by Peter Goodhall | Jun 10, 2013 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK representative Howard Long, G6LVB, in his presentation at the AMSAT Forum at the 2013 Dayton Hamvention describes recent activities at AMSAT-UK. FUNcube-1 and UKube-1 (which carries the FUNcube-2 boards) both have dual STEM education and ham radio missions,...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
AMSAT VP for Engineering Tony Monteiro, AA2TX, provided an up-to-the-minute review of AMSAT-NA’s next satellite, Fox-1, at the AMSAT Forum at the 2013 Dayton Hamvention.The first of a number of satellites planned for Project Fox, Tony reviews the motivation for...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 7, 2013 | Daily Updates
Politech.1 is a 3U CubeSat that has been built by students at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. It carries an Earth Observation payload with a Geodetic Camera to take pictures and a directive C-band communications antenna for downloading these images to the...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 7, 2013 | Daily Updates
The AMSAT online amateur radio satellite pass prediction tool is once again available. You can use the predictor at http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/predict/
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 7, 2013 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK is pleased to announce that we can now offer Electronic E-membership at a reduced rate. Founded in 1975 AMSAT-UK is a voluntary organisation that supports the design and building of equipment for Amateur Radio Satellites. AMSAT-UK initially produced a short...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 7, 2013 | Daily Updates
David Mercado KK4MND has produced a video showing how easy it is to receive the amateur radio satellite SO-50. This video demonstrates how to communicate via Amateur Ham Radio Satellite using an inexpensive £30 Baofeng UV5R Dual Band Radio and MFJ dual band antenna...
