[amsat-bb] AKATSUKI and IKAROS received in Bochum

2010-05-26 Thread Trevor .
AKATSUKI and IKAROS received in Bochum http://tinyurl.com/BochumUnitec-1 AKATSUKI and IKAROS received in England by Paul M0EYT http://www.uhf-satcom.com/amateurdsn/planetc/ 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions

[amsat-bb] UNITEC-1 ARRL Announcement

2010-05-25 Thread Trevor .
ARRL - Amateur Community Needed to Assist Japanese Amateur Interplanetary Satellite http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-community-needed-to-assist-japanese-amateur-interplanetary-satellite 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your News To: editor

[amsat-bb] Re: 'Zombie-sat' and the clever orbital dance

2010-05-25 Thread Trevor .
The BBC are running the video on their website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10150614.stm 73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Tue, 25/5/10, David - KG4ZLB kg4...@googlemail.com wrote: The dead-but-alive telecommunications satellite, Galaxy-15 http://www.orbital.com/SatellitesSpace

[amsat-bb] UNITEC-1 Signal Received

2010-05-21 Thread Trevor .
CW and FSK signals received in Japan from UNITEC-1 at a distance of 300,000 km, see http://sites.google.com/site/unitec1ops/ 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA

[amsat-bb] Re: Icom 9100

2010-05-19 Thread Trevor .
the IC-910 look cheap, but there are lots of other options for equipment for low cost satellite working. 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your News To: editor at southgatearc.org Or Upload Using Form At: http://www.southgatearc.org/news

[amsat-bb] Satellite Contact in Newspaper

2010-05-19 Thread Trevor .
Adam KC2WWC got some good publicity for Amateur Satellites in the Oneonta Daily Star newspaper http://thedailystar.com/localnews/x433570065/Oneonta-boy-broadcasts-interest-in-amateur-radio-with-students 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your

[amsat-bb] Re: Any update on P3E?

2010-05-17 Thread Trevor .
report on the top right on their homepage, it mentions the Joint Feasibility study carried out with the DLR (German Aerospace Center). 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT

[amsat-bb] RFI to Spacecraft

2010-05-06 Thread Trevor .
The Amateur Satellite Service isn't alone in suffering interference on its frequencies, see this BBC report on Radio Frequency Interference to the ESA Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) spacecraft. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/sci/tech/8661228.stm 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio

[amsat-bb] IARU Amateur Services Spectrum Requirements Updated

2010-05-05 Thread Trevor .
Satellite Service such as 1240-1250 and 2390-2400 but achieving the above is a good first step. 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your News To: editor at southgatearc.org Or Upload Using Form At: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/your_news_1.htm

[amsat-bb] Collapsible Fabric Antenna for Satellite Portable

2010-05-04 Thread Trevor .
Diana Eng KC2UHB has developed an ingenious antenna for satellite working. See the MAKE: magazine article at http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/05/collapsible_fabric_yagi_antenna.html 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your News

[amsat-bb] STUDSAT and TIsat-1 launch postponed

2010-05-01 Thread Trevor .
UB News - PSLV to be launched in June http://ub-news.com/news/pslv-to-be-launched-in-june/11382.html  73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your News To: editor at southgatearc.org Or Upload Using Form At: http://www.southgatearc.org/news

[amsat-bb] Re: Nanosatellite Launch Service 6 on PSLV-C15

2010-04-26 Thread Trevor .
/colloquium 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

[amsat-bb] Deployable Solar Panels on a 1U CubeSat

2010-04-22 Thread Trevor .
Interesting presentation by Abhishek Bajpayee on deployable Solar Panels at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/CubeSatWorkshop/v3 A number of other presentations from the first two days are also available at this URL 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org

[amsat-bb] SDO

2010-04-21 Thread Trevor .
Some great SDO pics and videos at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/briefing-materials-20100421.html 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now

[amsat-bb] Re: Most Hams in Space at one time?

