[amsat-bb] Re: All Satellites

Rocky Jones orbitjet at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 25 21:00:36 PDT 2009


Jim...very few of them have any potential for Amateur use at all...most however also die quickly.

Robert WB5MZO

> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:38:45 -0700
> From: kq6ea at pacbell.net
> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org; kg4zlb at gmail.com
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: All Satellites
> 
> Do any of these have potential for Amateur use after their "primary mission" is completed? If they can be repurposed like AO-27, then I don't have any complaints. If, OTOH, all they're good for is sending telemetry for somebody's experiment, then I feel this is an inappropriate use of Amateur frequencies.
> 73, Jim  KQ6EA
> 
> --- On Fri, 9/25/09, David - KG4ZLB <kg4zlb at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: David - KG4ZLB <kg4zlb at googlemail.com>
> > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: All Satellites
> > To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
> > Date: Friday, September 25, 2009, 1:10 PM
> > I hate to say it but you may be right
> > - the sky is now full of 
> > "beep-beep" sats!
> > 
> > David KG4ZLB
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Rocky Jones wrote:
> > > The hamsat bands are slowly being converted into
> > "cheap" telemetry bands...
> > >
> > > Robert WB5MZO
> > >
> > >   
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