Category Archives: Space Radio

Amateur/Student Satellite, Space Radio

AMSAT & ISS amateur radio news

Go to AMSAT News for the latest headlines about developments in amateur and student satellites and for updates about amateur radio on the ISS.

ANS 019 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – January 18, 2014:
* ARRL Features Bringing Space into the Classroom
* The Pragmatic Guide for Using the FUNCube Materials Science Experiment in the Classroom
* SA AMSAT Invites Educational Payload Proposals
* PhoneSat 2.4 Ham Radio CubeSat
* UK CubeSat programme in New Electronics
* Peter Portanova W2JV To be Active on Satellites as W1AW/2
* Deorbitsail CubeSat
* 2014 Eastern VHF-UHF-Microwave Conference — April 11-13
* FUNcube-1 in Practical Wireless Magazine
* ARISS News
* Satellite Shorts From All Over

Here is the video discussed in the “Bringing Space into the Classroom” item above. From the caption:

AMSAT Forum at the 2013 Dayton Hamvention and the presentations on education wrapped up with a talk by Mark Spencer, ARRL Education & Technology Program Director. “Spence”, WA8SME, briefly described his classroom experiments for measuring the “wobble” of the Fox satellite, demonstrating a Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPT) for a solar array, and a lower cost azimuth-elevation rotor system for lightweight satellite antennas

Amateur/Student Satellite, Education, Space Radio

FUNcube – an educational satellite for home and school

The FUNcube nanosat (now officially designated AO-73) reached orbit last November via a Russian Dnepr rocket. The FUNcube project is led by AMSAT-UK and is intended as

 a complete educational single CubeSat project with the goal of enthusing and educating young people about radio, space, physics and electronics.

The project encompasses the FUNcube Dongle, which is a low cost device that plugs into a USB port and turns your computer into

 the “ground segment”, or a radio receiver designed to allow anyone to try their hand at reception of satellites like FUNcube anywhere on Earth as part of a global educational collaboration project collecting information from space.

(The Dongle also needs to connect to a simple antenna.)

FUNcubeDongle1

The satellite has materials on the external surface of the satellite configured with temperature sensors to provide an experiment to study heat radiation and to demonstrate telemetry collection and space research methods. There is now a teachers guide available on how to combine this on-board experiment data with the ground station:

As shown in the above diagram, the telemetry data obtain can be shared at the FUNcube Real Time Data on line warehouse.

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Find more about FUNcube and other space radio projects in the HobbySpace Radio section.

Amateur/Student Satellite, Space Radio

AMSAT & ISS amateur radio news

Go to AMSAT News for the latest headlines about developments in amateur and student satellites and for updates about amateur radio on the ISS.

ANS 001 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – January 5, 2014:
* Ham radio CubeSats launched to ISS
* AMSAT SKN Best Fist Nominations Due
* KARTS Challenges Clubs to Contribute to the SA AMSAT Cubesat Project
* UK Amateur Radio Groups Respond to 2.4 and 5 GHz Sharing Proposal
* UNSA-SAT1 – The first 3.4 GHz CubeSat

Amateur/Student Satellite, Space Radio

AMSAT & ISS amateur radio news

Go to AMSAT News for the latest headlines about developments in amateur and student satellites and for updates about amateur radio on the ISS.

ANS 005 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – January 5, 2014:
* NASA Digital Learning Network Special Opportunity
* Winter Issue of AMSAT-UK OSCAR News Available
* Hillbilly Tracking for Low Earth Orbit Satellites
* High Resolution Data available on FUNcube Data Warehouse
* Call for Papers for the AMSAT-SA Space Symposium
* OPDX Interview With ND9M.VQ9JC Diego Garcia
* AMSAT Representatives Requested for Vienna Wireless Society Hamfest
* ARISS News – TBD
* Satellite Shorts from All Over

Amateur/Student Satellite, Space Radio

AMSAT & ISS amateur radio news – Dec.29.13

Go to AMSAT News for the latest headlines about developments in amateur and student satellites and for updates about amateur radio on the ISS.

ANS 363 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – December 28, 2013:
* FUNcube-1: One Month in Space
* CQ to Realign Publications, Launch New CQ Plus Digital Supplement
* Updated Dashboard Software now available for FUNcube
* FUNcube-1 High Resolution Graphs Available
* Popular Magazine Reports
* ISS ham video commissioning
* HamRadioNow: Low Cost Mobile APRS
* AMSAT-UK Announces Availability of the G0MRF 144 MHz Pre-amp Kit
* New Ham Radio Educational Video
* Star Comm Amateur Satellite Group Announces New “Got Grids? Award”
* Changes to FUNcube Data Warehouse Upload
* ARISS News
* Satellite Shorts From All Over