Radio = boring
Launch your own satellite = wow! Send your own voice/photos to the Moon, Mars, ... How about radio controlled robots? On the Moon? Track your own rocket? Balloon Throw APRS into the dog's saddle bags = find out where he goes? Throw APRS on your boy/girl friend's car/bicycle = find out where they go? Talk with Astronauts = OK this is already done
All things that can be done with ham radio! Think outside the rice-box!
73 Ed - KL7UW
At 05:58 PM 12/19/2007, Joe Fitzgerald wrote:
Nate Duehr wrote:
The percentage that find radio interesting for radio (instead of the more common, "Wow you can talk to someone far away!" astonishment of the past), even when invited to a ham shack to see it in person, is diminishing, and I'm not sure that trend will slow down anytime soon.
Well, it is a tough sell from the communication only standpoint. My thesis is that we must sell ham radio on the idea that we can do our communication without the benefit of the infrastructure of billion dollar multinational corporations, but rather with our own equipment and the ionosphere (or the transponder that my fellow hams built) and know how. And when we are finished building our stations to allow us to talk to those hams on the other side of the world, what do we talk about? Our radios, antennas, transponders and/or the ionosphere!
. I want to know how they get the bandwidth up and down on the IP network! (GRIN) Is that a TDRSS function?
I am almost certain that it is, although now that you mention it I also wonder how they deal with latency.
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