In 1998, while acting president of AMSAT, I was reliably informed that bad boys in the Middle East were using AO-14 when it was out of range of European amateur command stations. Illegal use of amateur satellites is at least that old a problam. 73 Ray W2RS
-----Original Message----- From: Robert McGwier rwmcgwier@gmail.com To: David Spoelstra davids@mediamachine.com Cc: AMSAT BB amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thu, Jun 3, 2021 4:21 am Subject: [AMSAT-BB] Re: Hawkeye 360 next three satellites this summer
I despise people illegally using amateur radio equipment. Listening in the amateur radio bands to anyone's conversation has no guarantee of privacy. There is potential for abuse in every technological development. It is a constant topic of conversation in the offices at Hawkeye 360. On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 8:55 PM David Spoelstra davids@mediamachine.com wrote:
Agreed Zach. Not picking on you. The ham radio part was about usage by "telecoms firms keen to locate rogue transmitters, such as unlicensed ham radios, that are operating within their domains". On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 9:46 PM Zach Metzinger zmetzing@pobox.com wrote:
On 5/17/21 8:16 PM, David Spoelstra wrote:
The whole article actually does talk about "ham radios".
I wasn't able to read the story behind the paywall, but the two paragraph intro did not have the words "ham radio" anywhere in it.
None of the satellites in the "Who's Onboard .." article are amateur radio projects.
--- Zach N0ZGO
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