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Help needed with educational outreach (FUNcube)
AMSAT-UK is looking for people in the educational field to help develop the educational outreach part of the FUNcube satellite project.
AMSAT-UK's FUNcube is an educational satellite project with the goal of enthusing and educating young people about radio, space, physics and electronics. Additionally it features a 435 to 145 MHz Linear Transponder for SSB/CW operation for use outside school hours.
It will support the many existing educational Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) initiatives including GB4FUN.
The target audience consists of school pupils and young people generally, FUNcube will feature a 145 MHz telemetry beacon that will provide a strong signal for the pupils to receive.
A simple FUNcube dongle SDR receiver has also been developed. This will connect to the USB port of a laptop to display telemetry and messages in an interesting way.
The project commenced in October 2009 and it is anticipated that the satellite will be launched before the end of 2011. More information can be found at http://www.funcube.org.uk/
As the technical work on the satellite itself is now well underway, AMSAT-UK is now looking to develop the educational outreach part of the project. This will include the design and contents of the "ground station" laptop display, the best method of providing the information so that it relates to current curricula, and all the supporting information that will be needed by the teachers. As they have little current educational experience Amsat-UK need additional professional advice as to how to carry it forward.
The FUNcube website now has details of the planned educational aspects of the project.
See www.funcube.org.uk (see the "education outreach" link).
If you are in the educational field and have experience in curriculum matters then please consider helping AMSAT-UK with this.
In the first instance please contact Richard G3RWL (a past chairman of the Southgate Amateur Radio Club) for further information. Email: g3rwl at amsat.org
FUNcube website
http://www.FUNcube.org.uk/
FUNcube SDR Dongle
http://www.FUNcubeDongle.com/
FUNcube Yahoo Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube/
AMSAT-UK publishes a colour A4 newsletter, OSCAR News, which is full of Amateur Satellite information.
Join online at
http://tinyurl.com/JoinAMSAT-UK
AMSAT-UK
http://www.uk.amsat.org/
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FUNcube user group
We would like to wish every one a very Merry Christmas and a great 2011, from all at the FUNcube user group.73 Rob M0TFO
You can join the FUNcube Yahoo Group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube/
AMSAT-UK FUNcube
http://www.funcube.co.uk/
FUNcube SDR Dongle
http://www.FUNcubeDongle.com/
FUNcube Yahoo Group reaches over 200
Membership of the FUNcube satellite and Software Defined Radio (SDR) Dongle Yahoo Group has now reached over 200.AMSAT-UK’s FUNcube is an educational CubeSat project with the goal of enthusing and educating young people about radio, space, physics and electronics.
Measuring just 10*10*10cm, FUNcube will carry a 145.955 MHz 1200 bps BPSK telemetry beacon along with a 435.080 to 145.960 MHz linear transponder for SSB and CW communications.
Developed as part of AMSAT-UK’s FUNcube satellite project, the FUNcube Dongle is a radio receiver designed to allow anyone to try their hand at reception of satellites like FUNcube. The Software Defined Radio covers 64 - 1700 MHz and connects to the USB port of a laptop.
You can join the FUNcube Yahoo Group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube/
FUNcube website
http://www.FUNcube.org.uk/
FUNcube SDR Dongle
http://www.FUNcubeDongle.com/
Video: watch - FUNcube Dongle: Out Of The Box test of this highly innovative SDR
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/december2010/
funcube_sdr_video.htm
AMSAT-UK publishes a colour A4 newsletter, OSCAR News, which is full of Amateur Satellite information.
Join online at http://tinyurl.com/JoinAMSAT-UK
AMSAT-UK FUNcube group reaches 500
Membership of the Amateur Radio satellite FUNcube Yahoo group has reached the landmark figure of 500.The group provides people with a forum to share their thoughts, pictures and questions on the exicting Amateur Radio space project being developed by AMSAT-UK...
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2011/funcube_group_passes_500.htm
AMSAT-UK FUNcube
AMSAT-UK FUNcube is an educational single CubeSat project with the goal of enthusing and educating young people about radio, space, physics and electronics.It will support the educational Science, Technology, Engineering
and Maths (STEM) initiatives and provide an additional resource for the GB4FUN Mobile Communications Centre.
The target audience consists of primary and secondary school pupils and FUNcube will feature a 145 MHz telemetry beacon that will provide a strong signal for the pupils to receive.
