[Ground-station] Please vote - Ambasat sensor

[Leffke, Zachary]

Carrier/Beacon at 10G? atmega328 to handle CW IDing every so often?  Obviously less operational ground stations, but might encourage the construction of 10G ground stations (Ku PLL LNB, bias-t, FCDPP or RTLSDR), which fuels the five/dime drive.  Baby steps toward 10G amateur satellite spectrum use?  Doppler at 10G from LEO should be fun.  Antenna would be compact, maybe a patch on one side of a 4-layer board and components on the other....room for the solar cells?

This looks like the big brother of the Kicksats.....hardest part looks like power from the solar cells....2.2V @ 80mA according to their website.  They do specifically say in their FAQs that you can't add another radio.....but sounds like they could be convinced.

Good stuff.  I'd be interested in ANY beacon on ANY band, Doppler is fun.  

-Zach, KJ4QLP

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ground-Station <ground-station-bounces at lists.openresearch.institute> On Behalf Of Jim Tittsler via Ground-Station
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2019 4:54 AM
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Subject: Re: [Ground-station] Please vote - Ambasat sensor

On 2019-09-29 3:52 a.m., Douglas Quagliana via Ground-Station wrote:
> The idea was to have a very simple crystal oscillator (perhaps a very
> small milliwatt class amplifier) and an antenna
> such that the oscillator's signal (with Doppler) can be detected on
> the ground.  No data, just a carrier that a
> ground station with a simple antenna and perhaps a FunCube or RTLSDR
> dongle can detect.

Or perhaps two phase locked beacons on 144 & 430 so that differences in
Doppler might be detected?  That was an ionospheric/environmental
experiment implemented in (the yet to fly) KiwiSAT.
  http://kiwisat.org.nz/beacon.html

Jim 7J1AJH / ZL2IA