The AMSAT-NA 2011 Space Symposium will be held on Friday, November 4-6 in San Jose, California. This year’s Symposium coincides with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of OSCAR 1, the first Amateur Radio satellite.
There will be two talks on the AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle VHF/UHF Software Defined Radio (SDR) at the BAA Radio Astronomy Group (RAG) meeting on Saturday, November 12 at 10:30am in The Humfrey Rooms, Castilian Terrace, Northampton, NN1 1LD.
• Tony Abbey will talk about his experiences of using the AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle – a software defined radio receiver. Subject to orbital timings, he will be demonstrating reception from a satellite as it passes overhead using a hand held antenna and laptop.
• Dr David Morgan will describe how the FUNcube Dongle raises the prospect of amateurs being able to put together a low-cost radio telescope.
Tickets for the main event are £15 (£12 for BAA members) to include tea, coffee and a buffet lunch, or £10/£7 without the lunch. To obtain a ticket see http://www.britastro.org/radio/
Meeting flyer and map http://www.britastro.org/radio/downloads/RAGGM_detailsv4.pdf
The impressive line-up of speakers can be seen at http://www.britastro.org/radio/
Join the BAA RAG Yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/baa-rag
Join the FUNcube Yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube
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
JUNGU received by N8MH on an AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle SDR
Radio Amateurs have been reporting good signals on 437.425 MHz and 437.275 MHz from the new Amateur Radio satellites SRMSAT and JUGNU.
Unfortunately due to the 20 degree inclination of the orbit hams in the United Kingdom are unable to hear them.
Mark Hammond N8MH reports on the FUNcube Yahoo group that he has been using his AMSAT-UK FUNcube dongle Software Defined Radio to receive signals from JUGNU.
Watch the lift off of SRMSAt and JUGNU on the PSLV-C18 launcher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRGTCJmJnLY
Information on how to decode the telemetry from SRMSAT can be found at
http://srmsat.in/srmvu.html
JUGNU 437.275 MHz reports should be sent to
wmy@isac.gov.in
shantag@iitk.ac.in
SRMSAT 437.425 MHz reports should be sent to KC2YQJ <at> arrl.net
The Hindu launch report http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2530847.ece
JUGNU in The Economic Times
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/IIT-students-satellite-Jugnu-to-be-launched-into-space/articleshow/10325537.cms
AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/maillist/
Join the FUNcube Yahoo Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube/
UoSAT-OSCAR 9
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) celebrated the 30th anniversary of the launch of Surrey’s first satellite, UoSAT-1. Launched into orbit on October 6, 1981, UoSAT-1 was designed and built by a team from the University of Surrey led by SSTL founder Sir Martin Sweeting, G3YJO.
UoSAT-1 was also known as UoSAT-OSCAR 9. It was a scientific and educational low-Earth orbit satellite containing many experiments and beacons but no amateur transponders. UO-9 was fully operational until it re-entered October 13, 1989 from a decaying orbit after nine years of service.
UO-9’s mission scored several firsts for technology which would be incorporated into future amateur satellite missions including:
+ The first on-board computer (IHU – Integrated Housekeeping Unit)
+ Battery and attitude management
+ Remote control, and experiments
+ First S-band beacon
+ It carried a CCD camera, a Digitalker speech synthesizer, and transmitted telemetry data on a 145.826 MHz beacon at 1200 baud using asynchronous AFSK.
UoSAT-1 team at Vandenberg Air Force Base
Amateur Satellite Operators are also familiar with later SSTL UoSAT developments:
+ UoSAT-2 was designated as UO-11 which can still be heard operating on 145.825 MHz with a beacon transmitting 1200 baud using asynchronous AFSK.
+ UoSAT-3 was designated as UO-14 (no longer operational) and featured an FM Voice Repeater with 145.9750 MHz uplink and 435.0700 MHz downlink.
