Subj : Da Di Dit  Dit - Rulz
To   : ROY WITT
From : STAN PHILLIPS
Date : Sun Aug 13 2000 10:51 am

RW>  SP> No, it is an american problem.  There are organizaions that want to
RW>  SP> use the 430-450 meg ham bands for use with low orbit satelites.
RW>  SP> (Data transmission, phone etc).
RW>
RW> That's news to me and I'm a UHF freak...About two years ago, I sold one
RW> of my 450MHz repeaters (still have one in storage) to someone who had a
RW> keener interest, but I still use UHF and despise the VHF repeaters around
RW> here.

Do a search under 'LEO'.  The commercial interests have been looking
at the success of the ham satelites

73  Stan

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