On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 12:19 PM Dave Taht via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
in an era where cubesats had about a 50% failure rate.

Phil Karn KA9Q felt that this was mostly because of a poor choice of data link. I think a lot of folks were using AX-25 packet radio, which wasn't intended for satellites. He wrote a modem called BPSK1000 which can tolerate 1-minute fades as a satellite tumbles and the antenna points away from Earth.

    Thanks

    Bruce
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Bruce Perens K6BP