[WIham] New Satellite coming for 435/144 CW/SSB

[Scott]

Good news!  It looks like we'll have a new satellite going up in 
November that will have a linear translator aboard to allow CW/SSB 
communications on 70cm/2M.  I think it will be 435 MHz uplink and 2M 
downlink.

Maybe time to throw together some antennas for 435/144 :)

It will be a LEO (Low Earth Orbit) type, so I would expect the best 
passes to have 10-15 minutes of access on the best passes (ones passing 
nearly directly over your location).

I, for one, will be happy to finally see a new satellite for CW/SSB!

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/august2013/funcube1_launch_date_announced.htm#.Uih_clKkwuO

http://funcube.org.uk/

N0EDV


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