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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Sounds good, keep us up to date on your progress.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 8:51:53 PM CST, KC9SGV via Ground-Station <ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">So, specialized GEO or HEO satellites, I agree.<br clear="none">But let's get the first one up pronto.<br clear="none">MELCO built the QO-100 transponder on Es'Hail 2.<br clear="none">Let them build one for us too and fly it on their next sat over the Americas.<br clear="none">The money comes from a beneficiary or ads in the passband edges like on YouTube...<br clear="none">Later, we push for more advanced transponders on future satellites.<br clear="none">Bernard,<br clear="none">KC9SGV<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sent from my iPad<br clear="none"><div class="ydpd965f628yqt3769603845" id="ydpd965f628yqtfd09409"><br clear="none">> On Feb 12, 2020, at 6:18 PM, Bruce Perens via Ground-Station <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Let us all be aware of the fallacy of making our satellite all things to all people. If it's not a good experimental platform for new modulations, and it's not a good platform for FM communications, we should console ourselves in the fact that it is not actually the last Amateur satellite to be launched. Opportunities for us to launch experimental satellites are increasing.<br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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