Re: [amsat-bb] Right-sizing a sat [was: Antennas on the bird]

["Robert Oler" <cvn65vf94@xxxxxxx>]

>From: "Margaret Leber (K3XS)" <maggie@voicenet.com>
>Reply-To: maggie@voicenet.com
>To: amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
>Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Right-sizing a sat [was: Antennas on the bird]
>Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 09:16:36 -0500
>
>
>Robert Oler wrote:
>
> > Our role should be communication not learning how to build spacecraft.
>
>Nobody's going to build the spacecraft for us. *That* kind of "appliance 
>op" we
>can't afford to be.

I dont think that I advocated not building satellites.  I did say that our 
goal should not be to "push" the state of the satellite art....indeed my 
scheme requires actually more building.  See my other note.

Robert

Robert Oler WB5MZO Houston TX

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