by m0xtd | Oct 8, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Autumn (Fall) edition of the AMSAT-UK newsletter OSCAR News is now at the printers and should be posted to members soon. In this issue • A filtered 2m preamp for wideband receivers by David Bowman G0MRF • A Multi-purpose Portable Setup: Working low-earth orbit...
by m0xtd | Oct 7, 2012 | Daily Updates
The United Nations / Japan Nano-Satellite Symposium in Nagoya starts Wednesday, October 10 at 0930 JST (0030 UT) and runs until Oct. 13. The Mission Ideas Contest presentations on Oct. 10 will be broadcast live on USTREAM. The event has attracted speakers from the...
by m0xtd | Oct 7, 2012 | Daily Updates
The F-1 CubeSat, callsign XV1VN, developed by the FSpace team of young engineers and students at the FPT University, deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, October 4 at 15:44 UT. A Google English newspaper report with pictures of the F-1...
by m0xtd | Oct 7, 2012 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio CubeSat FITSAT-1 (aka NIWAKA) carries an Optical Communications experiment that aims to write Morse Code across the night sky. The satellite is fitted with a bank of high power LEDs that will be driven with 200W pulses to produce extremely bright...
by m0xtd | Oct 7, 2012 | Daily Updates
This is the completely assembled version of the 2m filtered preamplifier from G0MRF. The connectors supplied are a high quality PTFE insulated reduced flange Ntype for the connection to the antenna and a chassis mounted female BNC for the RF output to the receiver,...
by m0xtd | Oct 6, 2012 | Daily Updates
Howard Long G6LVB has released a video showing reception of the FITSAT-1 CubeSat 437.250 MHz CW beacon using just a 1/4 wave antenna on a baking tray sat on his balcony in London. The receiver was a FUNcube Dongle Pro+ LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF Software Defined Radio (SDR). No...
by m0xtd | Oct 5, 2012 | Daily Updates
NASA have released photographs of the amateur radio CubeSats TechEdSat, F-1 and FITSAT-1 taken by an Expedition 33 crew member on the International Space Station (ISS). Radio amateurs around the world have been listening for signals from the four new amateur radio...
by m0xtd | Oct 5, 2012 | Daily Updates
On October 4, 2012 five CubeSats were successfully deployed from the International Space Station (ISS). The first pod containing RAIKO and WE-WISH was deployed at 1437 UT while the second pod containing FITSAT-1, F-1 and TechEdSat deployed at 1544 UT. Pictures can be...
by m0xtd | Oct 4, 2012 | Daily Updates
The President of Euroluna, Palle Haastrup OZ1HIA, provides an update on the progress of the Euroluna Google Lunar X-Prize team who are aiming to land a rover on the Moon. Their first amateur radio spacecraft Romit-1 is a 2U CubeSat that will transmit on 437.505 MHz...
by m0xtd | Oct 4, 2012 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-India have launched their own YouTube channel. Current videos include an update on the activities and future plans for Amateur Radio satellites from India and a presentation on telemetry decoding. Watch HFI-2010 Presentation [youtube...
