Link Budget Walkthrough by Jan King
Channel: Open Research Institute Inc.
Date: 2021-05-14

A walkthrough of Jan King's Link Budget Spreadsheet. Given to Wally Ritchie and Michelle Thompson for Open Research Institute on 12 May 2021.

Many of us in the amateur satellite community are familiar with Jan King's link budget spreadsheets. 

This version incorporates a large amount of new content. The project addressed in this version is Open Research Institute's microwave broadband digital DVB-S2/X transponder work. However, this spreadsheet can be adapted for many different projects. 

The current version of this spreadsheet can be downloaded from here:

https://github.com/phase4ground/documents/tree/master/Engineering/Link_Budget/Jan-King-Link-Budgets

Note: This is a long video! This video explains the spreadsheet in detail. There's action items and changes that are discussed in the video that will appear in later versions of the spreadsheet.

For an introduction to the open source amateur satellite system that this link budget is being developed for, please see the introduction to this video presentation. 

https://youtu.be/fCmzS6jBhHg

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Comment and critique about this spreadsheet is welcome and encouraged. 

-Michelle W5NYV