by Peter Goodhall | Nov 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
Many thanks for the feedback received so far! A couple of issues have come to light and have been corrected in this latest version. Fixes: #181 Folder selection doesn’t #175 Recognise dongles after start-up #180 Autotune needs a nudge To download this latest version...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
On the AMSAT bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) Paul Stoetzer, N8HM reminds us that November 15 is the 39th birthday of the AMSAT-OSCAR-7 (AO-7) satellite which incredibly is still operational after so many years in space. A tribute to the engineering abilities of radio...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
Stratocaching which launches Saturday, November 16 at 0800 UT (144.800 MHz FM APRS) aims to combine amateur radio stratospheric balloons with the popular pastime of Geocaching. We would like to announce our first experimental flight STRATOCACHING as a result of...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
16 year-old Rebecca Rubsamen KJ6TWM led the amateur radio contact between students at Rancho Romero Elementary School and astronaut Mike Hopkins KF5LJG on the International Space Station. The Contra Costa Times newspaper reports: “This is going to be the biggest...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
In advance of the FUNcube-1 launch next week on November 21 at 07:10:11 UT, this first release of the FUNcube Dashboard User Interface software is now available for download here: http://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/funcube-telemetry-dashboard This software, when...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 13, 2013 | Daily Updates
In his blog Nader Omer ST2NH notes the large number of satellites carrying amateur radio payloads that are expected to be launched in the next two weeks. There will be an estimated 34 new satellite downlinks to be received with two of the satellites also providing...
