[Ground-station] Link budget

[Robert McGwier]

I want to strongly support python for the work. I do simulations in Matlab
and some architecture design work and then I use python and I'm moving into
Golang for compiled code.

Bob


Dr. Robert W McGwier, Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty, Virginia Tech
ARDC Member of Board
ARS: N4HY
ARRL, AMSAT, AAVSO, TAPR, SkyHub

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 4:07 PM Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> Thank you Thomas and Alan for the valuable input.
>
> I have a soft spot in my heart for Octave and MATLAB, and am used to
> having them be a significant part of technical work like this. If Python
> can do the job, and it's the preferred expression for the work, then by all
> means let's proceed.
>
> -Michelle W5NYV
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 2:03 PM Alan Rich <arich127 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All ,
>> My apologies for being really late / absent to respond to lots of the
>> emails on this subject.
>>
>> I think I was the one that unfortunately dragged Octave into the
>> discussion. The main reason was that I am not an experienced python person
>> (yet) but I have contributed in the past  to some Matlab utilities for RF
>> work that were converted to executables in the end. Matlab isn't open
>> source, but Octave is, and it was one of the original open engineering
>> tools. It's been around for 20 plus years and has good community support. I
>> was thinking that a link budget and propagation "Toolbox" for Octave might
>> be a nice thing to have for the community.
>>
>> Given that python, numpy, scipy.. have really become the open source
>> baseline, I'm sure that this is absolutely the right way to go for a
>> mission application/planning tool.  I apologize for the distraction.
>> I'll experiment  a bit over in Matlab/Octave in the background to see if
>> a set of .m files or functions can be built up to support future work.
>>
>> Link budgets , Bus power budgets (and antenna pointing requirements)  are
>> so important. Everything else ( throughput and BER/SER/PER) falls out of
>> them.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Alan
>>
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>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 3:56 PM Thomas Savarino <thomas.savarino at mac.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I understand that you don’t want any help with this, but I can’t resist
>>> mentioning that you’d probably be better off doing everything in python and
>>> avoiding the dependence on Octave, so you should really consider what you
>>> need by way of calculation. Numpy probably has most if not all of the
>>> functions you’ll need.
>>> Best of luck
>>> S
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On Jan 19, 2021, at 11:13 AM, Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
>>> <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> Thank you very much Salvatore,
>>>
>>> There is no Octave code base that I know of, but this is a very good
>>> direction.
>>>
>>> -Michelle W5NYV
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 8:31 AM Salvatore Lionetti via Ground-Station
>>> <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> I'm sorry but I've started yesterday to work on this topic.
>>>>
>>>> I've made the spreadsheet available on my personal Nextcloud web
>>>> instance:
>>>>
>>>> https://cumlaborare.strangled.net/s/Ng5H3RmmZP8HzNE
>>>>
>>>> By this way:
>>>> * multiple people can collaborate on the same document, at the same
>>>> moment.
>>>> * comments are allowed,
>>>> * versioning is in force.
>>>>
>>>> I've setup no password for now, but content can be recovered from a
>>>> previous version very easily. (similar to Wikipedia)
>>>>
>>>> In the meanwhile I've verified that Jupyter can also use Octave
>>>> interpreter, giving us the possibility to have a single code base.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a (also partial) Octave code base to reuse?
>>>>
>>>> Have a good day
>>>>
>>>
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