Hi, Domenico!
Thanks for writing.
On 8 Jun 2008, at 16:34, i8cvs wrote:
The main problem here is that the Universities are able to bypass both our national IARU member societies and our AMSAT national organizations and they get directly in contact with ESA
Actually, any "customer" can do that. Remember, IARU member societies are private ground and, generally, not regulatory authorities. What the member societies can do is approach their administrations when they see problems.
One might ask many administrations, including my own, whether or not they should review more carefully what their licensees are doing in space.
"But once they have the ESA/NASA/JAXA-sponsored GENSO project running, they will probably even not need our help anymore, but only our frequencies !!! "
And, that, in a nutshell, is the point. Some of the University related operations are legitimately amateur projects. Others, in my opinion, are not. Those are the ones that trouble me and others.
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