[amsat-bb] 2.4GHz broadband router on satellite?

2013-02-20 Thread James French
What are the possibilities of building a satellite that uses a Linksys WRT54GL router with a modified DD-wrt or HSMM-Mesh software as a store and forward BBS, to route a received request from one station to another station, or even to connect to a on board networked camera to receive images? What

[amsat-bb] Walter Maxwell, W2DU (SK):

2013-02-20 Thread i8cvs
Hi All, Walter Maxwell, W2DU (SK): from The ARRL Letter on July 12, 2012 Walter Maxwell, W2DU (SK): M. Walter Maxwell, W2DU, died July 3 at his home in DeLand, Florida, of natural causes. He was 93. Maxwell was best known in the Amateur Radio realm for his ground-breaking series of articles,

[amsat-bb] Re: Close encounters of the Asteroidal Kind

2013-02-20 Thread Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-063 NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2012 DA14 Jet Propulsion Laboratory February 19, 2013 [Image] This collage of 72 individual radar-generated images of asteroid 2012 DA14 was created using data from NASA's 230-foot (70-meter) Deep

[amsat-bb] DANDE launch

2013-02-20 Thread Ronald Cox
Hi All, On Feb18th I visited 4 Labs at UC Boulder as a part of Lockheed-Martin's Engineering Explorer Post program (www.engpost.org) that meets every other Tuesday evening from September to May each year. I am sponsoring two young men without fathers as members of this Post. What was

[amsat-bb] Re: DANDE launch

2013-02-20 Thread Stefan Wagener
Please see the IARU Frequency coordination request/status Updated documentation received 03/08/2009. The group have been unable to change their hardware to use a coordinated frequency proposed by the panel. They will therefore operate on 436.750MHz under an experimental license from the

[amsat-bb] Re: DANDE launch

2013-02-20 Thread Trevor .
Great news Ron. I thought DANDE were flying on a SpaceX flight so I'd assumed a very low ISS type orbit, interesting to hear they are going out to Van Allen belt. 73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Wed, 20/2/13, Ronald Cox w9k...@mac.com wrote: Hi All, On Feb18th I visited 4 Labs at UC Boulder as a