{"id":624662,"date":"2019-07-19T11:55:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T15:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624662"},"modified":"2019-07-19T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T15:55:16","slug":"icelands-ira-buys-qatar-oscar-100-and-aprs-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624662","title":{"rendered":"Iceland\u2019s IRA buys Qatar Oscar 100 and APRS equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Es'hail-2<\/a>The Board of Directors of Iceland\u2019s nation amateur radio society, the IRA<\/a><\/strong>, has authorized the purchase of equipment to operate via the amateur radio transponder on the QO-100<\/a><\/strong> (Es\u2019hail 2) geostationary satellite.<\/p>\n

A translation of the IRA post reads:<\/p>\n

The Board of Directors of \u00cdRA recently agreed to authorize the Fund to purchase the following equipment from Microsat in Poland:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Microsat WX3in1 Mini APRS Advanced Digipeater \/ I-gate (2 pcs.)
\n\u2022 PLXDigi \u2013 APRS Digipeater (2 pcs.)<\/p>\n

Gu\u00f0mundur Sigur\u00f0sson, TF3GS, submitted a request to the company on the APRS group. He says the equipment will seal the system and increase the quality and usability of the system, including utilizing the Motorola GM-300 terminal, which recently received eight such stations. The installation includes, among other things, installation of I-gate in Akureyri and Digipeater on \u00deorbj\u00f6rn near Grindav\u00edk.<\/p>\n

At the same meeting, the acquisition of QO-100 transverter from PE1CMO<\/a><\/strong> in the Netherlands was further authorized; \u201cA complete transverter with a 25 MHz reference oscillator for the LNB, a downlink converter from 739 to 432 MHz and an upconverter from 432 to 2400 MHz, double filtered and a 20 Watt amplifier.\u201d Ari \u00de\u00f3r\u00f3lfur J\u00f3hannesson, TF1A, VHF manager of the company, negotiated a discount price for the company at Ham Radio show 2019 in Friedrichshafen.<\/p>\n

The APRS equipment costs about 45 thous. kr\u00f3nur and the Oscar-100 equipment by 118 thous. kr\u00f3nur (with accessories and connectors). The stated price includes transportation and charges in Iceland.<\/p>\n

Source IRA https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/IcelandIRA<\/a><\/p>\n

PE1CMO amateur radio products
\nhttp:\/\/hfprints.com\/pe1cmo\/rc_images\/pe1cmo_products.pdf<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/Pe1Cmo<\/a><\/p>\n

QO-100 (Es\u2019hail-2) information https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/satellites\/geo\/eshail-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n Click here for original story, Iceland\u2019s IRA buys Qatar Oscar 100 and APRS equipment<\/a>
\n
\n
\nSource: Amsat UK <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Board of Directors of Iceland\u2019s nation amateur radio society, the IRA, has authorized the purchase of equipment to operate via the amateur radio transponder on the QO-100 (Es\u2019hail 2)… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624662","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\/624662","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624662\/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=624662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}