More info here:

http://app.sgizmo.com/reports/18952/48864/4G6MMZP08F5CHHRFD5IFKRUG0SX47H/

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Dave

AF6KD

Project OSCAR member and Director Bill Ress is running for the AMSAT BoD.  Stay tuned to the AMSAT-BB mailing list for the latest details!

“Delfi-C3 is the first nanosatellite student project from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. The satellite is based on the CubeSat concept and a number of novel technologies will be tested on board the satellite.”

Help is needed from amateurs receiving telemetry from the spacecraft. Software is provided for amateurs to run on a PC connected via audio to a radio, and the telemetry will be transmitted to Delft University via the Internet.

More information is available here: http://www.delfic3.nl/

The satellite also has a linear V/u transponder for amateur use.

73.

A few Project Oscar folks (ok, only one, me!) participated in the Yuri’s Night Event at NASA Ames, along with folks with the NASA Ames Amateur Radio Club and the 50 MHz and Up Club.

The amateur radio club “theme” for Bay Area Yuri’s Night 2008 was Earth-moon-Earth (EME), e.g. working OSCAR-ZERO. Two EME stations were setup, an excellent 1296 MHz station and a 2m station. Four contacts were made on 1296 Mhz (which really is a lot) and two stations were copied on 2m (no QSOs, maybe next year). All-in-all, the guys talked to a lot of people from the general public, and the event was an amazing success for space exploration, amateur radio, and the public!

Pictures are available here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/n9jim-6/sets/72157604519871420/

73!

Here is a great article on the first operational use of OSCAR-0 (the moon) as a communications relay!

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4217/ch2.htm

In fact, the book that this is from, “Beyond the Ionosphere,” edited by A. Butrica is a great source on the history of satellite communications.  The entire text (NASA SP-4217) can be read online for free here.

A really cool RF Spectrum atlas is available here:

http://www.spectrumatlas.org/spectrum/

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Project OSCAR would like to bid farewell to the great Sir Arthur C. Clarke, an author, scientist and futurist. He died at the age of 90 in Sri Lanka, his adopted home.

Up until his passing, Clarke remained active by commenting and monitoring humanity’s space efforts, such as the Saturn Cassini Mission. He envisioned satellite communications in a seminal paper “Extra-terrestrial Relays” published in 1945 Wireless World magazine.  Clarke was an honorary lifetime AMSAT member, #LM-2001.  Those familiar with his work will understand the numbering scheme.

73 and Farewell, Sir Arthur!

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73!

A full scale model of the original OSCAR satellite, built by Project OSCAR in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s and later launched in 1961 has been put on display at the Smithsonian’s Udvar Hazy Facility.

Housed in the new James S. McDonnell Space Hangar, opened for the first time on November 1, 2004,The facility was recently toured by Project OSCAR members Cliff Buttschard K7RR, Emily Clarke W0EEC and Eric Christiansen KF4OTN when they attended the AMSAT Space Symposium in October 2004. Unfortunately the new exhibit was not on display at that time.

OSCAR was joined by the thermal mass model of PCsat and an engineering model of NUSAT 1, built by students at several Utah universities.

The full scale model of the original OSCAR was donated to the Smithsonian by Project OSCAR in 1980 and previously appeared in exhibit in the Air and Space museum.