by m0xtd | Oct 30, 2011 | Daily Updates
A vintage TV news report first broadcast Aug 4, 1985 shows a contact between RSGB HQ in Potters Bar and Astronaut Tony England W0ORE in the Challenger shuttle on mission STS 51-F. Tony W0ORE was running a Motorola model MX-340 handheld 2-meter transceiver and a Robot...
by m0xtd | Oct 30, 2011 | Daily Updates
The original TV news reports about the United Kingdom’s first Amateur Radio satellites, UOSAT-1 (OSCAR-9) and UOSAT-2 (OSCAR-11), can now be seen on the web. In ‘Talking Satellite’, made February 15, 1983, Martin Sweeting G3YJO talks about OSCAR-9...
by m0xtd | Oct 30, 2011 | Daily Updates
An Amateur Radio Satellite activity and instruction video by the Hams in Space Team at Bennett Spring State Park, Missouri. Watch Ham and Fish, Amateur Radio Satellites by Hams in Space [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNCgiljwQgQ] Hams in Space...
by m0xtd | Oct 28, 2011 | Daily Updates
The Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) initiative took place on Friday, October 28 at 0948 UT and a number of Amateur Radio satellites were among them. The CubeSats were successfully deployed at 1129 UT. Signals have been heard from Explorer-1[Prime], RAX-2,...
by m0xtd | Oct 28, 2011 | Daily Updates
Attempts are being made to reactivate Prospero, the United Kingdom’s first satellite launched on a UK-built rocket, Black Arrow, on October 28, 1971. It is hoped Amateur Radio operators will be able to provide recordings of the signals on 137.560 MHz. On October...
by m0xtd | Oct 28, 2011 | Daily Updates
On the AMSAT bulletin board Lynn KJ4ERJ reports the initial keps for the CubeSats launched today October 28 have been loaded into the APRS pass predictor: For APRS users, to get a pass prediction for your QTH, make sure you’ve beaconed your position recently...
by m0xtd | Oct 26, 2011 | Daily Updates
HL2/F4AAR has made available a video of an EME test using the AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle SDR during the ARRL EME 2011 Contest. Read about it in Google English on the HL2UVH Blog with pictures http://tinyurl.com/3eqkjq3 Watch ARRL EME Contest October 2011 – HL2UVH...
by m0xtd | Oct 25, 2011 | Daily Updates
VI6CHOGM, celebrating the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth Oct 28-30, will be active on the amateur radio satellites SO-50 and AO-51. Adam VK2YK writes: Below are the passes this weekend that I’ll be active on with the special event callsign...
by m0xtd | Oct 18, 2011 | Daily Updates
Auburn University’s famous battle cry, “War Eagle”, will be heard from space Oct. 27 when it is transmitted to Earth from a student-built amateur radio satellite known as AubieSat-1. After launch when the satellite comes over Auburn, Alabama, the...
by m0xtd | Oct 18, 2011 | Daily Updates
ABOUT THIS PROJECT Would you like to have your own spacecraft in space? I’m Zac Manchester KD2BHC, a graduate student in Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. Over the last several years a few collaborators and I have designed, built, and tested a very...
