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A few nice Amateur Radio images I found:

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact with Institut Florimont from the ITU amateur radio station 4U1ITU

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Student from Institut Florimont at the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact with Institut Florimont from the ITU amateur radio station 4U1ITU. © ITU/F.Scotti

NorCal Dummy Load PCB

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A close-up of the dummy load PCB. One column of resistors has been soldered on.

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Repeater site report Palomar Amateur Radio Club

A few nice Ham Shack images I found:

The All-in-One Electronics Lab / Podcast Studio / Ham Shack / Fashion Design Space

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The All-in-One Electronics Lab / Podcast Studio / Ham Shack / Fashion Design Space

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Stratcom brings Spain into the space surveillance fold
These agreements streamline the process for partners to request information crucial for launch support, satellite maneuver planning, support for on-orbit anomalies, electromagnetic interference reporting and investigation, satellite decommissioning …
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Metallic Mesh Becomes Invisible to Antenna Signals
That destructive interference creates the “dark state” phenomenon. As a result, the material only allows certain wavelengths to pass directly through as though the material was invisible. The researchers, from MIT and Zhejiang University, in Hangzhou …
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Hier kannst du live die ISS (International Space Station) im Video sehen mit Sprechfunk. http://www.richy-schley.de/pages/funk-kommunikation/iss-funk-frequenzen.php
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Receiving some aprs data packets transmitted from the international space station. The audio in the vid isnt properly synchronised with the video, but you ge…
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Through a collaborative effort, the award winning NASA/Harris Ka-band Software Defined Radio (SDR) is the first, fully reprogrammable, space qualified SDR op…
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The only two radio amateurs on the International Space Station (ISS) were among three crew members who returned to Earth on November 10, and another ham-astronaut won’t arrive onboard the ISS until later this month. But an exciting 2015 appears to be in store.

NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman, KF5LKT, and European Space Agency Astronaut Alexander Gerst, KF5ONO, joined Expedition 41 Commander an…

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Saturday, November 15, will mark 40 years since the AMSAT-OSCAR 7 (AO-7) ham radio satellite went into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Special Event W7O will be on the air November 15-24 to commemorate the launch of AO-7, the oldest working Amateur Radio satellite. Satellite aficionado Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK/VA7EWK, who secured W7O for the occasion, plans to work satellite…

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The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program has announced that the application window is open for proposals from formal and informal educational institutions and organizations to host an Amateur Radio contact with an ISS crew member. The deadline for proposals is December 15. Educational entities may apply individually or in concert with other institutions or organizati…

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Forbes

For Ham Radio Geeks, Contact With Space Station Is Exciting
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At the height of the Cold War when I was 13 years old, I got my amateur (ham) radio novice license. From the confines of a cramped closet in my bedroom, my “ham shack,” I talked via Morse code night and day with other operators – first stateside then

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Forbes

For Ham Radio Geeks, Contact With Space Station Is Exciting
Forbes
At the height of the Cold War when I was 13 years old, I got my amateur (ham) radio novice license. From the confines of a cramped closet in my bedroom, my “ham shack,” I talked via Morse code night and day with other operators – first stateside then

ham amateur radio – Google News


Forbes

For Ham Radio Geeks, Contact With Space Station Is Exciting
Forbes
At the height of the Cold War when I was 13 years old, I got my amateur (ham) radio novice license. From the confines of a cramped closet in my bedroom, my “ham shack,” I talked via Morse code night and day with other operators – first stateside then

ham amateur radio – Google News


Forbes

For Ham Radio Geeks, Contact With Space Station Is Exciting
Forbes
At the height of the Cold War when I was 13 years old, I got my amateur (ham) radio novice license. From the confines of a cramped closet in my bedroom, my “ham shack,” I talked via Morse code night and day with other operators – first stateside then

ham amateur radio – Google News

When the commercial SpaceX Falcon 9 resupply vehicle lifted off from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station on September 21, it also carried theSpinSat satellite, which includes an Amateur Radio payload. The satellite will be stowed aboard the ISS until deployment later this fall from the airlock of the Japanese Experiment Module.

