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Subj: UO-11 Commemorative Event
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From: UA9FBV@UA9FBV.PRM.RUS.AS
To : SAT@AMSAT
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 053.08 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. February 22, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-053.08
On 1 Mar 2004, UO-11 (aka UOSAT-2) will have been in space for 20 years! To mark the event, AMSAT-UK will be issuing a commemorative
QSL card in exchange for listener reports from stations hearing the signals during the month of March 2004. The reports MUST be
made by way of the reporting page on the AMSAT-UK web site (http://www.uk.amsat.org/uo-11).
The QSL card will be in the form of a downloadable "E-QSL". Depending on the numbers of reports received, it MAY be possible to
issue printed QSL cards. A decision will be taken on this when AMSAT-UK can gauge the numbers involved.
UO-11 was the second satellite to be launched by Martin Sweeting's group at the University of Surrey, and its telemetry beacon can
now be heard on the 2 metre and 2.4GHz amateur radio bands (The 2.4 Ghz signal is not very strong and represents quite a challenge).
Depending on the status of the satellite, it sometimes goes into 'safe' mode, and the beacon transmitters are not activated for days
at a time. AMSAT-UK has asked the University of Surrey Ground station staff (who can still command the satellite) to maximise the
number of days the transmitters are active during March, but other duties might preclude them from doing this.
Please pass this information on to anyone who might be interested.
Please see http://www.uk.amsat.org/ for an article and pictures about UO-11, details of the 'rules' for reports, and a link to the
reporting page are at http://www.uk.amsat.org/uo-11 and a sample qsl card (which incorporates the 1984 design) is at
http://www.uk.amsat.org/uo-11/sample_card.php
Further information, questions please post on the UO-11 Forum on the AMSAT-UK web site at http://www.uk.amsat.org/aukbb/index.php
or to g3wgm@amsat.org.
[ANS thanks Jim, G3WGM, for the above information.]
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