The FUNcube Dongle is the “ground segment”, or a radio receiver designed to allow anyone to try their hand at reception of satellites like FUNcube anywhere on Earth as part of a global educational collaboration project collecting information from space.
All aspects of the project, and FUNcube dongle support can be found at
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/funcube/
AMSAT-UK FUNcube SDR
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/december2010/
funcube_sdr_video.htm
FUNcube SDR Dongle
http://www.funcubedongle.com/
FUNcube website
http://www.FUNcube.org.uk/
AMSAT-UK publishes a colour A4 newsletter, OSCAR News, which is full of Amateur Satellite information.
Join online at http://tinyurl.com/JoinAMSAT-UK
FUNcube SDR Dongle CO-65, FO-29 and HO68 videos
Alex OZ9AEC has produced three videos showing reception of weak 70cm Amateur Radio satellite signals using the AMSAT-UK FUNcube SDR Dongle...
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2011/funcube_dongle_videos.htm
FUNcube group reaches 1000 members
The AMSAT-UK FUNcube and FUNcube Dongle group has reached 1,000 members.The original FUNcube Dongle concept: receiving information from space as part of a global educational collaboration project.
Similar to a USB TV Dongle, the FUNcube Dongle simply fits into your computer’s USB port. It’s compatible with many radio reception programs.
It’s also all-mode: this means that it’s not just limited to narrow band FM reception. As well as data, the FUNcube Dongle will also recieve many other narrow band signals including AM, FM and SSB. It will even receive TV sound channels!
The Pro version gives unlimited access to the frequency range 64 to 1,700MHz.
The FUNcube satellite project is an educational single CubeSat project with the goal of enthusing and educating young people about radio, space, physics and electronics.
It will support the educational Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) initiatives and provide an additional resource for the GB4FUN Mobile Communications Centre.
The target audience consists of primary and secondary school pupils and FUNcube will feature a 145 MHz telemetry beacon that will provide a strong signal for the pupils to receive.
More information on the FUNcube sat project can be found here http://funcube.org.uk/overview/
And to purchase a FUNcube SDR dongle visit here http://www.funcubedongle.com/?page_id=286
The funcube Yahoo group http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/funcube/
AMSAT-UK publishes a colour A4 newsletter, OSCAR News, which is full of Amateur Satellite information.
Join online at http://tinyurl.com/JoinAMSAT-UK
73 Rob M0TFO
AMSAT-UK
NASA and ARISS reach out to educators
Many schools are not aware of the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Project so information has been sent to almost 20,000 educators.On May 19, the Education Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) notified almost 20,000 US educators about the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Project.
According to ARRL ARISS Program Manager Rosalie White, K1STO, this kicks off the first of a number of new processes that the ARISS US team will put into motion to get educators more involved in the program, which coordinates Amateur Radio contacts between the ISS and educational institutions around the world.
Read the full ARRL story at
http://www.arrl.org/news/nasa-and-ariss-reach-out-
to-educators
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm
Environmental testing of FUNcube satellite
Since Monday, July 18, members of AMSAT-UK have been performing temperature testing and thermo vac testing of the FUNcube amateur radio satellite.The facilities to do this were very kindly offered by the Assembly, Integration and Verification (AIV) facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories, at Harwell, near Oxford. AMSAT-UK are extremely grateful to them for their help and advice.
The boards tested were the Engineering Models (EMs) which are just about identical to those that will fly.
As of Wednesday, July 20, it had been determined that the stack operates down to a temp of minus 10 degs C and up to +60 degs C and survived storage at -30 and +70. These results were obtained by the use of a temperature controlled oven in air. On Tuesday, the stack was transferred to a thermo vacuum chamber for further testing.
AMSAT-UK is aiming to complete the thermo vac testing by Friday morning, leaving the rest of Friday to apply glue to the structure, and mount it in its ‘POD’ ready for vibration testing on Monday.
For more information on FUNcube see
http://www.FUNcube.org.uk/
Join the FUNcube Yahoo Group at
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube/
AMSAT-UK publishes a colour A4 newsletter, OSCAR News, which is full of Amateur Satellite information.
Join online at http://tinyurl.com/JoinAMSAT-UK
A sample edition of the newsletter can be seen at
http://www.uk.amsat.org/on_193_final.pdf
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