Mode: J Uplink: 145.850 Downlink: 436.775
From: "Dan James" <DanJ@marvin.com> To: "ANS Release" <ans@AMSAT.Org> Subject: [ans] SaudiSat 1-A open for communications Date: Monday, April 08, 2002 7:57 PM SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-098.01 SAUDISAT 1-A ANNOUNCEMENT AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 098.01 FROM AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD, APRIL 08, 2002 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-098.01 AMSAT-NA News Service (ANS) has received word via AMSAT-NA President Robin Haighton, VE3FRH, that SaudiSat 1A is now open for Amateur Radio communications. In a letter to VE3FRH, Turki Al-Saud announced the following: Please announce the availability of SaudiSat 1-A (SO-41) to AMSAT members and to follow Amateur Radio operators in your region. Saudi OSCAR-41 has been configured for operation in the amateur service. The spacecraft will automatically enable its UHF transmitter over Saudi Arabia and the United States for approximately 20-minutes each pass. The spacecraft is operating in Mode-J, centered on a VHF uplink and UHF downlink of 145.850/436.775 MHz, currently configured as an analog FM voice repeater. The spacecraft will operate in this mode intermittently, as power and spacecraft experiments permit. SO-41's downlink RF power is 1-watt over both regions with left-hand circular polarization. The uplink antenna (located on top of the spacecraft) is linear in polarization. SaudiSat 1-B is not available at this time as experiments and software development continues with 1-B. [ANS thanks Turki Al-Saud and AMSAT-NA President Robin Haighton, VE3FRH for this information] /EX ---- Via the ans mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe ans" to Majordomo@amsat.org
See also:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/so41.html and http://saudisat.kacst.edu.sa/Satellite.shtml