by Peter Goodhall | Sep 23, 2013 | Daily Updates
The UK Space Agency’s first CubeSat UKube-1, expected to launch in December, will carry AMSAT-UK FUNcube boards. The boards will provide an amateur radio telemetry beacon and a 435/145 MHz linear transponder for SSB/CW communications. Radio Frequency...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 21, 2013 | Daily Updates
The ARISS DATV transmitter, dubbed “Ham Video”, already onboard the International Space Station, will soon be installed in the Columbus module and commissioned. Commissioning will be done in several steps, each during a full pass of the ISS over the Matera...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 20, 2013 | Daily Updates
On the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) Bob Bruninga WB4APR writes: If someone will build a linear PSK-31 transponder, I have a launch opportunity in 9 months. All it needs to be is a PSK-31 Linear receiver on 28.120 MHz (3 kHz bandwidth) with AGC coupled to a downlink...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 20, 2013 | Daily Updates
On Saturday, September 28, 2013 the very first Amateur Radio Satellite User Day will be held. Location The event will take place at restaurant ”Binnenhof”, in the small town of Paasloo, in the North of the Netherlands, a 90 minute drive by car from Amsterdam. Join...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 20, 2013 | Daily Updates
The AMSAT-DL satellite symposium and AGM will be held in Bochum, Germany on October 5, 2013. The AMSAT Deutschland Facebook page says “There will be certainly some exciting news!” AMSAT-DL Symposium lecture schedule Saturday 05.10.2013 10:15 – 10:30...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 19, 2013 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-SM has published a comparison of the FUNcube Dongle Pro+ and the RTL TV dongle based software defined radio. The FCD Pro+ costs about 10 times the price of the RTL TV Dongle. While the FCD Pro+ has a far wider frequency coverage enabling reception of LF, MF and...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 19, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Daily Advertiser newspaper reports the University of New South Wales (UNSW) undergraduate amateur radio satellite project has been given the tick of approval to have a stratospheric balloon test flight in Wagga. The Basic Low Earth Orbit UNSW Experimental...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 18, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Canadian ConSat-1 3U CubeSat aims to analyze radiation characteristics in the South-Atlantic Anomaly, and test technology payloads. Canada is an Associate Member of the European Space Agency (ESA) and ConSat-1 is one of the educational CubeSats chosen for Phase 1...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 15, 2013 | Daily Updates
Jonathan Oxer VK3FADO talks about the Ardusat project and shows his Arduino based cluster board at the Melbourne Connected Community Hackerspace. The two Arduino-powered satellites ArduSat-1 and ArduSat-X arrived at the International Space Station on August 9, 2013 in...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 13, 2013 | Daily Updates
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has declared its undergraduate student amateur radio satellite project BLUEsat is complete and ready to be launched into space. As the official final green light came it was to have a stratospheric balloon test flight near...
