Special Event "to support our Ukrainian friends" in JN01VM

Special Event "to support our Ukrainian friends" in JN01VM


Masquefa, Spain (ES)
On 15th May 2023 Josep a member of the "Digigrup-EA3” operating a special event station in rural Catalonia northwest of the city of Barcelona made contact via the Qatar-OSCAR 100 satellite transponder with Tom in Poland.

"Digigrup-EA3” was operating the special event station to "support our Ukrainian friends” and was using the special callsign EH3UKR.

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The transponder has an uplink on 2.4GHz and a downlink on 100GHz and was a joint project between the Qatar Satellite Company, Qatar ARS and AMSAT (Deutschland). It is on board the Es-hail-2 satellite which was launched in 2018. The satellite is in geo-stationary orbit above the equator at 26 degrees East.

Josep gave his QRA locator as JN01VM. On the southern border of this grid square is the village of Masquefa.
On 15th May 2023 Josep a member of the "Digigrup-EA3” operating a special event station in rural Catalonia northwest of the city of Barcelona made contact via the Qatar-OSCAR 100 satellite transponder with Tom in Poland.

"Digigrup-EA3” was operating the special event station to "support our Ukrainian friends” and was using the special callsign EH3UKR.

The transponder has an uplink on 2.4GHz and a downlink on 100GHz and was a joint project between the Qatar Satellite Company, Qatar ARS and AMSAT (Deutschland). It is on board the Es-hail-2 satellite which was launched in 2018. The satellite is in geo-stationary orbit above the equator at 26 degrees East.

Josep gave his QRA locator as JN01VM. On the southern border of this grid square is the village of Masquefa.
View in Google Earth Misc
Links: www.qrz.com, en.wikipedia.org
By: Mike_bjm

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