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This article also at https://openresearch.institute/2019/09/28/open-research-institute-phase-4-sp...
Direct link to proposal at https://openresearch.institute/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Rent-a-GE...
Here is our grant proposal for Rent-a-GEO. The intended audience for this proposal is organizations such as ARDC, ARRL, and FEMA.
This project provides a way for amateur radio operators to communicate through a geosynchronous satellite over the continental US, parts of Canada, and parts of Mexico.
There are two main purposes served by this communications project. First is enhanced emergency communications support from amateur radio. Second is research and development of open source hardware that implements advanced digital communications functions.
Functions include field-configurable polyphase filterbank channelizers, queueing and multiplexing functions, digital signal processing, open source implementations of current communications protocols, and geosynchronous satellite communications best practices.
Comment and critique welcome and encouraged!
Trying hard to pull this together as quickly as possible since EchoStar 9 ain't getting any younger.
-Michelle W5NYV