Re[2]: P3D set back questions?

[Duane_Naugle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Duane Naugle)]

    Greetings,
        Apparently you both missed this posting last week.   
    
    Peter Guelzow wrote:
    
    > I have just posted an article on the AMSAT-DL Website about our
    > new YAHU-Experiment. YAHU (synonym for IHU-2) is a new IHU design 
    > which will fly on the AMSAT P3D Satellite.
    
    >The URL for the english version is  
    >http://www.aball.de/~pg/amsat/yahue.html
    
        There are other examples where the flight hardware has been 
    upgraded from the initial design.  If my memory serves me correctly 
    the 10m transmitter was removed and a microwave transmitter(10GHz?) 
    was subsequently added some time ago.  The addition of the YAHU is 
    another example that the AMSAT P3D team is not sitting on their 
    hands awaiting a launch opportunity.  Upgrades and improvements are 
    being made as we encounter these delays.  
        Check out the YAHU web page it's a very interesting story 
    regarding the upgrade of the IHU to modern computing capabilities 
    and developing systems with the future in mind.  73
    
    Duane Naugle
    ko6bt@amsat.org


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Subject: Re: P3D set back questions?
Author:  Richard Parry <rparry@qualcomm.com> at SMTPGate-Mitchell
Date:    6/17/98 5:40 PM


Tom,
    
You raise a good point, but I can't agree.  It is true that your PC may be 
ancient after 6 months, but that is not true to a satellite.  IMHO, it 
would be a BIG mistake to touch anything over the next year.  I would use 
the time to do  additional testing rather than change anything.  That 
includes hardware and every line of code.
    
thanks for listening,
    
    
At 11:29 AM 6/17/98 -0700, Boza, Tom wrote:
>Now that P3D has been set back, possible for one year or more,
>how does this affect the current technology of the satellite itself? 
>
>As time marches on, the current hardware/software of the satellite 
>will become obsolete. Is the current satellite going to be mothballed 
>until a launch become available or will newer hardware/software
>be continued to be developed, upgraded and added to the frame? 
>
>I would hate to see an obsolete satellite launched when a ride becomes 
>available.
>

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>NE7X...

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