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ZCZC AS02 
QST de W1AW 
Space Bulletin 002  ARLS002

From ARRL Headquarters 

Newington, CT  January 28, 2011

To all radio amateurs

SB SPACE ARL ARLS002

ARLS002 ARISSat-1 Blasts Off

At 0132 UTC January 28, a Soyuz-U rocket lifted off from the

Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan carrying the Russian Progress

M-09M cargo vehicle to orbit for a rendezvous with the International

Space Station (ISS).

In addition to delivering fuel, oxygen, food and other supplies, the

Progress contains the new AMSAT ARISSat-1 Amateur Radio satellite.

Progress is scheduled to dock with the space station on January 30

at 0240 UTC.

ARISSat-1 will be manually jettisoned from the ISS during a

spacewalk on February 16. The satellites features a new software

defined transponder that will provide simultaneous 2-meter FM, CW,

BPSK transmissions, as well as a Mode U/V (70 cm uplink, 2 meter

downlink) transponder.

More information is available at the AMSAT-NA website at

http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/index.php, and in the February 2011

issue of QST magazine.

NNNN

/EX

Satelliten HO-68 går för närvarande bara med beacon. Den som vill kan lätt se statusen genom att ta emot telemetri från satelliten och föra in den i gratisprogrammet XW-1 CW telemetry decoder från DK3WN.   http://www.dk3wn.info/software.shtml

När detta skrivs har satelliten precis passerat och jag fick en transpondertemperatur på 19 grader samt effekt på beacon 120 mW.

Nu finns en video på YouTube som visar en test på FUNcube SDR Dongle:

Henk, PA3GUO, has produced a HD video showing the AMSAT-UK FUNcube SDR dongle
receiving signals from Amateur Radio satellites.

The FUNcube Software
Defined Radio dongle covers 64 to 1700 MHz. and sells for around £125. It was
developed to support the educational outreach aspect of the AMSAT-UK FUNcube
satellite that will hopefully be launched towards the end of 2011.

On
the FUNcube Yahoo Group Henk writes:

YouTube video featuring the first
results;
– HO68 CW
– HO68 FM
– AO51 FM
– VO52 SSB
– OOREOS 1k2
AX25 (packet radio with MixW)

Results are amazing. The FUNcubeDongle
gives results similar to the
Kenwood TS2000x.

Tests are done with the
dongle straight out of the box, no tweaking.

Great achievement Howard
& team !

Watch FUNcube Dongle: Out Of The Box test of this highly
innovative SDR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFZGlqKPPQo
(HD
video: set to 720p and Fullscreen)

Note: satellite signals are very weak
and Henk used a Mast Head
pre-amp for the 2m and 70cm bands.

You can
join the FUNcube Yahoo Group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube/

FUNcube
SDR Dongle
http://www.funcubedongle.com/
Order
at http://www.funcubedongle.com/?page_id=286

FUNcube
website
http://www.FUNcube.org.uk/

AMSAT-UK
publishes a colour A4 newsletter, OSCAR News, which is full
of Amateur
Satellite information.
Join online at http://tinyurl.com/JoinAMSAT-UK

Nu finns en video på YouTube som visar en test på FUNcube SDR Dongle:

Henk, PA3GUO, has produced a HD video showing the AMSAT-UK FUNcube SDR dongle
receiving signals from Amateur Radio satellites.

The FUNcube Software
Defined Radio dongle covers 64 to 1700 MHz. and sells for around £125. It was
developed to support the educational outreach aspect of the AMSAT-UK FUNcube
satellite that will hopefully be launched towards the end of 2011.

On
the FUNcube Yahoo Group Henk writes:

YouTube video featuring the first
results;
– HO68 CW
– HO68 FM
– AO51 FM
– VO52 SSB
– OOREOS 1k2
AX25 (packet radio with MixW)

Results are amazing. The FUNcubeDongle
gives results similar to the
Kenwood TS2000x.

Tests are done with the
dongle straight out of the box, no tweaking.

Great achievement Howard
& team !

Watch FUNcube Dongle: Out Of The Box test of this highly
innovative SDR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFZGlqKPPQo
(HD
video: set to 720p and Fullscreen)

Note: satellite signals are very weak
and Henk used a Mast Head
pre-amp for the 2m and 70cm bands.

You can
join the FUNcube Yahoo Group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube/

FUNcube
SDR Dongle
http://www.funcubedongle.com/
Order
at http://www.funcubedongle.com/?page_id=286

FUNcube
website
http://www.FUNcube.org.uk/

AMSAT-UK
publishes a colour A4 newsletter, OSCAR News, which is full
of Amateur
Satellite information.
Join online at http://tinyurl.com/JoinAMSAT-UK

SO-67 Repeater to Resume Operations

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 009.03
  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
January 9, 2011
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-009.03

With the troublesome controller reprogrammed it is hoped that Sumbandila will resume its repeater schedule next week.

Four passes over South Africa during the evening of 8 January will be scheduled as a test.  Please report your observations at David Carr’s live OSCAR status page: http://oscar.dcarr.org/

The weekly schedule will be published at http://amsatsa.org.za/ once full operations resume.

[ANS thanks Johann, ZR1CBC, for the above information]