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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