MKM,
Your expertise in satellites is only exceeded by your abundance of knowledge in the EMCOMM arena.
One of the first principles of EMCOMM is self contained, ad hoc delivery of communications services in the voice, data, and video domains.
Any reliance on common carriers in a disaster scenario is a complete non-starter.
Having a high bandwidth asset in GEO will usher in a revolution in disaster communications support and if AMSAT pulls it off it will have achieved something more important than the technical feat, it will help SAVE LIVES.
John Zaruba Jr. AA2BN AMSAT #22683 Gloucester County ARES/RACES
P.S. I'm not afraid to plainly attach my name and callsign to what I write...
On Dec 13, 2007, at 6:04 PM, MKM wrote:
Forget the EMCOMM support, that does not make sense anymore. Read on...
WIMAX will be available from sprint soon. THAT will be a reliable technology for ecom. With one access point, they will cover a wide area for both data and voice. NOW, imagine multiple access point ( and I mean 2 or 3 max) and regardless of what the ecom situation is, help will get through.
We have to understand here that P4 satcom for ecom is not a selling point anymore.