RE: [amsat-bb] is it true?

["Michael P. Olbrisch" <kd9kc@xxxxxxx>]

Yes it is true!  Now all Swatch needs to do is produce an
Amateur Radio License, and be sure that there is a third
party agreement between every country the messages can be 
heard in and the country the message is from.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org [mailto:owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org]On
> Behalf Of Christopher Maness
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 1999 9:08 PM
> To: amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
> Subject: [amsat-bb] is it true?
> 
> 
> I read this on the swatch page.
> 
> The messages that the .beatnik satellite will send are not 
> advertising and do not contain the brand name Swatch. They are 
> messages that people, just like you, have left on the website in the 
> hope that they could be sent into space. We see this as totally in 
> tune with the spirit of freedom of communication and a democratic way 
> of using radio as a means of communication. 
> 
> It is a great opportunity for Amateur Radio to gain an even wider 
> audience. 

Is it really?  Or just advertising hype???


Vy73,  Mike.   KD9KC    MARS: AAV6EV
kd9kc@whc.net  -  kd9kc@amsat.org
Home page: http://www.qsl.net/kd9kc/
The farthest WEST ham in West Texas.
 
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