Saudisat 1C --SO-50--

DEPNER Launch of December 20, 2002 más fotos aquí

Hace unos dias, se puso en funcionamiento un nuevo satélite para los radioaficionados, se le llama Saudisat 1c , pero he leido que su nombre oficial será SO-50.

Trabaja en FM en modo J

Uplink: 145.850

Dowlink 436.800

El único problema es que se ha de excitar con un tono de 67 hz y no con los usuales 1750 hz en Europa.

El método para trabajarlo es idéntico a los UO-14 o AO-27 (personalmente aún no lo he provado).

Los keps se encuenran en:

http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt

Los Keps aparecen como SAUDISAT 1C

Aqui teneis la carta que lo explica:

Robin Haighton, VE3FRH, and AMSAT-NA President is pleased to announce that
he has received the following E-mail from Saudi Arabia.

Dear Mr. Robin Haighton,

We are pleased to inform you that the Space Research Institute of KACST
has successfully launched its third spacecraft, SaudiSat-1C. The launch
and separation were accomplished flawlessly on December 20th, 2002, using
a modified SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile.

SaudiSat-1C carries several experiments, including a new mode J FM
amateur repeater experiment operating on 145.850 MHz uplink and
436.800 MHz downlink. The repeater was activated and tested this past
week, and we are pleased to make it available to your members and
amateurs worldwide as power permits. The repeater is accessible using a
67.0 Hertz tone on the uplink, for on-demand activation.

The receive antenna is a single element quarter wave whip on top of the
spacecraft, feeding a VHF receiver with -124 dBm sensitivity, while the
UHF transmitter is coupled to a quarter wave antenna element on the
bottom of the spacecraft, radiating 250mW of RF energy.

We kindly request a new Saudi Oscar designator for our spacecraft.

73,
Turki Al Saud
Director, Space Research Institute.
KACST.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia