Re: [amsat-bb] AO-40: RUDAK is On!!

[Margaret Leber <maggie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Norm McMillan wrote:

> OK  Maggie, I'll bite.
> Whats RUDAK?
> At 07:29 01/05/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>> Peter Guelzow wrote:
>>> just a few hours ago (2001-05-01, 04:19 UTC):
>>> RUDAK was turned On again for the first time after the incident!
>> Fantastic! :-)
>> Of course, I guess we should be prepared for a flood of "What's a 
>> RUDAK?" posts.

It's the digital end of AO-40: four 9600 baud G3RUH modems, eight 
DSP-based soft modems, two communications processors. It also hooks into 
the SCOPE cameras and the GPS and CEDEX experiments.

Think of a digital repeater, or a TNC, but on steroids...

  73 de Maggie K3XS

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