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Today's Topics:
1. NOVA rotor iface (GEO Badger)
2. Re: NOVA rotor iface (jim@?????.????
3. Re: NOVA rotor iface (GEO Badger)
4. APRS lu1kcq-11 PicoBallon 3rd day over Brazil (Amsat Argentina)
5. Re: Slack vs. eMail -- The medium is the message (VA7KBM)
6. Re: Slack vs. eMail -- The medium is the message (Zach Metzinger)
7. Re: Slack vs. eMail -- The medium is the message (Martin Cooper)
8. Comet from the ISS (W3AB/GEO)
9. Re: Elections HEO QO-100' Linear NB + Digital WB (Howie DeFelice)
10. Re: Elections HEO QO-100' Linear NB + Digital WB (Joe Leikhim)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:42:00 +0000 (UTC)
From: GEO Badger <w3ab@?????.???>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] NOVA rotor iface
Message-ID: <1737789724.4444296.1595270520220@????.?????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
I'm trying to use NOVA and I don't see where I set the serial comms in the
rotor setup.
---?
Ciao baby, catch you on the flip side??
73 de W3AB/GEO ???
http://www.w3ab.org
You can say "over", you can say "out", you just can't say "over and out".
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 11:53:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: "jim@?????.???? <jim@?????.???>
To: "GEO Badger" <w3ab@?????.???>
Cc: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] NOVA rotor iface
Message-ID: <1595271204.020626256@????.?????????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
I am using Nova. Rotor setup is Under Menu > Setup > Antenna Rotator. Or
are you asking something else? What interface hardware are you using?
Jim - K6CCC
jim@?????.???
-----Original Message-----
From: "GEO Badger via AMSAT-BB" <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 11:42
To: "AMSAT BB" <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] NOVA rotor iface
I'm trying to use NOVA and I don't see where I set the serial comms in the
rotor setup.
---?
Ciao baby, catch you on the flip side??
73 de W3AB/GEO ???
http://www.w3ab.org
You can say "over", you can say "out", you just can't say "over and out".
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:01:30 +0000 (UTC)
From: GEO Badger <w3ab@?????.???>
To: "jim@?????.???? <jim@?????.???>
Cc: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] NOVA rotor iface
Message-ID: <1400959946.4468934.1595271690176@????.?????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
I'm sorry, I neglected to say what controller I am using, LVB Tracker. So I
used the Kansas City Tracker. The program should need to see a com port so
the PC can talk to the controller.
---?
Ciao baby, catch you on the flip side??
73 de W3AB/GEO ???
http://www.w3ab.org
You can say "over", you can say "out", you just can't say "over and out".
On Monday, July 20, 2020, 11:53:24 AM PDT, jim@?????.??? <jim@?????.???>
wrote:
I am using Nova.? Rotor setup is Under Menu > Setup > Antenna Rotator.? Or
are you asking something else?? What interface hardware are you using?
Jim - K6CCC
jim@?????.???
-----Original Message-----
From: "GEO Badger via AMSAT-BB" <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 11:42
To: "AMSAT BB" <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] NOVA rotor iface
I'm trying to use NOVA and I don't see where I set the serial comms in the
rotor setup.
---?
Ciao baby, catch you on the flip side??
73 de W3AB/GEO ???
http://www.w3ab.org
You can say "over", you can say "out", you just can't say "over and out".
_______________________________________________
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:38:28 +0000 (UTC)
From: Amsat Argentina <lu7aa@?????.???>
To: "amsat-bb@?????.???? <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] APRS lu1kcq-11 PicoBallon 3rd day over Brazil
Message-ID: <1955139239.4486556.1595273908585@????.?????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Tracking:
APRS lu1kcq-11 PicoBallon 3rd day over Brazil
http://lu7aa.org.ar/vor.asp?callsign=LU1KCQ-11&AutoRef=true
Launch: http://amsat.org.ar/lu1kcq.mp4
Live Chat on: http://amsat.org.ar/chat
Should change to 145.825 when over sea
73, LU7AA, AMSAT Argentina
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:09:32 -0700
From: VA7KBM <amsat.va7kbm@???????.???>
To: "Joseph B. Fitzgerald" <jfitzgerald@????.???.???>,
"amsat-bb@?????.???? <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Slack vs. eMail -- The medium is the message
Message-ID:
<MWHPR04MB3742E35779F022F4824E99C7DC7B0@?????????????.????????.????.???????.??
