by m0xtd | Oct 3, 2012 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube Dongle Pro+ SDR is a complete redesign of the original FUNcube Dongle with many performance improvements and additional features. It covers LF, MF, HF, VHF, UHF and L Band (coverage is 150kHz-240MHz and 420MHz to 1.9GHz), and has an increased frequency...
by m0xtd | Oct 3, 2012 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK is a non-profit volunteer organisation for those interested in amateur radio space communications. AMSAT-UK produces a quarterly newsletter OSCAR News and its members are involved in designing, building and operating amateur radio satellites. Membership is...
by m0xtd | Oct 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
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by m0xtd | Sep 30, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students at the Ivy League Brown University are developing an amateur radio satellite EQUiSat. It will carry a Xenon Flash Tube (XFT) subsystem to act as an Optical Beacon that should be visible to the unaided eye of observers on Earth. The Radio Beacon is planned to...
by m0xtd | Sep 28, 2012 | Daily Updates
Ham Radio gets a brief mention in this NASA video about the eerie-sounding radio emissions from around Earth. A NASA spacecraft has recorded eerie-sounding radio emissions coming from our own planet. These beautiful “songs of Earth” could,...
by m0xtd | Sep 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
The BAA Radio Astronomy Group (BAA-RAG) have an impressive line-up of speakers for their General Meeting taking place Saturday, October 27, 10:30 to 17:30 at the National Space Centre, Leicester, LE4 5NS. The event is open to all. The provisional schedule lists these...
by m0xtd | Sep 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
Ethiopian Amateur Radio Society Chairman Sid May ET3SID / AB3OZ / G4CTQ passed away September 25. Sid had recently contacted AMSAT-UK regarding an amateur radio CubeSat project he planned to start in Ethiopia. He had been looking forward to attending the National...
by m0xtd | Sep 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
UKube-1 – the UK Space Agency’s first CubeSat mission – has ‘booked’ its journey into space on a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket. The launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrone in Kazakhstan is expected to take place in March 2013. UKube-1 carries an amateur radio 435/145 MHz...
by m0xtd | Sep 23, 2012 | Daily Updates
AMSAT has received the sad news on the passing of John Beanland, G3BVU. John was an avid AMSAT member and helped man the AMSAT booth at the Boxboro Hamfest over the years. His friends remember John to be outgoing and enthusiastic about amateur radio in space. AMSAT...
by m0xtd | Sep 22, 2012 | Daily Updates
Mike Rupprecht DK3WN continues his investigation to match the NORAD Two-Line Element Sets for Objects D to K to the CubeSats that were deployed by the NROL-36 mission on September 13. Read the results in his Satellite Blog at...
