AMSAT - The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation
The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, or AMSAT, is a worldwide group of Amateur Radio Operators. AMSAT’s goal is to foster Amateur Radio’s participation in space research and communication. The Organization was founded to continue the efforts, begun in 1961, by Project OSCAR, a west coast USA-based group which built and launched the very first Amateur Radio satellite, OSCAR, on December 12, 1961, barely four years after the launch of Russia’s first Sputnik. Today, the “home-brew” flavor of these early Amateur Radio satellites lives on, as most of the hardware and software now flying on even the most advanced AMSAT satellites is still largely the product of volunteer effort and donated resources. Though we are fond of traditions our designs and technology continue to push the outside of the envelope.www.amsat.org
23
MENTIONS
9
EPISODES
5
PODCASTS
Search complete. 23 mentions across 9 episodes found for "AMSAT - The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation".
Sep 18, 2026
Rich MosesonHOST
W1AW Portable 5 in New Mexico, hosted by KA8JMW, W1AW Portable 0 in South Dakota, hosted by K0BBC, and W1AW Portable 1 in Connecticut, hosted by W8ZY.
Rich MosesonHOST
And now for this week's satellite report, we turn the mic over to AMSAT's Bruce Page, KK5DO.
Rich MosesonHOST
Bruce? Thanks, Rich.
Bruce PageCORRESPONDENT
Did you know that besides earning ARRL Worked All States, ARRL VUCC, and the ARRL DXCC on satellite, AMSAT has a few awards as well.
Bruce PageCORRESPONDENT
The first one is for making your very first satellite contact.
Bruce PageCORRESPONDENT
Next, there are three awards that build on each other.
Bruce PageCORRESPONDENT
It takes 20 contacts for the Oscar Satellite Communications Achievement Award, 40 more for the Satellite Communications Excessimal Award, and 40 more for the Satellite Communication Century Award.
Bruce PageCORRESPONDENT
There's a South Africa Communication Achievement Award for working 25 different call signs on LEO satellites.
speaker_2NARRATOR
ARRL letter.
speaker_2NARRATOR
And now with this week's AMSAT report,
Rich MosesHOST
here's Bruce Page, KK5DO.
Bruce PageCORRESPONDENT
Bruce? Thanks, Rich.
Bruce PageCORRESPONDENT
Just a quick reminder for those that are in the Jacksonville, Florida area or traveling there.
Bruce PageCORRESPONDENT
The 44th AMSAT Space Symposium will be held in just a few weeks, October 8th through the 11th.
Bruce PageCORRESPONDENT
It is always a great time to make an eyeball CUSO with those you work on the satellites and learn about what is happening with the engineers and current projects.
Bruce PageCORRESPONDENT
Also, if you're in the area and need to have some QSL cards checked for your ARRL Worked All States, ARRL VUCC, or ARRL DXCC, I would be happy to check those cards for you.
AaronUNKNOWN
I was wondering if Net Control knows how to do a harness for circular polarized Yagis.
AaronUNKNOWN
I'm trying to combine two Arrow 2 Yagis for a circular polarized, two circular polarized Yagis for my AMSAT station.
VirgilHOST
All righty.
VirgilHOST
Uh, uh, no, I don't.
Rich MosesonHOST
Members must log in to the ARRL website to complete the survey at www.arrl.org forward slash Alabama hyphen survey.
Rich MosesonHOST
And now, for this week's satellite report, we turn the mic over to AMSAT's Bruce Page, KK5DO.
Rich MosesonHOST
Bruce?
Bruce PageCORRESPONDENT
Thanks, Rich.
John RossHOST
If you teach or plan to teach amateur radio licensing classes, register today for the ARRL National Instructor Program and join a community helping prepare the next generation of amateur radio operators.
John RossHOST
Bruce Page, KK5DO, is here now with this week's AMSAT report.
John RossHOST
Bruce?
Bruce PageCORRESPONDENT
Thanks, John.
Bruce PageCORRESPONDENT
There's much more.
Bruce PageCORRESPONDENT
You can beta test it using Apple's test flight and an invitation code from Paul.
Bruce PageCORRESPONDENT
Drop him an email if interested, nhm at ARRL.net. Then from Vasco, CT10Y, he wrote HAMSAT.
Bruce PageCORRESPONDENT
The new release, 2.1, has some great features.
Don WilbanksCORRESPONDENT
Our 2026 recipient, Karsten Glassbrenner, KQ4SJM, is a perfect reflection of that.
Don WilbanksCORRESPONDENT
Licensed at age 11, now 14, and a general, Karsten has over 100 satellite contacts and is an AMSAT North America ambassador, thanks in large part to his father, Drew Glassbrenner, KO4MA, AMSAT North America president.
Don WilbanksCORRESPONDENT
Here are Karsten's remarks.
Karsten GlassbrennerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Thank you.
Don WilbanksCORRESPONDENT
You're now part of the Newsline family, and we could not be more proud.
Don WilbanksCORRESPONDENT
I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW.
Paul BrownHOST
With thanks to the Alabama Contest Group, Amateur Radio Daily, Amateur Radio Digital Communications, AMSAT News, the AMSAT UK, Caxton Network News, David Behar, K7DB, 425DX Bulletin, the FCC, Fife Today, LightReading.com, Maryland Mobileers Amateur Radio Club, Military Intelligence Brigade, QRZ.com, the Wireless Institute of Australia, Zero Retries Newsletter, and you, our listeners.
Paul BrownHOST
That's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.
AaronGUEST
Thanks for having me on the net.
AaronGUEST
How I got into ham radio, a friend recommended it to me, and I got licensed in January, and I've been doing AMSAT stuff, so that's been fun.
AaronGUEST
This is KE9ETA.
ChrisHOST
All right, KE9ETA, V3RWJ, and the Absolute TechNet.
ChrisHOST
All right, Aaron.
ChrisHOST
Well, you're the first person to mention AMSAT, so can you tell us what your setup is like? Are you doing the FM satellites, maybe some of the other ones? What's your equipment like for satellites?
AaronGUEST
Yeah, I got an ICOM 9700 Yasuo a G5500 for a rotor, a SAT controller for the rotor, and I built it just so it could be deployed for field day.
AaronGUEST
All right.
MikePANELIST
But thanks to the integration we have in today's radios, we have hardware that's available to keep track of, um...
MikePANELIST
We see common frequency on the moon, but AMSAT's always said common frequency on the satellite as well, and you can go read all about that.
MikePANELIST
But the CSN technology hardware that, uh, Frank and, and Mike and Keith are gonna talk about today has given us an incredible plug-and-play solution that I want them to elaborate on, where you can buy this black box, you hook it up to a USB cable, you connect it to your Wi-Fi, you plug it into the back of your 9700, which I believe, uh, Michael, was one of the first things you integrated it with.
MikeGUEST
Correct.
15 MINS LATER
MikeGUEST
Uh, we've had Zoom calls with customers that found bugs for us.
MikeGUEST
We've had Zoom calls with customers that have gave us, um, great, um, ideas and different things.
MikeGUEST
Uh, we have the, uh, the AMSAT field day team that made a couple of suggestions, and the AMSAT team uses the Sat Tracker, uh, to, to score many points on, on field day.
MikeGUEST
We have schools that are using the SAT to make the, um, ARIS contacts with the space station.