by m0xtd | Sep 15, 2011 | Daily Updates
AMSAT and satellite communications For those who enjoy AMSAT and satellite communications, Graham Shirville, G3VZV will be looking at space communications in general and then will concentrate on the FUNcube spacecraft being developed by AMSAT-UK. The FUNcube will be a...
by m0xtd | Sep 14, 2011 | Daily Updates
Berend Edema PA3ARK has received a 144 MHz EME transmission from Zhu ShaoHua BD4SY in Changshu City using an AMSAT-UKFUNcube Dongle SDR. Click photo for full size. He has also received the GB3VHF beacon on 144.430 MHz over a distance of 500...
by m0xtd | Sep 13, 2011 | Daily Updates
TAPR President, Steve Bible N7HPR, discusses the new amateur radio satellite ARISSat-1 on this weeks edition of the popular video show Ham Nation. He appears after the item on the Elecraft KX3 portable SDR transceiver. Watch Ham Nation episode 16 at...
by m0xtd | Sep 13, 2011 | Daily Updates
In under a year the AMSAT-UK FUNcube Yahoo Group has achieved over 2000 members. The group was created by Rob Styles M0TFO at the end of October 2010 to provide support for the AMSAT-UK FUNcube satellite and the FUNcube Dongle (FCD) Software Defined Radio (SDR). The...
by m0xtd | Sep 12, 2011 | Daily Updates
Nasa says chances of its dead 20-year-old satellite, due to fall to Earth later this month, hitting anyone are 3,200-1 Nasa says one of its dead satellites will soon fall to Earth but there is very little chance that it will hit anyone. The space agency does...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 12, 2011 | Daily Updates
Nasa says chances of its dead 20-year-old satellite, due to fall to Earth later this month, hitting anyone are 3,200-1 Nasa says one of its dead satellites will soon fall to Earth but there is very little chance that it will hit anyone. The space agency does...
by m0xtd | Sep 11, 2011 | Daily Updates
Australian student and foundation radio amateur Mark Jessop VK5FDRK, who was staying in the United Kingdom, acheived a new record when his balloon reached a height of 40,575 metres. It was launched from Cambridge and carried a 434.650 MHz transmitter, . Mark VK5FDRK...
by m0xtd | Sep 11, 2011 | Daily Updates
Registration open for 2011 AMSAT Space Symposium AMSAT announces the 2011 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held on Friday, November 4th through Sunday, November 6th in San Jose, CA. Our annual gathering will feature: + Space Symposium with Amateur Satellite Presentations...
by m0xtd | Sep 9, 2011 | Daily Updates
Would you like to win a trip to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas? The UK Space Design Competition gives you and your friends the opportunity to do just that! Supported by the Space Science and Engineering Foundation and the UK Space Agency, the...
by m0xtd | Sep 8, 2011 | Daily Updates
October 28, 2011 will be the 40th anniversary of the historic launch of Prospero the UK’s first satellite to be launched on the Black Arrow rocket. A description of the Prospero satellite and its experiments written in 1975 can be downloaded here Pictures of the...
