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

[Tony Langdon]

At 09:07 AM 10/11/2011, Trevor . wrote:
>--- 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

Australia has allowed unlicenced low power devices in the range above 
915 MHz for some time, and they seem to coexist with GSM phones "next door".


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