Just to clarify, #3 is mostly a mailing list archive for the cms-list. And yes, it's not primarily a slashdot crowd on the list, but it does have hundreds of users--both business people and devlopers who implement cms.

If you're interested, or if there are folks in your company who want to know more about content management, please send them our way. The cms-list at cms.filsa.net tries to be a user-oriented support group for cms issues.

Another resource: Brendan Quinn's CMS directory. Brendan is on the cms-list and has done a good job of collecting links to cms sites and products.

Phil Suh cms-list mom

I know quite a few hams with access to this equipment. It's fairly easy to put together a satellite station, including dsp for demodulating various encoding methods. Hacking wireless data streams has been going on for the last 20 years, it just isn't as mainstream as say, hacking AOL. There is readily available code on the net for decoding all kinds of data streams, and as for LEO's moving... yeah, they move. Thats what az-el rotators are for. Again, you can buy one for under $1000, or build one out of a couple of cheap TV rotators. Hook that up to a controller, fire up your favourite tracking package and away you go. The element sets for most non-military satellites are readily available.

Simple satellites such as the NOAA apt satellites are easy to receive and demodulate, and Monitoring Times had a nice article on decoding (by hand) Russian satellite telemetry.

It isn't a matter of anything but time, and a desire to do it for the sake of doing it. My advice? Use encryption. Strong encryption.

Keplerian Elements for most satellites, links for tracking packages, and telemtry decoding packages are available at celestrak, as well as many other places:

http://www.celestrak.com