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
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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.
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 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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