Qatar-OSCAR 100 (QO-100)

    • Official Post

    On 15 November 2018 Es'hail-2/P4A was launched with a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida. Es'hail-2/P4A was jointly developed by QARS (Qatar Amateur Radio Society) and Es'hailSat (The Qatar Satellite Company), under the technical leadership of AMSAT-DL, and is the first geostationary amateur radio payload. The satellite reached its final position at 25.9°E and the narrowband and broadband transponders were successfully tested on 23 December 2018 and 16-17 January 2019. The transponders are expected to open for general use in February 2019.

    At the request of AMSAT Deutschland e.V., QARS and Es'hailSat, AMSAT hereby designates Es'hail-2/P4A as Qatar-OSCAR 100 (QO-100). May the 100th OSCAR satellite be the lead star for future amateur radio satellites and payloads in geostationary orbit and beyond.


    Drew Glassbrenner, KO4MA

    AMSAT VP Operations / OSCAR Number Administrator


    https://amsat-dl.org/en/qatar-oscar-100-qo-100

  • Hello all,

    Thanks for the information.

    Also, let me take the opportunity of this thread to hail involved teams and associated work.

    What a huge opportunity for the community to learn and progress with this project. I already have learnt a lot myself by preparing the set-up, being absolutely unexperienced above 400 MHz.

    All experience sharing on this forum has been very valuable as well.

    For all this, thank you !


    Hope everything will work here as expected, being in a hurry to meet you on QO-100 !


    73, Pat

  • Hi Peter,


    Congratulations to you, AMSAT-DL, QARS, and Es'hailSat. Very appropriate considering the giant leap (Pun intended) in capability this spacecraft will bring to the Amateur community. Thank goodness NEXUS (FO-99) worked :)


    73s


    Iain

    (who must go and order the remaining uplink bits!, minor issue of an antenna to fix, the 30W PA needs something to dump it's power into, and a dummy load won't do!)

  • Hallo ....

    interesting informations from heiseshow 13 feb 2020 on YT

    about QO-100 and some background (relly good informations about the NON COMMERCIAL PROJECT)


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    in german lanuage ... maybe a double post .... so delete if you want...


    73 de dg0opk