Presumably the Italian government licensed this commercial operation on the amateur bands, which is unfortunate.
73,
Paul, N8HM On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 1:04 PM PE0SAT | Amateur Radio via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
On 12-12-2018 22:53, Nico Janssen wrote:
One of the many Cubesats launched on the recent SSO-A mission was the Italian 3U Cubesat EAGLET-1. This satellite transmits telemetry on 435.200 MHz and it is to relay AIS signals emitted by ships from one of two VHF frequencies to 435.800 MHz. As far as I can see these frequencies have not been coordinated by the IARU. The operations of this satellite have nothing to do with amateur radio. It is a commercial satellite, so an experimental license also does not apply. For details see: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3378&context=...
Looking further into this strange satellite that is active in the HAMRADIO spectrum without following the IARU regulation (http://www.iaru.org/satellite.html), I also found this: https://www.ohb.de/en/news/ohb-italia-nanosat-eaglet-1-successfully-launched...
After this satellite a constellation of 20 similar satellites is planned. Can/should we do something about this?
Can we do something?, I am not sure, but one thing we should do, and that is contacting the organizations and remind them that there are regulations they should adhere to.
73, Nico PA0DLO
73 Jan, PE0SAT
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