Dan --
Understand that I mean nothing controversial by saying this, but it's very unclear what the status of the Eagle and/or Intelsat projects *is*. There's potentially a lot to say, but hard to know whether any of it is pertinent at this point.
I was prepared to deliver a paper on AMSAT-specific aspects of the same topic (Delay Tolerant Networking) that I wrote up for DCC. The gist of the paper was an outline of the specific implementation of a comprehensive text-messaging service for Eagle. Given the current level of uncertainty even about *who* the teams are, and the ambient level of acrimony in the membership, it's questionable whether the time is worth spending.
73 Frank AB2KT
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Daniel Schultz n8fgv@usa.net wrote:
We still have a serious lack of presentations on the Eagle and Intelsat programs. Tom Clark has promised some sort of paper but I have not received proposals from anyone else involved in these flagship projects. The symposium at this point will be all about student built satellites and how to work AO-51 with your HT.
Eagle team members, please let me know very soon if you have any plans to contribute a paper to this year's symposium.
Dan Schultz N8FGV
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