10 Sep
2006
10 Sep
'06
5:40 p.m.
If two sats like Hamsat (or Echo) were in orbit at the same
time and
could see each other ...
Could User#1 uplink to Sat-A and then Sat-A would link to
Sat-B
Its rather easy to evaluate that situation. Look at what it takes for a user uplink and downlink station just to hit the satellite. Now imagine that you are asking for all that power and gain antennas to be added to one satelite just so now this one satellite can work another satellite. As you can see, it is pretty much impractical.
Bob, WB4APR