<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5046" dir="ltr">Hi Andrew,</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5144"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5143">According to Google-indexed text, "<b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5101">BEACON EXPERIMENT:</b> The unique experiment on QIKCOM-1 is its
terrestrial beacon (only) over North America (one over Europe was also
planned, but not implemented due to lack of consensus). Just like any
mobile on the national APRS frequency, QIKCOM will beacon under the
callsign of QIKCOM-11 when it is over the North American continent on
the terrestrial APRS frequency of 144.39 to alert mobile APRS operators
that the satellite is in view. It will know it is over the USA by
monitoring the GPS signal from the Host spacecraft. The STATUS text
will say "145.825MHz QSY 4 OPS " telling mobile operators that the
spacecraft is in view and all they have to do is QSY to 145.825 to
operate it during the next 5 minutes. In most new APRS radios, the <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5102"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5103">QSY</i></b> or <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5104"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5105">TUNE</i></b> button makes this a one-button operation"
</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5095"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5142"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5141"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5126" dir="ltr">'hope this is helpful.<br></div><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5038" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5037"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5036"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5035"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5039" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5110" size="1"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5107"><span style="font-weight:bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5106">From:</span></b> Andrew Rich <vk4tec@internode.on.net><br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5109"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5108">To:</span></b> Robert Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig@tapr.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 26, 2017 12:43 PM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5147"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5146">Subject:</span></b> Re: [aprssig] New APRS Satellite to be deployed from ISS on 21 Aug (APRS)<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5148"><br><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501096125258_5149">Just to confirm this satellite is only usable over the USA ?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Andrew<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> On 25 Jul 2017, at 11:27 am, Robert Bruninga <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu" href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Correct. APRStt is on QIKCOM-2 which is scheduled for launch in Sept, but<br clear="none">> still has the same SNAFU with the FCC and its ability to operate is still<br clear="none">> unknown.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> QIKCOM-1 is just another digipeater but with a side alert-beacon on 144.39.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">>> To be clear, this is NOT the satellite with the APRStt functionality,<br clear="none">>> correct?<br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> aprssig mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig" target="_blank">http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a><div class="yqt9378919490" id="yqtfd25716"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">aprssig mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig" target="_blank">http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a><br clear="none"></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>