Hi Daniel,
Thanks for that link of the interview with with Radio Amateur Mike Outmesguine
KG6NHH, I'd only just seen the text report, which is at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8318156.stm
73 Trevor M5AKA
--- On Tue, 27/10/09, Daniel Schultz wrote:
> From: Daniel Schultz
> Subject
Dan observed:
> Amsat can pretty well forget about attracting funding for a
> geosynchronous amateur satellite supporting emergency commun-
> ications when the capability already exists.
An Amateur Radio Club (of which AMSAT is a unique subset) usually isn't the
first-to-market with technical equ
JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM, wrote:
>I guess you're observing that AMSAT's GEO proposal has to fit into the GEO
satellite commodity market.
Should Amsat be working with NetHope to design a better terminal? How do we
work with these guys to convince them that they should be using a ham
satellite instead
In the proverbial "pinch", emergency that is unexpected, we can still
deploy our I-gate feed over there $$Expensive$$ satellite feed and keep
on truckin' with our APRS system as it evolves, probably faster than the
"government appropriations" for those big guys that can do all, see all,
but not
