by Peter Goodhall | Feb 13, 2013 | Daily Updates
TURKSAT-3USAT is a three unit CubeSat built jointly by TURKSAT and the Istanbul Technical University (ITU). Members of AMSAT-TR (TAMSAT), the Turkish Amateur Satellite Technologies Organisation, have designed and implemented a V/U linear transponder for the satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2013 | Daily Updates
On the AMSAT bulletin board Raydel Espinet CM2ESP reports that more Cuban radio amateurs have become active on the satellites. He writes: As many of you should already know, now we have two new Cuban Amateur Operators on FM Satellites. Recently CO7WT and CM2XN have...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 10, 2013 | Daily Updates
After experiencing issues with the Kenwood D700 on two consecutive school contacts, ARISS will use the Ericsson radio on the Columbus module for ARISS contacts until problems with D700 are resolved. According to Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, AMSAT’s Vice President for...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 9, 2013 | Daily Updates
In the coming months meetings will take place in both IARU Region 1 and Region 2 to discuss HF and VHF bandplans. The IARU Region 1 2013 Interim Meeting in Vienna April 19-21 will be discussing two proposals relating to the Amateur-Satellite Service: VIE13_C4_02...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
In this video Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO talks about STRaND-1 which aims to be the world’s first smartphone satellite in space. STRaND-1 a UK mission, jointly developed by the University of Surrey’s Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
In this video Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO talks about STRaND-1 which aims to be the world’s first smartphone satellite in space. STRaND-1 a UK mission, jointly developed by the University of Surrey’s Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite...
