Re: [amsat-bb] Mir Digipeating

[Jeff <jeffj@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Richard Parry wrote:

> I am a newbie, in fact I never had a sat. contact in my life, but I read a
> lot and I thought that using MIR as a digipeater was a no no?  Am I wrong.

I by no means am a expert in the matter. I do know that on any given pass 
during the last couple of months there have been many amateurs that have 
been using Mir as a digi, myself included. These digi's have mainly been 
unproto messages that didn't seem to put too much of a strain on the 
system, as you could clearly see station connecting to R0MIR-1 while 
others were passing unproto messages through R0MIR. I would welcome any 
comments (not flames). As I said in my earlier message, I have both 
received and sent many QSL's to/from amateurs from Cuba to Canada from 
contacts made by using Mir as a digi. 

73 Jeff

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