[amsat-bb] Re: 2.4GHz broadband router on satellite?

[Andrew Glasbrenner]

One of the recent 3u DOD sponsored cubes has a S dish for tracking wifi type tags on containers. I'm not sure how much lick they had with that.

73, Drew KO4MA

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On Feb 21, 2013, at 7:58 PM, Lee Maisel <maisel at lobo.net> wrote:

> James French wrote:
>> What are the possibilities of building a satellite that uses a Linksys
>> WRT54GL router with a modified DD-wrt or HSMM-Mesh software as a store
>> and forward BBS, to route a received request from one station to another
>> station, or even to connect to a on board networked camera to receive
>> images?
>> 
>> What kind of uplink power would be needed from the home station?
>> 
>> How fast could the speed(s) get theoretically?
>> 
>> How big would the antenna have to be on the craft and for the ground
>> station to even be able to do this adequately?
>> 
>> Would the doppler be too much to even consider this?
>> 
>> Would the space environment be too harsh for something like this?
>> 
>> This is just something I was thinking about this morning and thought I
>> would toss it out.
>> 
>> James W8ISS
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
> THAT is an AWESOME Idea!
> 
> I don't see why it wouldn't work, I don't know if doppler is an issue though, it may not be if the modulation is FM.
> The antenna would not have to be big, it's 2.4Ghz
> 
> 
> Why don't you post this on the HSMM-MESH.org web forums and get ideas?
> 
> 73
> Lee
> W5LMM
> 
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