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

[Stefan Wagener]

Swatch had to cancel the mission after international protest and violating
amateur radio rules.

Stefan

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Bruce <kk5do at amsat.org> wrote:

> 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
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> 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
>>
>>
>> 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<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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