The ARISS minutes for August 21, 2012 record that a new Kenwood TM-D710 has been upmassed to the ISS for use with Russian SSTV experiments, see
http://ariss.rac.ca/arisstel2012-08-21.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Mon, 3/6/13, M5AKA <[email protected]> wrote: > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Monday, 3 June, 2013, 12:00 > --- On Mon, 3/6/13, K5VOU <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Possibly because when it is made available, the duty cycle rises > > to near 100% and the unit consumes too much power from the ISS power > > budget. > > Hi, I'm baffled as to why you mention the ISS power budget. > Do you have any references, ARISS or elsewhere, to confirm > that the ISS power budget has ever been raised as an issue ? > The one thing the ISS appears to have in abundance is Solar > Power. > > The equipment to be installed on the ISS for the HAM-TV > project will consume far more power than the Kenwood TM-D700 > ever did. > > The KuPS power supply that was built to power the HAM-TV > transmitter was designed to supply power to up to three > separate payloads. > > 73 Trevor M5AKA > > _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
