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<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.667px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">Amateur Radio transponders on planned Chinese satellites to include HF</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box">China's Amateur Radio Satellite organization,<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">CAMSAT</strong>, has released some details of three new Amateur Radio satellites that could be launched as early as September. Two of the satellites, CAS-5A and CAS-6, will carry transponders, and one of them will have HF capability.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">CAS-5A</strong><span> </span>is a 6U CubeSat. It will have an HF/HF (21/29 MHz) mode linear transponder; an HF/UHF (21/435 MHz) mode linear transponder; an HF CW telemetry beacon; VHF/UHF mode linear transponder; a VHF/UHF mode FM transponder; a UHF CW telemetry beacon, and UHF AX.25 4,000/9,600-baud GMSK Telemetry. Transponders will have 30 kHz passbands, except for the H/U unit, which will be 15 kHz.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">The tiny<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">CAS-5B</strong>, weighing 1/2 kilogram, will be deployed from CAS-5A in orbit. It will carry a UHF CW beacon on an Amateur Radio frequency. It will be placed into a 539 x 533 kilometer, 97.5-degree orbit.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">CAS-5A/B will launch from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">CAS-6</strong>, a 50-kilogram microsat, will include a VHF CW telemetry beacon; a U/V mode 20 kHz linear transponder, and AX.25 4,800-baud GMSK telemetry downlink. It will also carry an atmospheric wind detector and other systems that will operate on non-amateur frequencies.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">A launch at sea is planned for CAS-6 from the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology. The microsat will be placed into a 579 x 579 kilometer, 45-degree orbit.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">AMSAT has applied to the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) to coordinate frequencies for all three spacecraft</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box"><font size="1" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span>Fronte: </span><a href="http://www.arrl.org/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">The American Radio Relay League</a></font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table>
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