I have constructed the MiniTiouner by F6DZP, and combined the PCB with an analog receiver.
Now I have a device that can receive both analog and digital ATV at the same time.

using a converter sold by the BATC, the SUP-2400, I can receive 70cm DATV that I am transmitting using the DTX-1. Also, the linear amplifier rack that I built for the DARE Stratos-II flight termination system has been repurposed for amplifying 70cm DATV. If the Stratos project needs to borrow my FTS rack again, I can easily take it out.

Next step: receive ISS with this receiver and the 2 or 3m dish.

The Nayif-1 CubeSat has been loaded into the QuadPack launch adapter together with its co-passengers, Suchai from Chile and STEP Cube Lab from Korea.
It is prepared for flight, and will be shipped to the US for integration on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of ISILaunch09.

First out will be STEP Cube Lab, second will be Suchai, and Nayif-1 will follow as third. The deployment sequence of QuadPacks is not known to me at this time.

Nayif contains the FUNcube-5 payload package, and will be transmitting telemetry similar to FUNcube-1.

I have been installing a GSKit ground station (one of my employers products) at the university of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

This ground station will be used as command station for the Nayif-1 CubeSat and other CubeSat projects that the university is running together with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai.

The pictures I have made during the trip can be found here

Some of the highlights and some video below:

Today, a video went up on Tom Scotts channel on YouTube about clean rooms. It was filmed in the clean room I work in, and Tom also interviewed me.

I had Emailed him about visiting our clean room, and he immediately responded with ‘yes off course I will visit your clean room’.

Here is the end result:

I have been tracking the ISS on the last two UK school contacts. Signals are directly audible over Europe during these contacts.

You can listen in on 145.800 +/- doppler in FM.

* please do not transmit on 145.800 – Tim is NOT listening on this frequency *

More info and live streams can be found on https://principia.ariss.org/

update The contest is over, and YouTube is still processing more than a days worth of video..