In this video Lance Ginner, K6GSJ, describes the early days of Project OSCAR, which put Amateur Radio into orbit and lead to the foundation of AMSAT.
Watch AMSAT Symposium 2011 Keynote Speech
Article – “OSCAR-1 Launched 50 Years Ago” http://www.uk.amsat.org/4026
Lance Ginner K6GSJ with OSCAR 1
The ARRL have released an English translation of an article about the pioneering amateur radio satellite OSCAR-1
A new, highly informative article on how the world’s first Amateur Radio satellite, OSCAR-1, came to be designed, built and launched has been posted to the ARRL’s Space Communication web page (see the “Articles” section). Written by Andreas Bilsing, DL2LUX, “OSCAR-1 Launched 50 Years Ago” was first published in the German magazine Funkamateur. It is reprinted with their permission. OSCAR-1 was launched just over 50 years ago, on December 12, 1961.
Link the the article in English http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/Bilsing.pdf
ARRL Space Communication page http://www.arrl.org/space-communication
Lance Ginner K6GSJ with OSCAR 1
The ARRL have released an English translation of an article about the pioneering amateur radio satellite OSCAR-1
A new, highly informative article on how the world’s first Amateur Radio satellite, OSCAR-1, came to be designed, built and launched has been posted to the ARRL’s Space Communication web page (see the “Articles” section). Written by Andreas Bilsing, DL2LUX, “OSCAR-1 Launched 50 Years Ago” was first published in the German magazine Funkamateur. It is reprinted with their permission. OSCAR-1 was launched just over 50 years ago, on December 12, 1961.
Link the the article in English http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/Bilsing.pdf
ARRL Space Communication page http://www.arrl.org/space-communication
Matthias, DD1US, would like to draw your attention to a collection of audio recordings, the ‘Sounds From Space‘ collection on his website at http://www.dd1us.de. This features a collection which has also a section dedicated to recordings of amateur radio satellite signals.
Please have a look at it. The idea is to give older radio amateurs the chance, to listen to signals of satellites which are already gone and the might have worked in the past, and to younger people interested in ham radio, to get them more excited in satellite communication.
In spite of the fact that the collection now has close to 1000 recordings he is still missing recordings from some amateur radio satellites.
If anyone of you would be willing to contribute recordings to these satellite he would highly appreciate it. He has and always will give full credit to the source of the recordings. Please have a look in your older tapes and recordings!
Here is a list of the most wanted missing satellites:
Amsat Oscar 8
RS-1
RS-2
ISKRA-1
RS-3
RS-4
RS-5
RS-6
RS-8
ISKRA-3
Fuji-OSCAR-12
UOSAT OSCAR 15
WEBER OSCAR 18
UOSAT OSCAR 22
POSAT OSCAR 28
TMSAT OSCAR 31
PANSAT OSCAR 34
UOSAT OSCAR 36
ASUSAT OSCAR 37
WEBER OSCAR 39
SAUDI OSCAR 42
STARSHINE OSCAR 43
MYSAT OSCAR 46
KAGAYAKI (SORUNSAT-1)
ANUSAT
BEVO-1
WASEDA-SAT2
StudSAT
Source: Amsat, Matthias, DD1US and The Sounds From Space website
The Winter issue of OSCAR News has been posted to members.
In this issue:
– It all started here – 50 years ago!
– UKube-1 Update
– Clive Wallis G3CWV column
– RSGB Spectrum Forum Meeting Nov 2011
– FUNcube Report
– Utility of Nearly Geostationary Orbits for Amateur Spacecraft
– Another 50th Anniversary
– News from Bochum
– Winner of Space App Competition
– The AMSAT-UK Survey
– Accurate Time Keeping
– ‘Shorts’
Australis-Oscar-5 Checkout
Bob McGwier N4HY has made available an extensive collection of amateur radio satellite pictures available for download on smugmug.com.
The pictures range from the early 1960’s with OSCAR’s 1, 2, 3 etc to the more recent Eagle and SuitSat.
You can view the pictures and download them from http://n4hy.smugmug.com/AMSAT
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