JY1SAT CubeSAT Pre-Launch Integration Video

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Wouter Weggelaar, PA3WEG posted a video showing flight preparations for the JY1SAT cubesat, along with its other cubesat launch mates in the QuadPack deployment system at Netherlands-based ISIS-Innovative Solutions In Space:

JY1SAT is a one unit CubeSat, dedicated to the memory of His Majesty the late King Hussein, the first founder of the HAM Radio in Jordan and holder of call sign JY1. This will be Jordan's first satellite.

JY1SAT is a one unit CubeSat, dedicated to the memory of His Majesty the late King Hussein, the first founder of the HAM Radio in Jordan and holder of call sign JY1. This will be Jordan's first satellite.

JY1SAT is a one unit CubeSat, dedicated to the memory of His Majesty the late King Hussein, the first founder of the HAM Radio in Jordan and holder of call sign JY1. This will be Jordan's first satellite.

JY1SAT is a one unit CubeSat, dedicated to the memory of His Majesty the late King Hussein, the first founder of the HAM Radio in Jordan and holder of call sign JY1. This will be Jordan's first satellite.

JY1SAT contains the AMSAT-UK FUNcube-6 communications transponder with expanded capabilities to be able to transmit stored images reflecting the Jordanian culture and its historical heritage, along with a voice message recorded by the Crown Prince to be transmitted in space to receivers around the world.

Frequencies for the JY1SAT FUNcube-6 transponder include:

  • Uplink: 435.100 - 435.120 MHz CW, LSB

  • Downlink: 145.855 - 145.875 MHz CW, USB

  • Telemetry:145.840 MHz (FUNcube BPSK format; new Dashboard software will be made available)

JYISAT will transmit pre-stored images of the Kingdom which have been selected by a national competition. These images will be downlinked using a SSDV digital format.

So What Has the IARU Ever Done for Us?

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The RSGB have released the presentation given by IARU-R1 President Don Beattie G3BJ to the RSGB Convention in Milton Keynes on 13th October 2018
So what has the IARU ever done for us?

What the IARU is and what it does is not well known to radio amateurs. In this talk, Don describes what IARU is doing, how the challenges of representing amateur radio globally are changing, and what the world would be like without IARU.

He explains the work done on current threats to amateur spectrum allocations – including Wireless Power Transmission - and describes some of the “doomsday” scenarios if IARU is not successful.