2 days ago
Aqua on X-Band. Pretty crappy pass, but salvaged this crop of Mt. Hood, Hood River and population centers of Eugene, Corvallis, Salem and Portland. https://t.co/Pb97bHVXR5
3 days ago
5+ hours condensed to 1min of Tianwen-1 activity starting just after 1st orbital maneuver. https://t.co/1wRWZq6Iap
4 days ago
Tianwen-1 is approaching apoapsis. The plot shows the ground station handover from Kashi to Zapala/Argentina at 17:08. The Doppler profile results mostly from Earth rotation Doppler in the uplink signal. The spacecraft's orbital Doppler alone is rising steadily now. https://t.co/sLeYvClDpG
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Blue Force Tracking on Inmarsat
Blue Force Tracking is a GPS-enabled system that give US Military the location of “friendly” military forces. You can read more about it on Wikipedia. Inmarsat is one of the commercial satellite providers that has a contract with the the … Continue reading
Inmarsat Antenna Distribution
Inmarsat L-Band signals from both CONUS and POR need to be routed to various receivers and SDRs, this distribution system is a pretty simple solution (as shown below). It’s based on taking an L-Band signals from a dish, where pre-amplification … Continue reading
XM-1 S-Band Signal
Need to check dish alignment on S-Band? The 12.5MHz XM-1 signal is a great test signal. XM-1 is a much more interesting signal to look at than Sirius. The signal below is using a 1.8m dish.
