Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.modems:2285 comp.edu:1303 comp.mail.misc:1178 comp.sys.ibm.pc:18143 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!akgua!brb 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 References: <3669@bsu-cs.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Network Systems/Bell Labs, Atlanta GA Lines: 28 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. -- Brian R. Bainter KA7TXA AT&T Technologies Atlanta Works {cbosgd, gatech, ihnp4, moss, mtune, ulysses}akgua!brb