I just got back from a vacation trip to New York City (amazing place!) and found out that yesterday Russian cosmonauts launched the ARISSat amateur radio satellite. This one looks like lot of fun. It has a two meter downlink. I’ll be doing some listening, and my try to get some of the SSTV signals.
Uh oh…. Just read a post from Mark over on Brainwagon reporting on some problems with the deployment:
http://brainwagon.org/2011/08/03/arissat-1-is-off-to-a-bumpy-start/
Details on how to use the satellite can be found here:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/ARISSat/ARISSatHowTo.php
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It’s a small miracle that satellite survived. “Hey, anyone up for some satellite tetherball?” On a positive note, it sounds like that bird has some great capability. Is this the first ham satellite with S/S video? 73 from somewhere south of Vandenberg AFB…….Steve Smith WB6TNL “Snort Rosin”