A new amateur radio satellite organisation AMSAT-HB
was formed in Switzerland on November 26, 2021.
With QO-100, interest in amateur radio services via satellites has
also risen sharply in Switzerland. But not only the geostationary
satellite fascinates the radio amateurs: The ARISS project (space
station ISS), low-flying satellites, tracking of scientific deep
space missions, etc., are attracting more and more attention. More
and more experiments are being carried out with SDR technology in
these areas.
But the colleges and universities are also increasingly concerned
with the topic and are looking for help from various radio amateurs
in Switzerland. These and other radio amateurs were of the opinion
that it was time to join forces in Switzerland. For this reason, the
AMSAT-HB was founded on Friday, November 26th, 2021 in Nottwil,
Lucerne. The association has set itself the goal of promoting the
amateur radio service via satellites in Switzerland, but also
internationally.
The President of AMSAT-DL, Peter Gülzow - DB2OS,
was involved in this project in advance. He suggested the
establishment of an AMSAT-HB early on and also used his knowledge to
help design it. When it was founded, Peter Gülzow took on the role
of godparent and led the founding meeting live from Hanover via Web.
The following radio amateurs were involved as founding members
(alphabetically according to callsign - the board positions in
brackets)
• DB2OS, Peter Gülzow (founding god and now honorary member of
AMSAT-HB)
• HB9ARK, Martin Klaper (Technical Responsible)
• HB9CQK, Frédéric Furrer
• HB9DUN / DH2VA, Achim Vollhardt
• HB9MFL, Armin Rösch
• HB9SKA, Thomas Frey (Actuary and Treasurer ad interim)
• HB9RYZ, Wolfgang Sidler (Vice President)
• HB9WDF, Michael Lipp (President)
One of the first decisions of the association was to apply to the
USKA for collective membership.
AMSAT-HB
https://www.amsat-hb.org/
https://twitter.com/Amsat_hb
USKA
https://www.uska.ch/
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73 de Thomas, HB9SKA, Actuary AMSAT-HB