IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination
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IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination |
| CAPE-Twiggs Cubesat | Updated: 11 Oct 2026 | Responsible Operator | Garth Likens KJ5GYK | |
| Supporting Organisation | University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | |||
| Contact Person | garthlikens89@gmail.com.nospam | |||
| Headline Details: All schools involved in this project will have students obtain an FCC Amateur Radio license. As they design satellites, they have obtained the skills to design and operate radio devices placed 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[D The spacecraft is a 3U CubeSat bus that accommodates a modular array of SlimSat Module payload cards. Overall 113 X 113 X 16.214(21slimsats) – 28.375(12slimsats) mm Proposing UHF and S Band downlinks using Chirp spread spectrum Adaptively adjustable between SF 5 and SF 12, default is SF10. At 83.34kHz SF10-> 651.1 bps. 83.34kHz SF5 -> 10.42 kbps. No launch details have been provided. More info at https://ee.louisiana.edu/research/cape | ||||
| Application Date: | 23 Sep 2026 | Freq coordination completed on | ||
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