{"id":44923,"date":"2018-11-16T01:25:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/?p=44923"},"modified":"2023-09-24T16:10:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T16:10:42","slug":"qatars-eshail-2-first-ham-radio-geostationary-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/ham-radio-news\/qatars-eshail-2-first-ham-radio-geostationary-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar\u2019s Es\u2019hail-2 &#8211; first ham radio geostationary Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/46277585_2021596274545278_750116364663914496_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/46277585_2021596274545278_750116364663914496_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/46277585_2021596274545278_750116364663914496_n.jpg 738w, https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/46277585_2021596274545278_750116364663914496_n-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Qatar\u2019s Es\u2019hail-2 satellite will provide the first amateur radio geostationary communications that could link amateurs from Brazil to Thailand. The satellite is expected to be positioned at 25.5 degrees East. A launch is planned for November 15, 2018 with a launch window from 20:46 UTC to 22:29 GMT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P4-A-Coverage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P4-A-Coverage-1024x577.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P4-A-Coverage-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P4-A-Coverage-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P4-A-Coverage-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P4-A-Coverage.png 1052w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Es&#8217;hail-2 coverage areaEs\u2019hail-2 will carry two \u201cPhase 4\u201d amateur radio transponders operating in the 2400 MHz and 10450 MHz bands. A 250 kHz bandwidth linear transponder intended for conventional analogue operations and an 8 MHz bandwidth transponder for experimental digital modulation schemes and DVB amateur television.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Es&rsquo;hail-2 Mission\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe hidef\" id=\"WYL_PhTbzc-BqKs\"><div id=\"lyte_PhTbzc-BqKs\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/PhTbzc-BqKs\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">Es\u2019hail-2 Mission<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PhTbzc-BqKs\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/PhTbzc-BqKs\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Es&rsquo;hail-2 Mission\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Narrowband Linear transponder<\/strong><br \/>\n2400.050 &#8211; 2400.300 MHz Uplink<br \/>\n10489.550 &#8211; 10489.800 MHz Downlink<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wideband digital transponder<\/strong><br \/>\n2401.500 &#8211; 2409.500 MHz Uplink<br \/>\n10491.000 &#8211; 10499.000 MHz Downlink<\/p>\n<p>Download the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/amsat-uk_eshail-2_transponder_info.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Es\u2019hail-2 Transponder Information PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX Mission Timeline\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacex.com\/sites\/spacex\/files\/eshail-2_mission_press_kit_11_14_2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/spacex.com\/sites\/spacex\/files\/eshail-2_mission_press_kit_11_14_2018.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar\u2019s Es\u2019hail-2 satellite will provide the first amateur radio geostationary communications that could link amateurs from Brazil to Thailand. The satellite is expected to be positioned at 25.5 degrees East. A launch is planned for November 15, 2018 with a launch window from 20:46 UTC to 22:29 GMT. &nbsp; Es&#8217;hail-2 coverage areaEs\u2019hail-2 will carry two&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[38,190,195,203,234,414],"class_list":["post-44923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ham-radio-news","tag-amsat","tag-ham","tag-ham-radio","tag-hamradio","tag-info","tag-satellite","category-5","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}