by Peter Goodhall | Nov 22, 2014 | Daily Updates
Friday, November 21, 2014 marked the one year anniversary of the launch of $50SAT/MO-76 PocketQube satellite. Michael Kirkhart KD8QBA writes: Our little creation was launched from Dombarovsky Air Base in Russia at 07:01 UT (which was 2:01 AM here in EN82 land) as one...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 19, 2014 | Daily Updates
ARTSAT2:DESPATCH is going to launch on a mission into deep space on November 30, 2014 carring a 7 watt CW transmitter on 437.325 MHz. It will fly with the asteroid mission Hayabusa 2 and another amateur radio satellite Shin’en 2. ARTSAT2:DESPATCH will have an...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 17, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Radio Society of Great Britain has appointed 17-year-old Mike Jones, 2E0MLJ, as Chair of the RSGB Youth Committee. Mike was originally licenced as M6TMJ and is currently studying Forensic Science and Criminal Psychology at City College Plymouth. He is a member of...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
Tom Doyle W9KE has developed a Windows satellite tracking App that reproduces the graphical display of the original cardboard OSCARLOCATOR . Most tracking programs use an equirectangular projection which is by far the easiest to program and shows the entire Earth at...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 14, 2014 | Daily Updates
The open-source amateur satellite tracking project SatNOGS has won the Hackaday 1st prize and an amateur radio SDR won 3rd prize. Six months ago Hackaday challenged their readers to realize the future of open, connected devices, The prize was a ticket to travel into...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 14, 2014 | Daily Updates
The UK Deputy Prime Minister congratulated one of the Chelmsford companies involved in developing key equipment for the successful Rosetta mission. On Thursday, November 13 the Deputy PM @DPMoffice tweeted Huge congratulations to @e2v in Chelmsford, who’ve been...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 14, 2014 | Daily Updates
Hi Folks, It seems amazing to us that FUNcube-1 – AO73, was launched nearly one year ago, in fact at 07:10 UTC on 21 Nov 2013. The very first signals were received by ZS1LS in South Africa at 07:37 UTC and he was even able to upload the resulting data to the Warehouse...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 12, 2014 | Daily Updates
An impressive back-scatter radar on 49.9 MHz is currently being constructed in Ethiopia. The Bahir Dar coherent backscatter radar is being assembled by researchers from the University of Oulu, Finland and Boston College, USA. The radar will operate at 49.9 MHz with a...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 12, 2014 | Daily Updates
Two amateur radio satellites ARTSAT2: DESPATCH (437.325 MHz CW) and Shin’en 2 (145/435 MHz linear transponder + 437 MHz WSJT) should be launched into deep space at the end of November. Masahiro JI1IZR has announced that prediction software is available for...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
The JT65B amateur radio payload, which successfully completed a lunar flyby, has fallen silent after transmitting for 438 hours. During the afternoon of November 10 the battery voltage dropped from 13.1V to 12.1V and continued falling. The last signal was received by...
