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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/37YEXFN55Q6Y76LREG7NFIAP4ZA6XK5Z/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "37YEXFN55Q6Y76LREG7NFIAP4ZA6XK5Z", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/37YEXFN55Q6Y76LREG7NFIAP4ZA6XK5Z/", "sender": { "address": "wa4cwi (a) bellsouth.net", "mailman_id": "4aa6f1e3f4cd4bf4b1492e47285ca527", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/4aa6f1e3f4cd4bf4b1492e47285ca527/emails/" }, "sender_name": "Jim McCullers", "subject": "[pacsat-dev] PACSAT - AO-16", "date": "2023-01-23T22:22:51Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "At our development meeting last Thursday night one of the discussed items\nwere the uplink frequencies of the original PACSAT.\n\nCuriosity over the weekend lead to a bit of online research that produced a\nfew QST articles from the time period revealing details on the original\nPACSAT.\n\n \n\nPACSAT was AO-16 launched 33 years ago on January 22, 1990 along with an\nalmost twin LUSAT (OSCAR-19) built by AMSAT Argentina.\n\nThey were launched into sun synchronous orbit from the ESA facility in\nFrench Guiana with an altitude of 800km. \n\n \n\nBoth were a new generation of Microsats measuring 230x230x213mm.\n\n \n\nAO-16 received on 2-meters at 145.9, 145.92, 145.94 and 145.96 mhz and\ntransmitted on 437.050 with 4 watts maximum.\n\nLUSAT received on 2-meters at 145.84, 145.86, 145.88 and 145.90 mhz and\ntransmitted on 437.125 with 4 watts maximum with a backup transmitter at\n437.150.\n\nThe frequencies vary by article probably reflecting changing configurations\nand the above were taken from a post launch article.\n\n \n\nPower output was variable by command and on 70cm achieved 65% efficiency.\n\n \n\nUplink was FM, 1200 BPS Manchester encoded FSK and downlink was 1200 bps\nRC-BPSK SSB.\n\n \n\nStorage space was 4mb RAM.\n\n \n\nInterestingly, one QST article it list the designers of the command module\nand one call is familiar, N5BRG. All questions are now to you Bob!\n\n \n\n73\n\n \n\nJim McCullers\n\nWA4CWI \n\n\n\n", "attachments": [ { "email": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/37YEXFN55Q6Y76LREG7NFIAP4ZA6XK5Z/", "counter": 2, "name": "attachment.html", "content_type": "text/html", "encoding": "us-ascii", "size": 4834, "download": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/37YEXFN55Q6Y76LREG7NFIAP4ZA6XK5Z/attachment/2/attachment.html" } ] }