SATELLITE S BAND: HOW TO BECOME QRV ON OUR HIGHEST BAND

摘要

As both commercial and amateur spacecraft technology has evolved,there has been a trend toward higher frequencies in both control andcommunications arrangements. This paper will briefly explore the reasonsfor this trend, and then discuss practical methods of becoming active on thehighest frequency band currently implemented in amateur satellites.Becoming QRV on 2400 MHz is surprisingly easy and within the grasp ofmost experimentally inclined satellite operators. And this is just thebeginning- Phase 1110, presently on the drawing board (or, more accurately,drawing screen?), promises transponders and beacons operating through atleast 10 GHz and possibly even 24 GHz.