{"id":715,"date":"2013-07-11T19:45:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T19:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/py2gw.qsl.br\/?p=715"},"modified":"2019-02-23T13:15:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T15:15:38","slug":"ham-radio-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/py2gw.qsl.br\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"Ham Radio in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Ham Radio in Space<\/em>: HamTV Project to Open &#8220;A New Era&#8221; for ARISS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-718\" href=\"https:\/\/py2gw.qsl.br\/?attachment_id=718\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-718\" title=\"ISS-1sm\" src=\"https:\/\/py2gw.qsl.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ISS-1sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a>The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (<a href=\"http:\/\/ariss.rac.ca\/\">ARISS<\/a>) program hopes an Amateur Radio digital TV system will be up and running aboard the International Space Station by later this year. A project initiated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amsat.it\/\">AMSAT-Italy<\/a>, HamTV would provide one-way video and audio from the ISS to complement the FM radio voice link used for ARISS school group radio contacts. According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ariss-eu.org\/Ham%20TV.pdf\">overview paper<\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"216\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">drafted by ARISS-Europe Chairman Gaston Bertels, ON4WF, a DATV downlink on S-Band (2.4 GHz) is under development to place aboard the ISS Columbus module in August. Columbus already sports the necessary antenna. As a debate between the merits of analog versus digital TV aboard the ISS continued, Bertels says, the digital system got a big boost from Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, IZ\u00d8JPA, who had conducted ARISS school contacts in 2010 and 2011, when he was aboard the ISS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;At the initiative of AMSAT Italy, an Italian manufacturer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayser.it\/index.php\/exploration-2\/ham-tv\">Kayser Italia<\/a>, presented a project for an Amateur Radio DATV transmitter to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\">ESA<\/a>&#8216;s [European Space Agency] educational services,&#8221; Bertels explains in his paper. ESA accepted the proposal in 2012 and contracted with Kayser Italia to develop and manufacture a 10 W EIRP &#8220;Ham Video&#8221; DATV transmitter for S-Band.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Receiving the DATV signal will be far more demanding than receiving VHF or UHF, Bertels notes in his overview paper. He said a study conducted by Piero Tognolatti, I\u00d8KPT, shows &#8220;that DATV decoding should be possible for a ground station equipped with a 1.2 meter dish, when the ISS is within a range of about 800 to 1000 km,&#8221; limiting the DATV reception window to about 3 or 4 minutes during a favorable pass. According to Bertels, Kayser Italia is to provide five ground stations for siting in Europe. &#8220;It is hoped that amateurs will support other ground station &#8216;chains&#8217; in other countries, as multiple stations are needed to provide up to 15 minutes of video in support of school contacts,&#8221; Bertels explains in his paper. He says ARISS anticipates that similar chains of ground stations will be set up on other continents, to expand the system&#8217;s flexibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;A new era opens for Amateur Radio on the International Space Station,&#8221; Bertels concludes. <em>&#8212; Thanks to AMSAT News Service; Kayser Italia<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Informa\u00e7\u00f5es dispon\u00edveis em: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/arrlletter?issue=2013-07-04\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/arrlletter?issue=2013-07-04<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ham Radio in Space: HamTV Project to Open &#8220;A New Era&#8221; for ARISS The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program hopes an Amateur Radio digital TV system will be up and running aboard the International Space Station &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/py2gw.qsl.br\/?p=715\">Continue lendo <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticia","tag-ariss","tag-ham-radio","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/py2gw.qsl.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/py2gw.qsl.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/py2gw.qsl.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/py2gw.qsl.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/py2gw.qsl.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/py2gw.qsl.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/py2gw.qsl.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/py2gw.qsl.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/py2gw.qsl.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/py2gw.qsl.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}