by Peter Goodhall | Oct 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
The exciting news is that FUNcube-1 CubeSat is now en-route to the Yasny launch site. It was flown on a special flight from Rotterdam yesterday and it cleared through Russian customs this morning. Well before the launch date, Dashboard software, to decode and display...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
The TNC-Pi is a £22 ($40) KISS TNC board which is designed to connect to the GPIO port of the £25 ($35) Raspberry Pi computer board. It provides a low cost means of using amateur radio AX.25 Packet Radio and APRS. Nick Bown 2E0CGW has written a well illustrated review...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
50DollarSat (A.K.A. $50SAT or Eagle-2) is a PocketQube micro satellite made from commercial electronic components and designed to fit in a 50 mm cube. The primary purpose of the project was to create a cost effective platform for engineering and science students to...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 16, 2013 | Daily Updates
CAMSAT developed the linear transponder amateur radio payload on the CAS-1 (aka XW-1, HO-68) satellite which proved very popular with radio amateurs world-wide. Since then they have been working with students at the Qian Youth Space Academy on the next satellites...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
The British Amateur Television Club (BATC) convention takes place on the weekend of October 26-27 at the Finningley Amateur Radio Club facilities near Robin Hood airport in Yorkshire. On the Saturday at 16:00 BST if the weather is suitable Philip Crump M0DNY will be...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
One of the highlights of the RSGB Convention, October 12-13, was a talk by Ofcom’s Paul Jarvis G8RMM and Ash Gohil about the upcoming Amateur Radio Licence Review. Read the Essex Ham report at...
