by Peter Goodhall | Mar 6, 2014 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio ZACUBE-1 satellite, launched with FUNcube-1 on November 21, 2013, recently had two close encounters with space debris. The ZACUBE-1 team have issued this press release: Week nine of the year will go down as quite an eventful week for ZACUBE-1...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 6, 2014 | Daily Updates
Last weekend FUNcube-1 (AO-73) reached the milestone of having been in space for 100 days – actually that should be clarified to mean “terrestrial” days as the spacecraft itself has been subjected to more than 1500 day/night cycles during this time. We are very...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
UoSAT-OSCAR-11 has now been in orbit for 30 years and remarkably its signal on 145.826 MHz FM (AFSK 1200 bps ASCII) is still being received. UoSAT-2, also known as UoSAT-OSCAR-11 or UO-11, was the second satellite designed and built by a team of engineers at the...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
The new Galileo GPS system that broadcasts across 1260-1300 MHz has resulted in the closure of a German ATV repeater. The DARC report the Munich ATV repeater DB0QI has been closed down due to it jamming the Galileo Satnav Control Centre. DB0QI was located 18 km from...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
The ARRL report when Ron Williams, N9UIK, and his team of “astronauts” head to “Mars” this spring, they’ll be taking Amateur Radio along, just as NASA space travelers have done. Williams is part of Mission 2 (of four) in the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 4, 2014 | Daily Updates
In this video David Johnson G4DPZ describes the AMSAT-UK FUNcube satellite project. Watch Having FUN in space [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-dW-oMrIIY] FUNcube Power Point Slides http://funcubetest2.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/funcube_oct2013fin.ppt FUNcube...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 4, 2014 | Daily Updates
The March 2014 issue of the free Radio Astronomy Group publication RAGazine is now available for download. This issue includes: – RAG 2014 Meeting, Leicester – Book review: “Space Has No Frontier” – VLF quarterly observing report – Brief note...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 4, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Southampton University Wireless Society (SUWS) Web-based software defined radio (SDR) has been used to receive signals from the new amateur radio LitSat-1 satellite. The Lithuanian satellite LitSat-1 was deployed from the ISS on February 28 and the builders of the...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 3, 2014 | Daily Updates
The largest ever launch of 437 MHz satellites is planned for March 16 at 0841 UT when 104 Sprite satellites will fly on the SpaceX Falcon 9 CRS 3 mission to be deployed into a 325×315 km 51.5 degree inclination orbit. You should be able to watch the launch live...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 2, 2014 | Daily Updates
The RSGB IARU VHF/UHF/Microwaves discussion forum invites feedback on proposals to amend the bandplans. Items being discussed are: – Update to the 144MHz Satellite Allocation to formalise the shared use of 144.000-144.025 by linear amateur satellite transponders...
