 Amateur
Radio satellite Pehuensat-1 heard around the world
Reports are coming in from all over the world of the reception of signals
from the latest Amateur Radio Satellite Pehuensat
(pronounced pea-when-sat).
The satellite was launched on 10th January at 04:23 GMT on the PSLV-C7
launch vehicle from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India. It transmits
on 145.825 MHz FM voice in English, Spanish and Hindi followed by AX25
1200 bps packet.
The volunteers of AMSAT-Argentina have done a superb job in the major
task of designing, building and launching Pehuensat-1. Their website at
http://www.amsat.org.ar/
is well worth a visit.
To have a quick glance at next passes in your location and time, visit
http://www.amsat.org.ar/
click revolving globe, then your location, then on PEHUENSAT-1
Reports can be entered or viewed on http://www.amsat.org.ar?f=z
The Amateur Satellite Service has a very limited spectrum allocation
and endeavours to make the maximum use of each frequency. Currently the
only Primary Amateur Satellite allocations in the IARU band plan between
29 MHz and
25 GHz are:
29.300 - 29.500 MHz
145.800 - 146.000 MHz
24000.000 - 24050.000 MHz
Pehuensat-1 shares its frequency with four other Amateur Satellites -
NO-44, HO-59, NO-60 & NO-61
Why Pehuensat ?
http://www.amsat.org.ar/Pehuensa1.pdf
http://www.amsat.org.ar/Pehuensa1.doc
Recording of PEHUENSAT-1
http://www.human.space.edu/pehuensat.wma
FLASH video of the launch
http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/30805/
pslvc7-sucessfully-lifts-off.html
PEHUENSAT-1 Info and Help Required
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2007/
pehuensat_help.htm
Amateur Radio Satellite Pehuensat-1 lifts off successfully
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2007
/pehuensat1_liftoff.htm
• AMSAT-UK
produces a newsletter Oscar News packed full of Amateur Satellite information.
For membership details contact the secretary Jim Heck G3WGM
Tel: +44 (0)1258 453959
Email: g3wgm@amsat.org
Web: http://www.uk.amsat.org/
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