AO-40 K-band transponder

The radio amateur satellite AO-40 was built by an international team of Amateur Radio volunteers. As a partner in this project Amsat-ON realized a K-band transponder. The development of the transponder was done by Stefaan Burger, ON4FG, Danny Orban, ON4AOD, Peter Pauwels, ON1BPS and Philip Sanders, ON7IZ

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AO-40 K-band, The Challenge (source: www.sunsunsun.net)

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AO-40 – An International Satellite For All Radio Amateurs (source: www.harc.net)

A0-40 – QSO’s