[amsat-bb] Re: All Satellites

At 09:34 AM 9/26/2009, James Craig wrote:

Good point. Not everybody is interested in monitoring the one way downlinks on the majority of these more recent birds. Why is it that there is no problem getting large numbers of these types of satellites into orbit, yet good old fashioned two way linear and FM transponder birds are relatively far and few between?

I for one was never a SWL, so I tend not to follow the one way satellites, unless there's a compelling reason (e.g. for test signals, or telemetry decoding - had fun decoding telemetry on AO-40 when it was first launched).

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