great shape. This isn't a critical setback.

We can do the core technology from Rent-a-GEO as a secondary goal with the
generous funding we have received (if we are efficient, lucky, frugal, and
careful, which we will be).

-Michelle W5NYV




On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 2:15 PM Robert McGwier <rwmcgwier at gmail.com> wrote:

> I might not be the best person to say if the granting group is ARDC since
> I gave RentAGeo high marks and urged support.
>
> Let me go back and read the remarks that were made by the grant committee
> and any remarks that were made in return from the board to the committee on
> their decision.
>
> I have concerns which are not appropriate to mention here that I will
> address internally to ARDC.
>
> Again the bottom line is I supported the RentAGeo strongly but I
> apparently wasn't convincing even given AMSAT-DL success as an example.
>
> Bob
>
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 1:20 PM Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, Bob, I am most interested in YOUR opinion on how to produce a
>> grantable proposal for an amateur satellite program.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 5:50 AM Robert McGwier <rwmcgwier at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I will not disagree with you on the desirability to have a target.
>>> Let's all discuss how to go forward.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 2:48 AM Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My thought was that achievement on the ground station grant would be a
>>>> gateway to more. OK, but I would rather see a satellite program in
>>>> development. I don't think rent-a-echostar was the one I wanted to see.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 8:39 PM Robert McGwier via Ground-Station
>>>> <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I don't believe this is a permanent condition.
>>>>>
>>>>> We supported development of the ground segment. My perception is the
>>>>> board wanted something more concrete.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob McGwier,  N4HY, Adjunct Professor,  Virginia Tech
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 16:56 Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
>>>>> <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Greetings all!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We did not get the $140,000 Rent-a-GEO grant from ARDC. But, I will
>>>>>> keep an eye out for a match for that proposal before EchoStar 9 goes
>>>>>> completely out of service.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you to everyone that helped with that proposal, the
>>>>>> application, and the process at ARDC.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Michelle W5NYV
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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