2010-04-14 Thread Trevor .
I made the total 10 hams, see list at Six radio hams fly to space station http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2010/six_hams_on_sts131.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Tue, 13/4/10, Alan VE4YZ ve...@mts.net wrote: From: Alan VE4YZ ve...@mts.net Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Most Hams in Space at one

[amsat-bb] Estonia Gets 3400 MHz Allocation

2010-04-10 Thread Trevor .
/march2010/rsgb_wrc12_response.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org

[amsat-bb] Swiss TIsat-1 and Estonian ESTCube-1

2010-04-10 Thread Trevor .
Swiss TIsat-1 ready for launch http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2010/tisat_1.htm Estonian Amateur Radio CubeSat ESTCube-1 http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2010/estonian_cubesat.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your News

[amsat-bb] Re: seeking examples of frequency bands used in amateur spacecraft

2010-04-07 Thread Trevor .
We shouldn't forget that UOSAT 1 (UO-9) carried a set of four phase-related HF beacons at 7 ,14, 21 and 28MHz to provide a tool for HF propagation studies through the ionosphere. 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions

[amsat-bb] Innovation in Amateur Radio + CubeSat Nanorack opportunity

2010-04-04 Thread Trevor .
/news/april2010/ariss_columbus_update.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your News To: editor at southgatearc.org Or Upload Using Form At: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/your_news_1.htm

[amsat-bb] FUNcube at UKSC 2010

2010-03-31 Thread Trevor .
AMSAT-UK, who are building the FUNcube satellite, attended the UK Space Conference last week, see http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/711/68/ Videos from the 5 day conference can be seen at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/uksc-2010 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http

[amsat-bb] UK CubeSail satellite

2010-03-27 Thread Trevor .
The UK CubeSail project to develop a means of reducing space debris was announced yesterday. A 3U CubeSat demonstrator is planned for launch next year, see http://www.southgatearc.org/news/march2010/cubesail.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org

[amsat-bb] Neptune 30 CubeSat Launch

2010-03-25 Thread Trevor .
The 2U CubeSat MiniRomit1 is slated to launch on Neptune 30 in December. http://www.southgatearc.org/news/march2010/miniromit_1.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your News To: editor at southgatearc.org Or Upload Using Form At: http

[amsat-bb] Oscar Zero - Live Webstream

2010-03-20 Thread Trevor .
There should be some 3400.450MHz moon bounce from G4RSR later during National Science and Engineering Open Day. There will be a live web stream at http://www.batc.tv/ for further details see http://www.southgatearc.org/news/march2010/moon_bounce_web_stream.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur

[amsat-bb] Digital HAMSAT Centers

2010-03-15 Thread Trevor .
at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Disaster-management-2-HAM-radio-units-in-state/articleshow/5681180.cms 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your News To: editor at southgatearc.org Or Upload Using Form At: http

[amsat-bb] ADAMASat in the press

2010-03-11 Thread Trevor .
From RSGB website: http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20100310/ESN01/3100392/-1/ESN 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur

[amsat-bb] RSGB Response to WRC-12 Consultation

2010-03-04 Thread Trevor .
) Consultation http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/wrc_12/ 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio News (Email/RSS): http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your News To: editor at southgatearc.org Or Upload Using Form At: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/your_news_1.htm

[amsat-bb] NASA - 2011/2012 CubeSat Launch Opportunities

2010-02-27 Thread Trevor .
See http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/synopsis.cgi?acqid=139845 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program

[amsat-bb] IAC 2009 Video - Space Education

2010-02-24 Thread Trevor .
A video made at IAC 2009 - Space Education through Nano/Pico Satellites - is available and features Martin Sweeting G3JYO and Roland Coelho WH7BE It can be seen at http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2010/space_education.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio News (Email/RSS): http

[amsat-bb] Re: patch antenna for AO-51

2010-02-24 Thread Trevor .
--- On Wed, 24/2/10, aa...@aol.com aa...@aol.com wrote: Can't find it on the UK web site.      ??? Hardware page http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/245/142/ G7HIA 2.4 GHz Patch Antenna Kit http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/700/ 73 Trevor M5AKA

[amsat-bb] FUNcube Frequencies and Website

2010-02-23 Thread Trevor .
/ IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/ 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio News (Email/RSS): http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your News To: editor at southgatearc.org Or Upload Using Form At: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/your_news_1.htm

[amsat-bb] Video of G3YJO Appleton lecture - Small Satellites – Big Future

2010-02-02 Thread Trevor .
The video of the Appleton lecture given by Martin Sweeting G3YJO is now available on the web, for details see http://www.uk.amsat.org/ 73 Trevor M5AKA A fully detailed description of the UNITEC-1 satellite, due for launch in May, its capabilities and data structure appears in the latest

