by m0xtd | Jan 4, 2012 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio satellite ARISSat-1, deployed from the ISS on August 3, fell silent on Wednesday, January 4, as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere. The ARISSat website shows the last telemetry was captured at 06:02:14 UTC on Jan. 4 with these temperatures:...
by m0xtd | Jan 3, 2012 | Daily Updates
An agreement has now been reached with ISIS Launch Services BV, who are based in Delft in the Netherlands, for them to provide a launch of the FUNcube-1 CubeSat. It is anticipated that FUNcube-1, which has been created by a team of volunteer radio amateurs and other...
by m0xtd | Jan 2, 2012 | Daily Updates
Between 5th and 7th Jan 2012 AMSAT-UK will be showing off the potential of the FUNcube satellite as a teaching tool at the Association for Science Education Conference (see http://ase.org.uk). The ASE exists to provide support and ideas for school science teachers in...
by m0xtd | Jan 2, 2012 | Daily Updates
The AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle is a VHF/UHF (64-1700 MHz) Software Defined Radio (SDR) on a USB Dongle. Howard Long G6VLB traveled from London to the 2011 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC) in Baltimore to address the group on this project. He details the...
by m0xtd | Jan 2, 2012 | Daily Updates
A new promotional video has been released to attract Hackers, Makers and Innovators to amateur radio. The video features well known hacker and maker Diana Eng KC2UHB along with Ham Nation’s Bob Heil K9EID and ISS Astronaut Doug Wheelock KF5BOC. It follows some...
