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ESA announce competition for radio hams

Posted: 22 Apr 2016 11:58 AM PDT
https://amsat-uk.org/2016/04/22/esa-...or-radio-hams/


The European Space Agency (ESA) Education Office will give a prize to the
first three radio amateurs to send a recorded signal from either the
AAUSAT4, E-st@r-II or OUFTI-1 CubeSats which are expected to launch
Saturday, April 23 at 2102 UT.

The launch of the three CubeSats on a Russian Soyuz-STA Fregat-M rocket
from Kourou in South America had been planned for Friday but was postponed
24 hours due to poor weather.

Soon after being deployed into their final orbit, the CubeSats will begin
transmitting signals to Earth that can be picked up by anyone with common
amateur radio equipment. ESA challenges anyone to record the signal and
send it to , and to the CubeSat team.

For each CubeSat, the first email received for which the signal is
confirmed to belong to the CubeSat will be awarded with the following
prizes:

• ESA Fly Your Satellite! poster

• ESA Education goodie bag

• Scale 1:1 3D printed model of a CubeSat

Full details and frequency information are available at

http://www.esa.int/Education/CubeSat...te!_from_space

D-STAR satellite to launch from Kourou

https://amsat-uk.org/2016/04/05/d-st...h-from-kourou/