Student Project Provides New Satellite for India

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India's HAMSAT, the microsatellite decommissioned in 2016, has been replaced following the New Year's Eve launch of a small satellite created by students. The Somaiya (SO MAYA) Beliefsat-Ø takes its name from the K.J. Somaiya Institute of Technology. The project's faculty coordinator, Umesh (OO-MESH) Shinde (SHIN DAY), VU3CDI, told local media that he expected it to become “a crucial player in the realm of global amateur radio." The satellite has a UHF to VHF-FM repeater and a VHF digipeater sending APRS standard telemetry every 30 seconds.

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Society of Broadcast Engineers Celebrates 60 Years

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Society of Broadcast Engineers Celebrates 60 Years

With the start of the new year 2024, the Society of Broadcast Engineers, the association for broadcast and multimedia technology professionals, celebrates its 60th anniversary. Officially founded on 4th April 1964, the SBE has grown from its humble beginnings when about 100 broadcast engineers gathered for a meeting at the NAB Convention in Chicago to provide a leading role in broadcast and multimedia education, certification, professional networking, frequency coordination and advocacy for technical professional working at radio and TV station, production facilities and more.

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Teenage Amateur Radio Operators Featured Network TV

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Teenage Amateur Radio Operators Featured Network TV

A student-led contact with astronauts through the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program was a great success that earned significant media attention. On Monday 11th December 2023, students at Harbor Creek High School in Harborcreek, Pennsylvania, used amateur radio to talk with Astronaut Andreas Mogensen, KG5GCZ.

The students are part of the Advanced Technologies Group, KC3SGV, an after-school club at Harbor Creek. Fifteen of the students are licensed radio amateurs. Their faculty advisor, Assistant Principal Drew Mortensen, AC3DS, is a graduate of the Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology, a professional development program led by ARRL Mortensen utilized what he learned in the program and brought it back to the school. The ARISS contact is just one of the many successes the program has had.

ARRL Education and Learning Manager Steve Goodgame, K5ATA, was on hand for the contact, and he was impressed by the skills demonstrated by the students.

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