Category: Ham Satellite news

Hej!

Deltagare
SM4EFW
SM5HL
SM6NZV
SM7GXR/4Mobil
SM7WSJ

*Ham video

ISS Ham Video launch campaign

*Italiensk minisatellit

http://amsat-uk.org/2012/05/25/italian-microsat-to-deploy-six-amateur-radio-satellites/

*Fri uppskjutning av PSK transponder

If someone will build a linear PSK-31 transponder, I have a launch opportunity in 9 months.

All it needs to be is a PSK31 Linear receiver on 28.120 MHz (3 KHz bandwidth) with AGC coupled to a downlink UHF FM transmitter of about 1 Watt. Should fit on a 3.5″ square card. This is the same as Brno University has built for prior missions of PCSAT2 on the ISS back in 2006 and the two on the shelf awaiting flights. Flight delivery by May 2014 (9 months from now).

Brno, may not have the man power to make a third one for this new flight opportunity.

Jusst a thought for someone looking for a project.

Bob, Wb4aPR

*Nasa TV (skall vara livesändning från dockning med ISS under förmiddagen)

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/schedule.html

Nästa söndag är undertecknad inte igång på 3740 klockan 10.00 men övriga
finns säkert närvarande.

mvh Håkan SM7WSJ

SK0QO i Haninge ordnar en radioloppis i Handen den 28/9 kl 10.00.  Så här skriver Kalle SM0NUE:

“Samma plats som de senaste åren, skolan Fredrik (yrkesinriktade delen). G:a Dalarövägen nära bussgaraget. Det
börjar kl 10 men dom flesta kommer tidigare för YL-baren med fina mackor öppnar kl 09.00(Säljarna har tillträde kl 8)”

SK0QOs hemsida har tyvärr blivit hackad så därför hjälper vi på AMSAT-SM till och lägger upp informationen här.

Hej!

Vi körde ett litet nät på 3740 KHz idag.

Inte så många punkter att rapportera men ett intressant ballongprojekt pågår
idag (se länk nedan)

Deltagare
SM0IFP
SM4EFW
SM4JLX
SM5BXC
SM5HL
SM6NZV
SM7WSJ

Vi hörs nästa vecka

mvh Håkan SM7WSJ

Hello All,

At 15 september 2013 a weather balloon will be launched from QTH De Bilt in
the
Netherlands with a transponder, beacon and ATV video transmitter .
This event is a balloon fox hunt organized once in every year.
In the past Dutch amateur radio operators worked stations –
from F/G/ON/DL via the balloon transponder.
145.475Mhz downlink (FM/N).
432.550Mhz uplink (FM/N).

145.450Mhz 100mw beacon (FM/N).
2330Mhz ATV video transmitter with camera looking down.
Live video stream from the balloon camera will be shown on:
http://www.pi6atv.com/
http://www.ch73.net/

At 7.077Mhz (LSB) a special balloon event ground station will be –
active with the callsign PH35BHV.
The special callsign is because it will be the 35th ballon fox hunt event.

The weather balloon will be launched arround 11:00 UTC (it can also be
later).
More information you can find on the balloon fox hunt website.
http://www.ballonvossenjacht.nl/ (click on the English language right side).

73s Cor PD0RKC

Hej!

Dagens nät på 3740 KHz.

Deltagare

SM4EFW
SM4JLX
SM6NZV
SM7GXR/M
SM7WSJ

*LADEE på väg till Månen
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/09/orbitals-minotaur-v-launch-ladee-mission-moon/

*Nya satellitoperatörer (några exempel på hur smidigt det kan vara med god uppfinningsförmåga)

https://picasaweb.google.com/101021064082474580425/PortableSatAntenna?noredirect=1#
http://in3aqk.blogspot.it/2013/08/first-sat-qso.html

*AMSAT-DL (presentation)
http://www.batc.tv/streams/amsat1306

*Mer satelliter

Space.com reports Planet Labs is launching 28 Dove 3U-CubeSats early 2014, presumably like Dove-1/2 using 2400 MHz.

http://www.space.com/22622-planet-labs-dove-satellite-photos.html

*Funcube (snart i en omloppsbana nära dig…)

The AMSAT FUNcube team are delighted to be able to announce that the
FUNcube-1 CubeSat has now completed all its final testing and been placed
into its launch POD. This work was completed during a three day programme
at the premises of ISIS BV in Delft in the Netherlands and was finished, on
time, late this afternoon. FUNcube-1 is actually the middle 1U CubeSat of
three sharing a 3U ISIPOD. It is sharing the ISIPOD with ZACUBE-1 from
South Africa and HINcube from Norway. ZACube-1, in addition to carrying VHF
and UHF communications equipment also has a 20 metre beacon which will
operate on 14.099MHz This ISIPOD, with the spacecraft inside, will be
transported to Russia, early next month,for launch and will eventually be
attached directly to the launch vehicle.

