[HATS] ATV for ISS

[Lou McFadin]

To all those on this reflector,

There has been several suggestions for flying a ground controllable ATV 
system on ISS. Some specific proposals have been submitted.
Our link analysis shows that it would not work very well with the 
standard data rates associated with digital TV or with analog video 
rates. That is with a reasonable antenna (no more that 3 ft.) on the 
ground and a zero dB antenna on ISS. We are talking about 1.2Ghz up and 
2.4Ghz down.

I am wondering if anyone here has any suggestions on how to get a 
decent video rate and yet stay below 200kb/s.
We want something that would be available to the largest ham community 
as possible.

Lou McFadin
W5DID
ARISS US Hardware manager