?>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Hi Joe,
My apologies - I didn't mean to state the obvious, or make light of any
technical or operational difficulties with respect to email.
Personally, I haven't used groups.io enough myself to either recommend
it or not recommend it, but I can imagine the tagging and group-like
features of groups.io might bridge the gap between those AMSAT members
who like traditional email lists and those who favour more of a
conference-like system. Other members may have had more in-depth with
groups.io or other systems and be prepared to champion one system over
another.
Again, speaking personally, I would just phase-out the email aliasing
service.
Thanks to you and everyone else at AMSAT for all your work!
73 Ken VA7KBM
On 7/16/2020 9:54 AM, Joseph B. Fitzgerald wrote:
> Ken, VA7KBM wrote:
>> ... AMSAT should consider a more modern email list system.
> Presently the IT crew is working on migrating our servers off the existing
Linux distribution which goes end-of-life in November to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
This will result in a change to GNU Mailman 3.0 ... more modern but not
exactly a quantum leap. Now would be a great time for a fleshed out
proposal for something else since it would be hard on the users to switch
again in another year or whatever. I have looked at groups.io a little bit
in the past, and it seems to be run by "good guys". Don't wait for
"AMSAT" to consider alternatives, you guys are AMSAT, so put together a good
proposal and convince people.
>
>> ... It's generally not a good idea
>> for most small organizations to run their own email servers these days -
>> too much security and technical overhead, and who needs that?
> I surely don't need that and I am one of they guys that directly deals
with that overhead. That being said, an issue that trips me up every time
I look at having someone else run things is the e-mail alias service we
provide to anyone with a callsign. We have somewhere around 16,000 users
of that service and I know of no economically viable way to do that except
on our own servers.
>
> de KM1P Joe
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:28:38 -0500
From: Zach Metzinger <zmetzing@?????.???>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Slack vs. eMail -- The medium is the message
Message-ID: <90b0b2a0-4ed0-4a5f-f1c4-4b31668bcde4@?????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Hello all,
The email list has worked well for me, and can be read by a neutral
email app on my phone (K9Droid is what I use).
If we moved to Slack, I'd probably not participate. I find the
stream-of-consciousness level of communication distracting enough using
Microsoft Teams at work. My hobby interests rarely require instantaneous
responses to someone else's thoughts.
I would caution against groups.io on political neutrality grounds. If
you look at the page https://groups.io/static/pricing and search for
"Indivisible", it is clear that those who run groups.io have a political
axe to grind.
This is the reason that I dropped off of another email list (NTMS) when
they moved to groups.io from Yahoo Groups.
Anyway, I prefer a simple email of plain text to something with flashy
colors and obnoxious fonts. If something needs to be said graphically,
include a URL to one of the many free hosting sites with the desired
content.
My $0.02,
--- Zach
N0ZGO
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:27:01 -0700
From: Martin Cooper <kd6yam@?????.???>
To: VA7KBM <amsat.va7kbm@???????.???>
Cc: "amsat-bb@?????.???? <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Slack vs. eMail -- The medium is the message
Message-ID:
<CAGEtHi+BwA0EBFw-10dDSRpwf+8hBs7jAsz6GgqS836=GRDa=w@????.?????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> Again, speaking personally, I would just phase-out the email aliasing
> service.
That would be a huge problem for many of the people who use it. Just taking
away the e-mail alias itself would mean breaking countless links around the
web - for example in many years of e-mail archives across numerous
discussion lists, where people could no longer reply to the author of a
message they found in those archives. Also, e-mail addresses are used for
much more than just sending mail. They're used for account ids on websites,
account ids in source control systems, account ids in bug tracking systems,
and much more. And in the ham world, using your callsign is perhaps a more
common means of id than your name, so having callsign@?????.??? is an easy
way for people to reach you. (No doubt someone will mention @????.??? as an
alternative, but that requires membership in ARRL, and not everyone is, or
wants to be, a member of that organisation.)
Martin.
KD6YAM
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 4:55 PM VA7KBM via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@?????.???>
wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> My apologies - I didn't mean to state the obvious, or make light of any
> technical or operational difficulties with respect to email.
