[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 S-band // WIFI USB dongle as receiver?

2011-02-26 Thread Pete Rowe
Hi Paul For a $20.00 donation to AMSAT, I'll send you a downconverter. Reply off line to PTROWE (at) yahoo.com Pete WA6WOA --- On Sat, 2/26/11, Greg D. wrote: From: Greg D. Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 S-band // WIFI USB dongle as receiver? To: a...@arrl.net, amsat-bb@amsat.org

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 S-band // WIFI USB dongle as receiver?

2011-02-26 Thread Greg D.
Hi Paul, Well, interesting thought. While the 2.4 gHz Wi-Fi and 13cm Ham bands do overlap, the modulation used by Wi-Fi signals and AO-51 are very very different. AO-51's narrow band FM downlink is going to be totally ignored by the frequency-hopping spread spectrum receive demodulator in th