by Peter Goodhall | May 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
Professor Chris Budd G4NBG (formerly G8OPB), a leading proponent of getting young people into Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), will give a presentation to the City of Bristol RSGB Group. On Monday, May 26 at 7:30pm he will talk about the...
by Peter Goodhall | May 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
The LituanicaSAT-1 team ask for your support in tracking the satellite and reporting telemetry. Dear radio amateurs, For some unknown reason the satellite has rebooted several times during long term transponder test and due to that the transponder has been shut down...
by Peter Goodhall | May 17, 2014 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Chris Stubbs M6EDF will be launching one of his 434.300 MHz USB trackers on a 100g Pawan – Cheapo 11 – for a school in Chelmsford at about 1:50pm on Tuesday, May 20. Depending on altitude it could have a radio range of 500 km and the flight...
by Peter Goodhall | May 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
The LituanicaSAT-1 team have announced the FM transponder should be active during the weekend of May 17-18, 2014. Dear radio amateurs, I would like to notify that a long term testing of LituanicaSAT-1 FM transponder is planned for this weekend starting from May 17,...
by Peter Goodhall | May 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Monday, May 19, Steve Hedgecock M0SHQ will be explaining how to track and work the growing number of amateur radio satellites at the Ham Radio Skills Night run by the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society. This free event is open to all, whether licensed or unlicensed....
by Peter Goodhall | May 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Thursday, May 15, the BBC Radio 4 Today show featured an item on the recently launched 437 MHz Sprite satellites and the new Pocket Spacecraft being developed by a UK radio amateur. The tiny Sprite satellites, measuring 3x3cm and just a few millimetres thick,...
by Peter Goodhall | May 14, 2014 | Daily Updates
Dr. Aaron Knoll and Dr. Christopher Bridges M6OBC from the Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey talk to Space Boffins’s Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham about the exciting VR2Space project. They also discuss the STRaND-1 (437.568 MHz) CubeSat and the...
by Peter Goodhall | May 14, 2014 | Daily Updates
The LituanicaSAT-1 team have provided a further update on their CubeSat which was deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) on February 28. Dear radio amateurs, As most of you have already noticed, since May 12 the satellite has been set up to nominal...
by Peter Goodhall | May 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
The UK Department for Education (DfE) has selected the Horizon balloon project to feature in the department’s #yourlife campaign to promote Maths and Science. Pupils at Queen Mary’s Grammar School, Walsall built the Gagarin payload which transmitted FSK...
by Peter Goodhall | May 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
This video shows Simon 2E0HTS carrying out a signal test on the FUNcube-1 AO-73 CubeSat, he gets a good signal back from the satellite. During weekday daylight hours the satellite is in Educational Mode transmitting a strong telemetry signal with science data for...
