Re: [amsat-bb] an opinion

Hi Bob,

Yes once established one can “work” lots of dx somewhat analogous to a phone call.

I'd guess that "DX Phone Call" would use up about 3 KHz of a 10 MHz pipe. How about full-duplex DVB-S video QSOs ... a box to receive that mode is about $30 on AliBaba's emporiums.

All that bandwidth is looking for real-time or recorded amateur radio services. Weekly video nets ... all those ham youtube videos ... we could do a weekly ham radio cooking show like "JoAnne's Half Baked Ideas" ... you get the idea.

A portable GEO satellite terminal in a disaster zone with video and enough bandwidth to deliver internet protocol services to the responders would be priceless.

We could go nuts!

-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org