AMSAT - The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation

These headlines will come to you in a moment, along with this week's special features.

We'll visit with Bruce Page, KK5DO, and get an update from AMSAT, and what's new with all those amateur satellites in orbit.

Australia's own Ono Benshop, VK6FLAB, will present his 800th edition of Foundations of Amateur Radio in a discussion called 800 Reflections on the Hobby.

Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of Dead Electrical Dudes.

See this week's ARRL letter for additional details.

I'm Rich Moses on W2VU.

The first successful amateur radio EVE transmissions were made by Germany's AMSAT-DL in 2009, a feat not repeated until 2025 by members of the C.A. Mueller Radio Astronomy Station Foundation at the Duenglu Radio Telescope PI-9RD in the Netherlands.

The signal was simply a long tone transmitted on 1299.5 MHz, with the echo received back at Dwingelu and at the Stockert radio telescope in Germany.

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Now with this week's satellite news, here's AMSAT's Bruce Page, KK5DO.

Bruce?

Thanks, Rich.

We have three new satellites that were built by teams from AMSAT Germany.

They are pocket cubes, about the size of a Rubik's Cube.

They were launched on October 1st, about a week before they were scheduled.

All carry pre-stored SSTV images and a digipeter.

These headlines will come to you in a moment, along with this week's special features.

We'll visit with Bruce Page, KK5DO, and get an update from AMSAT on what's new with all those amateur satellites in orbit.

Australia's own Ono Binshop, VK6FLAB, and Foundations of Amateur Radio will discuss what IQ has to do with amateur radio.

It's time to poke the bear.

according to the kensat website the satellite is using language models known as gemma 3 which thinks in space and beams the answers back to anyone listening the international amateur radio union coordinated a downlink of 437.08 for the cubesat which is using the same u.s call sign ko6ikz the downlink uses gfsk modulation with ax25 and g3r uh framing Chan said he hoped KENSAT would inspire other experimenters to attempt independent CubeSat developments.

He also said he hoped HAMS would be listening for the UHF transmissions as KENSAT makes its way in low Earth orbit.

Meeting in Jacksonville, Florida on Thursday, October 8th, ahead of the 44th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting, the AMSAT Board of Directors re-elected the organization's senior officers for the coming year.

Drew Glassbrenner, Kilo Oscar IV, Mike Alpha was re-elected president.

For more details, see this week's ARRL letter.

Now with this week's satellite news, here's AMSAT's Bruce Page, KK5DO.

Bruce?

Thanks, Rich.

At the AMSAT symposium a few weeks back, new features were announced for the CubeSat SIM, versions 2.2 and 2.3. Make the low-cost, open-source simulator an even more versatile tool for learning about satellite communications.

One major addition is PACSAP mode, which simulates a packet radio satellite that can store and forward digital messages and files between ground stations.

Another improvement is simulated Doppler shift, which reproduces the changing radio frequency experienced as a satellite passes overhead.