RE: [amsat-bb] FW: Boycott Swatch

["Kevin Muenzler WB5RUE" <wb5rue@xxxxxxxx>]

I DON'T KNOW!!!

I was fed some bad information about the SWATCH situation.  Please ignore my
comment....boy do I feel stupid.  (should I admit this??)  I was told that
the company was going to put up a satellite (so far ok) that was going to
transmit on 2-meters (so far so good) time information (nope!) to set the
watch periodically during the day.  Sounded good, I have a clock that does
this and Ziet has a watch that does this.  Being outrageously over-priced I
assumed that SWATCH was going to do something like that.

Kevin, WB5RUE

There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can count and those
who can't.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Paige [mailto:kk5do@amsat.org]
> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 1999 11:56 PM
> To: Kevin Muenzler WB5RUE
> Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] FW: Boycott Swatch
>
>
> Send reply to:  	<wb5rue@stic.net>
> From:           	"Kevin Muenzler WB5RUE" <wb5rue@stic.net>
> To:             	"'_AMSAT_list (E-mail)'" <amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
> Subject:        	RE: [amsat-bb] FW: Boycott Swatch
> Date sent:      	Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:35:14 -0500
>
> > It would seem to me that the FCC could be a BIG help in
> this matter.
> > Since the watch has a radio receiver built into it wouldn't
> this make it a
> > "Part 15 device?" The FCC could refuse to certify it and
> thus make it
> > illegal to sell in the United States.  Is this
> pie-in-the-sky or is it
> > possible?
>
> what watch are  you talking about???
>
> 73...bruce
>
>
>
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