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Jul 2 2009, 08:31 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Anyone on UMSF into Ham Radio?
I'm thinking of getting in to it, but only as a means to an ends (setting up a groundstation for Balloon flights, and Cubesats) I'm booked into the Amsat UK conference at the end of July in Guildford. I know a few of the CUSpaceflight badgerworks guys are going to be there. My current plan is to grab a fairly cheap UHF/VHF handheld to get my license with. A hand-held UHF/VHF arrow antennae to 'manually' listen in to sats to begin with - which can then be mounted on a rotator at some future point, and then upgrade to a better receiving set at some point. Doug |
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Jul 20 2009, 08:20 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Whoops
http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/679/266/1/2/ I ended up on the schedule Something of a call to arms for the Amsat community to do the outreach that European scientists and STFC (H1'09 outreach funding cut by 50% for science in society projects) refuses to. D |
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Jul 20 2009, 11:26 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 10-September 05 Member No.: 492 |
Excellent! Look forward to your presentation, Doug.
Now that the 2009 programme is published I see that I made an error in only booking to go on the Saturday :-( Goodness knows when I'll get done the stuff I have to do over the weekend, but plans now revised and I'll be there both Sat and Sun. Not sure yet whether I'll be staying over or traveling from home each day. I see the CU Spaceflight guys will be giving a talk on Saturday. Be interesting to see whether they've recovered their long duration balloon payload from a tree north of Stoke on Trent by then! Look forward to meeting you! Rob Dormant member of both AMSAT-UK and BATC and a rather inactive G8DSU (Too many interests, too little time...) PS It's worth repeating that BATC will be streaming the presentations live (http://batc.tv 'live events'). I'd expect that the presentations will then be posted as archive recordings as per last year's event. |
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