RE: [amsat-bb] digitally clueless

["Christensen, Eric Harlan" <CHRISTENSENE@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is exactly what I'm talking about!  Sure when I go down to Ocracoke
Island to run my IOTA station I could just upload my pics to a website
for all to see (which I would do anyway when I got back home) but I
could easily make some of them available to everyone interested by
putting them on a bird which is available to the entire world!

73s,
Eric KF4OTN
kf4otn@amsat.org
http://www.ericsatcom.net

AMSAT Member: 35360
Project OSCAR Member


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-AMSAT-BB@amsat.org [mailto:owner-AMSAT-BB@amsat.org] On
Behalf Of Don Agro
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 11:34
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] digitally clueless


"Robert Bruninga" <bruninga@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think many people will get bored with the BBS, once they are past 
> the thrill of getting WISP running and  fullly automating their 
> station so they dont even have to be there..  Sure they can upload and

> download files for a few minutes a day with out any human 
> intervention, but they will soon realize that they cannot QSO anyone 
> live anymore.

Nonsense. Try doing what Ronald Ross (KE6JAB) did in Antarctica without 
PacSat:

http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/news/1998/spc0119.txt

> During his stay in Antartica, Ron was able to relay not only text
> messages
> to friends via UoSAT-OSCAR-22, but color images (JPEGs) well.  A total

> of
> 70 messages were upload to the satellite, 16 of which were JPEG
images.

> Ron reported that his portable pacsat station generated a lot of
> interest
> amongst other people at the basecamp.  Many were amazed by the ability

> of
> an amateur network to provide such communications on a voluntary
basis,
> especially considering the official communications at the camp were
> hampered due to problems experienced with Inmarsat.

73 Don Agro VE3VRW
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