FS3 is quite alive, received with strong 25 dB SNR with a 6-element OWA
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And imagine how much more powerful it will be as an AMSAT comms capability when someone writes a WEB interface making the flying store-n-forward BBS available on line.
We have dozens of ground stations all around the world, each collecting downlink packets and feeding them into the global APRS-IS. But the PBBS packets are not APRS and not collected by the APRS-IS since they use a different PID bit.
All we need is a separate internet server that collects all the PBBS packets... and then makes them available on an on-line web page showing the entire PBBS trffic.
What a great service for disaster and remote communications using Ham radio.
See the idea: http://aprs.org/PFS3.html
Bob, WB4APR