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SWATCH : There are people who would happily jam amatuer sattelites. You aregiving them ideas.Although it's not the best thing a commercial enterprise could doit is providing publicity for amateur radio.Unfortunatly the amateurs posting on the Swatch website are not thebest publicity.-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your OwnI thought that project was cancelled- read it at wired.com in thelast two weeks I am sure. Swatch gave the batteries for the satelliteto Russia for Mir as a PR thing.--ErikFrom -----3:00 a.m. 17.Apr.99.PDTSwatch has abandoned controversial plans to beam marketing messages fromspace. The company claims that it's because the satellite's batteries weredonated to the MIR space station. As previously reported, Swatch wasintending to broadcast a series of advertisements from an amateur radiosatellite launched from the Russian MIR space station.Swatch called the battery-operated mini-Sputnik-99 satellite "Beatnik," aplay on Sputnik and beat, the unit of Swatch's proposed Internet Timestandard.
SWATCH : Swatch hoped to use the Beatnik satellite to beam down a series of messagescontaining the word "beat" via an amateur radio channel designated ascommercial-free by an international treaty.But the proposal outraged ham radio operators, the only ones in a positionto pick up the broadcasts. A boycott was arranged and Swatch was bombardedwith protests.According to a full-page advertisement in newspapers Friday, the project hasbeen cancelled because the Swiss watchmaker donated the satellite'sbatteries to the crew of MIR to help run a critical communications uplink.The ad, which ran in Friday's New York Times and Los Angeles Times, purportsto be from the Russian Space Agency thanking Swatch for the batteries.The ad says that a key communications link with MIR was severely damaged afew days ago, making it difficult to communicate with the space station.
SWATCH : But Swatch stepped in and donated batteries from the satellite to support analternative communication's uplink that will be used to deliver dailyinstructions to the station's cosmonauts."To thank Swatch for this gesture, we have decided to publish the messagesthat had been recorded ... and that we are now not able to transmit on theradio waves," the ad says.The ad lists some of the messages originally scheduled to be beamed fromspace.In a press release sent out Friday morning, the Swatch boycott organizersclaimed responsibility for making the company back down."I think the response from the amateur radio community had to have made adifference," said Rob Carlson, a radio ham who organized the boycott.Carlson said that there was some doubt about the truth of Swatch's claims.He also said it is questionable whether the batteries were Swatch's to
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