[TCARC-NTx] Fwd: ARLS004 SaudiSat 1-A (SO-41) now available for amateur use

Tue, 9 Apr 2002 13:54:17 -0700 (PDT)

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> Subject: ARLS004 SaudiSat 1-A (SO-41) now available
> for amateur use
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:58:39 -0400 
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> SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS004
> ARLS004 SaudiSat 1-A (SO-41) now available for
> amateur use
> 
> ZCZC AS04  
> QST de W1AW  
> Space Bulletin 004  ARLS004
> From ARRL Headquarters  
> Newington, CT  April 9, 2002
> To all radio amateurs
> 
> SB SPACE ARL ARLS004
> ARLS004 SaudiSat 1-A (SO-41) now available for
> amateur use
> 
> SaudiSat 1-A (SO-41) now is reported open for
> Amateur Radio
> communication. According to information received by
> AMSAT-NA
> President Robin Haighton, VE3FRH, SO-41 has been
> configured for FM
> voice repeater operation.
> 
> Turki Al Saud, director of the Space Research
> Institute in Riyadh,
> Saudi Arabia--the satellite's sponsoring
> agency--told AMSAT-NA that
> SO-41 will automatically enable its UHF transmitter
> over Saudi
> Arabia and the US for approximately 20 minutes each
> pass. The
> spacecraft reportedly is configured for Mode J, with
> a VHF uplink of
> 145.850 MHz and a UHF downlink of 436.775 MHz. The
> spacecraft will
> operate in this mode intermittently, as power and
> spacecraft
> experiments permit, the announcement said.
> 
> SO-41's downlink RF power is 1 W with left-hand
> circular
> polarization. The uplink antenna--located atop the
> spacecraft--is
> linear in polarization. Experiments and software
> development
> continue with SaudiSat 1-B (SO-42), and that
> satellite is not yet
> available to amateurs.
> 
> SaudiSat 1A and 1B were launched along with
> TIUNGSAT-1 on September
> 26, 2000, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, aboard a
> converted Soviet
> ballistic missile. Both satellites have been in
> various stages of
> commissioning since then.
> NNNN
> /EX

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