[amsat-bb] Re: Geostationary Satellites

11 Oct 2011

      There is also the issue that the commercial operator wants the Earth facing 
side of the satellite for their antennas. It is hard to find room for 
amateur band antennas. We ran into this problem while trying to get NASA 
payloads a ride on commercial satellites.
John  WA4WDL
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From: "Alan P. Biddle" APBIDDLE@UNITED.NET
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 5:50 PM
To: "AMSAT-BB" amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Geostationary Satellites
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Don,
Cost, which is enough to drop any other issues to noise level.  That is 
the
High Rent District, and given how much the commercial users pay, they 
would
not want to have an "amateur" satellite wandering around.  More 
practically,
it would be nice to have a package on a commercial satellite.  They 
provide
the power, pointing, and control.  We just provide the RF.  Again, cost,
though we have been looking for the right opportunity.
Another drawback is that a geosynch only provides coverage to _about_ a
third of the earth, and it is always the same third.  Birds like AO-13 and
AO-40 covered just about all of it over the space of a few days.  Did I
mention cost?  It is fun to think about having 3 which could be linked for
true global coverage.
Alan
WA4SCA
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From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On
Behalf Of ka9qjg
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 4:23 PM
To: AMSAT-BB@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Geostationary Satellites
Hello Hope Everyone is doing Well, I know people say no such thing as a 
dumb
question So here goes What is the reason We do not have any Type of
geostationary Satellites. Is it because they are for World Wide Use and If
stationary one could Hit it 24/7 and Maybe park there butt on it and Run a
Beam and Amp and take it over
Thanks
73 De Don KA9QJG

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[amsat-bb] Re: Geostationary Satellites

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