Maybe. Ever heard of Moonbounce (eme)?

I have a 16-foot dish (4.9m) which can make 5w very loud on 5-GHz! Compared to a 3-foot dish it is 20Log(16/3) = 14.5 dB more gain (28 times as much signal strength).

It moves slow so would not track a LEO at all and only track HEO at the highest part of the orbit where angular rates are slow. It tracks the Moon very nice. I use in on 1296-eme with 125w.

5-GHz eme typically have 50w or more power. Most run TWT's. Some have hundreds of watts!

73, Ed - KL7UW

Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 16:22:13 -0500 From: Paul Stoetzer n8hm@arrl.net To: KA9QJG KA9QJG@comcast.net Cc: Joe nss@mwt.net, "amsat-bb@amsat.org" AMSAT-BB@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Link Budget Message-ID: CABzOSOoLpP05UzjiE2fHkZ-7pwbH2+eBmcOJJYzc7EB78Da1VA@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

The good thing is that high power at 5 GHz is expensive, so I doubt anyone will be running too much more than they have to on P4B!

73,

Paul, N8HM

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