by Peter Goodhall | May 11, 2013 | Daily Updates
AMSAT has sold the popular G6LVB Tracker (as seen in photo)for several years.This year, we will have a new version which replaces the amber LCD display with an OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display. The new display offers a high visibility contrast with a wide...
by Peter Goodhall | May 9, 2013 | Daily Updates
The UK communications regulator Ofcom has published a call for inputs relating to spectrum use by licence exempt devices in the 2.4 GHz band. 2400-2450 MHz is an ITU Amateur and Amateur Satellite Service allocation. The Ofcom announcement says: This band is close to...
by Peter Goodhall | May 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
Mike Rupprecht DK3WN reports receiving a good signal from the amateur radio microsatellite UoSAT-OSCAR-11 on 145.826 MHz FM (AFSK 1200 bps ASCII), see his blog at http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=33395 UoSAT-2, also known as UoSAT-OSCAR-11 or UO-11, was the second satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | May 7, 2013 | Daily Updates
UKSEDS report that last Sunday, members of Imperial College Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (ICSEDS) traveled to Elsworth, Cambridgeshire, for their first launch trip. The aim was to launch two 434 MHz High Altitude Balloons (HABs) and several...
by Peter Goodhall | May 6, 2013 | Daily Updates
Estonia’s first CubeSat ESTCube-1, amateur radio callsign ES5E, was launched from Kourou in the Caribbean on May 7 at 0206 UT on an ESA Vega rocket into a 704 km orbit. Also on the same launch were Vietnam’s VNREDSat-1A and ESA’s Proba‑V satellites.This...
by Peter Goodhall | May 6, 2013 | Daily Updates
In the show Amateur Radio Today for May 5, 2013 Murray Niman G6JYB is interviewed about the IARU Region 1 Vienna conference and discusses the proposal to permit amateur radio satellite linear transponders operate in the very bottom section of the 144 MHz band. The...
by Peter Goodhall | May 5, 2013 | Daily Updates
On Sunday, May 5, 2013 AMSAT-India’s VO-52 completed 8 years in orbit. During this time it has proved to be a valuable communications resource for the amateur radio community. Mani, VU2WMY, posted this on the AMSAT Bulletin Board: It gives us great and immense...
by Peter Goodhall | May 4, 2013 | Daily Updates
The New versin of SdrDx 2.12p adds support for the Andrus, FunCube Pro Plus and AFEDRI SDRs; It also provides various features and fixes. See the link to the changes document, below. Downloads: http://fyngyrz.com/?p=915 Documentation:...
by Peter Goodhall | May 4, 2013 | Daily Updates
By Tia Ghose Space.com A simple paper-folding technique could help tiny satellites unfurl big sails in space to detect micrometeoroid impacts, scientists say. The folding strategy, described Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical and...
by Peter Goodhall | May 1, 2013 | Daily Updates
The British Interplanetary Society (BIS) invites those wishing to find out more about their KickSat Sprite to attend an end-to-end test day on Saturday, May 4. The BIS invites people to participate in project KickSat, or simply come along to find out more. Aims for...
