{"id":4438506,"date":"2019-02-15T11:37:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T10:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/qo-100-released-by-qars\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T00:02:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T23:02:50","slug":"qo-100-released-by-qars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/qo-100-released-by-qars\/","title":{"rendered":"QO-100 released by QARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>15.02.2019 After the ceremonial opening of the teleport of Es&#8217;hailSat, in the presence of the Prime Minister of Qatar and other high-ranking representatives, the QARS also released the two transponders of Es&#8217;hail-2 \/ P4-A \/ QO-100 for official operation by radio amateurs worldwide on February 14, 2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4438383 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/QO100_Opening_QARS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/QO100_Opening_QARS.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/QO100_Opening_QARS-150x73.jpg 150w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/QO100_Opening_QARS-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/QO100_Opening_QARS-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/QO100_Opening_QARS-1024x497.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/QO100_Opening_QARS-1200x583.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The opening ceremony was performed by His Excellency Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, former Deputy Prime Minister of Qatar. A71AU is the chairman of the Qatar Amateur Radio Society (QARS) and initiator of Qatar&#8217;s first amateur radio satellite.<\/p>\n<p>A71AU was addressed via QO-100&#8217;s WB transponder and was a key part of pressing the Red Button in the control room. The video received was played on one of the large screens at the same time as the opening and was well received by the audience.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4438384 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/QO100_Control_Room.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"2268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/QO100_Control_Room.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/QO100_Control_Room-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/QO100_Control_Room-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/QO100_Control_Room-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/QO100_Control_Room-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/QO100_Control_Room-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/QO100_Control_Room-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/QO100_Control_Room-720x405.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the AMSAT-DL P4-A team in Bochum and Doha is still in the process of setting the optimal transponder parameters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15.02.2019 After the ceremonial opening of the teleport of Es&#8217;hailSat, in the presence of the Prime Minister of Qatar and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4438382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4438506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qo-100-p4-a","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4438506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4438507,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438506\/revisions\/4438507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4438382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4438506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4438506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4438506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}