by Peter Goodhall | Apr 10, 2013 | Daily Updates
On Saturday, April 6 students from the University of Warwick sent a CubeSat 30km into the stratosphere. Starting from near Welshpool, the CubeSat travelled high into the stratosphere, to over 30km above the Earth’s surface, where the balloon popped and a...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 10, 2013 | Daily Updates
In Aviation Week Michael Mecham reports the world’s university students come to work at Ames, which takes a leadership role in several areas for NASA, including smallsats, astrobiology and super computing. “We have lots of internationals,” says NASA Ames Research...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 9, 2013 | Daily Updates
As part of the FUNcube project we now need to urgently decide which is going to be the best type of antenna to propose for use at schools and colleges to receive the 145MHz downlink signals from both FUNcube-1 and FUNcube-2 on UKube after launch. Both spacecraft will...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 8, 2013 | Daily Updates
On Monday at 1338 UT Hector Martinez CO6CBF achieved a 7330 km contact on the amateur radio satellite FO-29 the furthest he has worked and close to the theoretic maximum for the satellite. Hector, who is in grid square EL92sd, worked David, EA4SG in IN80cp on SSB. He...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 7, 2013 | Daily Updates
April looks a busy month for the launch of satellites carrying amateur radio payloads. April 17 – Antares-110 carrying PhoneSats v1a, v1b, v2a. Dove-1 is also listed on this launch but it’s unclear if it’s using Amateur-Satellite Service frequencies....
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 7, 2013 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-DL reports that on April 2, 2013, the two NASA STEREO space-based observatories switched to Turbo Codes to transmit their real-time space weather data permanently. A network of four ground stations, located at the IUZ in Bochum/Germany, CNES in Toulouse/France,...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 6, 2013 | Daily Updates
The WIA is pleased to announce that Peter Brown VK4PJ will attain 100 years of age on Saturday, April 13. It is believed by his friends that Peter was first licensed in the early 1950’s . There is evidence that he was issued with Amateur Radio licence QA.244 on 12...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 6, 2013 | Daily Updates
Paul 2E1EUB has traveled to Scotland to activate some rare grid squares on the satellites using the call 2M1EUB. On Saturday, April 6, he posted on the AMSAT Bulletin Board: Limited Internet…. .Lots of deep snow….I’m in the middle of the wilds [Grid...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 5, 2013 | Daily Updates
Ted Cooke-Yarborough passed away on January 10, 2013 aged 94. He was the lead designer of one of the world’s early computers and a pioneer in radar, transistorisation and electronics. By the age of eleven he had built his first wireless receiver and at Canford...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 4, 2013 | Daily Updates
Hector Martinez CO6CBF in Cuba has worked Joe Murphy EI5EV in County Kilkenny on FO-29 over a distance of 6955.1 km. Hector writes: I am pleased to report that on Wednesday, April 3 I had my first contact on satellites with Ireland. Joe, EI5EV and I completed it...
