Category: Ham Satellite news

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]

Hej!

Vi har kört HF Nätet varje söndag under helgerna men första e-post

rapporten för året.

Deltagare på dagens
nät

SM4EFW
SM5HL
SM6NZV
SM7WSJ

*För tillfället körbara
analoga
satelliter

AO-7
AO-27
FO-29
SO-50
AO-51
VO-52
HO-68

WSJ
kört bla, KB1RVT via AO-7 NZV varit igång på
VO-52.

*Solförmörkelse

http://www.ok1dfc.com/EME/mereni/eclipse_04_01_11.htm

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2011.html

Tips
från NZV. ISS och solförmörkelse på samma bild

http://vejret-dyn.tv2.dk/artikel/id-36347935.html

*Mars
nyheter

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars-rovers-begin-8th-year-110104.html

För
dom som vill lyssna på signaler från Mars
http://www.amsat-dl.org/p5a/reception_g3ruh.htm

*Väderballongexperiment

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/03/kids-send-a-cam/

*Turkiet
skickar upp amatörsatellit 2011

http://wordpress.projectoscar.co.uk/?p=373

Med
förhoppning om ett gott Satellitår 2011

73 de Håkan SM7WSJ

SpaceX launched the Dragon spacecraft from Florida on a two-orbit test flight Wednesday, December 8 and the company brought the auto- mated capsule back to Earth less than three-and-a-half hours later.

A video of the Falcon 9 liftoff can be viewed at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi9ljTW3GEQ

Liftoff photos from pad cameras can be viewed at:
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/002/remotes/

SpaceFlightNow.com’s Photo Gallery of the launch can be viwed at:
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/002/press/

Photos of the Dragon parachute landing in the Pacific can be viewed at: http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/002/splashdown/

During the flight four cubesats were deployed from the “trunk”
section of the Dragon spacecraft. At press time the function of two of the cubesats have been identified.

The University of Southern California’s (USC) CAERUS cubesat was deployed SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. CAERUS is part of the “MAYFLOWER”
Next Generation Technology CubeSat that is a joint effort with Northrop Grumman NOVAWORKS group. CAERUS is licensed by the FCC in the Experimental Service. It also has an amateur callsign and a downlink in the 70cm band:

Call Sign:  KJ6FIX
Downlink Frequency:  437.600 MHz (not coordinated by IARU) Beacon Output Power:  900mW Modulation Type:  AFSK, 1200 baud
TLE: Updated on website, right after launch.

The CAERUS website is at: http://tinyurl.com/37w8map. The beacon data can also be translated with the jar applet provided on this website.

The second cubesat identifed aboard the Falcon X launch was the US Army SMDC-ONE nanosatellite mission which is a store and for- ward satellite. The primary objective of the first flight wass to receive data from a ground transmitter and relay that data to a ground station. The technology is planned to be expanded to build a number of identical satellites and deploy them together into Low Earth Orbit to simulate enhanced tactical communications capability.

[ANS thanks Omair A. Rahman at the University of Southern California,  SpaceDaily.com, and SpaceFlightNow.com for the above information]