The logbook of callsign XU7AMO - the Radio Club of the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia - once again has made contact with space. A satellite training session between the 26th of February and the 3rd of March gave 300 students a hands-on learning experience, building and utilising antenna systems, gaining an understanding of ground stations and learning to track low-earth orbit satellites. An international team joined the session to support the different activities. They included ham radio satellite technician Mikio JA3GEP and marine electronics and telecommunications systems expert Paulo F5VMJ.
The students focused on low-earth orbit satellites and had a contact with the International Space Station. This was a follow-up to last year's session when XU7AMO operated for the first time using the QO-100 satellite. Making their first contact with Antarctica, they had a question-and-answer session with DOØGVN at Neumayer III, the German research base. That QSO had been made possible after the Cambodian Telecommunications Regulatory Commission authorised the station's use of the higher frequencies needed for the transmission.
