[amsat-bb] Is This AMSAT's Future?

[Joe Leikhim]

Why not? QO-100 is a success. The antennas for up link and downlink for such a station are easily made or procured. The LNB a simple decades old modification. The stations would be friendly to HOA and apartment dwellers alike. I dont see the objection.

"These new projects - seems like they are “marketed” towards a very small segment os satellite operators.

Is there truly a worthwhile “return on investment" when a ground station might have to include …

  “ … radio system is a 10 GHz downlink that will support 1 Mbps.
You'll need a 10 GHz antenna that can be steered to track a LEO
satellite and probably a low-noise block downconverter (LNB)
feeding an SDR.  I think similar receivers are used for QO-100,
so a Google search may yield some designs that are currently
working, although QO-100 is nearly stationary … “

Feels like a very few hams will partake … Exciting, indeed. But surely
not geared to the masses …

Clint Bradford K6LCS"

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Joe Leikhim


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