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ku2y

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I have been a ham since high school and enjoy amateur satellites and CubeSats. I teach electrical engineering at a university and enjoy STEM outreach activities. I volunteer at #AMSAT where I am VP Educational Relations. I lead the #CubeSatSim open source hardware and software project.

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ku2y, to hamradio
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At the AMSAT Forum at Hamvention on Saturday, I’ll be showing off this prototype 2U CubeSat Simulator.

If you are there or stop by the AMSAT Booth on Friday or Saturday, make sure you say hi! 🛰️📡😁

https://CubeSatSim.org/wiki-beta

#CubeSatSim #AMSAT #Hamvention #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #OpenSource #RaspberryPi #STEM #CubeSat

Photo of an AMSAT CubeSatSim 2U prototype showing solar panels and camera
Photo of an AMSAT CubeSatSim 2U prototype showing PCBs stacked inside the frame

ku2y, to hamradio
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The Villanova University CubeSat Club will be launching our high altitude weather balloon Thursday 4/25 at around 4pm Eastern Time (20:00 UTC) from Mendel Field on campus.

It has several experimental amateur radio payloads based on my CubeSat Simulator design. Tracking links:

https://aprs.fi/#

https://amateur.sondehub.org/#

https://maps.findmespot.com/s/JCSP#history/assets

ku2y, to hamradio
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See below for streaming info - my presentation will be on Saturday morning!

#AMSAT #HamRadio #CubeSat #CubeSatSim

The 41st AMSAT Space Symposium & Annual General Meeting lifts off at 1:00pm Central Daylight Time / 18:00 UTC on Friday, October 20th.

You can watch a live stream of the Symposium sessions on AMSAT's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@AMSATNA/streams

Raspberry_Pi, to space
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Last week some of us headed out to the small satellite conference in Utah, and some of us built ground stations, and a good time was had by all! #smallsat #cubesat #astropi #space

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/small-satellites-and-big-antennas/

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ku2y,
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@Raspberry_Pi Nice article! Pi’s are great for ground station and also to build functional models of CubeSats for the classroom, such as my AMSAT CubeSat Simulator open source project #CubeSatSim. I sent you an email with some details. By the way, I’m sure you have hear of #SatNOGS as well - an amazing project you can do with a Raspberry Pi

ku2y, to hamradio
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Later today there will be a special SSTV image sent from the ISS over the north eastern USA starting around 20:05 UTC by @ARISS_Intl

If you have a Raspberry Pi (not a Zero, any other model) an RTL-SDR radio dongle, and an outside antenna (or just one near a window) you can receive it!

The easiest way is to use the ARISS Radio Pi image. Here are the instructions:

https://github.com/alanbjohnston/CubeSatSim/wiki/Radio-Pi

Use Choose Another Frequency then type 437800

ku2y,
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Here’s instructions to receive the special #ISS #SSTV event today at around 4pm Eastern over the North Eastern US:

Select the SSTV Decode with QSSTV option then select Choose Another Frequency then type 437800 and then wait for the signal. As the ISS comes toward you, you might need to set the frequency higher to 437805 or lower if heading away from you to 437795

QSSTV should automatically select the SSTV mode as Robot 36 or Robot 72

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio #CubeSat #RaspberryPi

@ARISS_Intl

ku2y, to random
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Hi everyone,

The Villanova University CubeSat Club will be launching our high altitude weather balloon tomorrow Wednesday 5/3 at 12:30pm Eastern from Mendel Field on campus.

Here are some trackers:

https://aprs.fi/#

https://amateur.sondehub.org/#

https://maps.findmespot.com/s/JCSP#history/assets

There are two cameras on board and one will be transmitting live images.

The students will be sharing live updates on their Instagram page:

https://www.instagram.com/villanova_cubesatclub/?hl=en

Wish us luck!

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