[Ground-station] Balloon Launch - experiments?

[Michelle Thompson]

I'm heading over to Kerry's now and will ask him.

-Michelle W5NYV

"Potestatem obscuri lateris nescis."


On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Phil Karn <karn at ka9q.net> wrote:

> On 4/23/18 10:17, Michelle Thompson wrote:
> > Five and Dime is where we're at.
> >
> > 5GHz up and 10GHz down. We have aspirations to move up, but our bread
> > and butter is 5 and 10.
>
> Then a surplus Omnitracs taco-shell antenna should do the trick for 10
> GHz transmit (they're designed for Ku-band). We could avoid the need for
> a directional receive antenna at 5 GHz by simply turning up the wick on
> the ground (and using a directional antenna).
>
> The antenna itself is metallized molded plastic. We'd have to extract
> the motor and drive from a fairly heavy cast metal chassis. I haven't
> looked at one of these things in a long time but I'm sure Kerry Banke
> has a good stock of them.
>
> Phil
>
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