The Swedish Amateur Satellite Group
The history and what we do today
AMSAT-SM is the Swedish group of AMSAT with aprox 300 members. It was founded 1982 and at peek year, during Oscar-40 satellite, we had over 500 paying members.
From 2010 we started to have problem with volunteers for the committee and we decided to shutdown the organisation AMSAT-SM in 2020 and continued as an open group with the same name.
Today we are spreading information about amateur radio satellites mainly via the web page and X (Twitter). We are three radio amateurs (Håkan SM7WSJ, Lars SM0TGU and Inge SM4JLX) keeping AMSAT-SM alive with no other interest that it should be fun. The web page is sponsored by Lars SM0TGU and the only yearly cost we have is for the amsat.se domain.
Year 2022 we celebrated 40 years!
We are running AMSAT-SM in an agile style (like software development in Scrum or KanBan) without annual meetings. The steering group are following guidelines that was original decided in March 2020.
Please join and support AMSAT-SM – membership is open to anyone and free! Donations are most welcome!
Some of our recent highlights
- We celebrated 40 years in 2022!
- On March 10th, 2020, the AMSAT-SM group was formed in
connection with the closure of the AMSAT-SM organization. The process of creating AMSAT-SM for the future began after the 2019 annual meeting . All activities that were part of the old AMSAT-SM was transferred to the new group. - In november 2017 AMSAT-SM donated $ 285 USD to the ARISS project for amateur radio on ISS.
- In april 2015 AMSAT-SM donated $ 1600 USD for the FOX satellite project.
”AMSAT-SM believe that FOX project is very important to continue to develop amateur radio on board satellites. We therefore hope that our contribution can help the FOX satellites up in space.”
Steering group:
Håkan Harrysson – SM7WSJ
Lars Thunberg – SM0TGU (responsible for web, social media and information. ARISS contact.)
Inge Björk – SM4JLX (Treasure)
AMSAT-SM and ARISS Europe
AMSAT-SM is a member of ARISS Europe for coordination and support of ARISS contacts.
AMSAT-SM and the KTH MIST project
We are supporting satellite projects of Swedish universities, mainly the MIST project but also others.
AMSAT-SM website
AMSAT-SM is using the website for members information and news. You can find articles, news, links and lots of more information about satellites. Most of the page is only in Swedish but news blogs are in english. We provide the following information:
- FAQ and technical page
- New amateur satellites update
- Telemetry from several microsats
- Active on Twitter and Youtube. See links on right frame on webpage.
AMSAT-SM has a mailing list (just like the AMSAT-BB list) that was started in 1998. Most of the mail are in swedish, but you are welcome to subscribe.
Send an e-mail to: amsat-sm+subscribe@groups.io
80 meter HF net
Some weeks on Sundays we have a HF-net on 80 meters with lots of talk about satellites and space. The net is hosted by Håkan SM7WSJ.
Contact: You can reach AMSAT-SM at:
AMSAT-SM
c/o Lars Thunberg
Revirvägen 17
192 73 Sollentuna
Sweden
E-mail:
info@amsat.se
Compendia
A compendia of articles previously published in Journal (only in Swedish) can be downloaded from our homepage for free. Note that it is now getting old (2005).
AMSAT-SM Journal
AMSAT-SM Journal was the name of our newsletter sent out to our members. Most of the articles was in Swedish. Due to low activity and lack of articles the last issue was published 2010. All numbers can be downloaded for free here.
