[Ground-station] Thursday Office Hours - Time/Date/Agenda - call for additional items

[Michelle Thompson]

Live in ~10 minutes. If you have a time constraint, then let me know and
we'll get your questions answered first.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81947921005?pwd=MzNreG1OdDB2QWtkNnBGNUR4MExBdz09

-Michelle W5NYV




On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 9:33 AM Michelle Thompson <
mountain.michelle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings all! Happy New Year!
>
> This week's office hours will be
> Thursday 7 January
> 1800 UTC
> 10am US Pacific
>
> Will send a video conference link on Thursday. We had some issues with
> Zoom with the FPGA meetup, so we may use GSuite instead.
>
> We have some good news and some Agenda Items.
>
> 1) The Default Digital Downlink in the architecture paper (
> https://github.com/phase4ground/documents/blob/master/Papers_Articles_Presentations/Papers/20200902-AREx-System-Architecture.pdf)
> provides IQ samples that provide content when no user communications are
> taking place. These signals, which provide a variety of combinations of
> modulation and coding, can be used to test receivers.
>
> Beacons are highly useful for a variety of reasons. What kind of beacon
> hardware and software can we do that implements the Default Digital
> Downlink for terrestrial deployment "as soon as practicable"?
>
> Several sites are available and enthusiastic for DVB-S2/X broadband
> beacons.
>
> We need to write down the details and identify the hardware, software, and
> HDL involved.
>
> This is a productization of the March Transmitter goal.
>
> 2) 10/24 GHz dual band feed lab test plan, results, and next steps.
>
> 3) Link Budget updates! There's some big steps forward here that we should
> be able to talk more about on Thursday.
>
> 4) Ask Questions! All are welcome.
>
> 5) Taxes! This year we have to fill out the full 990 form. They're due for
> us in May 2021.
>
> 6) Additional items? Please let me know of them! :+)
>
> -Michelle W5NYV
>
>
>
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