Thanks for the ping. I’m interested in Amateur Radio (& other Satellite Coms).
Studied it for a while, long ago.
Is there an organized Ham group in Texas? Tech friends of mine when I lived in NM were into amateur astronomy.
I once built a down converter kit for W1ICP (Lew McCoy) for a review he was doing for one of the Ham magazines he worked for after retiring from the AARL. It was an English made kit. Had weird nomenclature for resistors and other components.
I support Open Research Institute and and the Libre Space Foundation, but that’s more “applying open source technology to space exploration” than “amateur radio astronomy”.
There is the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers.