by Peter Goodhall | Oct 22, 2013 | Daily Updates
Following the IARU Region 2 (the Americas) meeting in September at Cancun, Mexico, the new Region 2 bandplans for all allocations from 137 kHz to 250 GHz have now been published. There is a new allocation for the Amateur-Satellite Service from 144.000-144.025 MHz...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 22, 2013 | Daily Updates
GIS User reports on CHASE-II a CubeSat balloon launch by Captain Josh Neel KB3VTP. The CubeSat, callsign KB3VTP-11, was planned to be launched as part of the Civil Air Patrol’s Maryland Wing Rocketry Day on Sunday, October 20, 2013 using APRS on 144.390 MHz FM. This...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 22, 2013 | Daily Updates
Dr David Morgan has released a new paper “Further Developments of an SDR Radio Telescope” using the FUNcube Dongle Pro+ and SpectrumLab. “Further Developments of an SDR Radio Telescope” details the equipment configuration and software involved...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 22, 2013 | Daily Updates
The OUFTI-1 team have released videos of the integration of the amateur radio D-STAR GMSK CubeSat built by students at the University of Liege. OUFTI-1 is currently being integrated at the Liège Space Center, a research center of the University of Liège in Belgium....
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 21, 2013 | Daily Updates
FUNcube-1 is presently at Yasny and is being prepared for launch. All the up to date news can be seen at www.funcube.org.uk and the latest post includes a link to the launch blog from our launch service providers. We are still on track for a launch late next month and...