Es'hail 2 SpaceX launch with the first amateur radio payload to fly in geostationary orbit planned for today

Eshail2: polarity horizontal

Uplink: Narrow band 2400.05 to 2400.3 MHz center 2400.175 MHz

Wide band 2401.5 to 2409.5 MHz center 2405.5 MHz

Downlink: Narrow band 10489.55 to 10489.8 MHz center 10489.675 MHz

Wide band 10491 to 10499 MHz center 10495 MHz

What's the transmit power from the satallite?

We'll let you know once we figure out what a satallite is...

For the hams they say go to dishpointer and select Eutelsat 25B, which is close by, to figure out if you can see it. It doesn't look like it illuminates anything farther west than Brazil.

You'd be a great grammar school marm. All you need is a hair bun and a red pencil and some sensible shoes.

What's its position going to be ?

Hun? Does that mean parallel to the Earth's rotation axis, or to the equator? From geosynchronous orbit, 'horizon' is a circular, does it mean circular polarization?

That means "as seen from earth". One of the downlinks is vertical, the other horizontal. Your SAT TV downconverter in the dish can do both on

Uplinks are circular, (RHC IIRC)

cheers, Gerhard

Not so much data available, but this

A normal 75 cm dish TV should be enough for SSB communication,

For DATV that I want a bigger dish and more power is required. But first RX,

boB wrote

It is at 26 east Same position as the badr and Es'Hail-1

I'd expect it to take some of the Es'Hail-1 streams, and I will likely wait until I can see the new FTA program streams before adventuring looking for the ham sat It will likely take a few days for that sat to be fully in position and operational.

There is a lot on 26 east!

It is busy up there! Good way to test you dish pointing.

There is some activity on the subject now in various groups:

If you look at the horizon while standing up strait then that horizon is horizontal.

If the sat was right above you head, confused you could be, but horizontal is then defined as east to west.

From the northern hemisphere where I live, looking at the sats position (it is at 26 degrees east of south BTW) it will be about 26.87 degrees above that horizon, and about 24.90 degrees east of pure south, according to my sat calculator and dish controller:

Maybe this will help:

It's of no importance to NA. The coverage area limits are defined by 0o dish pointing angle (tall building).

Thanks ! Maybe some day in the next few years I can get over to Europe and work this one. Pretty cool !