Astronaut André Kuipers talked to children

Space is not all high-tech. Standard radios operated by amateur enthusiasts can be used to communicate with the International Space Station. ESA astronaut André Kuipers talked to children this week using handheld-radios. Listen to the full radio contact and read more HERE.
Credits: NASA/ESA

My #1069 confirmed IOTA

My #1068 confirmed IOTA

IR2IR Antarctic Activity Week

IR2IR WAP-195.

Earthquake widget

If I were single: SOTA and Meade

If I were single I'd like to hike with a qrp and antenna in a backpack. But SOTA wouldn't be my only passion while on the mountains. Here is another gadget I'd like to buy (if I were single!). "The perfect on the go and campground observatory, ideal for camping, hiking, picnics, the beach, vacations, or any other time you want to connect with nature and the universe. Lunar craters by the hundreds, cloud belts on Jupiter, and Saturn's rings as just the beginning of what can be seen." website

Incredible World of Communication Satellites (Infographic)

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PSK31, MP1 and DM780

The list of countries received with the setup described here increased to 39 dxcc. And 419 are the stations logged 24/7. Too bad proxy avoids me to connect to PSK Reporter !

Countries:
Asiatic Russia Balearic Is. Belarus Belgium Bosnia-Herzegovinia Bulgaria Canary Is. Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Dodecanese England Estonia European Russia Fed. Republic of Germany Finland France Greece Hungary Israel Italy Jordan Kaliningrad Kazakhstan Latvia Lithuania Macedonia Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Scotland Serbia Slovak Republic Spain Sweden Turkey Ukraine United Arab Emirates

