[amsat-bb] Re: Radiation Belt Remediation (RBR)

[Nate Duehr]

On Aug 16, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Ciprian Sufitchi wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I thought this might be an interesting article. The subject could  
> involve
> Amateur Satellite communications too.
> http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/08/15/2/?nc=1
>
>
> Thanks,
> 73s de Chip N2YO

This guy commenting on the Slashdot article (released one day earlier  
- ARRL was also slow, if that matters), did some homework, and he's  
pretty convinced the New Zealand school is just fear-mongering:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=193969&cid=15903842

He links to the two real research articles from the government, and  
he's not even a journalist -- just a curious person who took five  
minutes to actually research the story.

ARRL links to nothing, and has some "expert" (N0AX) stating "Yeah,  
I'm not sure where they'd put the antennas!"

Looks to me like ARRL got played, and is just repackaging the  
school's press release as a news article, without doing their homework.

--
Nate Duehr - WY0X
nate@natetech.com