Wow, quite a step forward in the amateur satellite world. Qatar and AMSAT-Germany have collaborated to put an amateur radio repeater in geostationary orbit. That's pretty amazing. Read more here:
https://hackaday.com/2019/03/18/eshail-2-hams-get-their-first-geosynchronous-repeater/
Read about a group of Norwegian students working on a satellite station for this bird:
https://www.la1k.no/2019/02/20/getting-ready-for-e%CC%B6s%CC%B6%CC%B6h%CC%B6a%CC%B6i%CC%B6l%CC%B62%CC%B6-qo-100-part-2-how-we-did-it/
And this is really fun: LISTEN TO THE DOWNLINK LIVE VIA WEBSDR!
We can't hear this thing from North America -- it is flying over the Congo. But stations in its footprint are putting their receivers online -- you can listen to the 10 GHz downlink via WebSDR:
UK WebSDR: https://eshail.batc.org.uk/nb/
Brazil WebSDR: http://appr.org.br:8902/
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