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Re: Feasibility of VO-52 and FO-29 crosslink...
- Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Feasibility of VO-52 and FO-29 crosslink...
- From: "Andrew Glasbrenner" <glasbrenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:10:37 -0500
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Agreed.
It has been done however on some of the older sats. In fact several of us
heard AO-7 thumping it's CW beacon in the background of UO-14s uplink before
anyone realized it was back from the dead.
73, Drew KO4MA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Green" <pagreen@gmail.com>
To: "Dave hartzell" <hartzell@gmail.com>
Cc: <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Feasibility of VO-52 and FO-29 crosslink...
> They would have to be close together. The problem is the antenna
> systems on the sats are weak and work poorly to each other. We use
> beams most of the time to hear the sats.
>
> 73 de Pat --- KA9SCF.
> Amsat #35741
>
> On 3/12/06, Dave hartzell <hartzell@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Today I noticed that there is overlap in the transponder allocations
>> of FO-29 and VO-52:
>>
>> 435.240 (up) --> VO-52 --> 145.910 (cross) --> FO-29 --> 435.890 (down)
>>
>> What would be the feasibility of performing a cross-link in this
>> manner? Off the top of my head, I can think of a few problems...
>>
>> * Doppler issues
>> * Antenna alignment and polarization issues
>> * Orbital alignment
>> * Modulation issues: USB vs. LSB vs. CW
>>
>> I think this would be a neat experiment, if possible. Perhaps a
>> trial-run might simply be listening for a spacecraft's beacon via
>> another transponder?
>>
>> Just curious is anyone has attempted this...
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Dave
>> N0TGD
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