Stacking with Power Splitters The basis of the power splitters/combiners is a construction of a square tube for the outer conductor and a round tube for the inner conductor. It forms a quarterwave coaxial impedance transformer. The relation D/d influences … Continue reading
Now that the submissions are complete for the Chicken Little Contest, AMSAT is announcing a new contest: Catch the Last ARISSat-1 Telemetry. With luck, we will have real time data to go along with the final reentry. While telemetry sent … Continue reading
AubieSat-1 Designated AO-71 OSCAR Number Administrator, Bill Tynan, W3XO reports that he has ad- vised J. M. Wersinger, PhD, KI4YAU, Professor Emeritus and Director of Auburn University’s Student Space Program, that following the successful NASA ELaNa III launch on October … Continue reading
A good explanation from DK3WN on how to determine what TLE data belongs to what Satellite. Based on the latest cubesat TLEs we have now three groups of objects (B+C+D, E, F+G). The first group are the 1U cubesats – … Continue reading
Contact Amateur Radio station PE0SAT
FUNcube (AO-73) AMSAT-UK is working on a new amateur satellite project – The FUNcube Project– that features a 435 to 145 MHz Linear Transponder for SSB/CW operation. FUNcube-1 is a complete educational single CubeSat project with the goal of enthusing … Continue reading