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

[Michelle Thompson]

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https://youtu.be/q1aoeFrMZOk

-Michelle W5NYV




On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 11:05 AM Michelle Thompson <
mountain.michelle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Editing and publishing soon. Thank you to participants!
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> -Michelle W5NYV
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> On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 9:48 AM Michelle Thompson <
> mountain.michelle at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
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>>> 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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