Digital Activity Days RDRC

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The Russian Digital Radio Club has invited the radio amateurs community to participate in the Digital Activity Days RDRC '01-10'. The objective of the Digital Activity Days is to establish as many contacts as possible between radio amateurs around the world and radio amateurs in Russia.

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Digital Activity Days from 00.00 UTC on 1st May till 23:59 UTC on 10th May, 2015.

15 types of modulation - CONTESTIA, DOMINO, HELL, JT65, JT9, MFSK, MT63, OLIVIA, PSK, ROS, RTTY, SIM-PSK, SSTV, THOR, THROB, across 9 bands 160 m, 80 m, 40 m, 30 m, 20 m, 17m, 15 m, 12 m, 10 m.

Digital Activity Days RDRC "01-10" 2015 Rules - 
http://www.rdrclub.ru/dni-aktivnosti-rtsrk/244-digital-activity-days-rdrc-rules

Ham Radio Operator Flies Model Tricopter

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Amateur radio operator Ken Trudeau KD0PJF of Gray Summit flies his home-built tricopter at Liberty Field by remote control

Trudeau built the model flyer with parts that cost approximately $25 and electronics that cost more than $350. It carries a flight camera and GoPro camcorder which films and records video of what is seen below.

The GoPro camera, which is small and light enough to fly on the 18-inch body of the tricopter, films in high-definition and offers a smooth playback.

Trudeau became a ham radio operator about eight years ago in order to fly the radio-controlled tricopter which uses 2.4 GHz for the video link and 433 MHz for the control link.

Full story -  http://www.emissourian.com/local_news/pacific/ham-radio-operator-flies-model-tricopter/article_42e135e4-e8f2-11e4-b9ee-9f8b75746961.html

FUNcube-1 Transmitting Again

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FUNcube-1 (AO-73)has restarted transmitting telemetry after a restart took place over Europe.

The CubeSat had stopped transmitting at around on Wednesday 15 April 2015.

The Technical team are still investigating the situation, but have concluded from earlier telemetry analysis that it was safe to switch back to nominal operations.

During the FUNcube-1 pass over The Netherlands, Wouter PA3WEG commanded it back to nominal mode with full automatic mode switching.

At this time, there is no reason to believe this event was dangerous to the spacecraft, all systems were nominal and the battery is nearly full.

Dashboard App - http://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/funcube-telemetry-dashboard/

Data Warehouse Archive - http://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/

Whole orbit data shows the effect - http://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/wod.html?satelliteId=2