>
> Personally, I haven't used groups.io enough myself to either recommend
> it or not recommend it, but I can imagine the tagging and group-like
> features of groups.io might bridge the gap between those AMSAT members
> who like traditional email lists and those who favour more of a
> conference-like system. Other members may have had more in-depth with
> groups.io or other systems and be prepared to champion one system over
> another.
>
> Again, speaking personally, I would just phase-out the email aliasing
> service.
>
> Thanks to you and everyone else at AMSAT for all your work!
>
> 73 Ken VA7KBM
>
> On 7/16/2020 9:54 AM, Joseph B. Fitzgerald wrote:
> > Ken, VA7KBM wrote:
> >> ... AMSAT should consider a more modern email list system.
> > Presently the IT crew is working on migrating our servers off the
> existing Linux distribution which goes end-of-life in November to Ubuntu
> 20.04 LTS. This will result in a change to GNU Mailman 3.0 ... more
> modern but not exactly a quantum leap. Now would be a great time for a
> fleshed out proposal for something else since it would be hard on the users
> to switch again in another year or whatever. I have looked at groups.io
> a little bit in the past, and it seems to be run by "good guys". Don't
> wait for "AMSAT" to consider alternatives, you guys are AMSAT, so put
> together a good proposal and convince people.
> >
> >> ... It's generally not a good idea
> >> for most small organizations to run their own email servers these days -
> >> too much security and technical overhead, and who needs that?
> > I surely don't need that and I am one of they guys that directly deals
> with that overhead. That being said, an issue that trips me up every time
> I look at having someone else run things is the e-mail alias service we
> provide to anyone with a callsign. We have somewhere around 16,000 users
> of that service and I know of no economically viable way to do that except
> on our own servers.
> >
> > de KM1P Joe
> _______________________________________________
> Sent via AMSAT-BB@?????.???. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available
> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions
> expressed
> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of
> AMSAT-NA.
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 20:21:08 -0700
From: W3AB/GEO <w3ab@?????.???>
Cc: amsat-bb@?????.???
Subject: [amsat-bb] Comet from the ISS
Message-ID: <db6ad624-7c47-42ad-bdbc-258d47494bf8@?????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200710.html
?___
Sent from my two way wrist watch
73 de W3AB/GEO?
On Jul 20, 2020, 17:30, at 17:30, Martin Cooper via AMSAT-BB
<amsat-bb@?????.???> wrote:
>> Again, speaking personally, I would just phase-out the email aliasing
>> service.
>
>That would be a huge problem for many of the people who use it. Just
>taking
>away the e-mail alias itself would mean breaking countless links around
>the
>web - for example in many years of e-mail archives across numerous
>discussion lists, where people could no longer reply to the author of a
>message they found in those archives. Also, e-mail addresses are used
>for
>much more than just sending mail. They're used for account ids on
>websites,
>account ids in source control systems, account ids in bug tracking
>systems,
>and much more. And in the ham world, using your callsign is perhaps a
>more
>common means of id than your name, so having callsign@?????.??? is an
>easy
>way for people to reach you. (No doubt someone will mention @????.???
>as an
>alternative, but that requires membership in ARRL, and not everyone is,
>or
>wants to be, a member of that organisation.)
>
>Martin.
>KD6YAM
>
>
>On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 4:55 PM VA7KBM via AMSAT-BB
><amsat-bb@?????.???>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> My apologies - I didn't mean to state the obvious, or make light of
>any
>> technical or operational difficulties with respect to email.
>>
>> Personally, I haven't used groups.io enough myself to either
>recommend
>> it or not recommend it, but I can imagine the tagging and group-like
>> features of groups.io might bridge the gap between those AMSAT
>members
>> who like traditional email lists and those who favour more of a
>> conference-like system. Other members may have had more in-depth with
>> groups.io or other systems and be prepared to champion one system
>over
>> another.
>>
>> Again, speaking personally, I would just phase-out the email aliasing
>> service.
>>
>> Thanks to you and everyone else at AMSAT for all your work!
>>
>> 73 Ken VA7KBM
>>
>> On 7/16/2020 9:54 AM, Joseph B. Fitzgerald wrote:
>> > Ken, VA7KBM wrote:
>> >> ... AMSAT should consider a more modern email list system.
>> > Presently the IT crew is working on migrating our servers off the
>> existing Linux distribution which goes end-of-life in November to
>Ubuntu
>> 20.04 LTS. This will result in a change to GNU Mailman 3.0 ...
