Since we are on the topic of a GEO sat. Am I the only one the questions the point of a GEO bird from a ham radio perspective? No doppler, no propagation, no antenna pointing, just set up your station and have comms with anyone in the footprint. To me it feels like the internet at that point. I see how this could be a great thing for emergency communications, but not so much for amateur ‘sport’.

 

I am curious if they would accept this for amateur radio awards like DXCC and VUCC?

 

Just my thoughts, 73,

Joe kk0sd

 

From: David G0MRF via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2022 2:09 PM
To: zmetzing@pobox.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [AMSAT-BB] Re: Fixing the FM Stompfest

 

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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