<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div class="messageContent" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; min-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;"><article><blockquote class="messageText SelectQuoteContainer ugc baseHtml" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">AMSAT India will launch AISAT carrying ham radio transponders on April 1.<br style="margin-top: 0px;">One of the designers is Ashar Farhan, VU2ESE, of BitX20 fame.<br>This innovative ham satellite will use the fourth stage of the rocket as power base for the ham and other payloads.<br>No solar panels initially....<br>6 month life span.<br>APRS digipeater on board.</span></blockquote><blockquote class="messageText SelectQuoteContainer ugc baseHtml" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wonderful what could be done with no cumbersome committees to slow things down.</span></blockquote><blockquote class="messageText SelectQuoteContainer ugc baseHtml" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No government involvement/meddling to sink the project...</span></blockquote><blockquote class="messageText SelectQuoteContainer ugc baseHtml" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All ham hardware designed, built and tested in six working days...</span></blockquote><blockquote class="messageText SelectQuoteContainer ugc baseHtml" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><a href="http://amsatindia.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; padding: 0px 3px; margin: 0px -3px;">http://amsatindia.org</a></span><div class="messageTextEndMarker" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"></div></blockquote><blockquote class="messageText SelectQuoteContainer ugc baseHtml" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><br></blockquote><blockquote class="messageText SelectQuoteContainer ugc baseHtml" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">KC9SGV</blockquote></article></div><div class="messageMeta ToggleTriggerAnchor" style="margin: -5px; padding: 15px 5px 5px; overflow: hidden; zoom: 1;"><div class="privateControls" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left;"></div></div><br>Sent from my iPad</div></body></html>