More history can be found in an interesting article posted on the SpaceDaily.com website: http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/SSTL_celebrates_30th_anniversary_of_groundbreaking_satellite_UoSAT_1_999.html
Read the SSTL Press Release http://www.sstl.co.uk/news-and-events?story=1899
The UoSAT-1 Technical Handbook lists these contributors to the project:
Telecommand System and Flight Configuration – Dr. Martin Sweeting G3YJO, UOS/AMSAT-UK
Power Systems – Jerzy Slowikowski, UOS/AMSAT-UK
Telemetry – Dr. Lui Mansi, UOS/AMSAT-UK
Data Beacons – Bob Haining, UOS/AMSAT-UK
Antenna Systems – Tony Brown, UOS/AMSAT-UK
Navigation Magnetometer – Christine Sweeting G6APF, UOS/AMSAT-UK
Spacecraft Microcomputers – Chris Haynes, UOS/AMSAT-UK
HF Beacons – Colin Smithers G4CWH, UOS/AMSAT-UK
CCD Camera Imaging – Dr Paul Taylor, UOS/AMSAT-UK
UoSAT-1 – OSCAR-9 story in Daily Mail Newspaper Archive
https://amsat-uk.org/2013/06/28/uosat-in-daily-mail-archive/
Amateur Radio satellites SRMSAT and Jugnu launched Wednesday, Oct 12 at 05:32 UT and hams are asked to send in reception reports of the signals on 437.275 MHz and 437.425 MHz. A video of the launch can be seen at http://www.isro.org/pslv-c18-video.aspx
These satellites were launched into a 20 degree inclination orbit so are not receiveable in high latitude countries such as the United Kingdom. See http://www.pe0sat.vgnet.nl/2011/unable-to-receive-srmsat/
On the AMSAT bulletin board Mani, VU2WMY, writes
I’m herewith forwarding the mail from Mr. Shantanu Agarwal, Team Lead for the ‘Jugnu’, requesting the Global Amateur Radio fraternity to provide the CW Beacon signal Report along with the plain decoded morse message, if possible.
Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated, as this would be very helpful to evaluate various on-board system performance.
‘Jugnu’ beacon is at 437.275 MHz, OOK.
The reports can be sent to the following mail ID.s
wmy@isac.gov.in
shantag@iitk.ac.in
The predicted TLE’s:
JNU
1 99999U 11072A 11285.24724444 .00001785 00000-0 96625-3 0 1235
2 99999 20.0506 66.7109 0018405 5.1080 190.7439 14.11338922 19
SRM
1 88888U 11072A 11278.34967500 .00001077 00000-0 60876-3 0 1233
2 88888 20.0603 97.4017 0010015 338.6461 208.4324 14.09199968 14
Thanks in advance and looking forward to your valuable reports.
Additional SRMSAT Information:
Telemetry downlink and CW beacon: 437.425 MHz (10 dbm)
Keps file: http://dinesh.cyanam.net/dl/SRMSAT_TLEs.txt
Website: http://srmsat.in/
Send SRMSAT reports to KC2YQJ <at> arrl.net
AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/maillist/
Getting started on Amateur Radio Satellites PDF http://www.uk.amsat.org/2011/05/09/getting-started-on-amateur-radio-satellites/
SRMSAT and JUGNU to launch October 12 http://www.uk.amsat.org/2011/10/04/srmsat-and-jugnu-to-launch-october-12/
SRMSAT, a NanoSat developed by the students of SRM University, India will be launched on October 12, 2011 along with the Megha Tropique satellite on the PSLV-C18 launch vehicle from ISRO’s spaceport in Sriharikota, India.
On the AMSAT bulletin board Dinesh Cyanam KC2YQJ provides an update on SRMSAT:
Payload Details: SRMSAT will monitor the greenhouse gases in near infrared region (900nm – 1700nm).
Launch Date and Time: October 12, 2011 0530 hrs UTC
Telemetry down link and CW beacon on the same frequency: 437.425 MHz (10 dbm) (Telemetry decoding info will be posted soon)
Preliminary TLEs from ISTRAC (ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network):
SRM
1 99999U 11072A 11278.34967500 .00001077 00000-0 60876-3 0 1233
2 99999 20.0603 97.4017 0010015 338.6461 208.4324 14.09199968 14
Keps file: http://dinesh.cyanam.net/dl/SRMSAT_TLEs.txt
Website: http://srmsat.in/
All Radio Amateurs are requested to track SRMSAT and provide us with the reception reports via AMSAT-BB mailing list or via email to KC2YQJ <at> arrl.net
AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/maillist/
Getting started on Amateur Radio Satellites PDF
SRMSAT and JUGNU to launch October 12
AMSAT-UK 
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