<div dir="ltr"><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">Digital mode OPERA used on Es&#39;hail-2</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Luis EA5DOM</strong> and <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Iban EB3FRN</strong> have successfully completed the first contact using OPERA via the Es&#39;hail-2 / QO-100 geostationary satellite <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Graham G0NBD writes about the contact on Digital Radio <a href="http://groups.io/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">groups.io</a>: <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Interesting test by EA5DOM and EB3FRN after the successful EME tests, 3 cm and 24 GHz terrestial links over 200 miles plus range. The latest involves the newly released geostationary satellite.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Spots showing for 23cm on the PSK Map and the OPERA data base are actually, dual band spots via the new Es’hail-2 satellite <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Luis reports excellent results using the op05 mode, probably the ideal satellite beacon mode, -20 db sensitivity, virtually zero bandwidth, and with 50% duty cycle, only 15 seconds of Carrier in the 30 second timeline, easy on the power budget, and a data decode, ADIF listed for DX hunters.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">See Digital Radio <a href="http://groups.io/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">groups.io</a> </p><a href="https://digitalradio.groups.io/g/main/topic/ea5dom_first_opera_over_the/29865875" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://digitalradio.groups.io/g/main/topic/ea5dom_first_<br style="box-sizing:border-box">opera_over_the/29865875</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">OPERA was developed by Jose EA5HVK and can be downloaded from <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://rosmodem.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://rosmodem.wordpress.com/</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Es&#39;hail-2 / Qatar OSCAR-100 web receiver now live<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://amsat-uk.org/2019/02/10/qatar-oscar-100-web-receiver-now-live/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://amsat-uk.org/2019/02/10/qatar-oscar-100-web-receiver-now-live/</a></div> <div id="gmail-bottom-share-this" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:left;width:auto;height:auto;margin:0px auto"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="box-sizing:border-box"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Share this information !</strong></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-addthis_toolbox gmail-addthis_default_style gmail-addthis_32x32_style" style="box-sizing:border-box"><a class="gmail-addthis_button_facebook gmail-addthis_button_preferred_1 gmail-at300b" title="Facebook" href="http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2019/february/digital-mode-opera-used-on-eshail-2.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmateurRadioNews+%28Southgate+Amateur+Radio+News%29#" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:initial;float:left;padding:0px 2px;width:auto"><span class="gmail-at-icon-wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;line-height:32px;background-color:rgb(59,89,152);height:32px;width:32px"></span></a><a class="gmail-addthis_button_twitter gmail-addthis_button_preferred_2 gmail-at300b" title="Twitter" href="http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2019/february/digital-mode-opera-used-on-eshail-2.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmateurRadioNews+%28Southgate+Amateur+Radio+News%29#" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:initial;float:left;padding:0px 2px;width:auto"><span class="gmail-at-icon-wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;line-height:32px;background-color:rgb(29,161,242);height:32px;width:32px"></span></a><a class="gmail-addthis_button_print gmail-addthis_button_preferred_3 gmail-at300b" title="Imprimir" href="http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2019/february/digital-mode-opera-used-on-eshail-2.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmateurRadioNews+%28South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