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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 04:30:24 PDT
From: Ham-Equip Mailing List and Newsgroup <ham-equip@ucsd.edu>
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Subject: Ham-Equip Digest V94 #190
To: Ham-Equip
Ham-Equip Digest Thu, 16 Jun 94 Volume 94 : Issue 190
Today's Topics:
Mc Daniel Report 3/5
Mc Daniel Report 4/5
Mc Daniel Report 5/5
Railroad track as an antenna?
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Date: 12 Jun 94 22:09:30 +1000
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!jabaru.pronet.com!csource!unique!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Mc Daniel Report 3/5
To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu
>>> Continued from last message Part 3 of 5
NASA'S POSSIBLE MOTIVATION
In 1960, a report titled "Proposed studies on the implications
of peaceful space activities for human affairs" was delivered to
the chairman of NASA's Committee on Long-Range Studies. The
report was prepared under contract to NASA by the Brookings
Institute, Washington, DC. The report outlines the need to
investigate the possible social consequences of an
extraterrestrial discovery and to consider whether a discovery
should be "kept from the public" in order to avoid political
change and a possible "devastating" effect on scientists
themselves - due to the discovery that many of their own
cherished theories could be at risk.
The concept of withholding information on a possible
extraterrestrial discovery conflicts with an understood NASA
policy to the effect that information on a verified discovery of
extraterrestrial intelligence should be shared promptly with all
humanity. A report on the cultural aspects of the search for
extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is presently being prepared
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Date: 12 Jun 94 22:09:31 +1000
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!jabaru.pronet.com!csource!unique!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Mc Daniel Report 4/5
To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu
>>> Continued from last message Part 4 of 5
RECOMENDATIONS
Given the importance of the subject and the urgent need to take
action, I have put forward the following recommendations. These
recommendations apply to the Mars Observer mission in the event
the spacecraft is recovered, and to any future missions,
including a mission specifically to replace the Mars Observer.
* Assuming Mars Observer is not recovered, NASA will select a
spacecraft carrying instrumentation capable of achieving
high-resolution imaging of the Martian surface at least superior
to that of the Viking missions of 1976, and having the highest
degree of camera flexibility possible, including pointing
capability.
* NASA and any private contractor who may be involved in
imaging, by agreement, will assign a level of priority to the
suspect landforms that will ensure the obtaining of
high-resolution photographs of these landforms, using all means
at their disposal, subject only to uncertainties beyond their
control. This priority level will be entered into the imaging
Target Data Base and taken into consideration in mission
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Date: 12 Jun 94 22:09:33 +1000
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!jabaru.pronet.com!csource!unique!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Mc Daniel Report 5/5
To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu
>>> Continued from last message Part 5 of 5
FOOTNOTES
(1) Among them: Dr Robert M. Schoch, Associate Professor of
Science and Mathematics (Geology), Boston University; Dr Horace
Crater, Professor of Physics, University of Tennessee Space
Institute; Dr David Webb, Professor of Space Education, Research
and Technology at Embry-Riddle University, Daytona Beach,
Florida; Dr Thomas Van Flandern, former Head, Celestial Mechanics
Branch, US Naval Observatory; James Berkland, former Assistant
Professor of Geology, Appalachian State University; and L.J.
Angstrom, the great grandson of the famous physicist A.J.
Angstrom and Director of the prestigious Angstrom Foundation in
Stockholm, Sweden.
(2) Although the official decision that the craft was "lost" came
on Saturday evening, 21st August, announcement of the loss was
delayed until the morning of 22nd August.
(3) Reference 15, pages 489-90.
(4) Reference 15, page 523.
(5) Ibid, page 499.
(6) Information as of 22nd September 1993.
(7) 164 feet. The proper description is "50 metres/pixel" where a
pixel is the smallest bit if digital information in an image.
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Date: 16 Jun 94 06:56:27 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!spartan.ac.BrockU.CA!s9898198@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
Subject: Railroad track as an antenna?
To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu
I have heard a legend that a college radio station (either at MIT, Tufts,
or Swarthmore) welded antenna to railroad tracks, and peeved the FCC by
broadcasting nationwide. Is this true? If anyone knows, please email me
(or post here) If you do know, could you please direct me to some
documentation regarding this legend if you can.
This is very important! Thanks in advance.
______________________________________________________________________________
James R. Storm |
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