>more
>> modern but not exactly a quantum leap. Now would be a great time
>for a
>> fleshed out proposal for something else since it would be hard on the
>users
>> to switch again in another year or whatever. I have looked at
>groups.io
>> a little bit in the past, and it seems to be run by "good guys".
>Don't
>> wait for "AMSAT" to consider alternatives, you guys are AMSAT, so put
>> together a good proposal and convince people.
>> >
>> >> ... It's generally not a good idea
>> >> for most small organizations to run their own email servers these
>days -
>> >> too much security and technical overhead, and who needs that?
>> > I surely don't need that and I am one of they guys that directly
>deals
>> with that overhead. That being said, an issue that trips me up
>every time
>> I look at having someone else run things is the e-mail alias service
>we
>> provide to anyone with a callsign. We have somewhere around 16,000
>users
>> of that service and I know of no economically viable way to do that
>except
>> on our own servers.
>> >
>> > de KM1P Joe
>> _______________________________________________
>> Sent via AMSAT-BB@?????.???. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available
>> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership.
>Opinions
>> expressed
>> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views
>of
>> AMSAT-NA.
>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite
>program!
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>https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
>>
>_______________________________________________
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>to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership.
>Opinions expressed
>are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views
>of AMSAT-NA.
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>program!
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 04:53:55 +0000
From: Howie DeFelice <howied231@???????.???>
To: "AMSAT-BB@?????.???? <AMSAT-BB@?????.???>, Joe Leikhim
<rhyolite@???????.???>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Elections HEO QO-100' Linear NB + Digital WB
Message-ID:
<MN2PR14MB3517BFC04B88288D5C6DA16AE7780@?????????????.????????.????.???????.??
?>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hello Joe,
I agree that a ride share, or hosted payload as it's referred to in the
industry, would be an excellent way to get to GEO. That said, the realities
are very different than they were for QO-100. The host satellite for QO-100
is owned by a state run (or sponsored) entity. They don't have shareholders
and corporate governance to deal with. This does not mean an amateur radio
payload would be excluded from a satellite over the U.S., it just means we
would have to pay our way. Just like QO-100, we would be required to let the
spacecraft provider or other certified entity manufacture and test the
payload. This all adds additional expense. If we had a compelling proposal
for a payload that proved technology that might also be useful to the
satellite operator, like the P4 regenerative digital transponder, there is a
CHANCE we could get some subsidy. Commercial satellite operators are
extremely risk adverse and even more budget conscious. The market rates are
always moving and it has been a
long time since this alternative has been considered. Bob McGuire, Jeff
John's and myself are committed to evaluate ALL avenues to higher orbit.
Howie AB2S
________________________________
From: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb-bounces@?????.???> on behalf of Joe Leikhim via
AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2020 3:31:10 PM
To: amsat-bb@?????.??? <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Elections HEO QO-100' Linear NB + Digital WB
K4SAT here.
I am intrigued about QO-100 and have monitored it here in Florida by
remote WEB SDR access. I have not been active in the years since AO-40
failed and have been eager to see some HEO operations like I enjoyed
from AO-10 and AO-13. Listening to QO-100 has rekindled that interest.
Last month on AMSAT-BB I posed the question about getting a GEO ride
share with a commercial satellite, something that was considered 12
years ago with Intelsat. Having a QO-100 type transponder here CONUS
would grow the hobby and get folks like me active again (and
contributing sums as I did for AO-40). However, the "old guard" shot my
idea down for the usual reasons. (See my threads last month).
Having a QO-100 type transponder with a hybrid of narrow band linear
side and wide band digital side would open up a lot of opportunities for
operations, public service and experimentation. I hope the new "slate"
of BOD will consider this type of project as a priority.
Personally, I think GOLF has not achieved results fast enough to getting
us a larger footprint. I am not advocating scrapping of that effort, but
sometimes you have to jump ahead of the project and grab what is needed.
73 Joe
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 02:40:54 -0400
From: Joe Leikhim <rhyolite@???????.???>
To: Howie DeFelice <howied231@???????.???>, "AMSAT-BB@?????.????
<AMSAT-BB@?????.???>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Elections HEO QO-100' Linear NB + Digital WB
Message-ID: <712dd5be-9641-b286-f8c2-4b53de9580ba@???????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Howie;
Bill Tynan kicked this idea around 12 years ago as a distinct
possibility with Intelsat. See below:
Blast from past 12 years ago....the entire thread of course is nearly a
rehash of today's. So just the POSITIVE Bits. What happened?
