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Amateur Radio Party Balloon Success!
One of the 5 party balloons Bob Bruninga WB4APR reports on the 2nd Party Balloon mission, carrying APRS and a 2.4 GHz wireless camera, that took place Friday, April 27. Everything possible went wrong!...
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AMSAT-LU Balloon Launch May 19
LU7AA brings news that on Saturday May 19 from 11hs-LU on (GMT-3), a free Balloon UV Repeater will fly from the city of General Pico (Airport), Province of La Pampa, Argentina, 571 Km west of Buenos...
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Watch Venus Transit Online June 5-6
At 22:09 UT on June 5, 2012 the planet Venus will appear as a small, dark disk moving across the face of the Sun. The transit will finish at 04:49 UTC on June 6 (exact time depends on location of...
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ARNewsline Young Ham of the Year – Erin King AK4JG
Erin King, AK4JG, a 17-year-old from Columbus, Georgia, who re-founded her high school’s radio club and then lofted a ham radio-carrying balloon to over 90,000 feet, recovered the flight data and used...
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ISS Packet Radio Active Again on 145.825 MHz
Watch ISS AX.25 packets on 145.825 MHz FM at approx 7:21pm on August 24, 2012 QRP APRS Packet Radio to the ISS http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=3838 Real time tracking and status information for the amateur...
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Duchifat-1 a 145.825 MHz APRS CubeSat
Duchifat-1 is an experimental and educational spacecraft developed and built by young Israeli students at the Space Laboratory of the Herzliya Science Centre (HSC). As well as APRS on 145.825 MHz it...
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Amateur Radio APRS for JOTA, Everywhere!
PACSAT developer Bob Bruninga WB4APR explains how you can use your APRS radio for global contacts at your Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) station this weekend. You can use your APRS radio or HT to text...
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CAS-2A1 and CAS-2A2 Linear Transponder Amateur Radio Satellites
CAMSAT CAS-2 banner at the Friedrichshafen Ham Radio 2012 event CAMSAT are building two micro-satellites CAS-2A1 and CAS-2A2 to be combined into a binary star system for amateur radio communication and...
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AMSAT-LU to launch amateur radio FM repeater to an altitude of 30 km
View of communications experiment: Below is the plate of the repeater. Top left is the SSTV camera and top right is the GPS receiver module. Image credit LU7AA On Saturday, March 23 at 1400 UT AMSAT-LU...
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UK 434 MHz balloons over Central Europe
A Raspberry Pi computer board On Saturday, April 13 at 1000 UT, two balloons both carrying 434 MHz transmitters were launched from Cambridge, UK . One transmitting video images from a Rapsberry Pi...
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APRS destination address for ham radio satellites
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...
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TNC-Pi Raspberry Pi Packet Radio Board
TNC-Pi kit built by Nick Bown 2E0CGW The TNC-Pi is a £22 ($40) KISS TNC board which is designed to connect to the GPIO port of the £25 ($35) Raspberry Pi computer board. It provides a low cost means of...
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Ham radio operators set to help in tracking comet
Hindustan Times October 17, 2013 After helping the Odisha government in disaster relief during cyclone Phailin, amateur radio operators will now help astrophysicists track a comet. The Hindustan Times...
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Diwali Return for APRS Balloon Payload
Dhruva Space Balloon Payload The payload of the Indian amateur radio APRS balloon launched on October 13, 2013 has been successfully retrieved. The balloon payload was returned to Dhruva Space on...
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Help needed to track 144.390 MHz APRS Balloons
James Cutler KF6RFX and Benjamin Longmier KF5KMP University of Michigan Benjamin Longmier KF5KMP and his team are looking for stations in the Azores and Portugal to help track their balloons. On the UK...
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Tweeting via the ISS
International Space Station – Image Credit NASA Harold Giddings KR0SIV describes how he Tweeted using amateur radio and the International Space Station. He says: I sent a message to the International...
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APRS balloon heads for UK
CNSP-22 Predicted Track for February 26 to March 1, 2015 An amateur radio balloon CNSP-22, call sign K6RPT-11, is crossing the Atlantic at an altitude of 11,150 metres and should reach the British...
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PSK31 and APRS CubeSat Status Update
PSAT PSK31 FM downlink received by Martin G8JNJ at 1429 UT May 22, 2015 using the online SUWS WebSDR Martin Ehrenfried G8JNJ reports receiving the PSAT PSK31 FM downlink on the online SUWS WebSDR...
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PSAT PSK31 CubeSat Update May 24
PSAT PSK31 FM Downlink received by Martin G8JNJ at 1429 UT May 22, 2015 using the online SUWS WebSDR Bob Bruninga WB4APR released this update on the PSAT PSK31 CubeSat on Sunday, May 24 28 MHz PSK31...
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Amateur Satellites at Skills Night
Steve Hedgecock M0SHQ sending Packet Radio to the ISS The Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society Skills Nights, are hosted by the CARS Training Team and continue to be a popular and appealing event,...
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