[amsat-bb] NASA to launch Cubesats

2010-01-27 Thread Trevor .
NASA CubeSat launch http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2010/nasa_cubesat_launch.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support

[amsat-bb] South Africa - 3U Cubesat

2010-01-27 Thread Trevor .
Payloads include HF beacon, parrot repeater, a transponder and a camera http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2010/sa_cubesat.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio News (Email/RSS): http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your News To: editor at southgatearc.org Or Use Form at: http

[amsat-bb] Re: ISS SSTV

2010-01-27 Thread Trevor .
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2010/iss_sstv_today..htm 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program

[amsat-bb] Re: Found it: MAI-75

2010-01-26 Thread Trevor .
It's down for Wednesday and Thursday as well. 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http

[amsat-bb] First Tweet from space

2010-01-26 Thread Trevor .
Expedition 22 sends first Tweet from space http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2010/first_tweets_from_space.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio News (Email/RSS): http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your News To: editor at southgatearc.org Or Use Form at: http://www.southgatearc.org

[amsat-bb] Re: LEO/cube sat for sale 8000$

2010-01-26 Thread Trevor .
before they get a working launch system. 73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Tue, 26/1/10, William Leijenaar pe1...@yahoo.com wrote: From: William Leijenaar pe1...@yahoo.com Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: LEO/cube sat for sale 8000$ To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Date: Tuesday, 26 January, 2010, 13:48 Hi AMSATs, I

[amsat-bb] MAI-75 (SSTV) - Friday Jan 29

2010-01-25 Thread Trevor .
Federalspace.ru lists the MAI-75 (SSTV) experiment being activated on Friday Jan 29 Russian Federal Space - ISS Experiments January 25-31 (Google English) http://tinyurl.com/yjq32nn 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org

[amsat-bb] Re: Sir Martin Sweeting

2010-01-20 Thread Trevor .
A link to the Electronics Weekly article is at http://www.southgatearc.org/news/december2009/g3yjo_award.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now

[amsat-bb] Chinese GPS system

2010-01-18 Thread Trevor .
China launched the navigational satellite BeiDou-2 a couple of days ago. The system is reported to use 1256.52-1280.52 MHz http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2010/china_launches_beidou2.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio News (Email/RSS): http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email Your News

[amsat-bb] Article on Baumanetz-2

2010-01-11 Thread Trevor .
Just run across this article on Baumanetz-2 from Dec 2009 http://tinyurl.com/SpravdaBaumanetz It lacks any technical info but does mention tie up with French students (Montpellier 2) and a future student Lunar satellite. 73 Trevor M5AKA

[amsat-bb] January SatMag - G3YJO

2010-01-10 Thread Trevor .
The January edition of SatMag is now available and pages 37-42 have an interview with Martin Sweeting G3YJO of SSTL. Download January 2010 SatMag from http://www.satmagazine.com/2010/SatMag_Jan10.pdf 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio news (Email/RSS): http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email

[amsat-bb] Galileo Contract Awarded

2010-01-08 Thread Trevor .
Russian-built Soyuz rockets will send up the satellites in batches of two from October 2012. By early 2014 it is anticipated there will be 16 satellites in orbit, see http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2010/sstl_wins_galileo_bid.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio News (Email/RSS

[amsat-bb] Re: Galileo Contract Awarded

2010-01-08 Thread Trevor .
the launches will be from the Russian launch site at Kourou ? Given it's a new site and the Russian haven't launched from a tropical climate before I'd imagine there'd be some test launches first. 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org

[amsat-bb] Re: Galileo Contract Awarded

2010-01-08 Thread Trevor .
To Galileo From 23cm Band Operations http://www.southgatearc.org/articles/galileo.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite

[amsat-bb] SEEDS - Depuri Near Collision ?

