by Peter Goodhall | Nov 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Liga de Amadores Brasileiros De Rádio Emissão will launch an APRS balloon PV8AA-11 on Sunday, November 17 at 1000 UT. It is expected to reach at altitude of 23 km and will transmit on 144.300 MHz CW and 145.570 MHz packet.Radiosonde PV8AA – 11 PWR : 500mW...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
The KySat-2 CubeSat is scheduled for launch as part of the ORS-3/ELaNa-4 mission on November 20 at 00:30 UT. To help track KySat-2, we have setup a web page to assist radio amateurs. To help decode packets from KySat-2, we have developed software radio amateurs can...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
Many thanks for the feedback received so far! A couple of issues have come to light and have been corrected in this latest version. Fixes: #181 Folder selection doesn’t #175 Recognise dongles after start-up #180 Autotune needs a nudge To download this latest version...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
On the AMSAT bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) Paul Stoetzer, N8HM reminds us that November 15 is the 39th birthday of the AMSAT-OSCAR-7 (AO-7) satellite which incredibly is still operational after so many years in space. A tribute to the engineering abilities of radio...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
Stratocaching which launches Saturday, November 16 at 0800 UT (144.800 MHz FM APRS) aims to combine amateur radio stratospheric balloons with the popular pastime of Geocaching. We would like to announce our first experimental flight STRATOCACHING as a result of...