{"id":11043,"date":"2024-09-29T16:53:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T11:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/?p=11043"},"modified":"2024-09-29T16:53:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T11:23:04","slug":"anyone-heard-of-an-amateur-radio-satellite-operating-on-5-ghz-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/anyone-heard-of-an-amateur-radio-satellite-operating-on-5-ghz-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone heard of an amateur radio satellite operating on 5 GHz band?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d88p2mPW83s?si=kZh81OlMKH2vnWD7\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe amateur radio satellites which I have operated so far have uplink and downlink in the VHF and UHF bands. Some of my friends also operate on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/draft.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/1981078711154436267\/4823794441111877068?hl=en#\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;data-original-href&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/geostationary-amateur-radio-satellite\/&quot;,&quot;target&quot;:&quot;_blank&quot;}\">Qatar Oscar 100 Geostationary Amateur Radio Satellite<\/a>\u00a0which has a uplink on 2.4 GHz band and downlink on 10 GHz band. It was only today that I came across a post by\u00a0ZL2BJO on the AMSAT bulletin board mentioning about the 10 GHz downlink of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/draft.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/1981078711154436267\/4823794441111877068?hl=en#\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;data-original-href&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/mailman.amsat.org\/hyperkitty\/list\/amsat-bb@amsat.org\/thread\/7KXPUOBZYWY7MSYP5SXLMOJFATV3XNFU\/&quot;,&quot;target&quot;:&quot;_blank&quot;}\">CatSat<\/a>. As usual, that prompted a read around and soon I came to the webpage of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/draft.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/1981078711154436267\/4823794441111877068?hl=en#\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;data-original-href&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/catsat.arizona.edu\/mission\/ham-radio-community&quot;,&quot;target&quot;:&quot;_blank&quot;}\">The University of Arizona<\/a>\u00a0mentioning about\u00a0HAM Radio Community and CatSat. It has been mentioned that in addition to the 10 GHz primary science\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/draft.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/1981078711154436267\/4823794441111877068?hl=en#\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;data-original-href&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/what-is-a-microstrip-antenna\/&quot;,&quot;target&quot;:&quot;_blank&quot;}\">patch antenna<\/a>\u00a0and radio, CatSat has a 5 GHz patch antenna that will enable the spacecraft to operate for limited periods of time as a linear transponder. It will be possible for radio amateurs based on Earth to communicate through the transponder when it is enabled.<\/p>\n<p>CatSat is a 6U Cubesat measuring 30 x 20 x 10 cm launched on 3rd July 2024 by\u00a0\u00a0Firefly Aerospace&#8217;s Alpha rocket. It has a nearly sun-synchronous polar orbit around the Earth. Just like the International Space Station, it flies around the Earth every 90 minutes. Checked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/draft.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/1981078711154436267\/4823794441111877068?hl=en#\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;data-original-href&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/mail.amsat.org.ar\/pass.htm&quot;,&quot;target&quot;:&quot;_blank&quot;}\">Argentinian Amsat webpage\u00a0<\/a>which I use to track satellite information, but CatSat is not listed there. Though it is there in the drop down for submission on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/draft.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/1981078711154436267\/4823794441111877068?hl=en#\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;data-original-href&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.amsat.org\/status\/index.php&quot;,&quot;target&quot;:&quot;_blank&quot;}\">AMSAT Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page<\/a>, I could not see any reports submitted there.\u00a0Our National Frequency Allocation Plan 2022 mentions &#8220;5 830-5 850 MHz (shared with other services) for amateur and amateur-satellite (space-to-Earth)&#8221;. Wonder whether the CatSat 5GHz linear transponder is in that range. I am hearing of a 5 GHz amateur radio satellite linear transponder for the first time. Would like to hear from anyone who knows more about this unique amateur radio satellite transponder, even though I do not have the setup to listen to it. Not sure whether the high end WebSDRs out there will be able to receive it.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amateur radio satellites which I have operated so far have uplink and downlink in the VHF and UHF bands. Some of my friends also operate on the\u00a0Qatar Oscar 100 Geostationary Amateur Radio Satellite\u00a0which has a uplink on 2.4 GHz band and downlink on 10 GHz band. It was only today that I came across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio-ham-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Anyone heard of an amateur radio satellite operating on 5 GHz band? - Johnson&#039;s Techworld<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/anyone-heard-of-an-amateur-radio-satellite-operating-on-5-ghz-band\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anyone heard of an amateur radio satellite operating on 5 GHz band? - Johnson&#039;s Techworld\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The amateur radio satellites which I have operated so far have uplink and downlink in the VHF and UHF bands. 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