{"id":10020,"date":"2018-01-26T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T04:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/?p=10020"},"modified":"2018-01-26T21:33:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T04:33:22","slug":"arls003-fox-1d-ao-92-now-commissioned-open-for-amateur-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/arls003-fox-1d-ao-92-now-commissioned-open-for-amateur-use\/","title":{"rendered":"ARLS003 Fox-1D (AO-92) Now Commissioned, Open for Amateur Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From ARRL:<\/p>\n<p>AMSAT Vice President-Operations Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, has<br \/>\ndeclared that Fox-1D (AO-92) is now open for general Amateur Radio<br \/>\nuse. That word followed an announcement from AMSAT Vice<br \/>\nPresident-Engineering Jerry Buxton, N0JY, that AO-92 had been<br \/>\ncommissioned and formally turned over to AMSAT Operations.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the U\/v FM transponder will be open continuously for 1<br \/>\nweek. After that, operation will be shared among the U\/v FM<br \/>\ntransponder, L-Band Downshifter, Virginia Tech Camera, and the<br \/>\nUniversity of Iowa&#8217;s High Energy Radiation CubeSat Instrument<br \/>\n(HERCI).<\/p>\n<p>AMSAT News Service, AMSAT-BB, AMSAT&#8217;s Twitter account (@AMSAT), the<br \/>\nAMSAT-NA Facebook group, and the AMSAT website<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsat.org\/satellite-schedules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.amsat.org\/satellite-schedules\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1517106762150000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHMmrlr1629VKMjc-GaAtlQcWCWng\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">https:\/\/www.amsat.org\/<wbr \/>satellite-schedules\/<\/span><\/a>) will report any<br \/>\nupdates.<\/p>\n<p>AO-92 was launched from India on January 12. For the past 2 weeks,<br \/>\nthe AMSAT Engineering and Operations teams have been testing the<br \/>\nvarious modes and experiments on board. Testing has shown that both<br \/>\nthe U\/v FM transponder and L-Band Downshifter are working well. The<br \/>\nVirginia Tech camera has returned photos of Earth and data from<br \/>\nHERCI has been successfully downlinked.<\/p>\n<p>AMSAT thanked the 178 stations around the world that used FoxTelem<br \/>\nto collect telemetry and experiment data from AO-92 during the<br \/>\ncommissioning process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ARRL: AMSAT Vice President-Operations Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, has declared that Fox-1D (AO-92) is now open for general Amateur Radio use. That word followed an announcement from AMSAT Vice President-Engineering Jerry Buxton, N0JY, that AO-92 had been commissioned and formally<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/arls003-fox-1d-ao-92-now-commissioned-open-for-amateur-use\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrl-news","category-club-events","category-operating-events","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10021,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions\/10021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}