<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 1 May 2015, at 21:54, kf4hcw wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-05-01 16:51, Richard Barth
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<blockquote cite="mid:20150501205156.A671D27AAB@atanasoff.rf.org" type="cite"><font size="3">beaming all those megawatts down to
earth would necessarily spew RF noise
over a large area. </font></blockquote>
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... not to mention the unreasonable costs associated with getting
such a station in orbit and maintaining it which make the idea
financially non-viable at the moment.<br>
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_M<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Not necessarily for the Chinese. Remember, they have all the money and all the resources at the moment. And you only have to have a leader who says the magic words, "... before this decade is out ...".</div><div><br></div><div>Phil M1GWZ</div><div><br></div></body></html>