Well, I was going to try AO-16, but as it turns out, I forgot to charge my FT-817, so I only got six minutes of receive from it. Oh well, not too bad, after all, I needed the practice tracking the Doppler. This was the first time I got audio which wasn’t complete crap. 😉 I even heard WA8SME in there! Howdy Mark.
I have a newbie question. I am building satellite mobility models into a network simulator for the University and I’m trying to figure out how to determine the approximate size of a given satellite footprint. I’m not sure if the question even makes sense because of antenna size, direction, etc. but it would help to have a means of determining this information. Is it published somewhere? Is there a means of calculating it?
Thanx 🙂
The footprint of the satellite is basically just the distance along the earth’s surface to the horizon from the subsatellite point. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon for formulas.