Winter Issue of OSCAR News

OSCAR News December 2013 Front CoverE-members of AMSAT-UK can now download the PDF of the Winter edition of the OSCAR News magazine here (as well as previous 2013 and 2012 issues).

The paper edition should be posted to members soon.

In this issue
• FUNcube-1 Operations Report
• FunCube Dongle Pro+ V2.0 on Shortwave
• The Fun-Loop
• Space Science at Someries Junior School
• A newcomers view of satellite operating
• UKube-1, ESEO, QB50pc1 – Update
• Low Cost DVB-S Receivers Suitable For HAMTV
• HAMTV Reception
• FUNcube-1 – The Launch – A Personal Account
• IET/RSGB Joint Meeting
• $50SAT a low cost amateur radio satellite
• Shorts

The AMSAT-UK Membership year lasts for 12 months starting on January 1 each year.

AMSAT-UK FUNcube Mission Patch

AMSAT-UK FUNcube Mission Patch

Membership of AMSAT-UK is open to anyone who has an interest in amateur radio satellites or space activities, including the International Space Station (ISS).

E-members of AMSAT-UK are able to download OSCAR News as a convenient PDF that can be read on laptops, tablets or smartphones anytime, anyplace, anywhere. Join as an E-member at Electronic (PDF) E-membership

There are two rates for the paper edition to cover the extra postage costs:
UK
Rest of the World (Overseas)

PDF sample copy of “Oscar News” here.

Join AMSAT-UK using PayPal, Debit or Credit card at
http://shop.amsat.org.uk/shop/category_9/Join-Amsat-UK.html

E-members can download their copies of OSCAR News here.

UK ‘DIY space kit shop’ on Yahoo News

Tom Walkinshaw Founder and CEO of Alba Orbital

Tom Walkinshaw Founder and CEO of Alba Orbital

Yahoo News have published an interview with entrepreneur Tom Walkinshaw, 24, who is opening a ‘DIY space kit shop’.

He hopes it will start a new, “DIY space race” with satellites available for as little as £12,000 ($18,000) which rises to £20,000 ($30,000) when you include the cost of launch into orbit.

“We never used to have PC’s in every University/School, but now a classroom without them is unthinkable,” Walkinshaw told Yahoo News this week.

“Just last month the first high school got their satellite into orbit – Imagine the economic and technological multiplier effect if every University and High School followed in their footsteps. You could do it for less than the cost of a teacher/lecturer for a year.”

Read the Yahoo interview at
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/the-diy-space-race–british-“satellite-shop”-opens—selling-spacecraft-for-£12-000–112223414.html

PocketQube Shop http://www.pocketqubeshop.com/