Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!eagle!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!vortex!lauren@RAND-UNIX From: lauren%RAND-UNIX@vortex.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: ham use of "lost" satellites Message-ID: <16563@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 06:50:18 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16563 Posted: Thu Feb 9 06:50:18 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 07:06:46 EST Lines: 7 Actually, some of us have talked about this, and the poor things really won't be useful. First of all, hams aren't licensed for 4/6 GHz. operations. Secondly, the antennas on those birds are too directional to be useful from such low orbits -- they were designed for use from 22K miles out ... not 150. --Lauren--