Arik Baratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm sorry, but you are misinformed. There was a SECOND sattelite > (named TechSat 2), it DID go up, and it is functioning perfectly > to-date. The Technion, however, did not repay the ham radio community > for the bandwidth that was allocated to them and the volunteer-hours > that were put into it (and don't tell me they were paid - I know some > were - > > hardly all).
AFAIK the official justification for TechSats was that the satellite would serve amateur radio communications, as you mentioned. This was the only way they could start the project that they really wanted for scientific experiments and for educational purposes (students building satellites and running experiments on them). This is what I recall from what the PI, Giora Shaviv of the Technion, said at the time. Are you saying that they did not do whatever they were supposed to do for the amateur radio community? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
