by Peter Goodhall | Aug 29, 2013 | Daily Updates
AX.25 packet radio is currently the most popular data protocol for use in CubeSats. Radio amateur Alejandro Santos LU4EXT is developing extmodem an open source APRS compatible AX.25 packet radio modem. It is currently capable of both sending and receive packets at...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 28, 2013 | Daily Updates
Dhruva Space have released several videos recorded at the SpaceUp India event held in December 2012. Among the presentations are those from • Thu Trong Vu XV9AA • Hackerspace Global Grid • Suri VU2MY Watch SpaceUp India 2012 – F1 CubeSat from Vietnam, Thu Trong...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
BBC News reports on radio amateur Dave Akerman M6RPI’s successful 434 MHz balloon flight on Monday, August 26, 2013. The balloon carried transmitters on 434.200 MHz and 434.250 MHz and transmitted images using the amateur radio Slow Scan Digital Video (SSDV)...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
Michael Johnson M0MJJ gave a presentation on his Pocket Spacecraft: Mission to the Moon project to the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium held in July at Guildford. He aimed to raise funding for the project by using the Kickstarter crowd-funding website. The 60...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 25, 2013 | Daily Updates
The JARL Ham Fair 2013 was held at Tokyo Big Sight, Ariake, Tokyo on August 24-25. JAMSAT and several amateur radio satellite projects were represented. The University of Tsukuba CubeSat ITF-1 YUI “Binding” support project was there. The formal name ITF-1...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 24, 2013 | Daily Updates
Hector CO6CBF is looking for stations in UK to try contacts on the amateur radio satellite FO-29. Currently when the satellite in apogee it has a big footprint which covers UK and Cuba for a few minutes. Anyone wanting to try a contact with Cuba should email Hector...