Calls:
2E1HSL 4Z5NU 9A6BBB 9A7IEB A65EE CT4NC CT4RC DC1DK DD8HB DF4LB DG2VW DH1BBH DJ1MN DJ4SO DK3PZ DK3WO DK4VF DK5HE DK7TN DK8CX DL1BLH DL1BSZ DL1NRC DL1OI DL2OCE DL2RWL DL3DJ DL3DSM DL3HXX DL3KOG DL5BAW DL5HU DL6UCK DL7CM DL7GN DL9GMN DL9HK DM2PJ DM3JG DM800ANH DP775BLN E73PY E77AW EA1BHR EA1DFU EA1DGF EA1DST EA1DUS EA1EPM EA2CYL EA2UR EA3UV EA4CQX EA4DUA EA4ESK EA5HAY EA5HJY EA5URO EA5WO EA6ES EA7INU EA7OU EA8IT EB1BSV EB3JT ES2DR EU6AA EU8CV EW6FW EW6PG EW8CM EW8OW F4EUL G0JEI G0KMX G0MPR G0PTI G1UOZ G1WFJ G4XEX G6YEK G8LZG GM0SDV GM1BSG GX4BJC/A HA0ML HA0NNF HA0RZK HA1WQ HA2EBQ HA2EOA HA2SP HA2TX HA3HZ HA5AEK HA5KN HA6ICP HA6NL HA7MG HA7PF HA7VC I1FYB I3DUB I7/ I8ETO I8KRO IK1MTX IK1PXF IK1WEG IK7WOV IK7XNF IK7YTQ IT9DID IT9DRK IT9GGW IT9KKE IT9KYA IT9QDS IW1FRD IW7EGJ IZ1BWB IZ1MLQ IZ7EUB IZ7FSY IZ8ALA IZ8FPK IZ8IFL IZ8TJO JY5IB LY1HEX LY2BI LY2BOK LY2BVB LY3BHB LY3W LY4BP LZ1401SE LZ1818MO LZ1GQ LZ1WV LZ2ZY M0GXN M0VOM M0WAD M1TXI M3JCA M6SVD OH8TP OK1DOZ OK1JIA OK1ND OK1PJB OK1RHK OK2BBR OK2BEH OK2BET OK2VNJ OK2VSJ OM3C OM3CFR OM3CHA OM3DA OM3KWZ OM3WOR OM4TC OM7CB OM7OM OM8AMF OM8GT ON1AEY ON6LP OZ1GC OZ1WC OZ3AAF OZ3AEV OZ4PC OZ5KAJ OZ5THY OZ6TL OZ6YM PA0GHK PA0JRA PA4HB PA4NNX PA7LZ PD0FF PD0WH PD1AKL PD1ALW PD1CMP PD1EVU PD1JH PD2YA PD3RVH PD9HJ PH1MRF R1AY R3FO R6DD R9CQ RA1TCJ RA1TR RA2FB RA3DCH RA3FH RA3GI RA3RIU RA4HL RA4WA RA6CY RA6LR RD3ALV RD3BD RD3WW RK3BM RK3DXW RK3VXL RN3KF RN6AJ RU3EJ RU3FA RU4UR RU9SL RV3LE RV3LZ/A RV3WT RW3GO RW3PU RW3TT RW4PU RW6DJ RX1AB RX3AF RX6BH RZ3DC RZ3FS RZ6BS RZ6FN SE6Y SM4GVR SM5DYC SM5LIB SM5UIU SM6AMU SM6ORP SM7BPM SM7GXR SN51SDA SP1ADT SP1DPA SP1EG SP1EPR SP1GQW SP1KQR SP1KYB SP1QXK SP1RKT SP2FZW SP2HXY SP2NJI SP3AMZ SP3AOS SP3AXJ/3 SP3DKH SP3KWZ SP3PDK SP3QYJ SP4EOO SP4IRS SP4JEU SP4TBO SP5FDJ SP5GRU SP5X SP6AAT SP6EIY SP6LUY SP6QKS SP6RCK SP6SOG SP7BCA SP7CKU SP7IBL SP7JD SP7POS SP7RJU SP7SZW SP8AJK SP8LXE SP8UFR SP9BCH SP9CV SP9DSD SP9FKF SP9FQI SP9LIP SP9MSE SP9NWE/9 SP9UNX SP9UPU SP9UXB SQ2NIJ SQ3KAZ SQ3LMR SQ3LMY SQ3MVH SQ3PAK SQ3PMI SQ5HE SQ5KGV SQ7BCB SQ7KGA SQ7LRF SQ7MRR SQ9CYY SQ9LFQ SQ9LQ SQ9MUN SQ9RHS SQ9ROO SV1AVT SV1EAG SV1EGE SV1EQU SV1JGX SV1KWA SV1KWC SV1MO SV2HJQ SV4FFL SV5FRI SV7CUD/2 SV7JJY SV7JLA TA1BZ TA3AAA UA1TZ UA1WA UA2FEP UA2FH UA2FHZ UA3ADW UA3AGY UA3AHA UA3DCH UA3DRX UA3GX UA3KW UA3LLR UA3O UA3ON UA3PI UA3YPL UA6ASU UN1L UR3ES UR4CW UR4PWC UR5FLP UR5FOG UR5LGA UR5NN UR5TW UR5VOA UR5WAF UR5YAE UR5ZW UR7EG UR7IGJ US0MS US2MP US2UA US3ICG US3MA US4IPC US5EF US5HGN US5LDI US5QEQ US5QO US6IHO US7IKJ UT0IV UT0NL UT1AA UT1PA UT1UL UT2GA UT4UDV UT4UO UT5CO UT5EOU UT5KD UT5LC UT5XR UT7NI UT7NL UT7UU UT7ZZ UU2JT UW2ZM UW2ZW UW4SU UW8SM UX1LA UX1LN UX1UA UX2IQ UX4LX UX7MX UX7QV UY3LV UY7LA YL2QV YL3BF YL3DL YL3ID YO2CNH YO2IS YO3CY YO3IFJ YO3ZA YO4FKO YO4GIY YO4RKN YO5AUV YO6EX YO7CVL YO8CQM YO9FIY YO9FTN YO9INU YO9XC YU1AST YU5DD YU7MK YU7NAA YU7NW YU7TO Z31MM Z33A Z36N

My #1067 confirmed IOTA

E-ST@R successfully launched

E-ST@R project is an educational and research program which is being carried out at Politecnico di Torino by the AeroSpace System Engineering Team (ASSET).

