Author Archives: pa3weg

It has been a while since I updated the news section on the website. In the mean time a lot of things happended. I got involved in AMSAT-UKs FUNCube satellite project. Both professional and voluntary. You’ll be hearing more about … Continue reading →

The annual christmas transmission of SAQ was streamed via the WebSDR to 60 users! The mp3 can be found here and on this temporary mirror Some statistics: 60 Listeners 12 Megabit of steams sent Serverload OK no audio dropouts observed … Continue reading →

The Grimeton radio station, callsign SAQ, transmitted two times today at 08:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC. The signal was received using the WebSDR on 17.2kHz. For this occasion I put two Nordholt antennas on the roof. One is a long … Continue reading →

Once again, All servers located at the Delfi-C3 Ground station are suffering from network outages and all kinds of weird connection problems. My VPN connection keeps on reconnecting and has no route to the WebSDR and APRS hosts. Direct connection … Continue reading →

After spending considerable time (first request was 24 January 2007) to convince the the owner of the majority of the appartments in my block to let me place an antenna system on the roof, I just got no for an … Continue reading →

Today, I set up some equipment at the Delfi-C3 ground station for the ITUpSAT team. For their packet link they use Microhard radio’s. Their own ground station is unable to communicate with ITUpSAT 1, so I’ve set up some gear … Continue reading →

This year, Scouting Dirk Duyvel from Alkmaar organised the annual JOTACross, an event for scout troops during the Jamboree On The Air (JOTA). I was the first operator of the station PA3WEG/J and responsible for the radio links used during … Continue reading →

Today, sumbandilasats radio amateur transponder and parrot repeater were secretly tested over Delft. After a scheduled mode change to turn them on, we tested the parrot first and after that the transponder. The tests were carried out by Johan Erasmus … Continue reading →

At the Delfi-C3 groundstation, I captured audio from Swisscubes downlink. It was transmitting FSK packet at that moment. The recording can be found here. Below is an image of the spinrate analysis. The spin period is now 0.6 seconds for … Continue reading →

At this very moment, I’m participating in the fieldday contest with the club call PA6ARC/P on all HF bands. Also, I set up the WiFi network to the internet with hardware at hand and an open access point from someone … Continue reading →