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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 13:22:57 GMT
- From: lehane@siesoft.co.uk (Lehane Kellet)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: FCC Awards Pioneers Preference to Volunteers in Tech Assistance
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- ndallen@r-node.pci.on.ca (Nigel Allen) writes:
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- > FCC Awards Pioneers Preference to Volunteers in Technical Assistance
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- > WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- The Federal Communications Commission today
- > allocated four MHz of VHF/UHF spectrum to the Mobile Satellite Service
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- Anybody know which four meg?
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- > The FCC stated that it awarded the pioneer's preference to VITA
- > because it was the first to develop and demonstrate the utility of a
- > small low earth orbiting satellite system for civilian communications
- > purposes. The commission also noted that VITA's pioneering efforts
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- Radio Amateurs aren't civilians? AMSAT have being using LEO for years.
- And VITA piggybacked on UOSAT (and co-funded).
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- A mention of AMSAT/amateur radio would have been nice ...
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- Regards,
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- Lehane Kellett. G8KMH. Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems, Bracknell.
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