by Peter Goodhall | Jun 23, 2015 | Daily Updates
At around 10-11am on Sunday, June 28, 2015 Andrew Garratt M0NRD and the South Kesteven Amateur Radio Society are planning to launch balloons from the 10th World Egg Throwing Championship held at the Swaton Vintage Day at Swaton, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire. As well as...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 23, 2015 | Daily Updates
As part of the #askAstro program 16-year-old Brandon Martinez KF7RAO submitted a video question to astronaut Reid Wiseman KF5LKT about Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) On September 14, 2014 Brandon posted his question to YouTube and on October...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 22, 2015 | Daily Updates
Colonel Fred Kennedy, USAF, Space Production Division and Program Manager for the Wide Field of View satellite (hereinafter WFOV) has accepted the proposal to allow Virginia Tech to place a hosted payload consisting of a Software Defined Radio designed and built by...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 21, 2015 | Daily Updates
On Sunday, June 21, there was an anomaly on FUNcube-1 that required the reboot of the satellite’s MCU (Microcontroller). After a bus freeze, the databus watchdog did kick in as expected and rebooted the satellite. However, we did need to command the satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 21, 2015 | Daily Updates
The South African Radio League (SARL) report at the pre-conference Engineering meeting held on Friday [June 19] members of the SA AMSAT CubeSat team made some tough decisions. During the past few years, various options and subsystems have been experimented with. The...
