Category: Ham Satellite news

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Vlkomna nu p lrdag den 20 april kl. 9.00!

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Nu r SaudiSat (SO-41) ppen fr amatrradio-trafik. Fljande kommer frn ANS:

BID: $ANS-098.01

AMSAT-NA News Service (ANS) has received word via AMSAT-NA President Robin Haighton, VE3FRH, that SaudiSat 1A is now open for Amateur Radio communications.

In a letter to VE3FRH, Turki Al-Saud announced the following:

Please announce the availability of SaudiSat 1-A (SO-41) to AMSAT members and to follow Amateur Radio operators in your region. Saudi OSCAR-41 has been configured for operation in the amateur service. The spacecraft will automatically enable its UHF transmitter over Saudi Arabia and the United States for approximately 20-minutes each pass.

The spacecraft is operating in Mode-J, centered on a VHF uplink and UHF downlink of 145.850/436.775 MHz, currently configured as an analog FM voice repeater. The spacecraft will operate in this mode intermittently, as power and spacecraft experiments permit.

SO-41 s downlink RF power is 1-watt over both regions with left-hand circular polarization. The uplink antenna (located on top of the spacecraft) is linear in polarization.

SaudiSat 1-B is not available at this time as experiments and software development continues with 1-B.

[ANS thanks Turki Al-Saud and AMSAT-NA President Robin Haighton, VE3FRH for this information]
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Och den r ven krd frn Europa:

Heard SO-41 11-apr-2002 from Eindhoven Holland at 13:35 UTC last part from this pass OH5LK Jussi calling cq on SO-41 I was onable to get in with 50 watt on the groundplane TMV-7E downlink porto ft-470 with double quad Handheld signal little better then AO-27.

73
Christ de pe5yes JO21sk

Klla: ANS 098

Enligt PcSats hemsida kommer snart satelliten att vara frlorad pga. att batterierna ej klarar den mnga urladdningar som nu sker pga. dlig solbelysning. All fakta finns i nedanstende lnk:
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/pcsat/pcsat-z.txt

Efter psken vet vi om de frklarar satelliten som frlorad.

Klla: Bob, WB4APR

Den 20 mars slpptes Radio Sport 21 (RS-21), eller Kolibri-2000 som den ven kallas, ut frn en Russian Progress M-1-7 nr den lmnade rymdstationen ISS.

Den kommer sakta att falla ner mot atmosfren under ett par mnader. Nerlnken r 145.825 MHz och 435.335 MHz, bde CW och FSK telemtri.

RS-21 r konstruerad enligt tidigare RS-satelliter under ledning av Alexander Papkov, UA3XBU. Det r studenter frn bde Ryssland och Australien som tillsammans byggt denna satellit.

Lyssnarrapporter kan skickas till Alex:
microsat@iki.rssi.ru
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ARRL har en artikel p:
http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2001/12/16/1/
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Klla: ANS 083