[Ground-station] GEO tests?

[Jay Francis]

Maybe add a crowdfunding component to help offset some of the rent?

--Jay KA1PQK

> On Jul 20, 2021, at 3:30 PM, Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
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> I'll take whatever I can get. We can adjust, since our protocols are good ones, to fit an opportunity.
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> We have designed/assumed 10 MHz to fit in the 5/10 GHz sub-bands for amateur activity. 
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> 4B got whittled down to 1 MHz towards the end, and we were still game for that. 
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> -Michelle W5NYV
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> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 12:18 PM Howie DeFelice <howied231 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> How much bandwidth are we looking for ?
>> 
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>> From: Ground-Station <ground-station-bounces at lists.openresearch.institute> on behalf of Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 12:56:37 PM
>> To: Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute>
>> Subject: [Ground-station] GEO tests?
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>> I’m thinking about privately funding “Rent-a-GEO” and moving forward with GEO transmission tests for ORI. 
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>> This project got turned down for funding by FEMA (very reluctantly) and ARDC (this was a very painful rejection given the growing QO-100 gap). 
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>> But, watching M17 get support from ESA for a more rudimentary and extremely short test, and getting repeated renewed requests from North America, and having some sincere energy and offers of real hardware from the for-profit sector…
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>> Maybe it’s time to simply make it happen, and hope it’s not ruinously expensive. 
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>> Comments and critique? Where else to apply? 
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>> Here’s the most recent grant application: https://www.openresearch.institute/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Rent-a-GEO-Phase-4-Space.pdf
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>> -Michelle W5NYV
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