[amsat-bb] Re: [Mw] Satellite to carry Amateur Radio 5840.00 MHztelemetry beacon

[Graham Shirville]

Hi Stan,

The website http://www.unisec.jp/unitec-1/en/cooperation.html gives quite a 
lot of info as well...if you wish to make direct contact then you can email 
Naomi Kurahara<703kurahara at gmail.com>

73

Graham G3VZV
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stan" <stan at capecod.com>
To: "Trevor ." <m5aka at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: <microwave at lists.eclectechs.com>; "Amsat Reflector" 
<amsat-bb at amsat.org>; "Stephen Hicks, N5AC" <n5ac at n5ac.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 3:25 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: [Mw] Satellite to carry Amateur Radio 5840.00 
MHztelemetry beacon


> This satellite holds some promise of a decent and doable microwave
> technical challenge.
>
> It will be possible to use our 5760 Transverters for a RX only
> application, maybe with minor tweaking.
>
> The LO is 5616 MHz, with the RF of 5840 MHz, the IF is 224 MHz, right in
> the US 222 MHz band.
>
> Maybe with a bigger dish, and a very low noise figure preamplifier,
> optimized at 5840 MHz,
> we could be in the UNITEC-1 deep space telemetry collection business.
>
> The DEMI A32 LO  with an external 10 MHz reference, can add the
> frequency stability needed.
> Or maybe Steve, N5AC, can preprogramm the A32 for a 5,840-145= 5,695 / 5
> = 1,139.0 MHz
>
> A reasonable challenge this winter morning, as I sip my lukewarm tea at
> the dining room table.
>
> But more questions are raised:
>
> 1. Keplerian elements are great for satellites, but once UNITEC1 enters
> deep space,
> what do we use to calculate and predict the path for our accurate tracking 
> ?
>
> 2. Is there anything special about the modulation scheme ?
>
> Stan, W1LE     Cape Cod    FN41sr
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Trevor . wrote:
>> On May 20 Japan is planning to launch four "CubeSats". The largest of 
>> them, UNITEC-1, will carry a 15 watt Amateur Radio 5840.00 MHz telemetry 
>> beacon and travel into deep space towards Venus
>>
>> Three of the satellites will carry Amateur Radio payloads. On the AMSAT 
>> bulletin board Mineo Wakita JE9PEL writes
>>
>> Four CubeSats in Japan are planned to launch at 20 May 2010
>> together with PLANET-C which belongs to JAXA by H-IIA rocket.
>>   http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html
>>
>> UNITEC-1, NPO UNISEC (University Space Engineering Consortium)
>>   5.8GHz
>>   http://www.unisec.jp/unitec-1/en/top.html
>>
>> Negai*", Soka University
>>   437.305MHz CW, Packet 1200bps FSK AX.25
>>   http://kuro.t.soka.ac.jp/main.html
>>
>> WASEDA-SAT2, Waseda University
>>   437.485 MHz CW(FM), PCM-FSK(FM) 9600bps
>>   http://www.miyashita.mmech.waseda.ac.jp/Waseda-Sat2/index.htm
>>
>> KSAT, Kagoshima University
>>   Uplink: S-band(2GHz, 10kbps), Downlink: Ku-band(13.275GHz, 
>> 10kbps/1Mbps)
>>   http://www.sci.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/~nishio/download/Ukaren2008Nishio.pdf
>>
>> IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination information
>> Unitec-1 http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/finished_detail.asp?serial=141
>> Negai http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/finished_detail.asp?serial=90
>> WASEDA-SAT2 http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/finished_detail.asp?serial=123
>>
>> AMSAT Bulletin Board AMSAT-BB
>> http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/maillist/
>>
>> AMSAT-UK publish a colour A4 newsletter, OSCAR News, that is full of 
>> Amateur Satellite information.
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>> 73 Trevor M5AKA
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