[amsat-bb] Update: Rent GEO bandwidth for US

[KC9SGV]

A modern, user friendly newsgroup is relevant here, as we start building new dish antennas, COTS 12GHz downlink receivers, etc.
See the nice, modern AMSAT-DL forum.
So much easier to share knowledge with images, videos and easy searches.
I understand this AMSAT BB was probably created way back when in the 1970's or earlier.
It shows.
But I understand that "it was always like this."

Having to put up links to pictures, is archaic.
I used to host all my pictures on Photobucket for free, and link to them.
Now, I cannot access them unless I pay. (New management, I guess.)
So, I lost interest, and the password....

KC9SGV


Sent from my iPad

> On Aug 22, 2019, at 3:41 PM, Peter Goodhall (2M0SQL) <peter at magicbug.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Not quite sure how discussing how the newsgroups is run is relevant to the thread.
> 
> I'm personally a fan of pain text emails which no attachments more so as I don't have to worry about infected files, I'm not on 10+ newsgroups I'm on 3 they are all run by the group's independent of third parties.
> 
> This suits most of the content posted. images could easily be shared by the likes of OneDrive, Dropbox etc.
> 
> 
>> On Thu, 22 Aug 2019, 21:34 KC9SGV via AMSAT-BB, <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>> Yup, I agree.
>> IO Groups.
>> Like this following group....
>> Easy attachments, pictures, videos, etc.
>> Get your point across with images and proof.
>> "A picture is worth a thousand words."
>> https://groups.io/g/Winlink
>> The moderator is a very nice, laid back guy.
>> 
>> Bernard.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> > On Aug 22, 2019, at 2:46 PM, Dave via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Not to derail the conversation but groups.io is very easy to use. You can
>> > just send and receive email to the group if you don't want to use the web
>> > interface. Searches are so much easier than this archaic list and I would
>> > guess that most hams with any technical interest already belong to at least
>> > one or twenty io or yahoo groups and are familiar with them.
>> > 
>> > Dave
>> > N2OA
>> > 
>> > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:09 PM JoAnne K9JKM via AMSAT-BB <
>> > amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>> > 
>> >>> Grrrr..
>> >>> Replies to the list via email with pictures attached get wiped !
>> >>> We need a modern BB or forum like AMSAT-DL....
>> >> 
>> >> A large number of members have previously said they prefer a plain e-mail
>> >> list without the overhead of huge files with JPG attachments or needing to
>> >> figure out how to navigate yet another forum layout. The amsat-bb has 2425
>> >> e-mail addresses on the subscriber list.
>> >> 
>> >> Other AMSAT internet venues which allow posting photos include:
>> >> 
>> >> AMSAT on Facebook with 3149 group members who can post photos (and 5233
>> >> likes of the page).
>> >> 
>> >> AMSAT on Twitter has ~14,600 followers.
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> 
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