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23cm NBFM transceiver experiments

The 6th of June 2014 the 23cm voice repeater in The Hague was re-activated under callsign PI6HGL. Since I do not own any transceiver to work this local repeater, I made my first QSOs with a signal generator and radio … Continue reading

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Celebration!

A present received from the states by one of the Delfi-C3 team members!

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6th birthday for Delfi-C3!

Delfi-C3 has celebrated its 6th birthday on the 28th of April. The spacecraft is still operational, telemetry only, on 145.870 USB Delfi-C3 has exceeded its mission lifetime by six times now, and on-board telemetry still does not indicate degradation in … Continue reading

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ELCA Festival 2014

This is the archive of the live stream. Unfortunately, the youtube sound quality degraded in the archiving process.

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Video matrix done!

The Video Matrix I designed has been completed and integrated together with a raspberry pi and user interface. The software was made by Martijn PB0NER and the milling of the case was done by Terence Theijn. Final assembly also by … Continue reading

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The End for my WebSDR

The following appears when you now go to the WebSDR: This was the WebSDR receiver located in Delft JO21ex. This receiver has been the first WebSDR after the original twente SDR, and I am very grateful to Pieter Tjerk PA3FWM … Continue reading

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QB50 precursor – FUNcube-3

Another small update I have been working on the AMSAT-NL payload for the QB50 precursor flight, satellite 1. This payload consists of two boards. A modified version of the RF board that only has the transponder and no telemetry, and … Continue reading

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Catching up

Hi All, The last couple of days have really been a blast! I am still catching up on E-mail and forum posts. The FUNcube-1 team has received tons of compliments for the AO-73 transponder and mission in general, and the … Continue reading

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BBC breakfast news

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Just had my first QSOs on the AO-73 transponder….

That feels totally weird! ON5NY in JO10mv 2E0SQL in IO91js G0MJW in IO91io on the 22:39UTC pass

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