[amsat-bb] Re: S band and Eagle: an appeal for a higher leveldiscussion

Mode B suffers from a worse problem than the S-band noise: physics. The Mode B receive antennas need to be phyiscally large, and putting up large antennas is becomming a problem more rapidly than overcoming noise on 2.4.

Lets preserve 2m downlinks for OMNI directional downlinks to Mobiles and handhelds where the 19" mobile whip OMNI has a 9 dB advantage over 70cm and a 24 dB advantage over 2.4 GHz.

We can easily close the link to mobiles and handhelds with Omni antennas with 2 meter downlinks from space. I hope we Continue to develop this mobile satellite capability. PCSAT and ARISS packet system demonstrate this easily.

De WB4APR, Bob