What part of West Texas? If I can google map it, I may be able to help with something Earth based if clunky. I have had some thoughts and practice with long distance communications on the cheap. Your original question is a backburner project of mine to look at one day. If anything comes of it working or not, I'd like to know. Please, keep me in mind. I will get the project closer to the front as soon as two other little projects stop biting me... a few months. Thanks.
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a friend in West TX that wants to do a DIY satellite > transmitter/reciever. > Has anyone heard of a project to do such a thing? > > One time I think I heard of a Ham satellite that would do a store and > forward, but that is probably not in service anymore. > > Just curious. > > BTW, it looks like we will be getting satellite for our home internet > soon. Settled on Excede (owns Wild Blue now, and is owned by ViaSat. > HughesNet is the only real competitor in the market). Telco won't do DSL > or anything other than dialup, and cable will do it, but the $20,000.00 > install fee is a bit steep. > > ><> ... Jack > Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 > "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - > Henry J. Tillman > "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - > Albert Einstein > "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral > Grace Hopper, USN > Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part. - Martin Terma > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
