On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 09:32 -0400, Robert Bruninga wrote:
And isn't the idea that we are authorised to experiment with these satellites, now that the US Navy is no longer using them?
Let me correct the record. We have no such authority.
Okay, then that *might* be different. I suspect you'd have to try *really* hard to find anyone that would get upset at people listening to your satellite without authority. It's impossible to get Ofcom interested in stopping people transmitting without a licence or outside the terms of their licence, and that's when they're jamming the local 2m repeater that the Ofcom guys with amateur licenses frequent!
We are simply looking at how one might use such a limited 500 byte broadcast message capability IF-and-only-IF such access were somehow possible. That's why I like the idea of finding a use in disaster communications, where a proposal might have some value...
Bob, Wb4APR
How hard would it be to develop a mobile/portable command station for it? I know you said it used some very specific stuff to program, but just how specific and difficult-to-reproduce would it be?
Gordon MM0YEQ