by Peter Goodhall | May 31, 2015 | Daily Updates
On the Planetary Society’s website Jason Davis @JasonRDavis reports LightSail is again transmitting on 437.435 MHz, AX.25, 9600 bps FSK. Jason writes: The Planetary Society’s LightSail test spacecraft reported for duty this afternoon [May 30], heralding the end...
by Peter Goodhall | May 26, 2015 | Daily Updates
JoAnne Maenpaa K9JKM, AMSAT Vice-President User Services, reports that LightSail-1 has stopped transmitting on 437.435 MHz. She says: Just read on-line at http://planet.ly/0gVop (Planetary Society) that the LightSail satellite stopped transmitting. The team is...
by Peter Goodhall | May 26, 2015 | Daily Updates
After building a 28 MHz 1/4 Wave Ground Plane antenna to replace his dipole Peter Goodhall 2E0SQL was able to receive his 10 watt signal through the PSAT CubeSat PSK31 transponder for the first time on Tuesday, May 26. Peter Martinez G3PLX posted a report to the RSGB...
by Peter Goodhall | May 25, 2015 | Daily Updates
Hans van de Groenendaal ZS6AKV writes in the EngineerIT magazine about the potential for 29 MHz as a satellite uplink band. Universities and other scientific research institutions are using portions of the amateur spectrum for their CubeSat’s which has caused the 145...
by Peter Goodhall | May 24, 2015 | Daily Updates
Bob Bruninga WB4APR released this update on the PSAT PSK31 CubeSat on Sunday, May 24 The PSAT PSK31 435.350 MHz FM downlink is full quieting with 6 bars using a decent UHF Yagi. But we have not seen any users other than those using the 28.120 PSK channel on HF...
