Hi Chris
IMHO Pacsat interest decrease at same
rate internet connections increase.
By early 90's, electronic messaging was
something new, and not available to ordinary
people, like us hams.
But now we can do it almost anywhere in the
world, for an infinite fraction of the price,
with minimal equi
Hi Clayton / Alan
Since the original launch of the store and forward satellites - Was it the
mid 1980s? -we've had all sorts of terrestrial methods of doing the same
thing. E-mail, texting, social media etc. All have depleted interest.
Arissat has (sorry...had...sob..) some very innovative te
ograms right to exist, just that something has
changed, and it's in our self-interest to figure it out.
73, Drew KO4MA
-Original Message-
>From: "Alan P. Biddle"
>Sent: Jan 4, 2012 2:24 PM
>To: 'Chris Maness' , amsat-bb@amsat.org
>Subject: [amsat-bb]
Op 4-1-2012 21:29, Chris Maness schreef:
I have been looking into using the APRS digipeater on the ISS to send
txt messages. Is this possible? I go hiking and camping a lot, and
it would be cool to at least digipeat through the ISS. What would be
even better is an email sat. Store and forward
I've been wondering if the issue is not lack of interest but lack of
education and marketing. If newer hams were to see and understand the
benefits of a store-and-forward PacSat, I believe you'd see a level of
support as strong as days passed. I have been playing with
terrestrial packet and digit
There are still the aprs sats like iss pcsat go-32 and maybe some more I
forgot.
offcourse this is direct digpeating and not store and forward but can
still be a lot fun.
73 Andre PE1RDW
Op 4-1-2012 20:27, Mark L. Hammond schreef:
Hi Chris,
The golden days of the Pacsat Store/forward operatio
Hi Chris,
The golden days of the Pacsat Store/forward operations appear to be
gone for now, if not for good...I am still addicted, and wish everyday
for a rebirth...
The old pacsat birds are up there, just not functional. For a while a
few years ago, we had AO-16 running in voice mode (FM up, si
Chris,
Like you, I really enjoyed the old digital birds. However, the interest in
that has fallen off. AO-51 did have a very nice system, and a few other
satellites have had more traditional Packet BBS capabilities. The interest
just does not seem to be there, when the old satellites died, ther
