Category: Ham Satellite news

This number with some excellent articles about portable QO-100 setup, Free-DV on QO-100 and several more articles with QO-100 focus.

Both AMSAT-DL and AMSAT-UK announces Virtual Satellite Symposium for 2020.

AMSAT-DL:

Unfortunately, the AMSAT-DL Symposium planned for September 26 and 27, 2020 cannot take place this year in the usual manner.
Since the health of all of us is very important to us and the legal framework currently leaves no other option, we have decided not to hold a meeting on site in Bochum this year. We regret this very much, but the premises only allow an occupancy of less than 20 people.
Unfortunately, a “social” meeting with a dinner together is not possible, nor is a flea market and other activities, such as the QO-100 User Meeting, which will be held for the first time during the HAM Radio Fair in Friedrichshafen in 2019.
Instead, we will broadcast the symposium as an “online” meeting in DATV via the broadband transponder of QO-100 and on the Internet on the YouTube channel of AMSAT-DL (https://www.youtube.com/user/amsatdl) radiate.

AMSAT-UK:

AMSAT-UK Announces Colloquium 2020 October 11, 2020
There will not be an in-person AMSAT-UK International Space
Colloquium this year instead they will be holding an Online Event on
Sunday, October 11, 2020. This is the day after the RSGB’s Radio
Convention which is also an on-line event.
The AMSAT-UK Convention will run from 11:00am to approximately
5:00pm, with a break for lunch and several short breaks during the
day. (Times are British Summer Time, or UTC/GMT + 1.) Membership in
AMSAT-UK is not required to attend and the event is free of charge.
The event will be in the form of a Zoom Webinar. Register at
http://tinyurl.com/amsatukreg2020 and follow the instructions which
will arrive by email. No special software is installed since a
browser plug in is used by Zoom.
Those who are registered before the start of the Colloquium will be
entered for a number of free raffles which will take place during the
event. The event will be hosted by Graham Shirville, G3VZV and
Jim Heck, G3WGM and formally opened by our Chairman, Martin Sweeting,
G3YJO. For those registered it will be possible to pose questions to
the speakers during Q and A sessions. Informal on-line discussions
after the official close of the Colloquium, are also planned.
The Colloquium will be live streamed to the AMSAT-UK YouTube channel
at https://www.youtube.com/user/AMSATUK.
Complete information is available at https://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/.

Jerry Buxton, N0JY, Vice President-Engineering has published a two-
minute video update on the progress of AMSAT projects. Among the
highlights are:

• The RadFxSat-2 / Fox-1E satellite is ready for delivery and
  integration and is expected to launch by the end of the year.
• The University of Maine will use an AMSAT LTM-1 module for command
  and control of their upcoming CubeSat mission, MESAT-1. The LTM-1
  also provides a linear transponder for amateur radio use. AMSAT is
  in discussions with additional partners about flying LTM-1 modules.
• Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, vendors have been delayed in
  supplying printed circuit boards for the GOLF-TEE project. The
  impact of the pandemic has also affected the amount of time
  AMSAT’s volunteer engineers have for their hobby work. Completion
  of GOLF-TEE is expected by the end of June 2021.
• Dependent on fulfilling its primary mission, the GOLF-TEE satellite
  may include a X-band downlink parrot of the V-band uplink and L/S
  band uplinks which are planned for GOLF-1.
• Research is underway to place GOLF-1 into a higher orbit while
  meeting regulatory requirements.
• GOLF-TEE is a candidate for a launch on an upcoming DoD mission.

From AMSAT-UK web we got info about the upcoming OSCAR QSO party!

The objective of the AMSAT-UK OSCAR Satellite QSO Party is to encourage all radio amateurs around the world to get on the air and make contacts via satellites during northern hemisphere summer. We would like to attract both seasoned die-hard operators as well as all newcomers who are just getting involved.

Read more at: https://amsat-uk.org/2020/07/20/oscar-satellite-qso-party/

Online leaderboard at: https://leaderboard.amsat-uk.org/

On the evening of July 17, 2020, Vlad Chorney, EU1SAT, tweeted
“Husky-1 ACTIVE!” with a screenshot from FoxTelem showing that he had
received telemetry from HO-107 (HuskySat-1) which had been silent for
nearly two months. About an hour after EU1SAT’s tweet, the satellite
passed over the eastern United States and AMSAT command stations
KO4MA and N8MH copied telemetry. On subsequent passes, the satellite
was successfully commanded.

Please continue to copy telemetry in FoxTelem. If you have removed
HO-107 from your tracked satellites during its period of inactivity,
please add it back. The transponder remains disabled while AMSAT
Operations evaluates the telemetry from the satellite.

[ANS thanks AMSAT Operations for the above information]

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