FUNcube Dongle at Northampton Radio Astronomy Meeting

There will be two talks on the AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle VHF/UHF Software Defined Radio (SDR) at the BAA Radio Astronomy Group (RAG) meeting on Saturday, November 12 at 10:30am in The Humfrey Rooms, Castilian Terrace, Northampton, NN1 1LD. • Tony Abbey will talk about...

Good signals received from SRMSAT and JUGNU

Radio Amateurs have been reporting good signals on 437.425 MHz and 437.275 MHz from the new Amateur Radio satellites SRMSAT and JUGNU. Unfortunately due to the 20 degree inclination of the orbit hams in the United Kingdom are unable to hear them. Mark Hammond N8MH...

30th Anniversary of UoSAT-1 (OSCAR-9)

Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) celebrated the 30th anniversary of the launch of Surrey’s first satellite, UoSAT-1. Launched into orbit on October 6, 1981, UoSAT-1 was designed and built by a team from the University of Surrey led by SSTL founder Sir...

Launch of Indian Amateur Radio Satellites

Amateur Radio satellites SRMSAT and Jugnu launched Wednesday, Oct 12 at 05:32 UT and hams are asked to send in reception reports of the signals on 437.275 MHz and 437.425 MHz. A video of the launch can be seen at http://www.isro.org/pslv-c18-video.aspx These...

SRMSAT Keps and Downlink Details

SRMSAT, a NanoSat developed by the students of SRM University, India will be launched on October 12, 2011 along with the Megha Tropique satellite on the PSLV-C18 launch vehicle from ISRO’s spaceport in Sriharikota, India. On the AMSAT bulletin board Dinesh...