[amsat-bb] Re: SkyCube CubeSat Proposes "Tweets from Space"

[Bruce]

i seem to remember a satellite with a swatch message of some sort. could 
i donate $10,000 and get about 30 minutes of air time... pretty 
inexpensive advertising compared to radio and tv time.

73...bruce

On 6/20/2012 6:05 PM, Lee Maisel wrote:
> Interesting. But if they word it properly, and the $1 donation is 
> strictly to support the mission, then only donors can "tweet" or 
> whatever. Since it's not for-profit venture anyway.....
>
> Lee
> W5LMM
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> Trevor . wrote:
>> The funding concept of this CubeSat is $1 will sponsor 10 seconds of 
>> the mission and what you get for that 10 seconds is the ability to 
>> broadcast a message from space, “effectively tweet from space”.
>>
>> It uses a balloon de-orbit mechanism.
>>
>> See video at http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=8435
>> Stikes me that a $1 donation for a message might be pushing FCC regs 
>> a bit should it be using 437 MHz.
>>
>> 73 Trevor M5AKA
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