Author: SM0TGU

Nu har vi ytterligare två Oscar-satelliter. QB50p1 och QB50p2 har nu fått namnen EO-79 and EO-80. Läs mer:

OSCAR Numbers Assigned for CubeSats QB50p1 and QB50p2

In an email to Mr. Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG, AMSAT-NL and Mr. Jeroen
Rotteveel, ISIS CEO, OSCAR Number Administrator William A. (Bill)
Tynan, W3XO, announced,
“I have received your request for OSCAR Numbers for CubeSats QB50p1
and QB50p2 and from everything I can determine these spacecraft meet
all of the requirements necessary to receive OSCAR numbers.

“Therefore, by the authority vested in me by the AMSAT-NA President,
I hereby confer the designation European OSCAR 79 to CubeSats QB50p1
and European OSCAR 80 to CubeSat CubeSats QB50p2. These designations
can, of course, for convenience be shortened to EO-79 and EO-80.

I, and the entire amateur satellite community, hope for successful
missions for both EO-79 and EO-80 and congratulate AMSAT-NL and the
ISIS team as well as all who contributed to these new Amateur Radio
satellites for their success in building, testing and launching these
new OSCARs.”

[ANS Thanks Bill W3XO and AMSAT-NA for the above information]

Den 19 juni 2014 skickades 37 satelliter upp från Dombarovsky i Ryssland varav 12 av dessa har amatörradio ombord. Dessa har bla. möjlighet till SSB/CW linjär transponder, FM voice transponder, D-STAR Parrot Repeater och Packet Radio Digipeaters.

Lite mer info om QB-satelliterna som har FUNcube payloads ombord:

QB50p1
• 145.815 MHz BPSK telemetry
• Transponder
– 435.035-435.065 MHz Uplink LSB
– 145.935-145.965 MHz Downlink USB

QB50p2
• 145.880 MHz BPSK telemetry
• 145.840 MHz 9600 bps FSK FX25

Här en utmärkt frekvenskarta av Mike Rupprecht DK3WN

N8HM har på YouTube lagt upp ett QSO med SM7WSJ via FO-29:

Då har vi fått en ny satellit tilldelad med OSCAR-nummer, nämligen LituanicaSAT-1 som nu även får kallas LO-78 OSCAR-78:

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 159.02
From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.
June 8, 2014
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-159.02

OSCAR Number for LituanicaSAT-1

In a message to the LituanicaSAT-1 team, AMSAT-NA OSCAR Number
Administrator Bill Tynan, W3XO announced, “LituanicaSAT-1 has met all
of the requirements for an OSCAR number. My findings from information
provided to AMSAT-NA and IARU officials confirm this to be true.
Accordingly, under the authority vested in me by the AMSAT-NA
President, I do hereby assign LituanicaSAT-1 the designation
LituanicaSAT OSCAR-78, or LO-78. I, and all of the amateur radio
satellite community, wish LituanicaSAT OSCAR-78 a long and successful
mission.”

On behalf of the LituanicaSAT-1 team, Simon Kareiva, LY2EN replied,
“It is my honor and pleasure to accept this assignation. Our team is
focused to keep LO-78 operational for the benefit of amateur radio as
long, as it is possible for a small cubesat. Thank you very much,
Simon LY2EN.”

The LituanicaSAT-1 team has announced activation of the FM
transponder. A general rule to find out if the transponder is working
at the moment is to monitor the beacon frequency on 437.275 MHz. If
you can hear CW FM beacon it means that the transponder is off, if you
cannot hear it –  the transponder is on. The transponder frequencies
are approximately 435.1755 MHz (+/- 10 kHz Doppler shift) for the
downlink and 145.950 MHz for the uplink with 67 Hz CTCSS.

[ANS thanks Bill Tynan, W3XO, AMSAT-NA OSCAR Number Administrator for
the above information]

WA8SME har gjort en ny video om en uppdaterad varaiant av WRAPS som är en elevationsrotor som byggsats. Vidare finns info om en ny preamp-byggsats med koaxreläer för polarisationsjustering.