Hmm...it certainly would under certain circumstances raise the noise floor for a space RX...but a lot would depend on the analysis given the spacecrafts orbit RX antenna, etc. I can see times when the affect would not be that bad. I assume that the PRC vehicles will have some sort of "beam shaping"...

Robert WB5MZO life member AMSAT ARRL

Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:54:17 -0500 From: rwmcgwier@gmail.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Chinese GPS system

Mode L anyone?

We will lose that entire region as an uplink in an upcoming WARC would be my current estimate.

On 1/18/2010 4:02 AM, Trevor . wrote:

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China launched the navigational satellite BeiDou-2 a couple of days ago. The system is reported to use 1256.52-1280.52 MHz

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2010/china_launches_beidou2.htm

73 Trevor M5AKA

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