{"id":696569,"date":"2021-07-20T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=696569"},"modified":"2021-07-20T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T16:25:00","slug":"ao-109-radfxsat-2-amsat-fox-1e-open-for-amateur-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=696569","title":{"rendered":"AO-109 (RadFxSat-2\/AMSAT Fox-1E) Open for Amateur Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMSAT\u2019s Engineering and Operations Teams have announced that AO-109 (RadFxSat-2\/AMSAT Fox-1E) is now open for amateur use. AMSAT advises operators to use efficient modes for making contacts, such as CW or FT4, because issues with the satellite make SSB voice contacts \u201cchallenging at best.\u201d An article in the May\/June 2021 issue (Vol. 44, No. 3) of <i>The AMSAT Journal<\/i> details the various attempts t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/ao-109-radfxsat-2-amsat-fox-1e-open-for-amateur-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">AO-109 (RadFxSat-2\/AMSAT Fox-1E) Open for Amateur Use<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ARRL&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMSAT\u2019s Engineering and Operations Teams have announced that AO-109 (RadFxSat-2\/AMSAT Fox-1E) is now open for amateur use. AMSAT advises operators to use efficient modes for making contacts, such as CW&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ARRL"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696569","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=696569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696569\/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=696569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}