by Peter Goodhall | Jun 20, 2020 | Daily Updates
The CAMSAT CAS-6 satellite was launched December 20, 2019. Alan Kung BA1DU reports the V/UHF antenna was deployed on Saturday, June 20, 2020 and the linear transponder activated. Due to some OBC failures, CW beacon and GMSK telemetry are not working properly. At...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 15, 2020 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube Team has announced the availability of FUNcube CubeSat satellite telemetry decoder software for the popular Raspberry Pi computer board. The original FUNcube telemetry decoder and Dashboard was designed to run on Windows devices and the FUNcube team did...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 13, 2020 | Daily Updates
Rohit Bokade VU3OIR has started a petition requesting a change to the Amateur Radio licence in India to permit all grades of licence to use the amateur radio satellites. In India holders of the Restricted grade of licence (VU3 prefix) are not permitted to use amateur...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 10, 2020 | Daily Updates
Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) report 15 CubeSat satellites are being built by students in Canada, all are expected to carry amateur radio payloads. The RAC post says: The Canadian Space Agency has been providing support and guidance to 15 teams of university and...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 9, 2020 | Daily Updates
Tony Hutchison VK5ZAI was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List released June 8, 2020. The citation reads: “For significant service to amateur radio, particularly to satellite and space communication.” For...
