{"id":235364,"date":"2015-10-09T12:39:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T16:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=26969"},"modified":"2015-10-09T12:39:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T16:39:05","slug":"ao-85-fox-1a-fm-voice-transponder-activated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=235364","title":{"rendered":"AO-85 (Fox-1A) FM Voice Transponder Activated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_26973\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/keen-amateur-satellite-operator-hope-km4ipf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26973\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/keen-amateur-satellite-operator-hope-km4ipf.jpg?w=640&#038;h=480\" alt=\"Keen amateur satellite operator Hope KM4IPF\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keen amateur satellite operator Hope KM4IPF<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 435 to 145 MHz FM voice transponder on AO-85 was activated during Friday, October 9 allowing many contacts to be made. Among those active on the satellite was 9-year-old <strong>Hope KM4IPF<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Hope is the daughter of <strong>Michelle N8ZQZ<\/strong> and <strong>James WX4TV<\/strong>, other radio amateurs in the family are Hope&#8217;s elder sister <strong>Faith WA4BBC<\/strong> and brother <strong>Zechariah WX4TVJ<\/strong>, her\u00a0younger sister is studying for her licence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">In this video Hope KM4IPF describes her first AO-85 (Fox-1A) contact<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/141916942\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Fox-1A Real-time track and Orbital Predictions (click on <em>Draw Footprint<\/em> to show coverage area)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.n2yo.com\/?s=40967\" >http:\/\/www.n2yo.com\/?s=40967<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the Fox Operating Guide to find out how to set up your handheld radio to work the satellite<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amsat.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FoxOperatingGuide_May2015_Hi.pdf\" >http:\/\/www.amsat.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FoxOperatingGuide_May2015_Hi.pdf<\/a><br \/>\nNote: If your rig has selectable FM filters use the wider filter for 5 kHz deviation 25 kHz channel spacing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amsat.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AMSAT_Journal_Fox_Launch_Special_Issue.pdf\" >Download your free copy of the AMSAT Journal Fox-1A Launch special issue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fox-1A Launched <a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2015\/10\/07\/fox-1a-launch\/\" >http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2015\/10\/07\/fox-1a-launch\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jerry Buxton, N0JY talking about Fox-1A on NASA TV<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2015\/10\/07\/radio-amateurs-on-nasa-tv\/\" >http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2015\/10\/07\/radio-amateurs-on-nasa-tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&#038;blog=41081109&#038;post=26969&#038;subd=ukamsat&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 435 to 145 MHz FM voice transponder on AO-85 was activated during Friday, October 9 allowing many contacts to be made. Among those active on the satellite was 9-year-old Hope KM4IPF. Hope is the daughter of Michelle N8ZQZ and &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2015\/10\/09\/fox-1a-fm-transponder-activated\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&#038;blog=41081109&#038;post=26969&#038;subd=ukamsat&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-AMSAT"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}