The PDF article below, written by John Heath G7HIA, was published by the Radio Society of Great Britain in the March 2007 edition of RadCom.
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AMSAT-NA will be present at the 2011 Dayton Hamvention with the theme of ‘Providing Education Through Amateur Satellites’.
The Hamvention takes place May 20-22 and there will be multiple exhibits of the new AMSAT satellites on display.
The AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle Software Defined Radio will be shown decoding CW and BPSK telemetry from a prototype of the ARISSat-1 satellite due to be deployed from the International Space Station in July.
In addition to the CW and BPSK the prototype satellite will also be transmitting FM on 145.950 MHz so that Hamvention visitors can hear it on their HT’s.
AMSAT will be in Booths 444-449 in the Ball Arena, right across from the ARRL area and just inside the door from the Satellite Demonstration area.
The AMSAT Forum takes place Saturday May 21. Moderated by Alan Biddle, WA4SCA you will have a chance to hear and see the latest news of amateur radio in space.
• AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW will present an AMSAT Status Report
• Alan Kung, BA1DU, CEO of AMSAT-China, will discuss the activities of AMSAT-China.
• Project Manager for ARISSat-1, Gould Smith, WA4SXM, will talk about its operation aboard the ISS, and the planned deployment and operations this summer.
• Tony Monteiro, AA2TX, will discuss the design and status of Project-FOX.
• Alex Harvilchuck, N3NP, will present NextGen CubeSat Program Update.
Further information can be found on the AMSAT-NA website athttp://www.AMSAT.org/
AMSAT Vice-President of Operations Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA reported
the AO-51 Command Team is having a difficult time trying to restore
AO-51 to operation.
Amsat-echo51
The current situation is the satellite will not retain the upload of
the flight software across eclipse. The batteries are in very poor
condition.
ARISSat-1 is scheduled for deployment from the ISS next Wednesday Feb 16 – it has a composite VHF downlink that will easily fit into the FUNcube Dongle receive spectrum. The telemetry is 1 kbit BPSK and can, of course, also be received with a normal SSB 2 metre receiver.
The expected signal levels from ARISSat should be similar to those we expect from FUNcube itself (and also eventually from UKube) and the team are keen to discover what will be the minimum and best type of antennas for schools to use with a FCD. Therefore user experience with the ARISSat signals will be very valuable in making this determination.
AMSAT-UK 
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