The Lightest Satellite Station in the World?

Pedro EB4DKA

Pedro EB4DKA recently demonstrated how small an Amateur Satellite Station can be when he had a QSO with ON5NY via the Oscar 50 satellite.

Pedro used just an ordinary Alinco DJ-C5 credit card handheld with the DJ-C5's own antenna.

He was running just 300 mw of FM and the complete station weighed only 85 grams!

Alinco DJ-C5

The uplink frequency for Oscar 50 is 145.850 MHz and the downlink can be received on 436.795 MHz (+/- Doppler shift of 10 kHz). When transmitting through the satellite a CTCSS tone of 67 Hz needs to be enabled.

At AMSAT-UK's Space Colloquium which runs from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st July at the University of Surrey, Guildford, there will be special sessions for beginners to teach them how to use the FM satellites.

If you want to find out more about Amateur Satellites why not join AMSAT-UK ?

Membership is just £15 a year for which you receive a bi-monthly newsletter packed with the latest Amateur Satellite news.

For details contact

Jim Heck G3WGM
Tel: 01258 453959
Email: g3wgm@amsat.org
Website: http://www.uk.amsat.org

Pedro EB4DKA's Website: http://www.eb4dka.tk/

(Please note: It's all in Spanish)