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

[Michelle Thompson]

Greetings Salvatore!

There is nothing secret in the link budget. It is complicated, but not
impossible. To use it, there is a prop.dll file that helps the macros
calculate some of the models. I need to put that in the repo too!

One other volunteer has spoken up about being interested in this project so
far. I think he would like to talk to you about collaborating. His name is
Alan Rich, and I will put both of you in touch with each other.

-Michelle W5NYV



On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:13 AM Salvatore Lionetti <
salvatorelionetti at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Michelle,
> I m interested in converting link budget formulas and graph. I think a
> Jupyter Notebook is a good idea (I suppose there is nothing secret in the
> link budget).
>
> Are there suggestion or alternatives? Did somebody already started this
> 'conversion'?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Il ven 8 gen 2021, 04:04 Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
> <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> ha scritto:
>
>> Links to jump to different subjects are in the description.
>>
>> 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!
>>>
>>> -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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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