The repeater has a 2 meter uplink and a 70 centimeter downlink. ... The one-and-only ham radio satellite in geosynchronous orbit, the Qatar-OSCAR 100, doesn’t have either issue.

The 2200 meter band isn’t even 2.8 kHz wide to start with! All this talk makes us want to build something for the 2200 meter band. We better start winding the coil now.

The first ham radio operator in space, NASA astronaut Owen Garriott (W5LFL), used a 2-meter radio to chat with King Hussein of Jordan, senator Barry Goldwater and, of course, his mother.

Kenneth Ransom, NASA's ham radio project engineer, explained how the sessions work. "It's very similar to any other type of two-way radio communication. We have a 2-meter radio on board the ISS ...