Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!raven.alaska.edu!aurora.alaska.edu!nsmca From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Portable Small Ground Station?dir Message-ID: <1993Apr5.185700.1@aurora.alaska.edu> Date: 6 Apr 93 02:57:00 GMT Article-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr5.185700.1 References: <1993Apr2.214705.1@aurora.alaska.edu> Sender: news@raven.alaska.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu In article , henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: > In article <1993Apr2.214705.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes: >>How difficult would it be to set up your own ground station? > > Ground station for *what*? At one extreme, some of the amateur-radio > satellites have sometimes been reachable with hand-held radios. At the > other, nothing you can do in your back yard will let you listen in on > Galileo. Please be more specific. > -- > All work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry SPECIFIC: Basically to be able to do the things the big dadies can do.. Monitor, and control if need be the Shuttle... Such as the one in Australia and such.... == Michael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I'm not high, just jacked