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COVID-19 – AMSAT-UK Online Shop Remains Open

Folks, it’s everywhere, and affecting everybody. We have carefully examined our processes and determined that, given the latest ‘lock down’ in the UK, that we can pretty well carry on as normal. We have checked with our printer, and he is confident that he can print and distribute the next printed edition of Oscar News without breaking any of the rules and also keeping safe. (But see overseas postal arrangements).

We can still despatch hardware items from the shop, but please be aware that there might be a few days delay in despatching your order (All are sent via Royal Mail). At present we understand that the UK postal system is operating pretty much as normal, but items sent overseas may be affected by local rules. If you are outside the UK please look at this page to determine the possibility of delays before ordering. Of course electronic items are not affected (e.g. Software key, etc).

Keep safe and stay at home

73s JDH G3WGM

25 Mar 2020

AMSAT-UK Onilne Shop https://shop.amsat-uk.org/

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Amateur radio satellite spreads Fight Coronavirus message

LAPAN-A2 (IO-86)

Indonesia’s national amateur radio society ORARI reports the ham radio satellite LAPAN-A2 (IO-86) is being used to send a Fight Coronavirus message using APRS.

A translation of the ORARI post says:

The satellite spreads the text message “Stay Healthy, Stay at Home #LawanCorona”.

This was conveyed by Researcher of the Center for Satellite Technology, Sonny Dwi Harsono when contacted, Friday, March 20, 2020.

Sonny explained, this action was a form of support for government policies on social distancing. The policy encourages all of us to reduce activities outside the home and interactions with others. “So this message was sent by the LAPAN A2 satellite via the APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System) beacon which was transmitted throughout Indonesia. APRS is a text based communication system for short messages such as SMS on mobile phones. But this APRS message can only be received through HT (Handie Talkie) which has the recipient of the APRS message,” he said.

Sonny explained, messages that have been disseminated can be received by anyone by setting the HT radio frequency to 145.825 MHz. To date corona’s message has been received by dozens of members of the Indonesian Radio Amateur Organization (ORARI) spread throughout Indonesia.

The dissemination of the message “Stay Healthy, Stay at Home #LawanCorona” , continued Sonny, was carried out starting March 20, 2020. For the time being the message dissemination was carried out on the APRS mission only. But it will try to spread the message one time at a LAPAN-A2 / LAPAN-ORARI track every 100 minutes. “Later if possible, we try to distribute 24 hours nonstop every 100 minutes under certain conditions. Currently we are discussing the technicalities. The messages from the government can also be disseminated via the LAPAN-A2 satellite, “he concluded.

Source ORARI https://tinyurl.com/IndonesiaORARI

Follow LAPAN-A2 https://twitter.com/lapansat

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AMSAT-BR QO-100 FT8 QRPp Experiment

AMSAT-Brazil is organizing a reverse beacon FT8 QRPp experiment/contest via the QO-100 geostationary amateur radio transponder.

The first 10 spotted stations with lower SNR will receive a Certificate of Accomplishment.The dead line will be May 1st 2020. To qualify, the SNR must be lower than -18 dB (as measured by the ft8 decoder). The receiver will be active on Saturdays and Sundays from 12:00 UTC to 24:00 UTC and will be tuned to 10.489540 GHz with a 3.5 kHz bandwidth. All stations calling CQ will be logged.

The objective for the project is to incentive low power experimentation through the QO-100 narrow band transponder. Stations participating in the experiment are welcome to send a brief description of their setup, including information about RF power output, hardware and software setups, antenna type and gain, photos, etc. to the email address
py2sdr at gmail dot com.

73, Edson PY2SDR

You can listen to the QO-100 transponder downlink online at https://eshail.batc.org.uk/nb/

QO-100 information https://amsat-uk.org/satellites/geo/eshail-2/

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AMSAT-India participated in Somaiya Space Conclave 2020

Somaiya Space Conclave 2020 was organised by KJ Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology – Mumbai, India on Friday, February 28, 2020.

Rajesh Vagadia VU2EXP reports:

It was a full day event covering topics related to Students Satellite program, Amateur Satellites, PS4 Orbiting Platform program, Design & Development of Nano Satellites etc.
AMSAT-INDIA was invited along with prominent speakers from ISRO & Satellite industries.

Myself Rajesh Vagadia VU2EXP, (Regional Coordinator for West India Zone) represented AMSAT-INDIA. I did introduced AMSAT-INDIA & it’s activities, along with Amateur Satellite Development scenario in India. I talked on HAMSAT, AISAT, role of ITU (API Submission), IARU (frequency allocation) etc procedure in brief for students satellite program. Some highlights were given on Satellite Ground station / Amateur Club station requirement. At last gave info on ARISS program & gave live Demo of SSTV over VHF which turnout as fun for all.

More than 60 curious Students including few budding team for Satellite program participated from different institutions and gained knowledge on various topics. Students from IIT Bombay shared their sensible experience on their Pratham satellite.

I am thankful to our AMSAT-INDIA Secretary Nitin Muttin VU3TYG for all technical support & Coordinating with organisers. I also thanks to Dr. Umesh Shinde, Mr. Rohit Bokade, Supriya Bhide, Siddharth & whole volunteer team for great cooperation & support.

It was remarkable event for all of us to gain & share knowledge, meet & discuss on single subject SATELLITES!

thanks & 73

Rajesh P. Vagadia VU2EXP
Regional Coordinator
West India Zone
AMSAT-INDIA
http://www.amsatindia.org/

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Project for school QO-100 amateur radio stations

DARC reports on a Practical Seminar about the amateur radio QO-100 geostationary satellite transponders. Part of seminar fees goes to the “School stations on QO-100” project.

A translation of the DARC post reads:

Top-class seminar in the DARC office in Baunatal: On February 28, experts from AMSAT-DL e.V. gave around 40 people a detailed insight into the possibilities offered by the QO-100 amateur radio transponders on the geostationary satellite Es’hail-2.

AMSAT-DL President Peter Gülzow, DB2OS, started with a keynote speech. Workshops with four lecturers dealt with different operating modes, different hardware concepts and readily available software solutions for the PC.

Part of the attendance fee will go to the joint project of DARC and AMSAT-DL “School stations on QO-100”. Together they want to equip ten schools that already have a training call sign with a complete reception system for the narrowband transponder.

DARC and AMSAT-DL want to motivate more young people for amateur radio through the possibilities that QO-100 offers.

Source DARC https://darc.de/

QO-100 info https://amsat-uk.org/satellites/geo/eshail-2/

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