{"id":6113,"date":"2014-01-19T06:05:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T06:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6113"},"modified":"2014-01-19T06:06:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T06:06:24","slug":"amsat-iss-amateur-radio-news-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6113","title":{"rendered":"AMSAT &#038; ISS amateur radio news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amsat.org\/amsat-new\/news\/\" target=\"d\">AMSAT News<\/a> for the latest headlines about developments in amateur and student satellites and for updates about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issfanclub.com\/\" target=\"d\">amateur radio on the ISS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amsat.org\/pipermail\/ans\/2014\/000773.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>ANS 019 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin &#8211; January 18, 2014<\/i><\/a>:<br \/>\n* ARRL Features Bringing Space into the Classroom<br \/>\n* The Pragmatic Guide for Using the FUNCube Materials Science\u00a0Experiment in the Classroom<br \/>\n* SA AMSAT Invites Educational Payload Proposals<br \/>\n* PhoneSat 2.4 Ham Radio CubeSat<br \/>\n* UK CubeSat programme in New Electronics<br \/>\n* Peter Portanova W2JV To be Active on Satellites as W1AW\/2<br \/>\n* Deorbitsail CubeSat<br \/>\n* 2014 Eastern VHF-UHF-Microwave Conference &#8212; April 11-13<br \/>\n* FUNcube-1 in Practical Wireless Magazine<br \/>\n* ARISS News<br \/>\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over<\/p>\n<p>Here is the video discussed in the &#8220;Bringing Space into the Classroom&#8221; item above. From the caption:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AMSAT Forum at the 2013 Dayton Hamvention and the presentations on education wrapped up with a talk by Mark Spencer, ARRL Education &amp; Technology Program Director. &#8220;Spence&#8221;, WA8SME, briefly described his classroom experiments for measuring the &#8220;wobble&#8221; 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<\/p><\/blockquote>\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\/kl8HCBEGv4Q?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; January 18, 2014: * ARRL Features Bringing Space into the Classroom * The Pragmatic Guide for Using the FUNCube Materials Science\u00a0Experiment in the Classroom * &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6113\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AMSAT &#038; ISS amateur radio news<\/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":[4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateurstudent-satellite","category-space-radio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1AB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6826,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6826","url_meta":{"origin":6113,"position":0},"title":"AMSAT, Student sats, and ISS amateur radio news &#8211; Mar.8.14","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 9, 2014","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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