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Amateur Radio operators have been using their own satellites for voice and data communication since the 1960s.\u00a0The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (as AMSAT is officially known) was formed in 1969 to foster Amateur Radio\u2019s\"\" participation in space research and communication.\u00a0Since the very first OSCAR satellites (OSCAR stands for O<\/i>rbiting S<\/i>atellite C<\/i>arrying\u00a0A<\/i>mateur R<\/i>adio), international volunteers, often working quite literally in\u00a0<\/span>their basements and garages,\u00a0have pioneered a wide variety of new communications technologies that are now taken for granted in the world\u2019s satellite marketplace.\u00a0 \"\"These breakthroughs have included some\u00a0of the very\u00a0<\/span>first satellite\u00a0<\/span>v<\/span>oice transponders as<\/span>\u00a0well as highly advanced digital \u201cstore-<\/span>and-forward\u201d messaging transponder techniques.\u00a0 All of these accomplishments have been achieved through close cooperation with international space agencies that often have provided launch\u00a0opportunities at significantly reduced costs. Spacecraft design,\u00a0development and construction has also occurred in a fiscal environment of individual donations, thousands of hours of volunteer effort, and the creative use of leftover materials donated from aerospace industries worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n

TUARC completed the first Amateur Radio satellite contact with OSCAR 6 in 1973. TUARC has had extensive participation in Amateur Radio satellite operation since 1988. The current satellite station is the \"\"Kenwood TS-2000 transceiver which also serves the primary HF station. A 2 meter M2 EB-144\/RK2M and a 70 centimeter M2 EB-432\/RK70CM omni-polarized antennas for satellite transmissions are mounted on the south side tower. A VHF Advanced Receiver Research MSP-144VDG and a UHF MSP-432-VDG RF preamplifiers are also mounted on the south tower for improv<\/span>ed satellite reception.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Prior to this satellite antenna installation, TUARC used a azimuth-elevation rotor system with large, cross-polarized Yagi antennas which required constant maintenance because of damage due to severe weather.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When the azimuth-elevation rotor system and <\/span>cross-polarized Yagi antennas were in use, TUARC sponsored a capstone senior design projects that configured a microcomputer that produced real-time tracking and Doppler frequency shift correction for these low earth orbiting (LEO) Amateur Radio satellites. These projects were awarded the IEEE Bendix award in two consecutive years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Amateur Radio operators have been using their own satellites for voice and data communication since the 1960s.\u00a0The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (as AMSAT is officially known) was formed in 1969 to foster Amateur Radio\u2019s participation in space research and communication.\u00a0Since the very first OSCAR satellites (OSCAR stands for Orbiting Satellite Carrying\u00a0Amateur Radio), international volunteers, often …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5636,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tuarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tuarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tuarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tuarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tuarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tuarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tuarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tuarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}