[amsat-bb] Re: fund raising for Fox

2012-10-20 Thread Joshua Abraham
That's quite a suggestion. But the point of a bulletin board is the free exchange of knowledge over the internet. If you start charging money to use the board, that whole concept gets negated. Your idea could work, but I have the feeling most people would just move to another location that's free.

[amsat-bb] Re: 2.4GHz broadband router on satellite?

2013-02-22 Thread Joshua Abraham
Hello James, I just wanted to throw my two cents in on the protocols. I'm not sure about the need for AX.25 implementation. The 802.11(Wi-Fi) standard should server the purpose needed. AX.25 is a considerably limited protocol. Low speeds, limited error correction, and frankly, it defeats the purpos

[amsat-bb] TARDIS in Space.

2013-10-23 Thread Joshua Abraham
This is a bit outside of the realm of traditional amateur satellite launches but I found it to be very interesting nonetheless. Some fans of a popular scifi show have raised the money to launch a replica of the show's time-and-space traveling ship into orbit this fall. From what I know of it so far

[amsat-bb] Re: TARDIS in Space.

2013-10-23 Thread Joshua Abraham
unknown, presumably a year or more from now. > > It's a 310 km orbit so would only operate for a few weeks before burning > up. > > 73 Trevor M5AKA > > >On Wednesday, 23 October 2013, 18:36, Joshua Abraham < > jarvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is