Beginners Guides to Satellite Operating

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The Chertsey Radio Club site now has beginners guides to operating the FM and SSB amateur radio satellites 

Getting started with FM satellites - http://chertseyradioclub.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/getting-started-with-fm-satellites.html

Getting started with SSB satellites - http://chertseyradioclub.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/ssb-ham-radio-satellites-beginners-guide.html

Recently club members have been working through the satellites from the historic site of Windsor Castle - http://chertseyradioclub.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/windsor-castle.html

Australia's First Ham Radio Satellite

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University students in Australia have convinced NASA to launch the Australis OSCAR 5 Amateur Radio satellite. 

In 1967, a group of students from the Melbourne University Astronautical Society came up with an idea to build a small amateur radio satellite.

It was just 10 years after the world's first satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched and Australia had yet to enter the space race. But it was the hard work and persistence of the young students that convinced NASA to launch the Australis OSCAR 5 into space.

Now based in Adelaide, the project's coordinator Owen Mace said the technology at the time was "cutting edge".

"[The satellite would] transmit details about itself — how it was tumbling, the temperature and the like," Mr Mace told ABC Radio Adelaide's Nightlife program.

"It carried the first command system of an amateur radio satellite; for the first time we could control the satellite."

Australis OSCAR 5 was launched by NASA on 24th January 1970.

Media Story -  
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-06/how-uni-students-got-nasa-to-launch-australias-first-satellite/8421480

AMSAT-VK Yahoo Group - https://groups.yahoo.com/group/AmsatVK

NASA Launches Two CubeSats with Transponders

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Two satellites with Amateur Radio transponder payloads have been selected for future NASA launches 

AMSAT-NA reports TJREVERB is a CubeSat from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in Alexandria, Virginia with a 435/145 MHz FM transponder.

HuskySat-1 has a 145/435 MHz SSB/CW transponder and was developed by students at the University of Washington in Seattle.

It is expected the launches will take place in the 2018-2020 time frame.

AMSAT-NA Story - http://www.amsat.org/?p=5795

NASA Announces Eighth Class of Candidates for Launch of CubeSat Space Missions - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-announces-eighth-class-of-candidates-for-launch-of-cubesat-space-missions