It's the end of Life As We Know It. I'm going to sell all my ham gear on E-bay and take up golf.

Dan Schultz

-------------- Original message -------------- From: Pat Kilroy Patrick.L.Kilroy@nasa.gov

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HAVE I MISSED ANY DISCUSSIONS or posts on the "other" AMSAT mail list(s) regarding the impacts to AMSAT (good or bad, imagined or real) with respect to all the recent changes by the FCC to the Part 97 rules and regs?

At first thought, the expansion of the 80m phone band and dropping Element 1 (Morse Code) of the ham license testing requirements, for example, don't appear to affect AMSAT and the amateur satellite service a single bit. But how about after a second thought?

Might there be any indirect impacts lurking?

Thanks for your thoughts.

73 de Pat N8PK