by Peter Goodhall | Nov 14, 2014 | Daily Updates
The open-source amateur satellite tracking project SatNOGS has won the Hackaday 1st prize and an amateur radio SDR won 3rd prize. Six months ago Hackaday challenged their readers to realize the future of open, connected devices, The prize was a ticket to travel into...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 14, 2014 | Daily Updates
The UK Deputy Prime Minister congratulated one of the Chelmsford companies involved in developing key equipment for the successful Rosetta mission. On Thursday, November 13 the Deputy PM @DPMoffice tweeted Huge congratulations to @e2v in Chelmsford, who’ve been...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 14, 2014 | Daily Updates
Hi Folks, It seems amazing to us that FUNcube-1 – AO73, was launched nearly one year ago, in fact at 07:10 UTC on 21 Nov 2013. The very first signals were received by ZS1LS in South Africa at 07:37 UTC and he was even able to upload the resulting data to the Warehouse...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 12, 2014 | Daily Updates
An impressive back-scatter radar on 49.9 MHz is currently being constructed in Ethiopia. The Bahir Dar coherent backscatter radar is being assembled by researchers from the University of Oulu, Finland and Boston College, USA. The radar will operate at 49.9 MHz with a...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 12, 2014 | Daily Updates
Two amateur radio satellites ARTSAT2: DESPATCH (437.325 MHz CW) and Shin’en 2 (145/435 MHz linear transponder + 437 MHz WSJT) should be launched into deep space at the end of November. Masahiro JI1IZR has announced that prediction software is available for...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
The JT65B amateur radio payload, which successfully completed a lunar flyby, has fallen silent after transmitting for 438 hours. During the afternoon of November 10 the battery voltage dropped from 13.1V to 12.1V and continued falling. The last signal was received by...
