by m0xtd | Jan 4, 2012 | Daily Updates
Journalist David Meyer interviewed AMSAT-UK’s Jim Heck G3WGM for an article on the FUNcube-1 satellite being built by AMSAT-UK volunteers. School students will be able to send, via a moderator, ‘Fitter’ (as in ‘FUNcube Twitter’) messages...
by m0xtd | Jan 4, 2012 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio satellite ARISSat-1, deployed from the ISS on August 3, fell silent on Wednesday, January 4, as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere. The ARISSat website shows the last telemetry was captured at 06:02:14 UTC on Jan. 4 with these temperatures:...
by m0xtd | Jan 3, 2012 | Daily Updates
An agreement has now been reached with ISIS Launch Services BV, who are based in Delft in the Netherlands, for them to provide a launch of the FUNcube-1 CubeSat. It is anticipated that FUNcube-1, which has been created by a team of volunteer radio amateurs and other...
by m0xtd | Jan 2, 2012 | Daily Updates
Between 5th and 7th Jan 2012 AMSAT-UK will be showing off the potential of the FUNcube satellite as a teaching tool at the Association for Science Education Conference (see http://ase.org.uk). The ASE exists to provide support and ideas for school science teachers in...
by m0xtd | Jan 2, 2012 | Daily Updates
The AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle is a VHF/UHF (64-1700 MHz) Software Defined Radio (SDR) on a USB Dongle. Howard Long G6VLB traveled from London to the 2011 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC) in Baltimore to address the group on this project. He details the...
by m0xtd | Jan 2, 2012 | Daily Updates
A new promotional video has been released to attract Hackers, Makers and Innovators to amateur radio. The video features well known hacker and maker Diana Eng KC2UHB along with Ham Nation’s Bob Heil K9EID and ISS Astronaut Doug Wheelock KF5BOC. It follows some...
by m0xtd | Jan 1, 2012 | Daily Updates
Simon Brown HB9DRV has made available a recording of Sunday’s AMSAT-UK 80m net that he made from a remote receiver in Poole, Dorset. The net is held every Sunday morning at 10am local time on a nominal frequency of 3.780 MHz. Due to interference the net may move...
by m0xtd | Jan 1, 2012 | Daily Updates
A new amateur radio satellite organisation, AMSAT-Francophone, was formed in December. Following the disappearance of AMSAT-France a few months ago, some of the members who originally created AMSAT-France 16 years ago, thought it was still necessary to have a...
by m0xtd | Dec 31, 2011 | Daily Updates
The altitude of the amateur radio satellite ARISSat-1 (145.950 MHz FM) continues to decline rapidly. On Tuesday, Dec 27, 2011, ARISSat-1 was losing about 4.1 km (~2.5 miles) a day in altitude, by Friday, Dec 30, 2011 the decay was 5.9 km (3.6 miles) per day. This...
by m0xtd | Dec 31, 2011 | Daily Updates
In the United Kingdom volunteers from SSTL and SSC are using their own, free time to develop STRaND-1 a CubeSat that will carry a Smart Phone. However Smart Phone satellites aren’t only being developed in the UK, the United States is developing one as well....