Developed by the Naval Research Laboratory, the 125-po…

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AMSAT reports that preparations for its Space Symposium in Baltimore October 10-12 are moving into high gear. The deadline to submit AMSAT Symposium papers has been extended until September 30. Papers and presentations on any subject of interest to the amateur satellite community are welcome. This year’s Space Symposium will, in part, celebrate AMSAT’s 45th anniversary. Registration remains ope…

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The Amateur Radio payload on the lunar-orbiting 4M-LXS spacecraft will carry up to 2500, 13-character digital messages into space for retransmission via JT65B mode on 145.990 MHz. But wannabes will have to act fast. The message collection site will close Wednesday, September 17 at 12:00 Central European Time (1100 UTC) the 4M website announced today. China recently announced plans to launch the…

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According to a news report, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 asteroid mission, now scheduled to launch in December, will carry the Abyss 2 (Shin’en 2) Amateur Radio satellite. A 17 kg, 50 cm diameter polyhedron, Shin’en 2, built by students at Kyushu Inistitute of Technology, makes extensive use of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic materials that can be bonded by heat to r…

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AMSAT has issued a call for papers for its 32nd AMSAT Annual Meeting and Space Symposium. This year’s event takes place the weekend of October 10-12 at the DoubleTree Hotel, Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI), Linthicum, Maryland.

Proposals for papers, symposium presentations and poster presentations are invited on any topic of interest to the Amateur Satellite community. Final co…

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In the first minutes ( first part ) of recording can see two pirates stations in Central America using the frequencies of the ISS repeater. In my attempts to…
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NASA ISS Ham Radio Project Engineer Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO, said NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, KF5LKT, may be on the air for ARRL Field Day from the International Space Station (ISS) June 28-29.

“I have received a response from Wiseman that he is willing to try and work some stations on Saturday,” Ransom said on June 23. “Pass times begin very soon after the start of Field Day.” Wiseman would use …

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Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) will have a prominent place at the third annual ISS Research and Development Conference this week. The conference, organized by American Astronautical Society (AAS) in cooperation with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space and NASA, takes place June 17-19 in Chicago.

ARISS International Chairman and AMSAT Vice President for Hu…

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AMSAT-NA has issued its first call for papers for the 2014 AMSAT Symposium and General Meeting the weekend of October 10-12 in Baltimore, Maryland. Proposals for papers, symposium presentations and poster presentations are invited on any topic of interest to the Amateur Satellite community.

AMSAT requests a tentative presentation title no later than August 1, and final papers and presentations …

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International Space Station call
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The connection, which used ham radios assembled at home by members of an amateur radio club, was very weak and only allowed for a few seconds of conversation, in part because it had to be made as the ISS was above the school. Because the space 

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James Miller, G3RUH, was among a small handful of Amateur Radio operators to receive the X band signal January 21 from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft, some 500 million miles from Earth. Miller used the 20 meter dish at the Bochum Amateur Radio facility in Germany, run by AMSAT-DL and IUZ Bochum Observatory. In an AMSAT-BB post, Miller noted the frequency at the spacecraft was 84…

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The FUNcube-1 (AO-73) spacecraft has now been in orbit and fully operational for about 6 weeks. A Russian Dnepr rocket carried the AMSAT-UK cubesat and 18 other satellites into orbit on November 21. The FUNcube-1 team has expressed its gratitude to all radio amateurs who have uploaded telemetry data to the satellite’s “data warehouse.” The telemetry downlink frequency is 145.935 MHz (BPSK). The…

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Sixteen-year-old Rebecca “Becca” Rubsamen, KJ6TWM, recently returned to her elementary school alma mater to help youngsters there speak via Amateur Radio with astronaut Mike Hopkins, KF5LJG, at the helm of NA1SS aboard the International Space Station. The November 13 event at Rancho Romero Elementary School in Alamo, California, was sponsored by the Amateur Radio on the International Space Stat…

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Dmitry Pashkov, UB4UAD, reports that the Amateur Radio slow-scan television (SSTV) experiment onboard the International Space Station has been active for the past couple of days on 145.800 MHz FM, mainly while the ISS is above Moscow. UB4UAD says that on October 31, RSØISS will transmit SSTV images showing images from the life and work of the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.

Stations can view the …

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The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program is hoping its “Ham Video” digital television transmitter, now stowed onboard the International Space Station (ISS), will be installed and commissioned this fall. US Astronaut Mike Hopkins, KF5LJG, who heads into space September 25, is scheduled to handle the tasks involved with getting the S Band Ham Video DATV setup on the ai…

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US Astronaut Chris Cassidy, KF5KDR, and Russian Cosmonaut and Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, RV3BS, came safely back to Earth from the International Space Station September 11 aboard a Soyuz capsule. Cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin rounded out the trio that landed in Kazakhstan after 166 days in space.

