{"id":386449,"date":"2017-10-11T08:52:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=31771"},"modified":"2017-10-11T08:52:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:52:52","slug":"geostationary-amateur-radio-transponder-talk-and-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=386449","title":{"rendered":"Geostationary Amateur Radio Transponder Talk and Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_21652\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/coverage-area-of-eshail-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21652\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2014\/03\/22\/geo-transponders-on-eshail-2\/coverage-area-of-eshail-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/coverage-area-of-eshail-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"960,768\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Coverage area of Es&#8217;hail 2\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Coverage area of Es&#8217;hail 2&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/coverage-area-of-eshail-2.jpg?w=300&#038;h=240\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/coverage-area-of-eshail-2.jpg?w=593\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21652\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/coverage-area-of-eshail-2.jpg?w=300&#038;h=240\" alt=\"Coverage area of Es'hail 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/coverage-area-of-eshail-2.jpg?w=300&amp;h=240 300w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/coverage-area-of-eshail-2.jpg?w=600&amp;h=480 600w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/coverage-area-of-eshail-2.jpg?w=150&amp;h=120 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coverage area of Es&#8217;hail 2<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Saturday, October 14 at 1:45pm BST (1245 GMT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amsatdl\"  rel=\"noopener\">AMSAT-DL<\/a> President <strong>Peter Guelzow DB2OS<\/strong> will give a presentation on the <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/satellites\/geosynchronous\/eshail-2\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Es&#8217;hail-2<\/a> Geostationary Satellite Amateur Radio Transponders to the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium in Milton Keynes.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected the presentation will include a demonstration of the P4A transponder simulator. All attendees are welcome to bring any equipment they have for CW\/SSB or DATV for the 2.4 GHz and 10.5 GHz bands. The transponder mimics the real thing: 2400-2410 MHz uplink to 10489.5-10499.5 MHz downlink.<\/p>\n<p>This year the AMSAT-UK Colloquium is taking place as part of the RSGB Convention at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kentshillpark.com\/how-to-find-us\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kents Hill Park Conference Centre<\/a><\/strong>, Timbold Drive, Milton Keynes, MK7 6BZ on the weekend of October 14-15. Tickets to the event are available at the door or you can book in advance at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/rsgb-convention\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/rsgb-convention\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Colloquium is talking place in Lecture Room 5, download the programme schedule from<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/rsgb-convention\/rsgb-convention-programme\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/rsgb-convention\/rsgb-convention-programme\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Live streaming of Colloquium talks <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2017\/10\/11\/live-streaming-space-colloquium-mk\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2017\/10\/11\/live-streaming-space-colloquium-mk\/<\/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=31771&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, October 14 at 1:45pm BST (1245 GMT) AMSAT-DL President Peter Guelzow DB2OS will give a presentation on the Es&rsquo;hail-2 Geostationary Satellite Amateur Radio Transponders to the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium in Milton Keynes. It is expected the presentation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2017\/10\/11\/geostationary-amateur-radio-transponder-talk\/\">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=31771&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-386449","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\/386449","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=386449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391982,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386449\/revisions\/391982"}],"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=386449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}