My friend lives about 10 miles East of Ft Stockton, about a mile North of I10 ... Off grid, and would like internet. :) ... he charges batteries from solar panels.
><> ... 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 On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Bill Woody <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- -- 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.
