They are good names, and I think they should be adopted as the official designators. Unfortunately the average length is 11.8 characters so you can bet they will be abbreviated. It might not be a bad idea to nail down the shorthand names as well. (The obvious contractions (UVL, LSL, TXM, LRA, HRA) don't ring clearly to my ear.)
73 Frank AB2KT
Louis McFadin wrote:
For what it's worth, I like Matt's names. They are simple and elegant. You don't have to look them up in a book to understand them.
On Oct 9, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Matt Ettus wrote:
The more I think about it, the more I think we don't need to name anything. We just say the satellite has these users:
U/V Linear L/S Linear Text messaging Low Rate ACP High Rate ACP
By not having an ordering, nobody gets slighted, and there is less confusion.
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