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

[Michelle Thompson]

Sounds great! Let me know if there's any roadblocks or anything needed.

-Michelle W5NYV




On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 4:24 PM Alan Rich <arich127 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Salvatore et Michelle,
>
> Michelle, Thank you very much for putting us in contact.
>
> Salvatore - I will let you lead this. I have a reasonably good knowledge
> of traditional "spreadsheet" link budgets but I am not strong in
> software/Python.  I think the Jupyter / Python approach is a very good one
> however. You can email me or contact me on the Slack application if you
> like.
>
> Michelle, I will assess adapting the Jan King link budget calculations to
> Octave, the free/open source version of MatLab. This is easier for me.to
> approach.
>
> Alan
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> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:16 PM Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
> <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
>
>> 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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