Radio Transmission Programming
The FCC rules the spectrum, but the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) is the entity that actually coordinates satellites. If you are using amateur band, you need to file/coordinate with the IARU to use the amateur band with your personal ham callsign as the satellite’s callsign. Like any regulation, there are many details.
The main IARU requirement is play nice, and be able to turn off your transmitter at a moment’s notice. My approach will be to have the required stop transmit command, of course. To make this really work, however, I will also have all transmissions time out and shut down automatically after an appropriate interval (10 minutes of no contact). Transmission only starts when a start transmitting ...
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