Thanks for the reply - I did not use AO-40 even once, unfortunately, due to being too busy, but I did use AO-13 / AO-10.
OK, that isn't too bad if 10 minute adjustments will be required.
For me, I suppose the biggest problem will be all the trees I have around the yard blocking lower horizon viewing. I have my QO-100 dish carefully aligned between a few.
Br, Joe.
I was recently thinking about the Lunart project and using it in practice.
And, I was thinking how on QO-100 I manually adjust my portable dish to use this satellite. I have my dish on a nice heavy-duty tripod and with general knowledge of the correct direction, I can pinpoint the satellite satellite in about 30 seconds give or take with my laptop/sdr handy - quite easy to do.
This all works fine for QO-100 which is stationary.
However, as I think about the moon continually moving, it becomes very obvious that on the proposed 10G downlink, we will all need a pretty stable and accurate tracking system to use the 10G downlink - I suspect this is going to very difficult to be accurately accomplished by most amateurs - what do you think ?
At least with 2.4GHz uplink on QO-100, you can still be off a bit and have a good uplink signal.
Will it be more practical to use a 2m or 70cm downlink ? Though these are the secondary possible signal links.
Any thoughts folks ?
Br, Joseph, OG7D.
Peter, in your picture - what are the little white things all over the dish? Are they some actuators that can bend the dish to affect the transmission pattern ?
Thanks - I was thinking the configuration etc. might be something the companies want to keep quiet per industry secrets.
I got a pasternack, pasternack.com US brand, from amska.se
Does anyone have a publicly available photo of the satellite ?
I'd like to put the photo on my QSL cards.
Br, Joe, OH/AD7D.
Great launch yesterday!
But, as I was thinking about the satellite being in transfer orbit now, I wondered what organization is performing the actual adjustments of the satellite propulsion to get it into final position?
Anyone know?
Br, Joe, OH/AD7D.
