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...
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...
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...
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...
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 🙂...
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...
