[OZAPRS] Four APRS satelites in orbit! WEB page

[Richard Hoskin]

FYI.

 

It would be great if someone could set up a local SatGate for these birds.
(I cant do it as I'm moving house)

This would give everyone a chance to use them over Australia.

 

The frequency will be 145.825Mhz

 

Cheers

Richard

VK3JFK

 

With the launch of STS-116, we now have just added a total of FOUR amateur
Radio Satellites on their way to orbit.  These are in addition to the
PCSAT-1 and ARISS systems.  So now is the time to play APRS satellites
while
they last (it will only be a few months)...

 

ANDE MAA - packet digipeater and packet-to-voice

RAFT     - packet digipeater and packet-to-voice

NMARS    - Navy Marincorps Mars packet and Voice repeater

FCAL     - Cubesat telemetry system

 

We call NMARS an amateur satellite too because it is operated by Amateur
Radio Volulnteers in the Military Affiliate Radio System.  It is on MARS
frequency and only authorized MARS operators can use it, but they are all
duly licensed radio amateurs too.

 

These satellites will not last long due to their very low deployment
altitude, but they should provide a new opportunity to do experiments and
make packet contacts.  This is especially true since ANDE, RAFT, PCSAT-1
all
operate on the same frequency and can replay packets between themselves.
And if we are lucky, we might get the ISS to QSY to the same frquency for
a
few 4-satellite experiments.

 

Bob, WB4APR

US Naval Academy Satellite Lab

 

Here is the Operations WEB page for these new satellites.

 

http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/ande-raft-ops.html 

 

 

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