{"id":18781,"date":"2017-11-24T16:17:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T16:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=18781"},"modified":"2017-11-24T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T16:17:23","slug":"new-fm-repeater-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2017\/11\/24\/new-fm-repeater-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"New FM repeater satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new easy-to-use amateur radio satellite was launched last weekend and was switched on for general use on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>AO-91, also known as RadFxSat and Fox-1B is a Cubesat that carries an FM transponder.<\/p>\n<p>The uplink is on 435.250MHz FM, plus or minus Doppler, with a mandatory 67Hz CTCSS tone for access.<\/p>\n<p>The downlink is on 145.960MHz FM.<\/p>\n<p>The present position of the satellite can be seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.n2yo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.n2yo.com<\/a> and all amateurs are invited to listen out for the bird.<\/p>\n<p>The northernmost point of its orbit periodically passes roughly over Bedford, meaning that it will give good service over the whole of the British Isles, Europe, and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Full details about the satellite <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2017\/11\/18\/radfxsat-fox-1b-ao-91\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are on the AMSAT-UK website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By coincidence, another AMSAT mission, FUNcube-1, also known as AO-73, celebrated its fourth birthday in space this week.<\/p>\n<p>It has travelled well over 500 million miles in orbit since launch and been received tens of thousands of times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new easy-to-use amateur radio satellite was launched last weekend and was switched on for general use on Thursday. AO-91, also known as RadFxSat and Fox-1B is a Cubesat that carries an FM transponder. The uplink is on 435.250MHz FM, plus or minus Doppler, with a mandatory 67Hz CTCSS tone for access. The downlink is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}