[HATS] ATV for ISS

[Gene Harlan]

Hi Lou,

I do not know if you remember me, but I used to publish OSCAR Satellite
Report and still publish Amateur Television Quarterly. I would love to say I
had the answer, but unfortunately do not. However, you have whatever support
ATVQ and I can give to try and find an answer of something that might work.

Among others, I have copied this to Mike Collis, WA6SVT. He and I were
talking about this just a couple of nights ago on the phone. I think that if
we all do some thinking and share ideas, we may come up with what might
work.

Also, as I stated, you have all the support from ATVQ that I can give,
publicity, fund raising, whatever, just let me know.

Gene Harlan - WB9MMM
Name Tags by Gene
Harlan Technologies - publisher of Amateur Television Quarterly
http://www.hampubs.com
atvq@hampubs.com
815-398-2683 - voice
815-398-2688 - fax

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou McFadin" <w5did@amsat.org>
To: <HATS@stevens.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 5:02 PM
Subject: [HATS] ATV for ISS


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

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