Date   : Tue, 31 Aug 2004 08:23:52 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Astrid satellite receiver

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 00:21, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> I had a magazine reprint and possibly some other info about it.  I'm
> sure that had information about antennae.  I'll have a look.

ta!

>   AFAIK,
> though, it won't do anthing as-is; I tracked down the designers about
> the time I moved to York (1991) and they told me the satellite it was
> desinged for was no longer active.  I was really disappointed because
> it was one of those gadgets I'd always wanted.

Well some info I dug up on the web implied that it was designed to work
with both UoSAT1 and UoSAT2 - UoSAT1 died after only a couple of years
by the sounds of it due to the batteries used, but UoSAT2 was still
going in 2002 according to a Usenet post I found.

There's a switch on the front labelled data 1 and data 2 - maybe that's
to flick between the different satellites (or something else entirely
:-)

cheers,

Jules