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</div><div class="ydpf6da83bcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Yes. That's the geosynchronous satellite I was referring to.</div><div class="ydpf6da83bcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div class="ydpf6da83bcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">If we're using a repurposed commercial transponder there...maybe our approach has to change.</div><div class="ydpf6da83bcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div class="ydpf6da83bcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Do we have any "6-degrees of separation" connections to other commercial satellite providers who may be willing to do something similar (gift us a transponder)?</div><div class="ydpf6da83bcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div class="ydpf6da83bcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Ignorantly,</div><div class="ydpf6da83bcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Ev</div><div class="ydpf6da83bcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div class="ydpf6da83bcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div class="ydpf6da83bcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br></div><div class="ydpf6da83bcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">
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On Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 11:56:53 AM EDT, John D. Hays <john@hays.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp4e0e0a96yiv1151652294"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp4e0e0a96yiv1151652294gmail_default" style="font-size:large;"><a href="https://amsat-uk.org/satellites/geo/eshail-2/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">https://amsat-uk.org/satellites/geo/eshail-2/</a><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydp4e0e0a96yiv1151652294yqt2377132547" id="ydp4e0e0a96yiv1151652294yqt88352"><div class="ydp4e0e0a96yiv1151652294gmail_quote"><div class="ydp4e0e0a96yiv1151652294gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 7:39 AM Steve Dimse <<a href="mailto:steve@dimse.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">steve@dimse.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="ydp4e0e0a96yiv1151652294gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;">I miss AO-13 as well. I think P3D/AO-40 soured AMSAT on big money launches, and then the small satellite craze took over. I too would love to see a new phase 3 bird. My satellite DXCC has been stuck at 94 for 20 years!<br clear="none">
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> On Jun 25, 2019, at 7:10 AM, Ev Tupis via aprssig <<a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
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> Hi folks. I apologize for the OT question, however this group is as close to AMSAT as my subscribed e-mail lists come.<br clear="none">
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> I reflect on the time when we had satellites in highly elliptical orbits with linear transponders and the fun I had.<br clear="none">
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> Now, it appears that someone somewhere has put a geosynchronous satellite over India (or Africa?).<br clear="none">
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