IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination |
Cape IV-GTO | Updated: 23 May 2022 | Responsible Operator | Nick Pugh K5QXJ | |
Supporting Organisation | University of Louisiana Lafayette | |||
Contact Person | K5qxj@amsat.org.nospam | |||
Headline Details: A Picosat of 100x100x20mm.The 1st mission is to teach by doing to design, build, test, launch and operate satellite on orbit. The second mission is to reach out to high schools in the area to design and operate devices in orbit. This will train students in radio communications and encourage STEM. All of the schools involved in this project will have students obtain an FCC license. As they design the satellite, they have obtained skill to design and operate radio device place in orbit. This mission is in full Compliance with the FCC rules 97.1 (c) Encouragement and improvement of the amateur service through rules which provide for advancing skills in both the communication and technical phases of the art. This radio protocol will be open source and the university will publish easy to use software for use by the world wide amateur community. Proposing LoRa comms using 10.3 Fd1 18bps. More info at https://ee.louisiana.edu/research/cape No launch info ye available but planning a 36000 x 200 km orbit. **Downlinks on 145.825 MHz, 145.990 MHz (spare) and 437.325 MHz have been coordinated** ** Notified change to low earth orbit** | ||||
Application Date: | 25 May 2021 | Freq coordination completed on | 03 Aug 2021 |
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