Hector CO6CBF working Joe EI5EV on FO-29 2013-04-03 1440z
Hector CO6CBF is looking for stations in UK to try contacts on the amateur radio satellite FO-29.
Currently when the satellite in apogee it has a big footprint which covers UK and Cuba for a few minutes.
Anyone wanting to try a contact with Cuba should email Hector on: co6cbf<at>frcuba.co.cu
FO-29 frequency information https://amsat-uk.org/satellites/fuji-oscar-29-jas-2/
CubeBug-1
The amateur radio satellite CubeBug-1, also known as El Capitán Beto, launched April 26, 2013, is recovering from the power budget issue that caused the transmitter to be turned off for several days.
This was achieved after one of the AMSAT-LU stations in coordination and in conjunction with Satellogic team, send a command to reconfigure onboard software to turn off attitude control circuits feeding magnetorquers this last weekend .
Telemetry text mode command taken before change can be seen at
http://www.amsat.org.ar/images/cubebug130818.txt
CubeBug – command sent shown top and satellite response below
Operation was with a RTL SDR dongle, connected directly to antenna, using HDSDR recording software as IF mode only, that helped not to record big amount of data from Orbitron connected to DDE, also automatically compensating Doppler.
After reset, Cubebug-1 went to ‘mission state’, batteries showing adequate level of charge.
Good reports were received from several amateurs from different parts of the globe.
This activity is performed as part of the agreement of mutual collaboration that Satellogic and AMSAT-LU signed on July 2013.
The satellite transmits 1200 bps AFSK, on 437.438 MHz, packets are sent every 30 seconds. The signal is at a low level and a directional antenna and preamp are needed for adequate reception.
Cubebug-1 telemetry information at http://1.cubebug.org/coms/telemetry
73, LU7AA, AMSAT-LU
email: info at amsat.org.ar/
http://www.cetra.org.ar/
http://www.amsat.org.ar/
http://facebook.com/AMSAT.LU
CubeBug-1 carries a packet radio digipeater which it is hoped will be activated for amateur radio use when the primary mission has been completed. Further information at https://amsat-uk.org/satellites/cubebug-1/
APRS has standardized an ID series for amateur radio OSCAR spacecraft – APOxxx
At the request of Juan Carlos, LU9DO, AMSAT-LU wanted a series of APRS designators for uniquely identifying AMSAT APRS applications. He suggested those beginning with the letter O for OSCARS.
ALL APRS applications include this identifier in their packets so that the source of APRS data can be known. See the list at
http://aprs.org/aprs11/tocalls.txt
Bob, WB4APR
APRS UK Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/APRSUK
IARU Region 1 have released edition 6.12 of the free VHF Managers Handbook.
The handbook has chapters on Band Planning, Contests, Propagation Research, Operating Procedures and Satellites. It even defines a standard for the use of circular polarization defining which way helical beam antennas should be threaded.
Download the handbook – VHF_Handbook_V6_12.
A DNEPR Lift-Off
On Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 14:39 UT Korea’s satellite KOMPSAT-5 launched on a Dnepr from Dombarovsky near Yasny. This marked the first flight of the Dnepr launcher since August 2011.
This successful Dnepr launch should clear the way for the launch in November of another Dnepr from Yasny believed to be carrying up to 23 satellites from 13 nations.
Most of the satellites will carry amateur radio payloads and it should be the largest single deployment of amateur radio satellites since the ill-fated Dnepr launch of July 26, 2006. http://www.southgatearc.org/news/july2006/dnepr_failure.htm
The launch had originally been planned for September 2012 but was postponed while the future of the Dnepr launch program was discussed.
ZACUBE-1 ready to be shipped to the Netherlands and from there to Yasny
Among the satellites carrying payloads operating in amateur radio bands that may be on the November launch are:
• UniSat-5 microsat which will deploy Eagle-1, Eagle-2, QB-Scout, Wren and PUCP-SAT-1 which it turn should release a further satellite Pocket-PUCP
• Delfi-n3Xt
• Triton-1
• Triton-2
• GOMX-1
• FUNcube-1
• UWE-3
• CubeBug-2
• BRITE-PL1
• Humsat-D
• CPUT ZAcube-1
• HinCube
• BeakerSat
• NEE-02 KRYSAOR (980 MHz)
In order to prepare the Human Mission to Mars, some aspects of the mission have to be researched. During a transit to the Red Planet, future crews will be exposed to potentially hazardous radiations.
A CubeSat can provide a relatively cheap and easy way to improve the radiations environment knowledge for a Mars manned mission.
Such a CubeSat could be launched and jettisoned as a piggyback of another satellite going to Mars,
This video shows the presentation that Boris Segret gave to the 16th Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, August 15-18, 2013. In the presentation he describes a CubeSat mission to Mars.
Watch CubeSat – Boris Segret
CubeSat on an Earth-Mars Free-Return Trajectory to study radiation hazards in the future manned mission http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2013/EPSC2013-1088.pdf
The Mars Society http://www.marssociety.org/conventions/2013
AMSAT-UK 
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