{"id":242566,"date":"2016-08-23T05:32:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T09:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=30586"},"modified":"2016-08-23T05:32:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T09:32:41","slug":"first-contact-via-ham-radio-satellite-ao-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242566","title":{"rendered":"First contact via ham radio satellite AO-85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/getting-started-with-amateur-satellites-2016-front-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-30600\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/getting-started-with-amateur-satellites-2016-front-cover.jpg?w=126&#038;h=150\" alt=\"getting-started-with-amateur-satellites-2016-front-cover\" width=\"126\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>On Saturday, August 13, 2016, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ctjacobs_uk\" >Christian Jacobs 2E0ICL<\/a><\/strong> made his first contact via the amateur radio FM CubeSat <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/satellites\/communications\/ao-85-fox-1a\/\" >AO-85<\/a>, it was with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/2e0sql\/\" ><strong>Peter Goodhall 2E0SQL<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On YouTube Christian writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>First contact over AO-85 with Peter 2E0SQL using a new <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.amsat-uk.org\/ELK_2m70cms_Log_Periodic_Antenna\/p3815740_15628555.aspx\" >Elk antenna<\/a>, a Comet CF-4160 diplexer, and two handheld transceivers. This video also features a portable SO-50 contact with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/M0NPT\" >Abdel M0NPT<\/a><\/strong> at Cow Drove Hill in Hampshire, UK.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Watch First contact via AO-85, and operating \/P from Cow Drove Hill<br \/>\n<iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='593' height='364' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W7pYpwCzZ8E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;autohide=2&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>AO-85 information <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/satellites\/communications\/ao-85-fox-1a\/\" >https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/satellites\/communications\/ao-85-fox-1a\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The book \u2013 <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/06\/27\/getting-started-with-amateur-satellites-2016\/\" >Getting Started with Amateur Satellites<\/a><\/em><\/strong> \u2013 is now available from the AMSAT-UK shop at <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.amsat-uk.org\/\" >http:\/\/shop.amsat-uk.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A popular antenna for satellite working is the Elk 2m\/70cms Log Periodic available in the AMSAT-UK shop at <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.amsat-uk.org\/ELK_2m70cms_Log_Periodic_Antenna\/p3815740_15628555.aspx\" >http:\/\/shop.amsat-uk.org\/ELK_2m70cms_Log_Periodic_Antenna\/p3815740_15628555.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&#038;blog=41081109&#038;%23038;post=30586&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, August 13, 2016, Christian Jacobs 2E0ICL made his first contact via the amateur radio FM CubeSat AO-85, it was with Peter Goodhall 2E0SQL. On YouTube Christian writes: First contact over AO-85 with Peter 2E0SQL using a new Elk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/08\/23\/first-contact-ao-85-2e0icl\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&amp;blog=41081109&amp;post=30586&amp;subd=ukamsat&amp;ref=&amp;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-242566","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\/242566","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=242566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242671,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242566\/revisions\/242671"}],"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=242566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}