Christophe has produced a handy chart showing the CubeSat UHF downlink frequencies.
http://cubesat.free.fr/IMG//pdf/Cubesat_-_frequence_bande_U.pdf
CubeSat France in Google English http://tinyurl.com/CubeSatfFrance
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Astronaut Julie Payette Interviewed
Astronaut Julie Payette and Pete Sipple 2E0PSL
In a recent podcast Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society (CARS) member Pete Sipple 2E0PSL asked NASA astronaut Julie Payette about the Amateur Radio station on the ISS.
Julie Payette was a flight engineer on two ISS missions, STS-96 and STS-127, and her answer can be heard in the ISS Essex Ham podcast in which Pete 2E0PSL also speaks to the Chair of CARS John Bowen G8DET.
Sarah Sipple M6PSK with Astronaut Julie Payette
Listen to the ISS Essex Ham podcast at
http://www.essexham.co.uk/audio/essexham_iss.mp3
Read about the interview at
http://www.essexham.co.uk/news/working-the-international-space-station.html
Pete 2E0PSL acheived his Intermediate licence this year on one of the CARS amateur radio training courses.
To find out more about the courses speak to Clive G1EUC
Tel: 01245-224577
Mob: 07860-418835
E-mail: training2011 at g0mwt.org.uk
Web: http://www.g0mwt.org.uk/training/
Essex Ham http://www.essexham.co.uk/
AMSAT-NA AGM Available on EchoLink
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/
Android App to Fly on STRaND-1 Smartphone Satellite
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/
AMSAT-NA Awards Announcement
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RSGB-Shuttle SSTV Contact on TV News
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/
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