I’ve had an idea for a long time as to making the satellites with linear transponders as easy to use as the FM “easy sats “. Consider the following:
As I understand it, the goal is to adjust your transmitter such that your frequency at the satellite is constant.
Our tracking program gives us range to the satellite and its velocity relative to us given our location and the orbital parameters. From this we should have computed Doppler for both transmit and receive.
We also know the frequency at the satellite of the various beacons onboard. From this we can measure the doppler and work the other direction
If we transmit a subaudable tone of known frequency we should be able to adjust the rx automatically by tracking the tone. (Acssb)
Given these multiple ways of setting our tx/rx frequencies for our location can this not simply be automated to such a degree as to simply specify an offset from the beacon and operate as if it were a regular predictable opening on hf?
Af6ep
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