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The AMSAT-DL “PocketQubes” are satellites measuring just 5 centimeters on each side, intended to promote amateur radio and space technology through open-source communications, telemetry, and other experiments. AMSAT-EA’s two satellites offer voice communication capabilities. HADES-E2 carries a repeater with a 145.925 MHz uplink and 436.888 MHz downlink, while HADES-L features a 10-meter uplink, on 29.472 MHz USB, with an FM downlink on 436.665 MHz. AMSAT Nepal’s SanoSat-2, also a 5-centimeter PocketQube, carries a camera capable of transmitting images as SSDV packets using GFSK modulation, allowing amateurs to receive and reconstruct imagery from orbit. SanoSat-2 can also operate as a digital store-and-forward repeater through which amateur operators can upload messages for later transmission.

ARRL member and Amateur Extra Class operator Brian Daly, WB7OML, has been reappointed to both the FCC's Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) and the Technological Advisory Council (TAC). He has also been selected to continue serving as Co-Lead of the TAC Emerging Wireless Broadband Working Group, which is examining technologies and policies that will influence the future of wireless broadband communications. Daly is an AT&T Fellow and Radio Club of America Fellow. The appointments place him among a select group of experts advising the FCC on issues ranging from communications security and network resilience to emerging wireless technologies and future spectrum needs. Daly says his continued service reflects the longstanding tradition of amateur radio operators contributing technical expertise, innovation, and public service at the highest levels of communications policy and technology development.

Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) is this weekend, October 17 and 18, and as we’ve been reporting, radio scouting groups are preparing to help Scouts around the world get on the air. ARRL Puerto Rico Section Public Information Coordinator Angel Santana, WP3GW, reports that multiple amateur radio groups on the island will be working with Scouts from nearly 20 different troops to help them make radio contacts and earn their radio merit badges. According to Santana, this is Puerto Rico’s largest-ever JOTA activation.

ARRL member Carol Laferty Dantzler, K4SAF, of Clearfield, Kentucky, was presented with a plaque on September 26 in recognition of her 69 years as a licensed amateur radio operator. Carol has been licensed since 1957. She has earned ARRL’s 5-Band DXCC and 5-Band Worked All States awards, as well as the Young Ladies Radio League’s Worked All States - YL award. Carol is also an ARRL card-checker for Kentucky. She was presented with the plaque at the Paintsville, Kentucky, Hamfest by ARRL Kentucky Section Manager Bob Selbrede, K6ZZ.