by m0xtd | Jun 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Virginian-Pilot reports that when fifth-grader Tristan Jolley of Mack Benn Jr. Elementary school wasn’t picked to attend this year’s NASA student symposium in Houston, he was disappointed – motivated, too. If anything, he said, it made him want...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Virginian-Pilot reports that when fifth-grader Tristan Jolley of Mack Benn Jr. Elementary school wasn’t picked to attend this year’s NASA student symposium in Houston, he was disappointed – motivated, too. If anything, he said, it made him want...
by m0xtd | Jun 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
In 1992 Southern California Amateur Radio operators uplinked a video of stand-up comedian Jay Leno, host of NBC’s The Tonight Show, to the Space Shuttle Columbia through Jim Steffen, KC6A’s station in Long Beach, California. Watch Jay Leno – SAREX...
by m0xtd | Jun 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
This video shows Tony Hutchison VK5ZAI on the Channel 7 Today Tonight TV show talking about amateur radio and the ARISS schools program. The show provides some great insights as to how Amateur Radio can provide support for NASA as well as raise public awareness...
by m0xtd | Jun 10, 2012 | Daily Updates
John Klingelhoeffer, WB4LNM, AubieSat-1 Technical Mentor at Auburn University Alabama reports that the satellite has been successfully commanded to change the transmission mode. John says “A short message was received Saturday evening indicating that uplink...
by m0xtd | Jun 10, 2012 | Daily Updates
ISS Amateur Radio Project Engineer Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO reports the ARISS AX.25 digipeater has changed frequency from 145.825 MHz (up/down) to 437.550 MHz (up/down). The same digi alias ARISS is still used. This change was started with the docking of the ESA...
by m0xtd | Jun 10, 2012 | Daily Updates
SA AMSAT say there is still a recovery opportunity for the amateur radio satellite SumbandilaSat (SO-67). The team at SunSpace are still incrementally reading back the program code from the nine power modules in an effort to determine the extent of the corruption....
by m0xtd | Jun 10, 2012 | Daily Updates
Outside of ITU Region 1, the Amateur Satellite Service has a 9cm band allocation of 3.400 GHz – 3.410 GHz on a non-interfering basis. No current satellites are active on this frequency range at present. The new band plan reserves allocations for EME and amateur...
by m0xtd | Jun 8, 2012 | Daily Updates
Dayton 2012 presentation by Mark Hammond N8MH describing the different roles and opportunities for Technical Mentors and Ground Station operators to play in an ARISS contact with the International Space Station. Watch ARISS and Ham Radio Opportunities by N8MH Dayton...
by m0xtd | Jun 8, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle “KOUNOTORI” (HTV) is an unmanned transfer vehicle which can carry amateur radio CubeSats along with food, clothes and equipment needed for experiments in the International Space Station (ISS). “KOUNOTORI 3”...