Aim of the project is the development and launch into orbit of the E-ST@R satellite, which is a CubeSat class spacecraft. The project is entirely carried out by students, both graduate and undergraduate, under the supervision of researchers and professors.

E-ST@R CubeSat has been accepted by ESA's Education Office after a selection and will be piggybacked by the Vega Launch Vehicle during its maiden flight, planned for early 2012, with other six CubeSats from other European Universities and one MicroSat from the Italian Space Agency.

This section is dedicated to the collaboration with ham radio community.

If you are an amateur radio operator you are welcome to join and support e-st@r mission. In case you receive our cubesat signal, we appreciate if you can forward the telemetry frames for decoding and analysis. You will be awarded with a special certificate!

Follow the procedure indicated after the log in.

Downlink main features:

Frequency: 437.445 MHz

Antenna: UHF

Modulation: AFSK 1200bps

Protocol: AX.25

Destination: "ALLALL"

Source: "ESTAR"

Callsign: E-STAR-I

Contact us for further information at estar.cubesat@gmail.com

PSK31 with minimum setup and indoor antenna

Here is the list of countries received on 20 meters during the last week using FT100, MP1 indoor antenna (!!) and Thinkpad laptop (Digital Master 780 as software). 36 dxcc countries and 670 calls (many are dupes):


Callsign Time Cont Country
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EA8IT 20:14 AF Canary Is.
RU9SL 13:13 AS Asiatic Russia
4Z5NU 19:30 AS Israel
JY5IB 14:39 AS Jordan
UN1L 14:12 AS Kazakhstan
TA3AAA 18:33 AS Turkey
A65EE 05:21 AS United Arab Emirates
EA6ES 12:55 EU Balearic Is.
EW8CM 16:40 EU Belarus
ON1AEY 12:49 EU Belgium
E73PY 13:56 EU Bosnia-Herzegovinia
LZ1401SET 17:04 EU Bulgaria
9A6BBB 10:49 EU Croatia
OK1RHK 16:03 EU Czech Republic
OZ3AAF 15:50 EU Denmark
M6SVD 11:16 EU England
RK3BM 18:45 EU European Russia
DK3PZ 16:05 EU Fed. Republic of Germany
F4EUL 09:46 EU France
SV1MO 17:44 EU Greece
HA5KN 13:28 EU Hungary
IZ1MLQ 21:00 EU Italy
UA2FEP 16:57 EU Kaliningrad
YL3ID 17:48 EU Latvia
LY4BP 17:48 EU Lithuania
Z31MM 15:09 EU Macedonia
PD1CMP 12:41 EU Netherlands
SP1KQR 16:48 EU Poland
CT4RC 18:40 EU Portugal
YO3CY 16:45 EU Romania
GM0SDV 12:08 EU Scotland
YU7MK 14:03 EU Serbia
OM8AMF 15:58 EU Slovak Republic
EA7INU 18:56 EU Spain
SE6Y 17:52 EU Sweden
UX7MX 17:57 EU Ukraine

