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From: brb@akgua.ATT.COM (Brian R. Bainter)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.edu,comp.mail.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC to Satellite Communication
Message-ID: <1819@akgua.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 Aug 88 13:45:27 GMT
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From article <3669@bsu-cs.UUCP>, by dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi):
> In article <11708@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante) writes:
>>Does the price include launch services for your personal satellite?
> 
> Actually, many people don't realize that ham radio operators have
> been doing communications via satellite for years.  There used
> to be a ham satellite in orbit (may still be, I'm not current)
> and it contained a transponder that basically relayed everything
> it received back down.  I see no reason why one couldn't transmit
> data this way.
> -- 
> Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi

There are many ham satellites flying right now, and there are I think four
or maybe five more to be launched at the end of this year or beginning of
next year. The newer ones even act as digipeaters and work with packet
communications. There are some even more interresting things going on
in the amatuer radio community with satellites and digital communications.
I am not aware of all of them and not even up completely on this one, but
by virtue of being a ham, I like to "listen" to all of the talk going on
in such groups as rec.ham-radio and rec.ham-radio.packet. A lot of those
people are pretty sharp in those areas.

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	Brian R. Bainter   KA7TXA

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