Tag Archives: D-STAR

Jan 15 2012

Student D-STAR Satellite to Launch in 2012

Students at workStudents at the University of Liege are hoping their D-Star GMSK satellite OUFTI-1 will be launched towards the end of this year.

An update on the satellite is published in the January 2012  issue of the OUFTI-1 newsletter at
http://www.leodium.ulg.ac.be/cmsms/uploads/OUFTI-1%20Newsletter%204.pdf

The satellite will have uplinks in the 145 MHz band and downlinks on 435.015 and 435.045 MHz.

OUFTI-1 http://www.leodium.ulg.ac.be/cmsms/

Professor Jacques Verly ON9CWD (Montefiore Institute) and Amandine Denis ON4EYA, Head of Project OUFTI (LTAS) with the flight model (structure) of OUFTI-1 - Image credit ESA

Professor Jacques Verly ON9CWD (Montefiore Institute) and Amandine Denis ON4EYA, Head of Project OUFTI (LTAS) with the flight model (structure) of OUFTI-1 – Image credit ESA

Oct 5 2011

ARI Amateur Radio Satellite Meeting Report

The 8th Italian Amateur Radio Association (ARI) satellite meeting was held at the Joseph Hotel in Marina di Pietrasanta (Lu) on September 18, 2011.

The meeting was open to everyone and offered an agenda that covered current amateur radio satellite issues as well as technical lectures.

The presentation by ARI satellite manager, Roberto IW5BSF,  covered the problem of  interference to the Amateur Radio satellites from FM and Digital D-STAR repeaters operating in the Amateur Satellite service segments of the 2m and 70cm bands.

A PDF report of the meeting in English can be seen here, pictures can be seen here.

Italian Amateur Radio Association (ARI) Satellite page in Google English http://tinyurl.com/ARIsatellite and in Italian here.