by Peter Goodhall | Feb 20, 2014 | Daily Updates
Zachary J. Leffke KJ4QLP has written a Masters Thesis which explores the concept of deploying a network of distributed ground station receiver nodes for the purposes of increasing access time to the spacecraft, and thereby increasing the potential amount of data that...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 20, 2014 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-NA have released a single page Fox-1 CubeSat publicity handout for club meetings or hamfests. Fox-1 carries an FM transponder with a 435.180 MHz uplink and 145.980 MHz downlink that you should be able to work using your FM dual-band HT. It is planned to launch...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 19, 2014 | Daily Updates
The proposal to sell-off spectrum at 2.3 and 3.4 GHz will impact both the Amateur and Amateur-Satellite Services. The UK communications regulator Ofcom has published a consultation setting out proposals for addressing technical issues related to the forthcoming award...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
Students at Brown University, Rhode Island have been getting plenty of media coverage for their LED CubeSat appearing in the TV news broadcasts of ABC 6 and WPRI 12. They were interviewed by Samantha Lavien for the ABC 6 TV news story which was broadcast on Monday,...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
At the 2013 AMSAT-NA Symposium Hans van de Groenendaal ZS6AKV gave a presentation on the challenges presented by overcrowding of the two meter (145 MHz) satellite band. A PDF of his slides can be downloaded from...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 17, 2014 | Daily Updates
Delfi Nanosatellite Program Manager, Jasper Bouwmeester PC4JB, has announced tests for Feb 20-21 of the Delfi-n3Xt 435/145 MHz linear transponder for amateur radio SSB/CW communications. UPDATE February 20, 2014 Dear all, Today we did a first transponder test. We...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 17, 2014 | Daily Updates
British Interplanetary Society (BIS) members Laurence de Bruxelle and Andy Thomas G0SFJ have been working on three of the low cost ground stations for the eagerly awaited KickSat CubeSat which will deploy 200 Sprite satellites operating on 437 MHz. The launch of...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
OSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan, W3XO announced the University of Louisiana’s CAPE II CubeSat has been designated as University of Louisiana OSCAR 75 or LO-75. Bill wrote to AMSAT mentor Nick Pugh, K5QXJ, and the CAPE II CubeSat team, “I have been...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
Tony Monterio AA2TX and the AMSAT News service (ANS) have released this update on the Fox CubeSat program. The main point of Fox-2 is to develop and fly an advanced, software defined transponder (SDX.) An SDX can be programmed to be any kind of transponder. It will be...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Winter 2014 edition of Radio Waves, ARRL’s e-newsletter for instructors and teachers, is now available for download. Among the selection of articles: “High School Students Put Packet Radio to Work for Local Environmental Study,” “Club Boasts Fourfold...
