by Peter Goodhall | Apr 22, 2014 | Daily Updates
The AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium 2014 is open to all. It will be held on July 25-27, 2014 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, United Kingdom. The Colloquium attracts an international audience from across Europe as well as North America and the Middle...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 20, 2014 | Daily Updates
In this video Clint Bradford K6LCS demonstrates that a simple antenna is all you need to get a signal the FUNcube-1 (AO-73) telemetry beacon. Clint writes: AO-73 just passed to the West over Southern California. With just a tape measure beam and a Yaesu FT-60R, it was...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 19, 2014 | Daily Updates
In this video Dave Tadlock KG0ZZ describes a home made small hand held portable amateur radio dual band 145 / 435 MHz satellite antenna. Watch Portable Amateur Radio Satellite Antenna [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0niy7Sy96Q] Zed Zed’s Workbench...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
Five CubeSats including KicksSat which carries 104 Sprite satellites on 437 MHz were successfully launched by the SpaceX CRS-3 mission on Friday, April 18 at 19:25:22 UT. Zac Manchester KD2BHC says: After a beautiful launch KickSat was deployed in low Earth orbit. We...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 17, 2014 | Daily Updates
A range of FUNcube products are now available from the AMSAT-UK shop. The FUNcube items available are: • Badges • Mission Patch • Polo Shirt • Telemetry Receive Antenna System You can order them from the shop at...