by m0xtd | Jan 1, 2012 | Daily Updates
Simon Brown HB9DRV has made available a recording of Sunday’s AMSAT-UK 80m net that he made from a remote receiver in Poole, Dorset. The net is held every Sunday morning at 10am local time on a nominal frequency of 3.780 MHz. Due to interference the net may move...
by m0xtd | Jan 1, 2012 | Daily Updates
A new amateur radio satellite organisation, AMSAT-Francophone, was formed in December. Following the disappearance of AMSAT-France a few months ago, some of the members who originally created AMSAT-France 16 years ago, thought it was still necessary to have a...
by m0xtd | Dec 31, 2011 | Daily Updates
The altitude of the amateur radio satellite ARISSat-1 (145.950 MHz FM) continues to decline rapidly. On Tuesday, Dec 27, 2011, ARISSat-1 was losing about 4.1 km (~2.5 miles) a day in altitude, by Friday, Dec 30, 2011 the decay was 5.9 km (3.6 miles) per day. This...
by m0xtd | Dec 31, 2011 | Daily Updates
In the United Kingdom volunteers from SSTL and SSC are using their own, free time to develop STRaND-1 a CubeSat that will carry a Smart Phone. However Smart Phone satellites aren’t only being developed in the UK, the United States is developing one as well....
by m0xtd | Dec 30, 2011 | Daily Updates
Ken W7KKE reports that ARISSat-1 is heating up as it starts to enter the Earth’s atmosphere, it can still be heard on 145.950 MHz FM but not for much longer. On the AMSAT bulletin board he writes: At 2055Z today [Friday] had a 77 deg pass. Highest temp was the...
