[amsat-bb] Re: Wind Turbine Interference?

[Trevor <m5aka@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The BBC document is still on their website but it's moved to this URL: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/info/pdf/buildings_factsheet.pdf  

73 Trevor M5AKA

--- Trevor <m5aka@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> --- Dave Guimont <dguimon1@san.rr.com> wrote:
> > That is some pretty good stuff for higher powered xmitters...But I 
> > doubt there is any instrument sensitive enuff to measure the 
> > reflection potential from any satellite we will ever launch, and the 
> > "shadow" that it would cause on a LEO is in less than a 
> > second...HEO's may take a little longer....
> 
> It'll all depend on proximity of the receiving station to the turbine. 
> 
> The Wind Turbines on the Orkneys killed TV reception for the local
> inhabitants,
> hence the need to resite the TV transmitters. If high power TV transmitters
> can't get through them will weak signals from Amateur satellites fare any
> better ?
> 
> Agreed for a LEO the affect may be shortlived but I'd say it would be more
> than
> just a second. 
> 
> 73 Trevor M5AKA
> 
> 
> 
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