First geostationary amateur satellite succesful

Es'hail-2

Web SDR:

https://eshail.batc.org.uk/nb/

More info:

https://amsat-uk.org/2019/02/10/qatar-oscar-100-web-receiver-now-live/

Es’hail-2 was launched in 2018. This geostationary satellite (fixed at a distance of appr. 36.000 km from earth) carries two “Phase 4” radio transponders operating on radio amateur frequencies (2400 MHz uplink, 10450 MHz downlink). A linear transponder has a bandwidth of 250 kHz and is intended for conventional analogue radio communications. Another transponder has a 8 MHz bandwidth and is designed for experimental (DVB) amateur television.


First ham QSO’s have been realized.

E.g., G0MGX was able to receive the satellite’s signals with an (ordinary) satellite dish:

http://g0mgx.blogspot.com/2019/02/eshail-2-really.html

This how ON4AOL realized the SAT-link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dgVmRV9FQWA4R9NdJ3DHUNmoyOTS6Nd8/view