Since the Hawk Institute has reorganized itself as a for-profit organization, any radio amateur who provides tracking services for HawkSat-1 should be sure to invoice them for those services at the commercial rate. Since you are only receiving the signals and not transmitting, you would not be in violation of Part 97 to be paid for your work. (However if Hawksat is transmitting on amateur frequencies, they might be.)
Dan Schultz N8FGV
-------------------------Original Message-------------- Subject:Re: New CubeSats #2 From: "Alan P. Biddle" APBIDDLE@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:29:06 -0600
Satellite Operator Downlink Mode ----------- ------------- -------- ------------------ PharmaSat-1 NASA Ames 437.465 1200bps HawkSat-1 HISS 437.345 ? CP-6 CalPoly 437.365 1200bps AeroCube-3 Aerospace Co. ? ? ----------- ------------- -------- ------------------
Unless that is another HISS besides the one at UMES, I don't plan to provide any support until they give AMSAT-NA's stuff back, with interest. ;)
Alan WA4SCA