[amsat-bb] Rent-a-GEO update! Draft grant proposal

[Michelle Thompson]

Greetings all!

This article also at
https://openresearch.institute/2019/09/28/open-research-institute-phase-4-space-rent-a-geo/

Direct link to proposal at
https://openresearch.institute/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Rent-a-GEO-Phase-4-Space.pdf

Here is our grant proposal for Rent-a-GEO. The intended audience for this
proposal is organizations  such as ARDC, ARRL, and FEMA.

This project provides a way for amateur radio operators to communicate
through a geosynchronous satellite over the continental US, parts of
Canada, and parts of Mexico.

There are two main purposes served by this communications project. First is
enhanced emergency communications support from amateur radio. Second is
research and development of open source hardware that implements advanced
digital communications functions.

Functions include field-configurable polyphase filterbank channelizers,
queueing and multiplexing functions, digital signal processing, open source
implementations of current communications protocols, and geosynchronous
satellite communications best practices.

Comment and critique welcome and encouraged!

Trying hard to pull this together as quickly as possible since EchoStar 9
ain't getting any younger.

-Michelle W5NYV