Fo 29 Satellite

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Fo 29 satellite.

Fo 29 is also know as jas 2 fuji oscar 29 and have been build in japan. Amateur radio amateur satellite amsat amsat uk aprs ariss arissat 1 ax 25 balloon cubesat cubesats dnepr education es hail 2 esa f 1 fitsat 1 fo 29 fox 1 funcube funcube dongle geostationary hab hackers ham radio hamtv high altitude balloon iaru international space colloquium international space station iss jaxa kicksat lituanicasat 1 lunar. There are primarily two symbols used on the track map the satellite which is identified by it s name and your qth. Uplink for the mode v u j inverting linear transponder is from 145 900 to 146 000 mhz ssb or cw.

They had both gained their us technician licenses equiv uk foundation in february and upgraded to the us general equiv uk intermediate a couple of weeks later. Currently fo 29 is the only ssb mode j satellite. Fuji oscar 20 aka jas 1b and fuji 2 callsign. Japanese h i launch location.

If you don t see your qth symbol submit a pass prediction with the appropriate. The transmission power of the beacon is 100 mw the transponder 1 watt. The downlink is 435 800 to 435 900 mhz. The contact with arthur k4yyl via the fo 29 satellite took place on march 11 2015 at 2100 ut.

Current position of fo 29. Going by the golden rule of manually tuning for doppler on the satellites which is always tune the higher frequency fo 29 can be worked with a semi duplex all mode radio. Satellite tracking for fo 29. In this video youtube user roland zurmely shows communications with the fo 29 amateur satellite using his rtl sdr and a 6 element uhf yagi antenna the fuji oscar 29 fo 29 a k a jas 2 is an amateur radio satellite that allows voice communication via single side band and has a voice downlink frequency of 435 8 mhz and uplink frequency of 145 9 mhz.

Your qth will only appear if you have previously saved it on the pass prediction page. It orbits the earth in a polar orbit at 1300 km altitude in a time of 112 minutes. The cw beacon transmits on 435 795 mhz. February 7 1990 launch vehicle.

8j1jbs nasa catalog number. Fo 29 carries a 100khz wide ssb cw linear transponder that operates in mode v u. Mode j meaning it uses uhf for the downlink and vhf for the uplink. On thursday satellite service provider intelsat announced that one of its communications satellites is now completely lost in orbit above earth rendering the vehicle an unmovable piece of space.

It additionally carries a 1k2 9k6 digital bbs that is no longer operational and a digitalker beacon that transmits a digital voice on fm.