On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 19:31 +0000, Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:
Dear Gordon.
Please get a copy of the Wireless Telegraphy Act from the library and read it. You are only allowed to listen to authorised broadcast stations, Amateur Radio stations and transmissions in the Standard Frequency and Time Service (or an exempt service such as CB or a baby monitor for example) unless you have been seperately authorised to do otherwise. If the US Navy authorises you to listen to their satellite, you're OK, otherwise you're in breach of the act.
And isn't the idea that we are authorised to experiment with these satellites, now that the US Navy is no longer using them?
Gordon MM0YEQ
And isn't the idea that we are authorised to experiment with these satellites, now that the US Navy is no longer using them?
Let me correct the record. We have no such authority.
We are simply looking at how one might use such a limited 500 byte broadcast message capability IF-and-only-IF such access were somehow possible. That's why I like the idea of finding a use in disaster communications, where a proposal might have some value...
Bob, Wb4APR
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 09:32 -0400, Robert Bruninga wrote:
And isn't the idea that we are authorised to experiment with these satellites, now that the US Navy is no longer using them?
Let me correct the record. We have no such authority.
Okay, then that *might* be different. I suspect you'd have to try *really* hard to find anyone that would get upset at people listening to your satellite without authority. It's impossible to get Ofcom interested in stopping people transmitting without a licence or outside the terms of their licence, and that's when they're jamming the local 2m repeater that the Ofcom guys with amateur licenses frequent!
We are simply looking at how one might use such a limited 500 byte broadcast message capability IF-and-only-IF such access were somehow possible. That's why I like the idea of finding a use in disaster communications, where a proposal might have some value...
Bob, Wb4APR
How hard would it be to develop a mobile/portable command station for it? I know you said it used some very specific stuff to program, but just how specific and difficult-to-reproduce would it be?
Gordon MM0YEQ
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