The 2011 AMSAT-NA Annual General Meeting will be broadcast on EchoLink node 101377 on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 beginning about 2215 UTC.
The Annual Meeting is being held in conjunction with the AMSAT Symposium in San Jose, CA from Nov. 4-5, 2011 and is scheduled to last one hour and forty-five minutes.
To hear it connect to the AMSAT Conference server [node 101377] which should accommodate 100 users.
AMSAT EchoLink Conference http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/articles/echolink/
When a competion was run to find Apps to fly on the Smartphone CubeSat STRaND-1 one of the wining entries was an App which was a spin-off of the work done by the AMSAT-UK FUNcube team. See the story at:
http://www.blackpepper.co.uk/posts/android-app-to-fly-on-strand-1-nanosat-mission/
A detailed article on STRaND-1 appeared in a recent edition of the newsletter OSCAR News published by AMSAT-UK. It can be downloaded from http://www.uk.amsat.org/on_193_final.pdf
The video of a presentation on STRaND-1 is at http://www.batc.tv/vod/Strand.flv
Join AMSAT-UK online at http://tinyurl.com/JoinAMSAT-UK/
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A vintage TV news report first broadcast Aug 4, 1985 shows a contact between RSGB HQ in Potters Bar and Astronaut Tony England W0ORE in the Challenger shuttle on mission STS 51-F.
Tony W0ORE was running a Motorola model MX-340 handheld 2-meter transceiver and a Robot Research model 1200C slow-scan television scan converter with an antenna fitted on the inside of one of Challengers windows.
RSGB General Manager David Evans G3OUF was among those at the Society’s station GB3RS.
It is believed the voice contact was carried out on 145.550 MHz FM and the RSGB HQ team acheived a first with a two-way exchange of Slow Scan TV (SSTV) pictures.
Watch the ITN TV news report ‘Space Radio Hams’ at
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1985/08/04/AS040885006/
The original TV news reports about the United Kingdom’s first Amateur Radio satellites, UOSAT-1 (OSCAR-9) and UOSAT-2 (OSCAR-11), can now be seen on the web.
In ‘Talking Satellite’, made February 15, 1983, Martin Sweeting G3YJO talks about OSCAR-9 and its speech synthesizer.
The ITN description reads: “The World’s first talking satellite begins to speak. It was launched 18 months ago in America for the University of Surrey and one of its purposes is to encourage interest among school children in space technology.”
Watch it at http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1983/02/15/AS150283008/
In ‘British Satellite’, made February 7, 1984, Martin Sweeting G3YJO talks about OSCAR-11 due to be launched the following month.
The ITN description reads: “Staff at the University of Surrey have designed and built a spacecraft in 5 months after being challenged by NASA. Intvw Dr Martin Sweeting, University of Surrey.”
Watch it at http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1984/02/07/AS070284011/
30th anniversary of UoSAT-1 (OSCAR-9)
http://www.uk.amsat.org/2011/10/12/30th-anniversary-of-uosat-1-oscar-9/
UoSAT-2 (OSCAR-11) Report September 1, 2011
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/september2011/oscar11_report.htm
OSCAR News is published quarterly by AMSAT-UK and posted to members.
To get your copy join AMSAT-UK online at http://tinyurl.com/JoinAMSAT-UK/
Free sample issue at http://www.uk.amsat.org/on_193_final.pdf
An Amateur Radio Satellite activity and instruction video by the Hams in Space Team at Bennett Spring State Park, Missouri.
Watch Ham and Fish, Amateur Radio Satellites by Hams in Space
Hams in Space
http://hamsinspace.com/
Working the FM satellites Power Point
http://purplesage.biz/resource/Sat_Radio.ppsx
Getting started on Amateur Radio Satellites PDF
http://www.uk.amsat.org/2011/05/09/
getting-started-on-amateur-radio-satellites/
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