{"id":13008,"date":"2016-08-08T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T18:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13008"},"modified":"2016-08-15T12:22:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T16:22:27","slug":"video-dave-rowntree-blur-drummer-gives-a-hackers-guide-to-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13008","title":{"rendered":"Video: Dave Rowntree (Blur drummer) gives &#8220;A hacker&#8217;s guide to satellites&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An intro to amateur satellite radio:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southgatearc.org\/news\/2016\/august\/ham-radio-satellites-at-emf.htm#.V6jJsbgrKUk\" target=\"_d\">Ham radio satellites at EMF &#8211; \u00a0Southgate Amateur Radio News<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_Rowntree\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Rowntree<\/a> 2E0DRV, drummer in the rock-band <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blur_(band)\" target=\"_blank\">Blur<\/a>, gave a presentation on amateur radio satellites at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emfcamp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Electromagnetic Field<\/a> event in Guildford <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Talk description: There are about a dozen communications satellites orbiting the earth that were designed and built by teams of amateur enthusiasts. Dave talks about what they are, how they got there, and how you can build simple equipment to listen to their transmissions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/weK97F9ZbnI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyspace.com\/SatBuilding\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">HobbySpace Satellite Building<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyspace.com\/Radio\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Space Radio<\/a> sections for more info and web resources on the making of\u00a0and radio communications with\u00a0amateur satellites. (These sections need updating but still have lots of useful material.)<\/p>\n<p>There is also a new AMSAT guide on amateur satellites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/06\/27\/getting-started-with-amateur-satellites-2016\/\" target=\"_d\">Getting Started with Amateur Satellites 2016\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0AMSAT-UK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.amsat-uk.org\/Getting_Started_with_Amateur_Satellites_-_2016\/p3815740_16038670.aspx\" target=\"_d\">Getting Started with Amateur Satellites &#8211; 2016 &#8211; AMSAT-UK Store<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An intro to amateur satellite radio:\u00a0Ham radio satellites at EMF &#8211; \u00a0Southgate Amateur Radio News\u00a0&#8211; Dave Rowntree 2E0DRV, drummer in the rock-band Blur, gave a presentation on amateur radio satellites at the Electromagnetic Field event in Guildford Talk description: There are about a dozen communications satellites orbiting the earth that were designed and built by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13008\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Dave Rowntree (Blur drummer) gives &#8220;A hacker&#8217;s guide to satellites&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateurstudent-satellite","category-space-participation","category-space-radio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3nO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4808,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4808","url_meta":{"origin":13008,"position":0},"title":"AMSAT and ISS amateur radio news","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Go to AMSAT News for the latest headlines about developments in amateur and student satellites and for updates about amateur radio on the ISS. 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