[amsat-bb] Re: S band downlink on P3E

[SV1BSX]

 Hello all,

 I agree also. In addition, don't forget a great benefit of S-band downlink:

the antenna is just a TVRO dish + a patch (or small helix), with great
efficiency!
I remember the good old days of AO-40, it was possible to access the
Satellite
just by using  a small 10 el. Yagi for Uplink and a small Dish for
downlink.
 The "monster" VHF-UHF crossed Yagi antennas for  AO-10 & 13  always was a
reason to discourage me from these birds.
In contrast, the simplicity of AO-40-gear was very attractive for me and I
believe for many other Hams. No Crossed-Yagis, no LNAs, no Coaxial relays
etc... Just a Dish, a feeder, a Downconverter and several meters of cheap
coaxial cable up to the shack!

 I think is wrong to exclude this band from Eagle even the WiFi is
grow-up... in any case we have already the S-band equipments and I don't
remember an easier way to receive a Satellite.

73, Mak SV1BSX


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Glasbrenner" <glasbrenner at mindspring.com>
To: "Rick Fletcher" <rfletcher at plumdragon.com>; "'AMSAT'"
<amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:38 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: S band downlink on P3E


> Rick,
>
> I am in _TOTAL_ agreement. I live in the suburbs of Tampa/St. Pete and
never
> had an interference problem on my 3 foot dish. I have used the same dish
to
> log well over a dozen WiFi access points in that immediate neighborhood.
> With properly designed equipment, all that trash on 2.4 ghz goes away with
> some elevation. What won't work is helixes with multiple sidelobes, and
> surplus dishes that let one whole polarity of noise right thru the back.
>
> Everyone knows I'm a big supporter of AMSAT, but I gotta call it as I see
> it. It makes me think of "bait and switch" to collect money for a project
> featuring such a popular mode and then drop it.
>
> The loss of Mode B on AO-40 caused a lot of the hardcore AO-10/AO-13 types
> to walk away, and that was tough to overcome. Now that we have, and we
have
> people wanting S band, we leave them behind too. Even if it's a sound
> engineering decision (and that hasn't been proven to me) it's a horrid
> marketing decision. Bad mojo for a organization that lives on the
donations
> of it's members.
>
> Sorry if this causes any pain to those involved with Eagle, but I needed
to
> get it off my chest.
>
> 73, Drew KO4MA
> AMSAT LM 2332
>
>
> >While AO-40 was still alive and I was working it from deep within
"Silicon
> >Valley", an area blanketed by WiFi, 2.4GHz cordless phones, etc., I
> >discovered that a parabolic dish with a properly positioned and designed
> >patch feed (slightly under-illuminating the dish and having no
significant
> >side-lobes) would bring in AO-40's S-band downlink very nicely and
cleanly.
>
> >Of course, other feed or antenna types such as helical antennas/feeds
were
> >useless in that environment.
>
> >I have to admit that I don't buy the "too noisy" argument.
>
> >73,
>
> >Rick
> >KG6IAL
>
>
>
>
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