AMSAT-UK are delighted to announce that Howard Long, G6LVB, will be present at the Colloquium this year and will be launching a new “FUNcube Dongle PRO-PLUS” during his presentation. UPDATE: For a video of the presentation see http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=10297
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
Andrei YO8SSQ and Cezar YO8TLC have made available a web based receiver to enable listeners to hear the new amateur radio satellite HORYU-2 when it’s within range of Romania.
The WebSDR receiver is located at the Astronomical Observatory Department of “Stefan cel Mare” University in Suceava, Romania, latitude 47.6417N longitude 26.2453E, grid locator KN37cp. The height ASL is 350m.
The hardware consists of two SDR receivers which are fed into 48 kHz sound cards on an AMD Sempron 2600+ computer running Vector Linux.
The web page displays a track showing the current position of HORYU-2 and also provides coverage of the 3.5 MHz (80m) band.
Listen to the HORYU-2 and 80m WebSDR at http://sdr.opt.ro:8901/
More information about HORYU-2 437.375 MHz (+/- 9 kHz Doppler shift) at
http://www.uk.amsat.org/7404
HORYU-2 Telemetry Software and Competition http://www.uk.amsat.org/7474
HORYU-2 CW Telemetry Decoder by DK3WN http://tinyurl.com/SatSoftwareDK3WN/
HORYU-2 Separation Video http://www.uk.amsat.org/7540
Keplerian Two Line Elements (TLEs / KEPS) for new satellites launched in past 30 days
http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt
Amateur satellite Keplerian Two Line Elements (TLEs / KEPS) http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/amateur.txt
More information about the WebSDR project can be found at http://www.websdr.org/
Alexandru Csete OZ9AEC has previously written about interference from FM stations on the HO-68 linear transponder. He now reports that other satellites with linear transponders (designed for SSB/CW use only) also suffer from local FM traffic by people who haven’t got a clue that they are transmitting in the satellite uplink segment of the 2 meter band (145.8-146.0 MHz).
This recording was made on Saturday, May 5, 2012 using the AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle and Gqrx SDR. It shows very strong FM transmissions on the FO-29 linear transponder which could be from Spain or Portugal. The topic appears to be chocolate. Alexandru says – If you know who these people are, be sure to send them a QSL card!
The use of FM on a linear transponder satellite reduces the lifetime of both the batteries and the transponder itself.
Watch FM on FO-29 amateur radio satellite
How to work the SSB amateur radio satellites http://www.uk.amsat.org/2712
AMSAT-UK FUNcube Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube
The AMSAT-UK net is held every Sunday morning at 10am local time on a nominal frequency of 3.780 MHz. Due to interference the net may move either side of that frequency so tune around. Newcomers are most welcome to call-in.
Latest AMSAT-UK 80 Meter Net recording- HERE Sunday 8th April 2012.
Simon Brown HB9DRV in Switzerland has made available recordings of Sunday’s AMSAT-UK 80m net that he made using a remote receiver in Poole, Dorset. What is remarkable about this recording is that a 20 km long experimental 2.4 GHz WiFi link was used at the Dorset end.
You can listen to the remote radio of Paul M0EYT in Poole, Dorset as well as other remote receivers in the United Kingdom and around the world via the Web Servers (Free) page at http://www.sdr-radio.com/
or try listening to the Dutch 80m web SDR at http://www.nachtuilen.net/
Previous Net Recordings http://www.ham-radio.ch/kits/sdr-radio.com/mp3/
Pop into the AMSAT-UK net for a chat this Sunday All are welcome.
Please allow a few Hours after the Net for the latest recording to appear
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AMSAT-UK
The WebSDR receiver located at the Astronomical Observatory Department of “Stefan cel Mare” University in Suceava, Romania has provided coverage of the 3.5 MHz band.
Now coverage of 437.470 – 437.515 MHz has been added enabling the Romanian amateur radio CubeSat Goliat to be received.
It is operated by Andrei YO8SSQ, e-mail andrei-at-avatar.afraid.org and Cezar YO8TLC, e-mail cezarl-at-usv.ro and located at Latitude 47.6417N Longitude 26.2453E, grid locator KN37cp. The height ASL is 350m.
Listen to the 80m and Goliat WebSDR at http://sdr.opt.ro:8901/
Goliat CubeSat http://www.goliat.ro/
AMSAT-UK 
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