glenne@hpsrla.HP.COM (Glenn Elmore) (01/28/88)
Andie, Sorry I can't be of any help with BBS SW but I have used an Atari to receive satellite information. However, I'm not sure what kind of satellite or information you were particularly referring to. I used an old 8 bit to extract telemetry data from the AO-10 amateur radio satellite, although most of the data stream conversion (Manchester code etc) was done in dedicated hardware. There have been some articles (and maybe some net activity) about copying weather satellite and WEFAX on home computers with reasonable graphics. To the best of my knowledge, most of the commercial C band satellites are heavily encrypted, DES, spread spectrum and so forth and I am pretty certain illegal (and probably fruitless) to try and decode. There really is a lot of stuff radiating back towards earth! Hope this helps. Glenn Elmore -N6GN- -Someday I'll get my very own signature line-