[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSatTLM source code

[Diane Bruce]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 07:36:34PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote:
> On 06/23/11 18:40, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:08:25 -0500
...
> 
> What bothers me the most about this is saying I don't run Windows, or MacOS,
> or Linux, and then I just get the <blink> <blink> response, and that's it.

I got so annoyed, I wrote my own TLM decoder for AO-51.  (For FreeBSD,
portable enough though)
 
> I know two kids interested at least to some extent about ham radio, both
> who are learning and understand open source culture, who were not exactly
> impressed with some of the closed source programs they've seen--and wanted
> to improve on.

Ditto.

> 
> But this is changing, and is yet another reason to get more younger people
> involved in ham radio in general.

Agreed.

> wb8wsf  en72

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