[amsat-bb] Re: Next SpaceX Dragon Launch Scheduled

2014-02-09 Thread M5AKA
I believe it'll carry these CubeSats: 3U TechCube 1 3U ALL-STAR-THEIA 2U LMRSat 1U Hermes 2 73 Trevor M5AKA On Saturday, 8 February 2014, 23:31, B J wrote: http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/02/08/spacex-sets-date-for-next-crs-mission-as-orbital-makes-long-term-plans/ http://www.nasaspa

[amsat-bb] How to get a cheap handheld broadband RF preamp

2014-02-09 Thread andy thomas
This is primarily for the team getting ready for the Kicksat Sprite project but I am posting it on the amsat -bb as well as there may be a science teacher out there who may be interested.I'm not claiming it's revolutionary, but timely. The requirement is for an inexpensive antenna-head preamp,

[amsat-bb] Re: 150 cubesats to provide global WIFI multicasting

2014-02-09 Thread Robert Bruninga
> for the life of me, I can't think where we could find 70 Mbytes > of ham radio content. Not useful content, anyway. A good example is the way some people stream live tracking data for all satellites in view plus an update to the DX list of passes over the next 3 hours that is captured and displ