Just after finishing the construction of the new antenna we started to test the new radio station. The low noise amplifiers and the power amplifiers were installed at the top of the building in a small room. The other parts were put together in our room at the Institute of Continuing Engineering Education. The “real test” was receiving signals from a satellite. It was successfully accomplished. The signals of the reference satellite (80mW, cw, 2800 km) were much stronger here. We still have to finish building the IT part of the control and finish our special control and demodulator software.

Pictures taken during the test

The construcion of the new antenna could be finished before the cold winter. It does not mean, that we can stop woking, because we have to finish the rest of the infrastrucure. We would like to say thank you for everyone who helped during the construction.

Some pictures of the new antenna

Currently we are working on the antennas on the top of building E at the University campus. We would like to finish the constriction before winter. The new antenna, the power amplifiers and the control room will be monitored by an IP camera surveillance system. It is built by HFT Kereskedelmi és Fejlesztési Ltd.. We would like to thank for their support.

Pictures from the antennas and the camera post during sunset:

We were allowed to perform measurements on Masat-1’s communication unit in the special antenna measurement laboratory of the National Communications Authority. The test was successful as the output power and the receive sensibility were as high as we expected.

We would like to thank the support for the National Communications Authority.

We have started the preparations for the termo-vacuum test on 14th July at KFKI RMKI (Research Institute for Atomic and Nuclear Physics). During the measurements, we examine the temperature behaviour of the satellite at several temperatures and in high vacuum. We test if it works properly, in the extreme environment condition.

The measurements lasted for two weeks with permanent 24 hours supervision. We thank KFKI RMKI for their support.