2010-01-07 Thread Trevor .
From the JARL website http://tinyurl.com/JapanJARL http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jarl.or.jp%2Fsl=jatl=enhl=enie=UTF-8 The saying, SEEDS is to suggest the possibility of a collision with Depuri 73 Trevor M5AKA

[amsat-bb] ARRL Sat Article

2009-12-30 Thread Trevor .
http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2009/12/30/11270/?nc=1 ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings:

[amsat-bb] YouTube VO-52 Video

2009-12-17 Thread Trevor .
I liked this YouTube video HAM RADIO - How To Make A VO-52 SAT QSO http://www.southgatearc.org/news/december2009/vo52_satellite_contact_video.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio News (Email/RSS): http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email your News To: editor at southgatearc.org Or use

[amsat-bb] Re: XW-1 heard during the 19:30 CEST pass (JO21)

2009-12-15 Thread Trevor .
--- On Tue, 15/12/09, PE0SAT pe0...@vgnet.nl wrote: One other question, is it possible to give us a website url with an english translation of the www.camsat.cn website regarding XW-1? Google will do it, try this http://tinyurl.com/CAMSATeng 73 Trevor M5AKA

[amsat-bb] Re: XW-1 launch date?

2009-11-30 Thread Trevor .
is March 2010. The IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination page for XW-1 says December 20. http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/formal_detail.asp?serial=108 but dates of launches always seem to change. I think we won't be certain of the launch date until it's actually in orbit. 73 Trevor M5AKA

[amsat-bb] Yubileiniy-2

2009-11-29 Thread Trevor .
? The first Yubileiniy used 435 MHz. 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org

[amsat-bb] Inasat-1

2009-11-20 Thread Trevor .
orbit from an ISRO launch so it should be a strong signal. http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/formal.asp 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email your news items to: editor at southgatearc.org

[amsat-bb] Re: Inasat-1

2009-11-20 Thread Trevor .
Radio. It's really encouraging to see that the Indonesian national society ORARI and AMSAT-ID have been so successful in working with their national space institute. Lets hope they have a successful launch. 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via

[amsat-bb] Re: G.hn: Powerline Up To 200 MHz ?

2009-11-02 Thread Trevor .
://www.edn.com/blog/40040/post/1380046938.html RegHardware - Belkin Powerline HD Gigabit mains Ethernet adaptor http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/02/review_networking_belkin_powerline_hd/ 73 Trevor M5AKA I note the bandplan for home powerline network adaptor extends right out to 200 MHz

[amsat-bb] Re: Portable satellite terminals for disaster relief

2009-10-27 Thread Trevor .
Hi Daniel, Thanks for that link of the interview with with Radio Amateur Mike Outmesguine KG6NHH, I'd only just seen the text report, which is at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8318156.stm 73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Tue, 27/10/09, Daniel Schultz n8...@usa.net wrote: From: Daniel

[amsat-bb] G.hn: Powerline Up To 200 MHz ?

2009-10-27 Thread Trevor .
for the Amateur Satellite Service allocation at 144-146, and also the US Amateur Service allocations at 50-54 and 146-148 ? G.hn: the new ITU-T Home Networking Standard http://www.southgatearc.org/news/october2009/g_hn_new_itu-t_home_networking_standard.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio

[amsat-bb] Re: ITAR is interesting to me

2009-10-19 Thread Trevor .
Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

[amsat-bb] Re: ITAR is interesting to me

2009-10-19 Thread Trevor .
Thanks for the clarification. It might appear that those who join the AMSAT-NA board risk personal ruin should they inadvertantly misinterpret Federal Government regulations. http://www.ka9q.net/export/history.html http://www.ka9q.net/export/3des.html 73 Trevor M5AKA

[amsat-bb] CubeSat article in SatMagazine

2009-10-07 Thread Trevor .
Page 43 of the October issue of SatMagazine features an article on CubeSats titled 'A Costing + Pricing Challenge', see http://www.satmagazine.com/2009/SatMag_Oct09.pdf 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS news: http://www.southgatearc.org

[amsat-bb] Portable ARISS groundstation ON7RT

2009-10-06 Thread Trevor .
I liked this YouTube video regarding Wednesdays (Oct 7) ARISS contact with Sint-Michielscollege Brasschaat, Belgium, see http://www.southgatearc..org/news/october2009/portable_ariss_groundstation_on7rt.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via

[amsat-bb] Re: All Satellites

2009-09-25 Thread Trevor .
of raising the apogee. 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman

[amsat-bb] Re: Status SumbandilaSat ?

