In a message to Wayne Sarosi  Paul Williams wrote:
 PW>  Whoops, one "HAM" to many in the copier.  Sorry 'bout that.
 PW> OTOH, I wonder what would be needed for reliable sattilite comm on
 PW> 40 or 80M. 
No problem. We just keep it mostly technical here. Sometimes things 
pop up that are not even ham related. Sometimes it's political but
everyone here is pretty easy going and the short list of rules are 
pretty simple.
As far as 40/80m sat-ops, you can already guess the ground based 
antennas and their size. As far as a satellite, I couldn't really
say. I would imagine it would be fairly large in the antenna aspect.
I would venture to say that getting by the layers would be better 
at night but I haven't looked into such comm. I guess it were 
reliable it would be in constant use already.
-WS
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