Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!cca!ima!haddock!stevel From: stevel@haddock.UUCP Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: Westar VI Found in Perfect Health - (nf) Message-ID: <57@haddock.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 23:35:57 EST Article-I.D.: haddock.57 Posted: Wed Feb 8 23:35:57 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 06:56:28 EST Lines: 19 #R:alice:-257500:haddock:10400002:000:710 haddock!stevel Feb 8 11:20:00 1984 Think Western Union would donate it to netnews. We could use it to send mail. Get in a few Hundred megabytes every orbit. Europe could stop complaining about net.general (personally I stoped reading it long ago). Wow a 100 million dollar tax writeoff if we make a non profit foundation to handle the work. Bet at 200 miles you don't need half of the ground station you need at 22,000 miles. So Phil what would we need. Any ideas. I think it is a simple 6-8 GHZ link. Sounds like modified satilite TV hardware. I'll volunteer a machine to act as Northeast USA gateway. Steve Ludlum, decvax!yale-co!ima!stevel, {ucbvax|ihnp4}!cbosgd!ima!stevel decwrl!amd70!ima!stevel, {uscvax|ucla-vax|vortex}!ism780!stevel