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

[Michelle Thompson]

Editing and publishing soon. Thank you to participants!

-Michelle W5NYV




On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 9:48 AM Michelle Thompson <
mountain.michelle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Live in ~10 minutes. If you have a time constraint, then let me know and
> we'll get your questions answered first.
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> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81947921005?pwd=MzNreG1OdDB2QWtkNnBGNUR4MExBdz09
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> -Michelle W5NYV
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> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 9:33 AM Michelle Thompson <
> mountain.michelle at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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"?
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>> Several sites are available and enthusiastic for DVB-S2/X broadband
>> beacons.
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>> We need to write down the details and identify the hardware, software,
>> and HDL involved.
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>> This is a productization of the March Transmitter goal.
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>> 2) 10/24 GHz dual band feed lab test plan, results, and next steps.
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>> 3) Link Budget updates! There's some big steps forward here that we
>> should be able to talk more about on Thursday.
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>> 4) Ask Questions! All are welcome.
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>> 5) Taxes! This year we have to fill out the full 990 form. They're due
>> for us in May 2021.
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>> 6) Additional items? Please let me know of them! :+)
>>
>> -Michelle W5NYV
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