[amsat-bb] New FM repeater satellite planned: MEMESat-1

[John Brier]

Yes and I think the author of that article is misusing the word as they are
not a ham or not a seasoned ham. I have seen many news articles about ham
radio where they talk about hams on field day or about ARISS contacts where
the word broadcast is used when talking about two way comms which are by
definition not broadcasts. Related, the website for MEMESat-1 does not use
the word broadcast.

The FCC defines broadcasting as such: "Broadcasting. Transmissions intended
for reception by the general public, either direct or relayed."

One definition of general public: "all the people of an area, country, etc."

Even if your intent was to reach any and all people of the U.S., say, doing
it via a ham radio sat would make no sense. It is only in range for around
10 minutes a few times a day and you can't receive it with anything you can
buy at a department store. The sat might not even be available at the same
time each day depending on it's orbit.

This is for amateurs, SWLs, and other tech interested people, or people
that could be convinced to get into this sort of stuff if they knew someone
was having fun with it using memes!

One other point about the ISS SSTV events, all ISS SSTV is not MAI. And the
Americans will be doing it soon from the Columbus module if everything goes
as planned.

73, John Brier KG4AKV

On Sun, Feb 23, 2020, 16:06 George Henry via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> Did you not read the rtl-sdr.com article you posted the link to?
> Broadcasting to a "general audience" is EXACTLY what they are talking
> about.
>
> George, KA3HSW
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of John Brier
> via AMSAT-BB
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2020 11:07 PM
> To: JoAnne K9JKM
> Cc: AMSAT BB
> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] New FM repeater satellite planned: MEMESat-1
>
> People regularly mix up "broadcasting" with "transmitting" when
> discussing ham radio. I'm sure it was just a mistake and not their
> intent to suggest this was going to be some sort of broadcast system
> intended for a general audience.
>
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 12:02 AM JoAnne K9JKM via AMSAT-BB
> <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> >
> >  > Guess you all missed the key word, "broadcasting"...
> >
> > Call it beacon. Perhaps a beacon more "useful" to amateur radio
> > operators than some university bird beaconing a 9K6 GMSK stream of
> > unknown format in the ham bands.
> >
> > --
> >
> > 73 de JoAnne K9JKM
> > joanne.k9jkm at gmail.com
> >
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