{"id":525313,"date":"2018-09-24T09:45:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T13:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=32324"},"modified":"2018-09-24T09:45:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T13:45:26","slug":"exseedsat-amateur-radio-fm-transponder-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=525313","title":{"rendered":"ExseedSat amateur radio FM transponder satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Gurudatta<\/a><\/p>\n

Gurudatta Panda VU3GDP with ExseedSat – Credit The Hindu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Hindu newspaper interviews<\/a> radio amateur Gurudatta Panda VU3GDP<\/strong> about the ExseedSat CubeSat built by an eight-person team at the Hyderabad-based Exseed Space Private Limited that was co-founded by Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

ExseedSat carries an amateur radio FM transponder and APRS digipeater and is expected to be launched by SpaceX towards the end of 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis satellite will serve the ham or the amateur radio community. As a result, it will be of great help during natural calamities, when conventional communication services get disrupted,\u201d Gurudatta Panda VU3GDP said.<\/p>\n

After the launch, this artificial satellite will be on a polar orbit with two passes over India everyday. The public will be able to receive this artificial satellite\u2019s beacon on 145.900 MHz FM using a TV tuner and USB dongle, Mr. Panda added.<\/p>\n

He said the eight-member team involved in construction of the small private satellite involved four technocrats and four managerial staff members.<\/p>\n

He and Exseed Space co-founder Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE were the communication engineers who played a key role in building the satellite.<\/p>\n

Read The Hindu story at https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/odisha-man-team-builds-private-satellite\/article24963338.ece<\/a><\/p>\n

IARU information http:\/\/www.amsatuk.me.uk\/iaru\/formal_detail.php?serialnum=636<\/a><\/p>\n

Gurudatta Panda VU3GDP http:\/\/gurudattabam.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE http:\/\/hfsignals.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hindu newspaper interviews radio amateur Gurudatta Panda VU3GDP about the ExseedSat CubeSat built by an eight-person team at the Hyderabad-based Exseed Space Private Limited that was co-founded by Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE. ExseedSat carries an amateur radio FM transponder and … Continue reading →<\/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-525313","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\/525313","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=525313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525314,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525313\/revisions\/525314"}],"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=525313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}