The Es'hail 2 satellite has been launched and is going into geostationary orbit. This satellite has TV transponders, and something new for radio amateurs : a 2400MHz to 10GHz transponder in geostationary orbit.
The coverage should be all of Europe and Africa, to the East into India, and to the West a tiny bit of Brazil. I assume that some testing will be going on before the transponders go online, but this is an exciting time for radio amateurs interested in satellite communication.
For reception a 1m (3ft) dish with a PLL controlled LNB, as well as a receiver around 700MHz should be sufficient to hear the transponder on 10GHz, even if the frequency stability is probably not very good.
That would be my first step in amateur geostationary satellite communication.
Now I have to find a PLL-LNB.
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