[OZAPRS] ISS gate RTLSDR

Marcus B mrmabs at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 07:51:17 AEDT 2016


The quoted figure I have seen was US$200,000.

On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, 17:46 Craig <craig at craigturner.id.au> wrote:

> Anything consumes power and emits needs extensive testing and systems
> integration.
>
> Power budgets, Weight budgets, space (as in rack space) positioning and
> orientation of antennas.
>
> I imagine the systems engineering and integration of something like that
> would run into the high 10's if not low 100's of thousands.
>
> Even if it's just swapping like for like the cost would not be trivial.
>
> Then the time of the crew for installation, with crew time and rest being
> managed down to the minute. The fact that an Amateur Radio got installed in
> the first case is fantastic.
>
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> On 16 Nov. 2016, at 16:06, Andrew Rich <vk4tec at tech-software.net> wrote:
>
> How hard is it to run a kenwood d710 in space ?
>
> Seriously
>
> Andrew
>
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>  On 16 Nov. 2016, at 11:35, Grant Willis <vk5gr at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>  Folks,
>
>  The VHF ISS digipeater I understand is off air due to equipment failure. I believe they have moved it up to 70cm until a replacement can be flown to ISS in late 2017.
>
>  http://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/aprs-by-iss-space-station-down-now-on-uhf-band.543402/
>
>  437.550MHz
>
>  The Doppler shift is going to make it hard for unattended gateways...
>
>  Grant VK5GR
>
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