Stations heard: 9A6BBB A65EE CT4NC CT4RC DC1DK DD8HB DF4LB DG2VW DH1BBH DJ1MN DJ4SO DK3PZ DK3WO DK4VF DK5HE DK7TN DK8CX DL1BLH DL1BSZ DL1NRC DL2OCE DL2RWL DL3DJ DL3DSM DL3HXX DL3KOG DL5BAW DL5HU DL6UCK DL7GN DL9GMN DL9HK DM2PJ DM3JG DM800ANH DP775BLN E73PY E77AW EA1BHR EA1DFU EA1DGF EA1DST EA1DUS EA1EPM EA2CYL EA2UR EA3UV EA4CQX EA4DUA EA5HAY EA5HJY EA5URO EA6ES EA7INU EA7OU EA8IT EB1BSV EB3JT EW6FW EW8CM F4EUL G0JEI G0KMX G0MPR G1UOZ G1WFJ G4XEX G6YEK GM0SDV GX4BJC/A HA0ML HA0RZK HA1WQ HA2EBQ HA2SP HA3HZ HA5AEK HA5KN HA6ICP HA6NL HA7MG HA7PF HA7VC I1FYB I3DUB I8ETO IK1MTX IK1PXF IK7WOV IK7XNF IK7YTQ IT9DRK IT9KKE IT9KYA IT9QDS IW1FRD IW7EGJ IZ1MLQ IZ7EUB IZ7FSY IZ8ALA IZ8FPK IZ8IFL IZ8TJO JY5IB LY1HEX LY2BOK LY2BVB LY3W LY4BP LZ1401SET LZ1818MOG LZ2ZY M0GXN M0VOM M3JCA M6SVD OK1DOZ OK1ND OK1RHK OK2BBR OK2BEH OK2BET OK2VNJ OK2VSJ OM3C OM3CFR OM3CHA OM3DA OM3KWZ OM3WOR OM4TC OM7CB OM7OM OM8AMF OM8GT ON1AEY ON6LP OZ1WC OZ3AAF OZ3AEV OZ5KAJ OZ5THY OZ6TL OZ6YM PA0GHK PA0JRA PA4HB PA4NNX PA7LZ PD0FF PD0WH PD1AKL PD1ALW PD1CMP PD1EVU PD1JH PD2YA PD3RVH PD9HJ PH1MRF R1AY R3FO R6DD RA1TCJ RA3DCH RA3GI RA3RIU RA4HL RA4WA RA6CY RA6LR RD3ALV RD3WW RK3BM RK3DXW RK3VXL RN6AJ RU3EJ RU3FA RU4UR RU9SL RV3LE RV3LZ/A RV3WT RW3GO RW3PU RW3TT RW4PU RW6DJ RX1AB RX3AF RZ3DC RZ3FS RZ6FN SE6Y SM5LIB SM6AMU SM7GXR SP1ADT SP1DPA SP1EG SP1GQW SP1KQR SP1QXK SP1RKT SP2NJI SP3AMZ SP3AOS SP3DKH SP3KWZ SP3PDK SP3QYJ SP4EOO SP4IRS SP4JEU SP4TBO SP5FDJ SP5GRU SP6AAT SP6EIY SP6LUY SP6QKS SP6RCK SP6SOG SP7BCA SP7CKU SP7IBL SP7JD SP7POS SP7SZW SP8AJK SP8LXE SP8UFR SP9DSD SP9FQI SP9LIP SP9NWE/9 SP9UNX SP9UPU SP9UXB SQ2NIJ SQ3KAZ SQ3LMR SQ3LMY SQ3MVH SQ3PAK SQ3PMI SQ5KGV SQ7BCB SQ7KGA SQ7LRF SQ9CYY SQ9LFQ SQ9LQ SQ9RHS SQ9ROO SV1AVT SV1EAG SV1MO SV2HJQ SV4FFL SV7CUD/2 SV7JJY SV7JLA TA3AAA UA1TZ UA1WA UA2FEP UA2FH UA2FHZ UA3ADW UA3AGY UA3AHA UA3DRX UA3GX UA3LLR UA3O UA3PI UA6ASU UN1L UR3ES UR4CW UR4PWC UR5FLP UR5LGA UR5TW UR5VOA UR5WAF UR5YAE UR5ZW UR7EG UR7IGJ US0MS US2MP US3ICG US3MA US4IPC US5EF US5HGN US5LDI US5QEQ US5QO US7IKJ UT0IV UT0NL UT1AA UT1PA UT1UL UT2GA UT4UDV UT4UO UT5CO UT5EOU UT5KD UT5LC UT5XR UT7UU UT7ZZ UU2JT UW2ZM UW2ZW UW4SU UW8SM UX1LA UX1LN UX2IQ UX4LX UX7MX UY3LV UY7LA YL2QV YL3ID YO2IS YO3CY YO3IFJ YO3ZA YO4FKO YO4GIY YO5AUV YO6EX YO9FTN YU1AST YU5DD YU7MK YU7NAA YU7NW YU7TO Z31MM Z36N

Tweeting in morse code

http://arduino.cc/blog/2012/02/07/tweeting-in-morse-code/