[eagle] Re: what is going on?, some technical content at last.
*Bill Tynan*
btynan at beecreek.net
<mailto:eagle%40amsat.org?Subject=%5Beagle%5D%20Re%3A%20what%20is%20going%20on
%3F%2C%20some%20technical%20content%20at%20last.&In-Reply-To=>
/Fri Jul 11 07:52:51 PDT 2008/
"Drew, Bob and All:
I have been thinking along the same lines for some time, but being no more
than a "Senior Advisor" (geezer) I have not chosen to voice my views
widely.
*_Most hams want linear transponder, high altitude satellites. Very
few are yet into digital anything._*
Yes, AMSAT should be in the forefront of technology, but to do so, it must
be here. To be here, it must have the support (money) of the ham
community.
We can still make a very good case for emergency commutations with a
spacecraft which is in there 24/7 (Rideshare) even if it is only an analog
transponder. With moderate bandwidth, that analog transponder can be used
for at least low rate digital communication by ground stations. So, still
pictures and medical data can be exchanged through it.
So, let's get to it.
That means fundraising. I have seen very little effort in that direction.
Have fat cats been solicited? What about the guy (can't remember his name)
who spent $20,000,000 to visit the ISS for a week. It would seem that he
is
a prime candidate. Has he been contacted?
Has FEMA been solicited re the potential Rideshare offers?
It's up to the AMSAT leadership to make such solicitations.
*_We raised $2,000,000 here in North America for P3D. We should be
able to do it again, despite the AO-40 disaster._*
These are my thoughts.
73,
Bill Tynan, W3XO, LM-10
AMSAT President 1991 - 1998"
On 7/21/2020 12:53 AM, Howie DeFelice wrote:
> Hello Joe,
>
> I agree that a ride share, or hosted payload as it's referred to in
> the industry, would be an excellent way to get to GEO.? That said, the
> realities are very different than they were for QO-100. The host
> satellite for QO-100 is owned by a state run (or sponsored) entity.
> They don't have shareholders and corporate governance to deal with.
> This does not mean an amateur radio payload would be excluded from a
> satellite over the U.S., it just means we would have to pay our way.
> Just like QO-100, we would be required to let the spacecraft provider
> or other certified entity manufacture and test the payload. This all
> adds additional expense. If we had a compelling proposal for a payload
> that proved technology that might also be useful to the satellite
> operator, like the P4 regenerative digital transponder, there is a
> CHANCE we could get some subsidy. Commercial satellite operators are
> extremely risk adverse and even more budget conscious. The market
> rates are always moving and it has been a long time since this
> alternative has been considered. Bob McGuire, Jeff John's and myself
> are committed to evaluate ALL avenues to higher orbit.
>
> Howie AB2S
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb-bounces@?????.???> on behalf of Joe Leikhim
> via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@?????.???>
> *Sent:* Sunday, July 19, 2020 3:31:10 PM
> *To:* amsat-bb@?????.??? <amsat-bb@?????.???>
> *Subject:* [amsat-bb] Elections HEO QO-100' Linear NB + Digital WB
> K4SAT here.
>
> I am intrigued about QO-100 and have monitored it here in Florida by
> remote WEB SDR access. I have not been active in the years since AO-40
> failed and have been eager to see some HEO operations like I enjoyed
> from AO-10 and AO-13. Listening to QO-100 has rekindled that interest.
>
> Last month on AMSAT-BB I posed the question about getting a GEO ride
> share with a commercial satellite, something that was considered 12
> years ago with Intelsat. Having a QO-100 type transponder here CONUS
> would grow the hobby and get folks like me active again (and
> contributing sums as I did for AO-40). However, the "old guard" shot my
> idea down for the usual reasons. (See my threads last month).
>
> Having a QO-100 type transponder with a hybrid of narrow band linear
> side and wide band digital side would open up a lot of opportunities for
> operations, public service and experimentation.?? I hope the new "slate"
> of BOD will consider this type of project as a priority.
>
> Personally, I think GOLF has not achieved results fast enough to getting
> us a larger footprint. I am not advocating scrapping of that effort, but
> sometimes you have to jump ahead of the project and grab what is needed.
>
> 73 Joe
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