YOU can become part of the AMSAT ECHO Satellite Team!!!
Contact Mr. Richard Raitt of AMSAT...
Amateur Radio Satellite OSCAR-ECHO Software Project
A Role for SMU's Amateur Radio Club Members!...
A team of SMU engineering students, fired up by
Mr. Richard Raitt's talk and live demo of Amateur
Satellite operations, are interested in forming a group to help develop reusable software
modules and programs for the upcoming OSCAR-ECHO (launch date in November 2003), OSCAR-EAGLE
satellite program, and possibly leading into PHASE V - the MARS orbiting amateur radio microwave satellite set for
2007 A.D. Read more about the
OSCAR ECHO project (pdf).
Now is your chance to work on a project that will develop some great experiences and skills,
and provide you with lots to talk about at that next job interview or QSO (contact).
We hope to work with other schools and University amateur clubs in the North Texas area, along
with other engineers and other corporately sponsored amateur radio clubs too.
Learn more about the
Echo Satellite Project (powerpoint slides) and
New LEO Satellite - OSCAR ECHO (pdf). Bob Monaghan (W5VC) has some materials from the 20th
Annual AMSAT conference held in Ft. Worth in early November 2002.
Our goal is to
convert and update some existing C code resources, and develop some of the software modules needed for
these AMSAT projects. If you are
interested in learning more about this program and participating in it, please contact
Mr. Richard Raitt of AMSAT, the Amateur Satellite
corporation!
SMU OSCAR-ECHO Project Team:
- Murugan Nambiar, Team Leader mkn77@yahoo.com
- Shomik Pathak, Team Member shomikpathak@yahoo.com
- Chaitanya Dabke, Team Member cadabke@hotmail.com
- Tony Klinkert, Past President SMU ARC AJ@Klinkert.net
- Robert Monaghan, Team Advisor rmonagha@post.cis.smu.edu
AMSAT National OSCAR-ECHO Project Team:
- AMSAT OSCAR-E project team leader is Dick Daniels, W4PUJ
- AMSAT OSCAR-E project team member Tom Clark, W3IWI
- AMSAT OSCAR-E project team member Rick Hambly, W2GPS.
- Oversight is provided by the AMSAT-NA executive
committee and the Board of Directors
Ground Control Software Projects
Quoting Richard M. Hambly (W2GPS) in
AMSAT OSCAR-E Project Status Update (pdf):
Each of these programs need to be written or
re-written by AMSAT volunteers! This task
has not yet been assigned.
The Bootloader application communicates with
the satellite’s bootloader upload code changes or
to load and execute operating system tasks.
The Housekeeping program communicates with
each of the tasks onboard the satellite.
The Telemetry Gathering and Reporting
program downloads and displays satellite
health information.