amsat-china chief executive officer alan kung, ba1du reports that amsat-china is organizing an expedition to southwest china for eme experiments and amateur satellite communications. the expedition team will use special technology experiments amateur radio call sign bj8ta.
bj8ta team will be active on the available satellites, including ao-51, vo-52, ao-7, ao-27, fo-29, so-50, so-67 etc, during the expedition period.
initially the team will operate from shangri-la county(nl97ut), yunnan province of china during march 20-23. this will mark the first time amateur radio eme communications in grid nl, the communications scheme on the 6m, 2m and 70cm bands, using yagi antennas with pa of one kilowatt.
and then, the team will move to yunnan astronomical observatory of the chinese academy of sciences in chengjiang county, it is located in grid ol14kq. the eme communications will use the 11 meter diameter radio telescope antenna with gain of 29dbi on the 70cm band. these operations will be from march 28 to april 1.
bj8ta amateur radio eme & satellites expedition is supported by the bureau of radio regulation of china and yunnan astronomical observatory of the chinese academy of sciences.
vip operators
•xie feibo, ba1xie, director general of the bureau of radio regulation of china
•yin hu, bd1az, land service department of the bureau of radio regulation of china
•chen ping, ba1ham, deputy secretary general of the amateur radio committee of chinese radio association
•li jian, land service department of the bureau of radio regulation of china
operating team
•team leader: fan, ba1eo
•operators: alan, ba1du; wang, ba4rn; wang, bh4req; zhao, bh4rlo; jin, ba4ta; michael, bd5rv;and chen, ba7ck
•logistics: zhu, bg5fcb; zhang, bg8sf
•qsl manager: alan, ba1du (p.o.box 8091, beijing 100088, china)
[ans thanks alan kung, ba1du for the above information]
