Re: [amsat-bb] MSNBC Story

[Dave Guimont <dguimon1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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>SSTV via ARISS is great!  But why don't we just go straight to ATV instead?
>Why the leap backwards in technology?
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>                                                  Tracy  KC5RBQ/7  (out of
>lurk mode)
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> > From: Jeff Davis <jeff@ke9v.com>
> > Subject: [amsat-bb] MSNBC Story
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> > Sorry if this has already been covered, but I was just visiting the main
> > MSNBC news Web site and saw this prominent link about the "ham radio cam
> > on the ISS".

Tracy, that just further demonstrates the ridiculousness of AMSAT spending 
our precious dollars to promote ISS(READ NASA!!!)

In June of 1992 I traded SSTV pictures with Richards on Columbia, STS-50,
and we just considered it a sort of novelty...As a matter of fact they set 
some sort of a record on the flight, and it was reported in the San Diego 
Union.  There was a pass about 0600 PST, and I delivered the first 
newspaper in space to STS-50, still just a novelty!

See: unionnews.ZIP at:

http://home.san.rr.com/doguimont/uploads

MSNBC can spend their money any way they want, but I sure object to AMSAT 
spending money to promote NASA under the guise of encouraging children to 
become interested in amateur satellite radio...



            73, Dave wb6llo@amsat.org
                    Disagree: I learn.... 

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