Thank you, but I was thinking of a fully-formatted packet message that
was placed into an orbiting bbs in one part of the world that would be
polled by another station, pulled down then deleted from the bird. The
message size would definitely be bigger than one line.

On 6/5/2024 2:27 AM, Nitin Muttin wrote:
> APRS Satellites have such a capability, I remember succeeding sending a
> email to myself using UISS thru ISS APRS. For this to work SatGats are
> needed.
>
> http://aprs.org/astars/email.txt <http://aprs.org/astars/email.txt>
>
>
> 73
> Nitin [VU3TYG]
>
>
> On Wednesday 5 June, 2024 at 09:07:55 am IST, Charles J. Hargrove via
> AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
>
>
> In the past there used to be ground stations acting as a satellite
> gateway to the store-and-forward birds. I am having some difficulty
> find which birds are still active that can serve this function. Could
> somebody point me to the latest information on this? Thanks anyway.

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