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Ace-high June 11th 04 11:55 PM

Skymate email - any comments?
 
This looks suspiciously like a reworked, renamed version of the
terrible crappy Magellan GSC-100 - same ORBCOMM low earth orbit
satellites, same VHS frequency. Any ideas on the connection?

VHS freq get absorbed in heavy rain, like TV, don't they?


Dick Locke June 12th 04 03:52 AM

Skymate email - any comments?
 
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:55:36 -0700, Ace-high
wrote:

This looks suspiciously like a reworked, renamed version of the
terrible crappy Magellan GSC-100 - same ORBCOMM low earth orbit
satellites, same VHS frequency. Any ideas on the connection?

VHS freq get absorbed in heavy rain, like TV, don't they?


Favorable comments in this month's Latitude 38 and also from the local
shop that sells both it and competitive products like Pactors.



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