Earth orbit satellites

FUNcube1 reception on the cheap

John Cooke / March 15, 2017

Woooo – techie stuff! Receiving signals from the FUNcube1 educational / amateur radio satellite on a very cheap system – […]

John Cooke / November 13, 2014

This is the 70cm (435MHz) omnidirectional antenna for satellites I have just finished – called the “eggbeater” for obvious reasons.

John Cooke / November 9, 2014

I’ve made a new omnidirectional satellite antenna for 2m – a turnstile. Set it up on the balcony this morning

John Cooke / October 28, 2014

For my satellite tracking buddies – I’ve just come across Gpredict http://gpredict.oz9aec.net/index.php which is something I’ve been looking for –

John Cooke / December 13, 2013

From the “how to stop folks reading your Facebook page” department: Woohooooo! I’ve managed to get altitude and azimuth data

John Cooke / November 29, 2013

Made a recording of the FUNcube-1 (AO-73) satellite this morning. Here it is, direct to you from space: You can

John Cooke / November 21, 2013

Just received 51 frames of telemetry from the FUNcube-1 satellite, on its second orbit. All safely transmitted to the data

John Cooke / November 19, 2013

Have been getting ready for the FUNcube-1 satellite launch http://funcube.org.uk/ on Thursday morning. Now ready to start tracking it!