Tag Archives: FUNcube Dongle

Jun 4 2012

HO-68 CW beacon with Funcube Dongle and Arrow antenna

Reception of the HO-68 (XW-1) satellite beacon using the Funcube Dongle receiver and an Arrow II hand-held yagi antenna. Quisk software defined radio receiver running on Ubuntu Linux 10.10 64bit.
I was located indoors pointing the Arrow out through the window (and Doppler tuning with left hand, hence the high pitch 😉
The peak was around 52 deg elevation, range 1400 km. The CW beacon transmitter is 200mW RF.

The Funcube Dongle is a USB stick SDR receiver for 64 MHz – 1.7 GHz by Howard Long G6LVB, see http://www.funcubedongle.com/

Video recorded by Alexandru Csete OZ9AEC

May 5 2012

Receiving PRISM CW satellite beacon with FUNcube Dongle Pro

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This video demonstrates the AMSAT-UK FUNcube dongle pro receiving
CW signals from PRISM.

The You Tube video has the following comment by the publisher

“I was only using a vertical VHF/UHF antenna hooked up to the FUNcube Dongle Pro. Software is SDR-Radio and HRD Satellite Tracker, both by Simon HB9DRV”

You can purchase the FUNcube dongle pro HERE

Apr 29 2012

Whistle-like signal in Amateur Radio 40m band

OZ9AEC has found a strange signal in the 7 MHz band using his AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle with an HF up-converter.

A strange whistle-like signal received on the 40 meter band using Gqrx software defined radio receiver and a Funcube Dongle equipped with a shortwave converter. The signal appears to be amplitude modulated with suppressed lower side band (just like UVB-76 😉 ) Is it an ionosonde or a numbers station?

Watch Mystery whistle signal on 40 meter band

Gqrx Software Defined Receiver Software http://www.oz9aec.net/index.php/gnu-radio/gqrx-sdr

How to receive and decode NOAA APT images with AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle and Gqrx
http://www.oz9aec.net/index.php/gnu-radio/gnu-radio-blog/451-howto-receive-and-decode-noaa-apt-images-with-funcube-dongle-and-gqrx

An HF Converter for FCD http://www.ct1ffu.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=178&Itemid=104

You can join the FUNcube Yahoo Group at http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube/

Apr 9 2012

PY4ZBZ captures stunning image from Noaa 15 using AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle.

Roland (PY4ZBZ) used an AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle VHF/UHF software defined radio to capture this stunning image from Noaa 15

Noaa 15 Image

“NOAA-15 vertical pass over my QTH
Sete Lagoas GH70un Brasil
Received with FCD+DCA antenna+Spectravue”

The FUNcube Dongle was developed as part of the educational outreach for AMSAT-UK FUNcube satellite project. Although it was designed  to enable school students to receive the satellite beacon the wide frequency coverage of 64 – 1700MHz has meant that it can be used for many other applications.

The AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle VHF/UHF SDR is available at http://www.FUNcubeDongle.com/
It is also sold by Martin Lynch & Sons (ML&S) at http://tinyurl.com/MLandS-FCD

FUNcube Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube

Mar 18 2012

AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1 Launch Fund

Just a reminder of the launch Fund that has been created for the FUNcube-1 Cubesat Satellite, all donations are very much appreciated, and will help towards the cost of launching the FUNcube-1 satellite in 2012.

AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1 Launch Fund:  http://tinyurl.com/7t24yol

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For more information on the FUNcube-1 Cubesat project visit: http://funcube.org.uk/
For more information on the FUNcube Dongle (the SDR receiver for FUNcube) visit here: http://www.funcubedongle.com/

Mar 11 2012

Howard Long G6LVB featured speaker at AMSAT/TAPR Banquet

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Howard Long G6LVB

The AMSAT/TAPR Banquet on Friday night, May 18 is one of the main AMSAT activities during the 2012 Hamvention at Dayton.

AMSAT-NA is pleased to announce that Howard Long G6LVB will be the featured speaker for the evening event. Howard will be talking about his  FUNcube Dongle, the 64 – 1700 MHz Software Defined Receiver.

This innovative USB device is the size of a thumbdrive and has an SMA antenna socket. Multiple SDR control and display software programs can be used with the FUNcube Dongle.

Banquet tickets will not be sold at the AMSAT booth during the Hamvention so reservations must be made through the AMSAT-NA Store http://www.amsat-na.com/store/item.php?id=100158
Tickets are $30 apiece.

Thanks to Gould Smith, WA4SXM for the above information