RF surveys

Mark Kanawati mark at spacequest.com
Mon Jan 6 12:46:27 CST 2014


Indeed we did in the past but that was one channel at a time and the 
system was only as good as the antenna you put on it.
in the last couple of years I've been working on an SDR in space along 
with a large deployable antenna... and I am interested in any help I can 
get.
Mark
703-628-1821


On 1/6/2014 1:12 PM, Andre Kesteloot wrote:
> Didn't  one of Mark Kanawati's satellites perform such surveys from up there ?
> Andre N4ICK
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> MistAKes may be blamed on the thickness of my fingers.
>
>
>> On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:21, Mike O'Dell <mo at ccr.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dennis Roberson at Illinois Institute of Technology
>> in Chicago has mounted a number of "spectrum observatories"
>> which do continuous real-time surveys of large blocks
>> of spectrum. There are many assertions about how much
>> which parts of the spectrum are used and where, but there
>> has been little objective information available.
>>
>> Dennis was CTO at MOTOROLA before Ed Zander showed up,
>> and he is also the longest serving member of the FCC
>> technical advisory board.
>>
>> Anyway, as you might imagine, the first observatories used
>> a lot of very expensive lab-quality equipment, but he has
>> been on the forefront of taking advantage of the plummetting
>> price of SDR-style receiver technology.
>>
>> He owes me some URLs to their papers which I'll forward
>> when he coughts them up - and this gives me a reason to ping him.
>>
>>      -mo
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