[amsat-bb] Re: KickSat - a personal spacecraft of your own in space

[Trevor .]

--- On Mon, 10/10/11, Tony Langdon <vk3jed at gmail.com> wrote:
> Still seems a strange choice of frequency, given that GSM
> phones use these frequencies in many parts of the world.

ITU Region 1 seems to be moving closer to permitting unlicensed low power use, RFID etc, around 915-921 MHz  but as you say the rest is mobile phones.

Given there is no mechanism to command these Sprite ChipSats so they are only on over the USA the use of 902 MHz would seem inapropriate.

73 Trevor M5AKA