2009-09-21 Thread Trevor .
the commissioning phase is complete. I listened out for RS-28 but nothing heard. 73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Mon, 21/9/09, Alan P. Biddle apbid...@united.net wrote: From: Alan P. Biddle apbid...@united.net Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Status SumbandilaSat ? To: AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org Date: Monday, 21

[amsat-bb] Re: Status SumbandilaSat ?

2009-09-20 Thread Trevor .
Pieters email on AMSAT-BB indicates SumbandilaSat would be dropped off at 500 km, see http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/amsat-bb/200901/msg04633.html 73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Sun, 20/9/09, Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF ni...@ngunn.net wrote: From: Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF ni...@ngunn.net Subject

[amsat-bb] Re: SumbandilaSat @ 500k

2009-09-20 Thread Trevor .
Hi David, Yes 5 years sounds about right for 500km, but the Primary Payload mission objective lifetime is only 3 years and I guess they do need the low orbit to acheive their imaging requirements. 73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Sun, 20/9/09, g0...@aol.com g0...@aol.com wrote: From: g0...@aol.com

[amsat-bb] Re: RS-28

2009-09-19 Thread Trevor .
://www.magnetosphere.ru/universat/files/abstracts.pdf 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org

[amsat-bb] Orbital Debris

2009-09-19 Thread Trevor .
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/18/darpa_orbital_debris/ ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings:

[amsat-bb] SwissCube Live Tracking website

2009-09-15 Thread Trevor .
The SwissCube Live Tracking site is at http://swisscube-live.ch/ 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author

[amsat-bb] Re: SumbandilaSat Frequencies

2009-09-14 Thread Trevor .
Does anyone have any information on the Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio experiment from the University of KwaZulu-Natal that's on the satellite ? 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author

[amsat-bb] Re: Help sought - amateur satellite service vs D-star

2009-09-09 Thread Trevor .
/may2009/thames_estuary_interference..htm Short range devices in the 433 MHz band http://www.southgatearc.org/news/august2008/short_range_devices_in_433mhz_band.htm  73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed

[amsat-bb] Re: more amsat.org broken links

2009-09-08 Thread Trevor .
is that most of these links can be resolved by using http://www.archive.org/ If you go to archive.org and type in a broken link such as http://www..timewave.com/dsp2232.html You will get a selection of many copies of that page taken between 1997 and 2006 73 Trevor M5AKA

[amsat-bb] Re: ISS future?

2009-08-19 Thread Trevor .
to keep it going, it's nowhere near self sustained. They haven't even got the dirty laundry issue cracked - how do you wash clothes in space ? Personally I think ISS will still be there in 2025 and even then they'll be looking to extend its mission. 73 Trevor M5AKA

[amsat-bb] Discovery Channel - How do they do it?

2009-08-13 Thread Trevor .
SSTL DMCii are scheduled to be featured on Discovery Channel’s ‘How Do They Do It?’ programme on Wednesday 26th August at 8pm, followed by a US version on Science Channel in early September, see http://www.southgatearc.org/news/august2009/how_do_they_do_it.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur

[amsat-bb] Re: Sumbandila

2009-08-12 Thread Trevor .
Thanks for the info Pieter. 73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Wed, 12/8/09, Pieter Kotze pko...@csir.co.za wrote: Intended orbit is around 500km to meet the imaging payload requirements.  At this altitude and with the limited propulsion on board, 3 years is a good estimate of the satellite lifetime

[amsat-bb] FUNcube on Front Cover of Electronics Weekly magazine

2009-08-11 Thread Trevor .
of satellite information. You can join online at https://secure.amsat.org.uk/subs_form/ 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur

[amsat-bb] SumbandilaSat Sept 15

2009-08-10 Thread Trevor .
SumbandilaSat launch scheduled for Sept 15 http://www.southgatearc.org/news/august2009/sumbandilasat_launch_date.htm ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support

[amsat-bb] Re: Fwd: Launch your own satellite for only 8k

2009-08-06 Thread Trevor .
an artists impression picture of their re-entry sent to their nearest and dearest. 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur

[amsat-bb] FUNcube Satellite in Electronics Weekly Magazine

2009-08-05 Thread Trevor .
/index.aspx Electronics Weekly Magazine http://www.electronicweekly.com/ AMSAT-UK publish a colour A4 newsletter, OSCAR News, full of satellite information. You can join online at the new URL of https://secure.amsat.org.uk/subs_form/ AMSAT-UK http://www.uk.amsat.org/ 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily

