<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">ExseedSat ham radio FM transponder satellite</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">The Hindu interviews radio amateur <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Gurudatta Panda VU3GDP</strong> about the ExseedSat CubeSat built by an eight-person team at Hyderabad-based Exseed Space Private Limited co-founded by <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE</strong>   <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">ExseedSat carries an amateur radio FM transponder and APRS digipeater and is expected to be launched by SpaceX towards the end of 2018.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">“This satellite will serve the ham or the amateur radio community. As a result, it will be of great help during natural calamities, when conventional communication services get disrupted,” Gurudatta Panda VU3GDP said.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">After the launch, this artificial satellite will be on a polar orbit with two passes over India everyday. The public will be able to receive this artificial satellite’s beacon on 145.900 MHz FM using a TV tuner and USB dongle, Mr. Panda added.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">He said the eight-member team involved in construction of the small private satellite involved four technocrats and four managerial staff members.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">He and Exseed Space co-founder Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE were the communication engineers who played a key role in building the satellite. <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Read the full story at <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/odisha-man-team-builds-private-satellite/article24963338.ece" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/odisha-man-team-builds-private-satellite/article24963338.ece</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">IARU information <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/formal_detail.php?serialnum=636" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/formal_detail.php?serialnum=636</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Gurudatta Panda VU3GDP <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://gurudattabam.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://gurudattabam.blogspot.com/</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://hfsignals.blogspot.com/p/about.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://hfsignals.blogspot.com/p/about.html</a></p></div>