[amsat-bb] AO-40 and P3E crosslinking

[Keith N6ORS <k2@xxxxxx>]

>Seems to me that it was done on AO-10 and AO-13 or am I mistaken. Perhaps
>some other bird.

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Andrew Glasbrenner" <glasbrenner@mindspring.com>
>To: "amsat-bb" <amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
>Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 10:27 PM
>Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-40 and P3E crosslinking


> I had an idea today, most likely not original though. When P3E gets to
> orbit, could we have say a 25khz window on each satellite, where all of
that
> section of passband on P3E gets received at a groundstation and sent
across
> the internet to another groundstation to uplink to AO-40, and vice versa?
> There would be some technical and operational challenges, but wow! think
of
> the possibilities! At the right time you could conceivably have nearly
> worldwide comms! And I'm guessing this was never done with AO-10 and
> AO-13...maybe there is something new under the sun.
>
> 73, Drew KO4MA

Cross linking of satellites has been done many many times,  the first
intentional
cross linking being AO-6 to AO-7  But it has happened many times
Unintentionally
satellite to satellite without operator intervention.  
Drew's Suggestion is the first time i believe for High orbit satellites
and also
original for its suggestion of using a band segment and ground stations.

Keith N6ORS
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