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  • AO-91 Commissioned, Declared Open for Amateur Use!

    From ARRL de WD1CKS@VERT/WLARB to QST on Thu Nov 23 15:41:12 2017
    Subject: AO-91 Commissioned, Declared Open for Amateur Use!
    @VIA: WLARB
    @MSGID: <5A16EC18.3434.dove-ham@wd1cks.org>
    11/23/2017

    AMSAT-NA's latest Amateur Radio CubeSat, RadFxSat (Fox-1B), now known as AO-91, has been opened for general use. AMSAT Engineering officially announced that AO-91 was ready for use at 0650 UTC on Thanksgiving Day, November 23. AMSAT VP of Engineering, Jerry Buxton, N0JY, turned over operation to Mark Hammond, N8MH, and AMSAT Operations during a contact on the AO-91 repeater during the pass over the Eastern US, AMSAT said in a bulletin.

    The latest CubeSat in the Fox series was launched on November 18 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Telemetry is downlinked via the DUV sub-audible telemetry stream, which can be decoded using FoxTelem[1]software. A 1U CubeSat, RadFxSat (Fox-1B) is a joint mission of AMSAT and the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics (ISDE[2]) at Vanderbilt University. AMSAT constructed the rest of the satellite, including the spaceframe, on-board computer, and power system.

    The Amateur Radio package is similar to that on AO-85, with an uplink on 435.250 MHz (67.0 Hz CTCSS) and a downlink on 145.960 MHz. - Thanks to AMSAT News Service


    [1] https://www.amsat.org/foxtelem-software-for-windows-mac-linux/
    [2] http://www.isde.vanderbilt.edu/

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