Our next Tech/Social meeting at the museum is on Monday 21st April,
6:45PM for 7:00PM start. Members and visitors (non members) are always
welcomed.
In-line with the club’s initiative to help us all refresh and wonder over some of the technical aspects of the hobby Vice President John Bews VK4JBE will be presenting and taking a closer look at CubeSats. What are they; Who is building them and why. Also, what are some of the tricks and traps?
We will also look at what a CubeSat receiving station looks like and what it takes to build one for ourselves. The Libre Space organization run the SatNOGS network of ground stations, so we will also have a quick look at what that network is receiving.
Finally the talk will finish off with a demo of a couple of full size CubeSat simulators and ground stations transmitting and receiving real-time telemetry and SSTV images at around 435MHz.
Always on the agenda is a quick update on recent club activities, time for a coffee and a chat with your colleagues, and of course any ‘show-and-tells’ that you bring along to introduce to the group – your latest technology acquisitions or home brew projects to amaze the other members!.
Its also a good opportunity to:-
- Enlist help for anything you need from the other members.
- Confirm shared arrangements for the upcoming contests, hamfests and meetings.
