On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 07:06:09AM -0700, Razer wrote: > Why not? > > In 1988 or so I took an Epson HX-20 cp/m laptop and put it on the > intertubz, and packet radio, using a basic 1.1 program I wrote myself > that also would print out (on demand) a log or screen info to it's cash > register tape printer while storing the info and the program on a > microcassete and it ran at a whopping 1200baud, which was a fast as the > buss and 4K of ram was ever going to go. That was when 9600 baud was > typical and 14.4 was blazing fast. > > I made a a packet contact bouncing of the digipeater on the Mir space > station with a friend about 50 miles away using a 2 el quad, that > computer, and a 5 watt Alinco handie-talkie on 2m
Wow, cool! > Enough brag. My point is, if you wanted to build an orbital telescope > you could, with the kind of collaboration it took to build the 220mhz > California digipeater backbone perhaps, but make some like minded > friends and anything is possible. Even a telescope sat launch from Guyana... Possibly, but it would be a hard endeavor, wouldn't it? :) > AAMOF Orbital sats are EZ! It's the geostationary ones that you'll have > talk to the feds about, because they think they own that space, in space. Same here in germany. But it's even better here: while they claim to have jurisdiction above us, they say the constitution doesn't apply there, because it only applies on the ground (nobody really understands this argument). So, shoot a drone or launch your own rocket and go to jail while the very same people spy on everyone from above. > Ps. Obviously, I don't hate science... as someone mentioned earlier That someone would be me, sorry! Tom.