RE: [amsat-bb] OSCAR-E question

["Rick Hambly \(W2GPS\)" <w2gps@xxxxxxxxxx>]

William,

AMSAT OSCAR-E will be in Low Earth Orbit, not GTO. You may be confusing
AO-E with "Eagle". "Eagle" is a different High Earth Orbit satellite
that is also being designed by AMSAT-NA. 

There is one slide on "Eagle" in the PowerPoint presentations. Its
design is far from complete and your questions about its performance
will be addressed soon, I hope. 

AO-E has no "HF output".  In its base configuration it has two UHF FM
transmitters that each can be set to power levels between 1 and 12
watts. AO-E may also have an S-Band transmitter on board if all goes
well.

While the AO-E satellite does have digital capabilities, it is at least
50% devoted to voice operations.

Rick
W2GPS

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org [mailto:owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org] On
Behalf Of William Leijenaar
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 5:18 AM
To: amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
Subject: [amsat-bb] OSCAR-E question


Hi AMSATs,

I just downloaded the OSCAR-E powerpoint presentations at AMSAT-BB. It
looks all very interresting (only to much digital for me) but I was 
wondering how it ever can be recieved on earth.

I could not find the HF output power of the satellite (maybe I
overlooked 
it) but I guess it will be abt 10W PEP. I think it will be very hard to
hear 
the satellite in an GTO orbit, at apogeum with these omni-antennas.

We all know the good old Ao10 with 50W PEP and high gain antenna. SSB
works good, but you ver tried FM ? How you think to do that with 
OSCAR-E, with lower power and lower-gain antennas, and more wide-band 
digital modulations ?

I was also wondering if it will not have overheating problems. In an GTO
it 
can be long times into sunlight. I don't know if this can give problems.
And 
what about more radiation problems ?

73 de PE1RAH, William
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