Though a diverse range of payloads have been carried by these satellites over the years, the majority of amateur radio satellites have featured transponders working in the VHF and UHF spectrum.

it lies in the geostationary orbit at 25.9° East and has a transponder with a 2.4 GHz uplink and a 10.489 GHz downlink. Receiving the downlink is possible with an LNB designed for satellite TV ...

This allows a number of multiplexes to be transmitted from each satellite and a wider range of services to be broadcast. The term transponder is often interchanged with multiplex. This is ...