Temporary Suspension of SO-67 Service

The Amateur Radio FM transponder on Sumbandila (SO-67) is being temporarily suspended to permit completion of the satellite commissioning activities.

On the AMSAT bulletin board Jan-Albert writes:

There is little more than 6 weeks left in which to complete the outstanding commissioning activities on Sumbandila before operations are planned to be handed over in middle-March to the Satellite Application Center, who will then continue to operate the satellite on behalf of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) - owner of the satellite.

Since our progress is currently hampered by the various SA-AMSAT payload activities, we have unfortunately no choice but to temporarily suspend this service on SO-67. We plan to have it "on air" again end-March / beginning Apr this year.

We have so far successfully executed more than 320 payload activations since we started using the SA-AMSAT payload in Q4 2009.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

Best regards

Jan-Albert

The Sounds of SO-67
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2010/
sounds_of_so67.htm

SO-67 - SDR thesis
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2010/
so67_sdr_thesis.htm