Då har vi fått ännu en satellit med ett riktigt “amatörradionamn”. Det är CAPE II som nu uppfyller kraven för att kallas en OSCAR. Namnet blir OSCAR 75 eller LO-75. Läs mer:
OSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan, W3XO announced the University
of Louisiana’s CAPE II cubesat has been designated as University of
Louisiana OSCAR 75 or LO-75.
Bill wrote to AMSAT mentor Nick Pugh, K5QXJ, and the CAPE II cubesat
team, “I have been able to determine CAPE II has met all of the
requirements for an OSCAR number. By the authority vested in me by
the AMSAT-NA president, I hereby issue CAPE II the designation Uni-
versity of Louisiana OSCAR 75 or LO-75. I, and all of the amateur
satellite community, wish LO-75 the best of success”.
CAPE II operates on 145.825 MHz with a CW beacon with the callsign
W5UL, it also includes a digipeater, text to speech operation, a
simplex repeater, email and tweet functions. The ground station soft-
ware can be downloaded from http://www.ulcape.org
FUNCube was recently issued OSCAR designation as AO-73. CubeBug-2
was designated as LO-74.
[ANS thanks Bill Tynan, W3XO for the above information]