Re: [amsat-bb] Solving the need for ISA or USB slots and Serial Ports

[David Beach <VE3STI@xxxxxx>]

A belated comment on this subject but...

How much effort/cost is required for an Ethernet interface on the 
rotator controller, rather than USB/serial/parallel/etc? As more people 
end up with Ethernet on their home/ham computers, the idea of having 
the rotator on the network seems appealing - 'just' connect it to the 
hub/router/switch and any machine could operate it. Anybody have 
experience with this? Or thoughts in general?

David
VE3STI

On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 10:54  AM, Howard Long wrote:

>> The other question that comes to mind: why is this aspect
>> of the amateur satellite program so tightly bound to obsolete
>> hardware? Where are the PCI/USB tracking systems?

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