Re: [amsat-bb] Who wants to offer AMSAT a ride?

[Steve Meuse <smeuse@xxxxxxxx>]

Comments below.

At 12:20 PM 8/14/2004 -0500, keith wrote:
>If we had more money we wouldnt have to beg so much. The problem is with
>a shrinking
>membership this will be more impossible to do. I propose expanding the
>membership by
>placing more experiments onboard our space craft. One such example would
>be a 'Hydrogen
>watering hole transponder". The idea being that  a Molnyia orbit crafts
>'Top' is always pointing
>out into space and that side of the craft is quieter then the bottom
>where most of the rx/tx antennas
>are located.  Put the 1420mhz rx dish there and feed a few kilohertz
>through one of our downlink
>transponders so the seti people can 'listen in' . They might want to
>help finance something like
>this.  The point being is we need to widen our source of income, Lets
>start thinking about it.


I think you've hit the nail of the head. I don't think we'll ever get any 
luck getting a free ride, or get funding for that matter, by simply placing 
a transponder in orbit. I've always thought that we should consider 
something SETI related because it would widen the pool of funding 
resources. Even if we managed to get donations from 1% of every person who 
ran Seti@home, we could do quite a bit....

-Steve
N1JFU
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