Hello,
On 12/11/10, Bob Bruninga bruninga@usna.edu wrote:
Is 137 KHz possible from space?
Our next Cubesat will have a 1100 meter long antenna (think tether satellite). It will ultimatelly be an electrodynamic tether but the first one will have NO ACTIVE ELECTRONICS connected to the tether.
So I have asked them to make it 1100m long instead of a generic 1km tether to try to make it resonant in an amateur band. THe path loss at 137 KHz is 60 dB LESS than it is at 2 meters, so it shouldn't take much to communicate with an 1100m long antenna.
I'm sorry I didnt think of this sooner, but I need a real SCIENCE justification for this. Maybe LF that low will never punch through the ionosphere, or maybe it will be completely absorbed. Can give good science on this idea?
I think the general opinion is LF will never punch through the ionosphere, but this might only proved with a beacon orbiting and ground stations listening.
73 Frank IZ8DWF