Probably correct Zach. Also, the commercial operators usually have narrow beamwidth antennas for a single country or group of countries. If I recall the presentations on QO-100, the antennas fitted were 2.4GHz (circular) and 10GHz (linear) horn antennas specifically designed to cover all of the visible part of the planet. 73 David G0MRF
-----Original Message----- From: Zach Metzinger zmetzing@pobox.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 18:46 Subject: [AMSAT-BB] Re: Fixing the FM Stompfest
On 8/8/22 13:37, Ashhar Farhan wrote:
What does it cost to hire a fraction of a transponder? I assume that you can buy/lease fractional bandwidth on a commercial bird. The VSAT industry runs that way, isn't it?
I may be incorrect, but I don't believe the transponders have the passband for our spectrum allocations (as they would be out of band for commercial operations).
--- Zach N0ZGO
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