Digital Transponders Mode JD 9600 baud FSK (FM)

• Uplinks:
  • To be announced after commissioning
• Downlinks:
  • 436.775 MHz

• 9600 bps AX.25 protocol store-and-forward PACSAT Protocol Suite communications system.
• FM Repeater

Sudisat-1a and Saudisat-1b are the first Saudi Arabian micro satellites. They are designed and built by the Space  Research Institute at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

They are both low Earth orbiting Satellites designed to provide store-and-forward communications and carry several space experiments. They carry amateur radio communications payload. The satellites are currently operating some experiments. When opened to the public, the amateur payload will operating in mode-J.

Thanks: Turki Al-Saud.

Last update May 31, 2003 - N7HPR