{"id":4410,"date":"2019-03-19T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/03\/19\/amazing-new-geostationary-amateur-satellite-listen-online\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:08:32","slug":"amazing-new-geostationary-amateur-satellite-listen-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/03\/19\/amazing-new-geostationary-amateur-satellite-listen-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing New Geostationary Amateur Satellite &#8212; LISTEN ONLINE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/eshail-2-geostationary-satellite-credit-eshailsat.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"450\" data-original-width=\"799\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/eshail-2-geostationary-satellite-credit-eshailsat.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b>Wow, quite a step forward in the amateur satellite world. Qatar and AMSAT-Germany have collaborated to put an amateur radio repeater in geostationary orbit. That&#8217;s pretty amazing. Read more here: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2019\/03\/18\/eshail-2-hams-get-their-first-geosynchronous-repeater\/\"><b>https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2019\/03\/18\/eshail-2-hams-get-their-first-geosynchronous-repeater\/<\/b><\/a><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Read about a group of Norwegian students working on a satellite station for this bird: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.la1k.no\/2019\/02\/20\/getting-ready-for-e%CC%B6s%CC%B6%CC%B6h%CC%B6a%CC%B6i%CC%B6l%CC%B62%CC%B6-qo-100-part-2-how-we-did-it\/\"><b>https:\/\/www.la1k.no\/2019\/02\/20\/getting-ready-for-e%CC%B6s%CC%B6%CC%B6h%CC%B6a%CC%B6i%CC%B6l%CC%B62%CC%B6-qo-100-part-2-how-we-did-it\/<\/b><\/a><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>And this is really fun: LISTEN TO THE DOWNLINK LIVE VIA WEBSDR! <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>We can&#8217;t hear this thing from North America &#8212; it is flying over the Congo. But stations in its footprint are putting their receivers online &#8212; you can listen to the 10 GHz downlink via WebSDR: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b><b>UK WebSDR: <a href=\"https:\/\/eshail.batc.org.uk\/nb\/\">https:\/\/eshail.batc.org.uk\/nb\/<\/a><\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b><b>Brazil WebSDR: <a href=\"http:\/\/appr.org.br:8902\/\">http:\/\/appr.org.br:8902\/<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/eshailviewofearth.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"562\" data-original-width=\"750\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/eshailviewofearth.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, quite a step forward in the amateur satellite world. Qatar and AMSAT-Germany have collaborated to put an amateur radio repeater in geostationary orbit. That&#8217;s pretty amazing. Read more here: https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2019\/03\/18\/eshail-2-hams-get-their-first-geosynchronous-repeater\/ Read about a group of Norwegian students working on a satellite station for this bird: https:\/\/www.la1k.no\/2019\/02\/20\/getting-ready-for-e%CC%B6s%CC%B6%CC%B6h%CC%B6a%CC%B6i%CC%B6l%CC%B62%CC%B6-qo-100-part-2-how-we-did-it\/ And this is really fun: LISTEN TO THE &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/03\/19\/amazing-new-geostationary-amateur-satellite-listen-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazing New Geostationary Amateur Satellite &#8212; LISTEN ONLINE!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,82,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qatar","category-satellites","category-sdr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4413,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions\/4413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}