by m0xtd | Sep 15, 2011 | Daily Updates
AMSAT and satellite communications For those who enjoy AMSAT and satellite communications, Graham Shirville, G3VZV will be looking at space communications in general and then will concentrate on the FUNcube spacecraft being developed by AMSAT-UK. The FUNcube will be a...
by m0xtd | Sep 14, 2011 | Daily Updates
Berend Edema PA3ARK has received a 144 MHz EME transmission from Zhu ShaoHua BD4SY in Changshu City using an AMSAT-UKFUNcube Dongle SDR. Click photo for full size. He has also received the GB3VHF beacon on 144.430 MHz over a distance of 500...
by m0xtd | Sep 13, 2011 | Daily Updates
TAPR President, Steve Bible N7HPR, discusses the new amateur radio satellite ARISSat-1 on this weeks edition of the popular video show Ham Nation. He appears after the item on the Elecraft KX3 portable SDR transceiver. Watch Ham Nation episode 16 at...
by m0xtd | Sep 13, 2011 | Daily Updates
In under a year the AMSAT-UK FUNcube Yahoo Group has achieved over 2000 members. The group was created by Rob Styles M0TFO at the end of October 2010 to provide support for the AMSAT-UK FUNcube satellite and the FUNcube Dongle (FCD) Software Defined Radio (SDR). The...
by m0xtd | Sep 12, 2011 | Daily Updates
Nasa says chances of its dead 20-year-old satellite, due to fall to Earth later this month, hitting anyone are 3,200-1 Nasa says one of its dead satellites will soon fall to Earth but there is very little chance that it will hit anyone. The space agency does...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 12, 2011 | Daily Updates
Nasa says chances of its dead 20-year-old satellite, due to fall to Earth later this month, hitting anyone are 3,200-1 Nasa says one of its dead satellites will soon fall to Earth but there is very little chance that it will hit anyone. The space agency does...