FUNcube-1 carries a U/V linear transponder and the educational telemetry
beacon using 1k2 BPSK for school outreach purposes.

The current launch info has lift off scheduled for November 21st at 07:11:29
UTC

Full intial orbit details and TLE?s, together with decoding sofwtare will be
made available over the next few weeks

best 73

Graham G3VZV ? Wouter PA3WEG ? Jim G3WGM

(Video på länken nedan)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3xT3SDlFUOg

mvh Håkan SM7WSJ

Hej!

Svårt med konditionerna och att hitta ledig frekvens.

Deltagare

SM4EFW
SM4JLX (SWL)
SM5HL
SM5NZV
SM7WSJ

*Fun-cube är på gång i höst

FUNcube-1 carrying a 435/145 MHz linear transponder is hoping to launch in
November, see

http://amsat-uk.org/2013/08/18/funcube-1-cubesat-charger/

*Ardusat

Radio Ham VK3FADO Cited in The Age newspaper

The Age newspaper reports on Jonathan Oxer VK3FADO who has been
developing the ArduSat CubeSats which carry amateur radio payloads

The article, by Ben Grubb, says for the past 10 months, Jon VK3FADO
has been involved in designing and building two crowd-funded micro-
satellites that will allow anyone to conduct their own space
experiments.

Named ArduSat-1 and ArduSat-X, the low-cost, miniature satellites
are aboard the International Space Station ready to be put into orbit
between October and March 2014.

Read the full article at
http://tinyurl.com/m56pj4n

ArduSat Open Source Ham Radio CubeSats
http://amsat-uk.org/2013/08/09/ardusat-open-source-ham-radio-cubesats/

This article was posted at:
http://tinyurl.com/k7jjvbt

Vi gör ett försök på 3740 KHz även nästa söndag!

73 Håkan SM7WSJ

Hej! (Lite fyraktivitet på 3740 så vi gick ner till 3737 KHz)

Dagens nät med

SM3HG
SM4EFW
SM4JLX
SM5HL
SM6NZV
SM7WSJ

*ISS
Verkar vara väldigt aktiv på 145.800 just nu. Undertecknad körde kontakt i veckan samt hörde att dom körde EU stationer i natt.

*Koordinerade satelliter (nyss uppdaterat)
http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/

*Amsat NA (verkar ha fått ordning på hemsidan)
http://ww2.amsat.org/

*Amsat OZ
http://www.amsat.dk/

*Laserkommunikation med månen
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Laser_communications_set_for_Moon_mission

*Vi hänger med en soyuz
http://spaceinvideos.esa.int/Videos/2013/08/The_Soyuz_launch_sequence_explained

*Ballonger

UK High Altitude Society (UKHAS) Conference, September 7

There are a few tickets still available for the UKHAS conference at the University of Greenwich, London on Saturday, September 7.

The UK High Altitude Society (UKHAS) conference attracts those interested in learning about building and flying High Altitude Balloons or in tracking
their 434 MHz signals. The conference is open to all, you don’t have to have flown a High Altitude Balloon, you’ll probably get more out of it as a
total beginner as there will be a huge wealth of experience in the room you can speak to.

There is an impressive line-up of speakers in addition to which there will be workshops, demonstrations along with assessments and exam for the amateur
radio Foundation licence. Among the presentations will be one on Narrow Band TV by Phil Heron 2I0VIM.

Workshops :
Balloon Q&A ­ James Coxon M6JCX
Pi ­ Dave Akerman M6RPI
Foundation Exam Preparation ­ Phillip Crump M0DNY
Knots! ­ Anthony Stirk M0UPU

Demonstrations:
Balloon -> ISS APRS Setup ­ James Coxon M6JCX
Setting up Receiving Station ­ Anthony Stirk M0UPU

The current itinerary (subject to change!) is at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SjENgll8iYXLDli4HJHR1DgjHrHjmpAm1vChTz-bo-M/edit?usp=sharing

You can get tickets at
http://ava.upuaut.net/store/index.php?route=product/category&path=74

James M6JCX and Anthony M0UPU report that the British Amateur Television Club batc.tv have kindly agreed to attend to give the conference the “AMSAT” treatment so for those of you unable to make it we hope to finally stream the conference. They will where time permits also take questions from people watching remotely. The conference will start at 0930 and finish 1700, afterwards there will be the traditional pub trip this time into Greenwich.

Vi försöker nästa vecka igen.

73 Håkan SM7WSJ