[amsat-bb] HF Satellite Transponder

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Mode A for me WB4LHD 


Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S® 6.-------- Original message --------From: Paul Stoetzer <n8hm at arrl.net> Date: 5/26/2016  1:35 PM  (GMT-06:00) To: Joe <nss at mwt.net> Cc: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] HF Satellite Transponder 
Yes, the Amateur Satellite Service has allocations in 40m (7.000 - 7.100
only), 20m (14.000 - 14.250 only), 17m, 15m, 12m, and 10m (entire band for
the last four).

73,

Paul, N8HM

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Joe <nss at mwt.net> wrote:

> is sat operations even legal on that band? 12M?
>
> The old Russian 15 & 10 meters were cool,
>
> I'd like to see a good old mode "A" myself. It has to be the easiest (
> except for the FM Channel repeater on a very tall tower equivalent birds)
>
> Extreme simple gear can get you on Mode "A"
>
> Ive done it with a dipole on 10 and a coathanger GP on 2 and the 2
> transmitter was a FM rig with the mic disconnected and a straight key on
> the PTT. it was a little chirpy but hey worked like 30 states with that
> simple thing.
>
> Joe WB9SBD
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> On 5/26/2016 12:45 PM, Robert Bruninga wrote:
>
>> I may have a launch opportunity for an HF=HF transponder for a possible
>> cubesat idea.  Probably something like 12m up and 10m down?
>>
>> Is this worth doing (re-doing) at this point of technology?  Enough
>> bandwidth to support a few voice channels?
>>
>> Any volunteers to build the translator board?
>>
>> How is 24 MHz band used?  The entire SSB portion of the band is only 60
>> kHz, so using say 15 kHz for a linear translator to 10m would be quite a
>> slice.  But then the downlink at 10m would be OK since it does have an
>> exclusive satellite band and so any inadvertent QSO's would be coming down
>> in a non-competing downlink
>>
>> Just some open ended thinking after Dayton.
>>
>> Bob, WB4aPR
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