When I read, that your equipment cost only around $1000.00 and that further funding would be necessary to pursue more intricate research, I couldn’t help but think that for a price-tag as low as the mentioned one, someone could possibly develop a kit, which could be used by young i.e. school-aged kids as some sort of astronomical communications device. It seems that sometimes, having a larger, more basic following would then make funding more accessible as well. Just a thought.

When I was a kid, many of my playmates had little steam-engine kits. Not that such kits did much else than turn a wheel and make some steam, but they did get across that with such technology ‘things could be made’ and that is what I imagine could grow out of a kit-movement based on Lawrence’s discoveries.

Keep up the good work, I believe you’re on to something, Pete