[amsat-bb] AO-91 and circular polarization?

Jerry Buxton n0jy at amsat.org
Wed Mar 14 02:45:44 UTC 2018


That is correct.  In fact, the L band receive antenna is the same UHF
antenna that the U/v receiver uses.

Jerry Buxton, NØJY

On 3/12/2018 06:01, Todd W Deckard wrote:
> Greetings Jerry,
>
> thank you for this (yes I meant AO-92).
>
> If I understand, you are saying the the satellite uses a conventional linear antenna.  
>
> However AO-92 is easy enough to access that a 3db loss from the polarity mismatch b/t linear and circular is not significant.
>
> Correct?
> Todd



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