{"id":481185,"date":"2018-05-30T15:11:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T19:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=32212"},"modified":"2018-05-30T15:11:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T19:11:55","slug":"amateur-radio-satellites-in-tx-factor-show-episode-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=481185","title":{"rendered":"Amateur radio satellites in TX Factor Show episode 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In episode 21 of the TX Factor show <strong>Bob McCreadie G0FGX<\/strong> and <strong>Mike Marsh G1IAR<\/strong> discuss the linear (SSB\/CW) amateur radio satellites and give a demonstration with the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/satellites\/communications\/camsat-xw-2\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">CAMSAT XW-2F satellite<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>They also review the new Icom IC-7610 transceiver, and look at programming your SDR handie and running a SharkRF openSPOT digital radio IP gateway.<\/p>\n<p>As always, in their free-to-enter draw, there\u2019s a chance to win two great amateur radio-related items &#8211; a Prism dust cover for your rig, and a copy of the book &#8220;Amsats and HamSats&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Bob and Mike discuss satellites near the start of the show and towards the end at 48:08 they give a live demonstration of the CAMSAT XW-2F SSB transponder satellite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Watch TX Factor &#8211; Episode 21 (TXF021)<br \/>\n<iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='593' height='364' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JzV7hqDT6us?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>CAMSAT XW-2 Satellites <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/satellites\/communications\/camsat-xw-2\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/satellites\/communications\/camsat-xw-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AMSAT-UK: <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmsatUK\"  rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmsatUK<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/AmsatUK\"  rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/facebook.com\/AmsatUK<\/a><br \/>\nYouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/AmsatUK\"  rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/AmsatUK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In episode 21 of the TX Factor show Bob McCreadie G0FGX and Mike Marsh G1IAR discuss the linear (SSB\/CW) amateur radio satellites and give a demonstration with the CAMSAT XW-2F satellite. They also review the new Icom IC-7610 transceiver, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2018\/05\/30\/satellites-tx-factor-21\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-481185","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\/481185","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=481185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481187,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481185\/revisions\/481187"}],"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=481185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}