n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY |  I guess I have to try it
I have yet to try contacting it but it looks very interesting. I should read the AMSAT bulletins more frequently 
Robert de N2JTX |
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InitZero
@92.pinehills-u
| Sending packets through PCSat is fairly easy. You can hit
it with less than five watts of power from a hand held radio
with a stock 'rubber duck' antenna. I've sent more than a
dozen packets through it.
To see everyone who has passes packets through the
satellite, along with their location and any messages
they might have sent, visit... »www.findu.com/cgi-bin/pcsat.cgi
(Netscape is better that IE for this page).
All it takes to use this satellite is a ham license (very
easy to get if you know anything about electronics) and a
low-end two-meter (144-148mHz) radio (easily under $200 --
less if used).
InitZero |
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nezbrun
join:2002-01-24
UK
|  reply to n2jtx
If a licensed amateur, you can communicate with PCSat (and several other amateur satellites) using equipment as basic as commercially available digital walkie-talkies.
You send and receive messages similarly to SMS. PCSat even has internet e-mail gateways so you can still be on-line in the middle of nowhere.
No, PCSat will not deliver megabits of bandwidth! That's not what it's designed for. So Hughes Corp are safe!
So think of it like you would SMS. The differences are that it works where your cellphone won't, and that the protocol used is a broadcast protocol rather than point-to-point.
Howard Long [G6LVB - PCSat European Command Station] |
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