Re: [amsat-bb] Amateur radio, TV operator beams missions to the masses

["Richard Amirault" <ramirault@xxxxxxxxx>]

 > Consequently, anyone with a cable-ready TV set, but who doesn't subscribe
 > to cable, can receive LISATS' retransmission of NASA-TV for free through
 > their TV antenna on channel 57.

True...but only as a "secondary", or "incedental" receivers. Many folks
forget that *all* (legal) ham transmissions are *from* hams, *to* hams.
Others can (and do) listen-in, but that's not who the transmission is
intended for. The FCC waver that allows us to re-broadcast NASA video does
not remove the prohibition that we are forbidden to "broadcast" (ie.
transmit to the general public ... non-hams)

I say this not to criticize the article, but to remind *us* that fast-scan
TV is *still* ham communicaions, and must follow the FCC rules like other
modes.

Richard Amirault                       N1JDU              Boston, MA, USA
ramirault@erols.com         "Go Fly A Kite"
http:// www.erols.com/ramirault


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