Modified TLE data from February, 16 2024
TLE data for GRBAlpha monitoring.
Entries by OM8WG
The 2nd Subregional Contest 2023
Man proposes, God disposes. This year’s 2nd Subregional Contest turned out completely differently than we planned. Every year I prepare a schedule of VHF contests that we will go under the radio club callsign OM3KSI, and which contests we will go to on own callsigns. This year, the 2nd Subregional Contest was also planned under […]
First signal from GRBAlpha
GRBAlpha is successfully in Earth orbit! The first signal sent by the satellite beacon was received on the Earth. The signal was received by a radio amateur station from Australia VK4JBE, in the locator QG62MM.
Do not miss the launch of the second Slovak satellite GRBAlpha
On Monday, March 22, 2021 at 06:07 UTC, a Soyuz-2.1a rocket will launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan our second Slovak satellite GRBAlpha, which carries a gamma-ray burst detector built at the Hungarian Konkoly Observatory, which also funded the satellite platform in part.
Information for radio amateur enthusiasts
One of the functions of GRBAlpha is also a digipeater with severall modes. The satellite carries a transciever called Cormorant NX-TRX4 on board. Robo Laszlo OM1LD, together with developers from Needronix s.r.o., is behind the develepoment of this transciever.