[amsat-bb] Re: Tubesat, a $4,000 launch opportunity

2009-08-04 Thread Trevor .
MHz is used for Cell Phones and satellite signals don't respect national boundaries. 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur

[amsat-bb] Re: Tubesat, a $4,000 launch opportunity

2009-08-03 Thread Trevor .
providers the better. 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo

[amsat-bb] Re: ANDE-2 Deployment

2009-07-29 Thread Trevor .
BEVO-1 is also being deployed by the shuttle, freq 437.325 MHz, details at http://www.southgatearc.org/news/july2009/dual_picosat_deployment.htm 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author

[amsat-bb] Re: ANDE-2 Deployment

2009-07-29 Thread Trevor .
Also AggieSat2 on 436.250 MHz will be deployed from the shuttle. http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:FMerJChhzs4J:aggiesat.org/+aggiesatcd=1hl=enct=clnkgl=uk 73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Wed, 29/7/09, Trevor . m5akayahoo.co.uk wrote: BEVO-1 is also being deployed by the shuttle, freq 437.325

[amsat-bb] Re: Shrewsbury School Space Experiment

2009-07-29 Thread Trevor .
A succesful launch was reported at http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele..asp?NEWSID=6920 73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Wed, 29/7/09, Trevor .. m5akayahoo.co.uk wrote: From: Trevor . m5...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: [amsat-bb] Shrewsbury School Space Experiment To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Date: Wednesday

[amsat-bb] Live Webcast of Colloquium

2009-07-23 Thread Trevor .
Colloquium http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/32/42/ Booking details are at http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/25/49/ AMSAT-UK publish a colour A4 newsletter, OSCAR News, that is full of Amateur Satellite information. Join online at https://secure.amsat.org.uk/subscription/ 73 Trevor M5AKA

[amsat-bb] SwissCube

2009-07-20 Thread Trevor .
/iaru/finished_detail.asp?serial=110 ITUpSAT http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/finished_detail.asp?serial=113 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio Email/RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed

[amsat-bb] Re: Falcon-1 Launch - webcast ?

2009-07-14 Thread Trevor .
is that the Falcon 1 got into orbit successfully. Lets hope SpaceX have similar success with the Geo-Transfer orbit capable Falcon 9. 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member

[amsat-bb] Oscar 5 in SatMagazine

2009-07-13 Thread Trevor .
SatMagazine http://www.satmagazine.com/ 73 Trevor M5AKA RSS Daily Radio News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Daily News via Email: http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2783644loc=en_US Submit your news: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/your_news_1.htm or email editor

[amsat-bb] Re: Information.

2009-07-06 Thread Trevor .
compartment with docking ports, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8064060.stm 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author

[amsat-bb] Re: dream your own sat

2009-07-05 Thread Trevor .
the radio communications is by comparison a trival exercise it's finding a means (solar powered thrusters ?) to increase orbital height that's the tricky part. 73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Sun, 5/7/09, John B. Stephensen kd6...@comcast.net wrote: From: John B. Stephensen kd6...@comcast.net Subject

[amsat-bb] Re: BBC - Judica-Cordiglia brothers

2009-05-31 Thread Trevor .
that as they don't do a podcast version it'll need converting to MP3 to listen to in the car tomorrow morning. Must admit I'd never even heard of the Judica-Cordiglia brothers before. 73 Trevor M5AKA ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions

[amsat-bb] Re: Minotaur 1 Launch Video

2009-05-20 Thread Trevor .
This one works: NASA Launches Minotaur-1PharmaSat TacSat-3 - 20 May 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEs2STSF7Lo 73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Wed, 20/5/09, Trevor . Hi, Trying to play the Minotaur 1(TacSat 3) launch video on YouTube without success. Has anyone else had any luck

[amsat-bb] Re: Satellite packet question/answer -NewPacketSatellite ANUSAT

2009-04-22 Thread Trevor .
Info on Anusat from one of the students Sidharth Balasubramanian at http://bsidharth1205.googlepages.com/research 73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Wed, 22/4/09, Graham Shirville g.shirvi...@btinternet.com wrote: From: Graham Shirville g.shirvi...@btinternet.com Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Satellite

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