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siddhartha@siddharthajain.net

I attended a presentation by Matt Ettus, N2MJI, at the Palo Alto Amateur Radio Association's monthly meeting about the Advanced Communications Package. The project sounded very interesting and as I remember, Matt said that the ACP project's goal was to send up these amateur stations on commercial satellites in the geostationary orbit so that it eventually, someday, gives a trans-global reach for amateurs with portable/handheld radios. This was supposed to be an alternative to the Eagle project.

I got talking to a friend and fellow operator who used to be very interested in amateur satellite work and he was very interested in knowing more about ACP.

Is there a whitepaper, wiki or some kind of documentation briefly describing the project?

I looked at the AMSAT site and could not find much. Any pointers will be appreciated.

73,

- Siddhartha WV6U

Clint Bradford, K6LCS / KAF3359 909-241-7666