Most BBS also allow immediate digipeating for those that wanted a real time QSO. This is/was commandable on and off on 51 and FS-3. A dedicated receiver could also snoop and collect worldwide APRS beacons to a BBS file.
Another important use of the BBS is for Whole Orbit Data, both from spacecraft systems and potential experiments. My assertions that this would greatly simplify many cubesat telemetry issues have mostly fell upon deaf ears, since it’s not an off the shelf solution for the typical university cubesat. We could make it one. It works particularly well with an imaging system to get complete images over multiple passes or from multiple stations.
73, Drew KO4MA
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I took an action at the last meeting to document basic BBS operations. I put some thoughts in the attached document. This is in Open Office format. For those without Open Office I attached a pdf.
I will happily put this in git if someone points me to the git repository.
All thoughts / comments welcome. This is mostly a brain dump of how things work "today" with some thoughts about the future.
73
Chris
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