A day earlier, Vinogradov handed over command of the ISS to anothe…

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This video shows live reception of Slow Scan Television transmitted from the International Space Station. The receiver chain consisted of USRP+TVRX, GNU Radi…

The 2013 AMSAT Space Symposium will take place in Houston, Texas, November 1-3 at the Marriott Hobby Airport Hotel. Hosted by the Johnson Space Center Amateur Radio Club, this year’s Symposium will feature presentations on satellite construction and operation as well as on other space-related subjects. The AMSAT Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with the Space Symposium, provides AMSAT member…

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European Space Agency Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP, aboard the International Space Station spoke July 20 via ham radio with Scouts attending the 2013 Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree, July 15-24, at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in Mount Hope, West Virginia. The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program arranged the 2 meter contact between the Scouts’ K2BSA and NA…

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At approximately 9:45 AM EST (1445 UTC) on Tuesday, February 19, the International Space Station (ISS) experienced a loss of communication with the ground. At that time, flight controllers in Houston were updating the software onboard the ISS’s flight computers when one of the ISS’s data relay systems malfunctioned. The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a ba…

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Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, RN3BF, of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly have been selected for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015. According to NASA, the mission will include collecting scientific data important to future human exploration of our solar system and to understand better how the human body react…

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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, ex-KE4IQB, has named NASA Astronaut Ellen Ochoa, KB5TZZ, as the next Director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas. She will take over from Michael L. Coats when he retires at the end of the year.

Ochoa — who was the first Hispanic woman to go into space — has served as JSC Deputy Director since September 2007. She has served as Deput…

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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ gets ready for ARRL Field Day and ISS pass-overs.

NASA introduced their all-new NASA app for iPhone and iPod Touch. It is the “first major redesign” of the app since 2009.

Being a long-time fan of what goes on in the outer space, I downloaded this free app as soon as I learned of its existence and I have not been disappointed.

For ham r…

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Cobraworxshopz contacting the International Space Station’s (ISS, ARISS, RS0ISS-4, RS0ISS-11) Amateur Packet Radio Station, transmitting APRS & BBS AX.25 data on 145.825Mhz.

www.amsat.org http & www.littlefamilyfarm.com 1-540-808-2880 -floydlcfgroup@gmail – PO box 179 Floyd,Virginia 24091————-Arissat 1, is currently in development. This satellite will contain experiments built by students and other equipment. Unlike SuitSat-1, the batteries on Arissat-1 will be charged by solar panels, and is predicted to have a lifetime up to six months. Originally planned to launch in October 2007, the project has been delayed to a later date.———Gould Smith, WA4SXM writing on behalf of the ARISSAT-1 team said construction of the flight unit begins in early February when Tony Monteiro, AA2TX begins electronic assembly of the first US flight unit for ARISSat. The ARISSAT-1 team has had prototypes working for months. The enclosures have been painted by NASA and the cables prepared by Larry Brown, W7LB. The flight boards were built by the Microchip ARISSat team and Chuck Green, N0ADI, with Chuck checking all the flight units. Lou McFadin, W5DID has nearly assembled a complete flight structure (see photo above) designed by Bob Davis, KF4KSS. Lou expects to exhibit the structure in the AMSAT Booth at the upcoming Orlando HamCation. The first two flight TX receiver modules from Bill Ress, N6GHZ are due to arrive in February. We just found out that ARISSat will receive a new callsign and some additional Russian greetings will be added. We will have more than 25 international greetings from around the world in twelve languages broadcast on the FM
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Computer hackers reveal plans to send internet into space
They would use existing equipment such as HAM (amateur) radio satellites that work with a worldwide 'supercomputer', known as Constellation. So far, 200 volunteers have signed up to help the project by either building their own ground station or
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Warwickshire software designer sees work chosen for new space op
As a member of the not-for-profit organisation AMSAT-UK, the designer has been developing software for amateur satellites for more than 20 years.AMSAT-UK, which is run entirely on don……for the full story register now for free or login below…
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LED产业火爆依旧 然两大瓶颈显现
爱思强、科锐(CREE)、维易科(VEECO) 、国星光电(NATIONSTAR) 、首尔半导体(Seoul semiconductor) 、艾姆赛特(AMSAT) 、晶科电子(APT) 、中为、大连路明、远方、晶能光电、勤上光电、扬中中科、新力光电、Instrument System、罗
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Winners of Space App Competition announced
The AMSAT-UK FUNcube team are among the winners in a competition to fly an Android App on the amateur radio Smartphone satellite STRaND-1 due for launch next year. Space technology experts from Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) and the Surrey Space
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Ispica, gli studenti del Curcio in collegamento con gli astronauti
La diretta dell'evento sarà trasmessa in streaming sul canale AMSAT Italia di LiveStream all'indirizzo http://www.livestream.com/amsat_italia a partire dalle ore 11 (ora locale). Alle ore 13,03 gli studenti si metteranno in contatto con gli astronauti
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