by Peter Goodhall | Dec 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
Founded in 1975 AMSAT-UK is a voluntary organisation that supports the design and building of equipment for Amateur Radio Satellites. AMSAT-UK initially produced a short bulletin called OSCAR News to give members advice on amateur satellite communications. Since those...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
The WREN Team have released a video showing you how to use the WREN Decoder/Commander App. The tiny PocketQube satellite WREN is just 5x5x5 cm yet is equipped with a camera for Slow Scan TV (SSTV) using the Martin-1 format, a gyro, a magnetic field sensor, momentum...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 30, 2013 | Daily Updates
To start with a few stats: From the acquisition of the first signal by ZS1LS on Thursday, November 21 we have had a steady stream of data flowing in. A few Data Warehouse statistics as at 12:00 UT, Nov. 28, 2013: – over 12MB of unique data uploaded and stored...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 30, 2013 | Daily Updates
The F’SATI Satellite team at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology is looking for your support to collect telemetry. “We encourage radio amateurs to listen for the UHF beacon on 437.345 MHz (+/- 10 kHz Doppler shift). It will be a great help if they...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 30, 2013 | Daily Updates
In this video Phil Crump M0DNY of the UK High Altitude Society (UKHAS) gives an introduction to High Altitude Ballooning (HAB). The presentation was given to the BATC Convention on October 26, 2013. Watch Introduction to High Altitude Ballooning...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 29, 2013 | Daily Updates
PicoDragon is a 1U CubeSat that was deployed from the International Space Station on November 19. It was developed by the Việt Nam National Satellite Center (VNSC), University of Tokyo and IHI aerospace. The satellite, callsign XV9PID, carries a 100mW CW beacon on...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 29, 2013 | Daily Updates
Firefly carries a Very Low Frequency (VLF) receiver covering from a few ten’s of Hz to to tens of kHz to measure the radio waves emitted by lightning. It was launched November 20 on a Minotaur-1 rocket and NASA have released a video about the satellite. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 28, 2013 | Daily Updates
It is believed that the SSTV PocketQube WREN is currently in a mode where it beacons on 437.405 MHz for 1.6 seconds then listens for 6 minutes on that frequency for any commands. If none are received it goes to sleep for 2 minutes before transmitting the beacon again....
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 28, 2013 | Daily Updates
GB2RS have released a video of the moment the first command to FUNcube-1 was sent by Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG. Watch AMSAT FUNcube-1 command success at RSGB National Radio Centre [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhCj1D2Sg78&w=560&h=315] BBC TV visit...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 27, 2013 | Daily Updates
Decoding the Delfi-n3Xt 2400 bps BPSK beacon on 145.870 MHz has proved to be very challenging but Tetsurou Satou JA0CAW in Japan has succeeded in decoding some frames. He decoded three frames of telemetry in two passes on November 27. In a recent update Jasper PC4JB...
