How best to answer your question fredy?
Let me start by saying I love what this community has created and the camaraderie and support from and for each other is fantastic.
My question is really addressing the people who launch satellites and rely on us to do the data collection for them.
For me Amateur radio is not idle chit chat about nothing of substance for hours on end. For me amateur radio now is, been there done that since 1909 when I built my first super regen receiver. What I’m looking for now is new discoveries, new experiments, exploring things that are new and different. I want to be more involved in learning all about space and specialized communication techniques.
Everyone can do the easy stuff but I need new challenges. I want to see what the camera sees on Satellite XYZ. I want to know what the data collected in research is useful for which is where the Grafana dashboards are really great.
One of my heroes was once quoted as saying “When you stop learning you start dying”.
I usually build something, get it working, try improving it and when I’m happy it’s working perfectly I move on to the next project. I also have a lot of unfinished projects lying around. Hi hi.
Amateur radio is dying because many of the potential candidates can communicate much easier via e-mail SMS etc. They are used to the theory of entitlement. Getting things without having to work for it. Their smartphone is their life support system. Without it they will wither and die. How do we compete with that? By showing them new and exciting things like the ARISS program etc.
I’ll get off my soapbox now, back to you fredy. 73 Bob vk2byf