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

[Robert Bankston]

I started working on a linked, peer-to-peer, voice communications network for amateur satellite service, called amsalLink.  Unfortunately, the closure of the AMSAT office due to COVID-19 has doubled my volunteer workload and forced me to put the project on hold..
  
 There are throughput limitations in satellite links for data communication. TCP senders cannot exceed the rate at which the receiver can acknowledge receipt of packets, where satellite latency effectively caps standard TCP throughput per session. TCP Spoofing, which imitates a terrestrial TCP session by sending false TCP packet acknowledgements, is one possible solution. Since my focus was to develop a voice chat, I have chosen to use UDP to overcome acknowledgement limitations.
  
My amsatLink project is described in the March/April 2020 issue of The AMSAT Journal and https://ke4al.github.io/amsatLink/
  
Robert, KE4AL


On Thursday, July 23, 2020, 05:16:36 PM CDT, Greg D via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote: 


Besides Doppler shift, which would definitely be a problem, there's also
the WiFi protocol itself.  It's designed for short range communication,
and some of the low level protocol timers need to be adjusted for
working in WAN applications such as AREDN.  I suspect that getting them
to work over orbital distances might be an ack retry too far.

Greg  KO6TH


Stephen DeVience via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> It's interesting that there are amateur satellite allocations in the 2.4
> GHz and 5 GHz ranges as well. A number of groups are doing ham internet on
> those frequencies using modified routers. This might be an option for some
> kind of digital satellite, although dealing with doppler could be a
> problem. I can envision an amateur version of Starlink.
>
> -Stephen, N8URE
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