Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't 900 MHz only allocated for terrestrial use, worldwide? I know that there's no amateur satellite service allocation at 902 MHz...
George, KA3HSW
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From: JoAnne Maenpaa k9jkm@comcast.net To: Bill Ress bill@hsmicrowave.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Mon, October 10, 2011 9:29:21 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: KickSat - a personal spacecraft of your own in space
Will each Sprite have it's own frequency?
Since these Sprites are operating in the Amateur satellite bands, how will you license them? How will you handle the frequency coordination of these transmitters?
The information that Zac and his team provided to AMSAT News Service in May, 2011 reported that the Sprite prototypes that were deployed on the ISS operated with 10 milliwatts of RF power at 902 MHz using MSK modulation (minimum-shift keying) with a chipping rate of 50 kbps.
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