Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, A71AU, was an influential presence in the leadership of Qatar and in amateur radio there. In public life, he was a former deputy prime minister and minister of energy and industry in Qatar. More recently he served as chairman of the Qatar Amateur Radio Society and was a major proponent for the development of the QO-100 satellite. Launched in 2018, the satellite, also known as Es'hail-2, carried the world's first geostationary amateur radio transponder as its payload. The project was a cooperative effort by the Qatar Amateur Radio Society, the Qatar Satellite Company and AMSAT-DL.
Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah became a Silent Key on the 27th of May. He was 73.
