i8CVS Domenico, I found this news article showing satellite remote sensing
photos of the affected area:
http://nation.time.com/2013/05/23/before-and-after-the-tornado-satellite-shots-of-moore/?hpt=hp_bn18
The key issue is that this was taken with a space asset having a sensor
(imaging device) of
As long as the satellite population consist of LEO's that are only available
for a very short time not very frequently they will always be the comm link of
the very last resort...
Robert WB5MZO
From: domenico.i8...@tin.it
To: k9...@comcast.net; amsat-bb@amsat.org
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013
Hi Stefan, VE4NSA
the link I provide belove is on the actual Amsat-NA website and is point D of
the AMSAT purposes.
Read it please.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/AboutAmsat/documents/incorporation.php
D. Facilitating communications by amateur satellites in times of emergency.
73 de
Thanks!
However you still seem to be missing the point.
First of all, these are incorporation papers from 1969!
Secondly, no one questions the potential of satellites and their actual use
for emergency. We actually have satellite phones for emergencies in our
facility and use them when we
From the recent, very informative emails on the subject of satellites and
emergencies, the following lessons have been reinforced:
1. Satellites can be used in emergencies, can being the operative word.
2. There is some evidence satellites have been used in emergencies in the
past, some being
- Original Message -
From: Bill Acito w...@hotmail.com
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 4:13 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Amateur Satellites and the emergency on tornadoin
Oklahoma and Texas
Domenico,
With all due respect, you base much of your
argument on a single
Thanks Bill,
good luck and have a great FD on the sats. If I get my station up, we will
talk.
73 Stefan VE4NSA
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Bill Acito w...@hotmail.com wrote:
Yep, I was going to raise the same point and link. They list the following
benefits:
- providing Satellite
Hi JoAnne, K9JKM
If the 2-meter and 440 MHz repeaters are destroied by tornado
the amateur satellites are still in operation and are useful if we are
organized to use them.
Read here:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/sat_summary/hamsat.php
VO-52 is India's contribution to the
Domenico,
With all due respect, you base much of your
argument on a single sentence on a marketing web page.
The emergency access ability may have been
used as part of the justification for funding
or launch vehicle access; it doesn't mean it works for that
in any practical situation.
When I
