Re: [Starlink] "Interesting set of developments with Starlink. Musk says they will support "international aid orgs" in Gaza, Israel now says they will use "all available means" to stop SpaceX from doing so.

[Ulrich Speidel <u.speidel@auckland.ac.nz>]

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The main problem as it stands with Gaza would be to get Starlink 
equipment in for the international organisations to use. Coverage 
wouldn't be an issue, but power and bandwidth would be.

It's a pretty dire situation. Palestinian friends of ours have had 
extended family killed, the wife's mother is currently visiting here and 
can't go back obviously - plus her apartment got flattened in her 
absence early on. Then our friend's teenage kids from his previous 
marriage got buried under rubble when their mother's place got 
flattened, and that was just up to last week. I really need to ask him 
what's happened since. They came here because they were sick of Hamas.

On the ham radio side, I helped a bit with band watch for MARS (military 
affiliated amateur radio system) during the first Gulf War when the 
local US garrison (Old Ironsides) got sent from Germany to Saudi Arabia. 
A lot of them found out the hard way that if you have a bank account in 
Germany and you're on deployment, your significant other doesn't 
automatically get access to it like apparently they do in the US, and 
the army didn't exactly think that it was their problem, either. Got to 
listen to a lot of that. First world problems compared to Gaza, though.

On 30/10/2023 5:32 pm, Joe Hamelin via Starlink wrote:
> The US did shut down ham radio during WW2.
>
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 9:27 AM Dave Taht via Starlink 
> <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
>     I think that the internet should stay up, connecting people to people,
>     through all the conflicts we may ever have. The mails kept running -
>     although censored - all through world war two - the red cross, allowed
>     by all sides, to keep it's relief missions running, the churches
>     (mostly) doing their job to console the weary...
>
>     Many other orgs, like the ITU, and the IETF, are committed to the
>     continued free exchange of information, no matter what.
>
>     https://www.itu.int/en/about/Pages/default.aspx
>     <https://www.itu.int/en/about/Pages/default.aspx>
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>     I am happy to see a worldwide ISP committed to the same principles.
>
>     On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 9:07 AM the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via
>     Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>     >
>     > ➔➔https://twitter.com/dburbach/status/1718638348812595660
>     <https://twitter.com/dburbach/status/1718638348812595660>
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>     > Geoff.Goodfellow@iconia.com
>     > living as The Truth is True
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