Nov 27, 2013
This last couple of days I’ve been a bit quiet on my site regarding the launch of the Funcube-1 (AO-73) satellite which launched last week by Amsat-UK / Amsat-NL, this isn’t due to lack of interest more just the fact I’ve been busy collecting telemetry and since the...
Aug 15, 2013
After returning from Ham Radio 2013 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, I had made my mind up that I was going to replace my satellite antennas (standard Diamond yagis) that I first purchased for satellite use with X-Quads from Wimo which I order on the day I returned. Sadly...
Apr 24, 2013
This afternoon it seems the ISS was doing some tests with SSTV on the 145.800 downlink at 15:30z I heard a strong carrier popup then half an image was sent After this image there was a very strong constant carrier followed by a CW ID and another image. The empty...
Feb 27, 2013
On Monday this week a rocket blasted off with a collection of satellites which included STRaND-1 cubesat which was developed by researchers from the University of Surrey and SSTL. The satellite was built using commercial off the shelf bits and more impressively a...
Nov 17, 2012
On Thursday (15/11/12) I got sent an audio recording of myself working DG2US at 16:58 via AO-07 from M0PCB, thought I’d add it to the blog for a bit of history 🙂...
Sep 30, 2012
September has proven to be rather hectic and sadly not when it comes to amateur radio; I’ve been plagued with on-going health issues relating to crazy amounts of general pain in the body which no one can actually figure out so now heavily doped up on medication...
