Yes and I think the author of that article is misusing the word as they are not a ham or not a seasoned ham. I have seen many news articles about ham radio where they talk about hams on field day or about ARISS contacts where the word broadcast is used when talking about two way comms which are by definition not broadcasts. Related, the website for MEMESat-1 does not use the word broadcast.
The FCC defines broadcasting as such: "Broadcasting. Transmissions intended for reception by the general public, either direct or relayed."
One definition of general public: "all the people of an area, country, etc."
Even if your intent was to reach any and all people of the U.S., say, doing it via a ham radio sat would make no sense. It is only in range for around 10 minutes a few times a day and you can't receive it with anything you can buy at a department store. The sat might not even be available at the same time each day depending on it's orbit.
This is for amateurs, SWLs, and other tech interested people, or people that could be convinced to get into this sort of stuff if they knew someone was having fun with it using memes!
One other point about the ISS SSTV events, all ISS SSTV is not MAI. And the Americans will be doing it soon from the Columbus module if everything goes as planned.
73, John Brier KG4AKV
On Sun, Feb 23, 2020, 16:06 George Henry via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Did you not read the rtl-sdr.com article you posted the link to? Broadcasting to a "general audience" is EXACTLY what they are talking about.
George, KA3HSW
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of John Brier via AMSAT-BB Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2020 11:07 PM To: JoAnne K9JKM Cc: AMSAT BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] New FM repeater satellite planned: MEMESat-1
People regularly mix up "broadcasting" with "transmitting" when discussing ham radio. I'm sure it was just a mistake and not their intent to suggest this was going to be some sort of broadcast system intended for a general audience.
On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 12:02 AM JoAnne K9JKM via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Guess you all missed the key word, "broadcasting"...
Call it beacon. Perhaps a beacon more "useful" to amateur radio operators than some university bird beaconing a 9K6 GMSK stream of unknown format in the ham bands.
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73 de JoAnne K9JKM joanne.k9jkm@gmail.com
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