{"id":241651,"date":"2016-06-27T07:04:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T11:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=29952"},"modified":"2016-06-27T07:04:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T11:04:09","slug":"getting-started-with-amateur-satellites-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=241651","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started with Amateur Satellites 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-29962 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/getting-started-with-amateur-satellites-2016-front-cover.png?w=258&#038;h=300\" alt=\"Getting Started with Amateur Satellites 2016 Front Cover\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" \/>The 2016 edition of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.amsat-uk.org\/Getting_Started_with_Amateur_Satellites_-_2016\/\" >Getting Started with Amateur Satellites<\/a> is now available from the AMSAT-UK shop.<\/p>\n<p>This excellent book is written by <strong>G. Gould Smith, WA4SXM<\/strong> and Friends. This year\u2019s edition has been thoroughly updated and the book is now 176 pages long, covering all a beginner (and an experienced operator) needs to know about getting set up, listening to, and operating through the amateur satellites.<\/p>\n<p>With information on, AO-73, UKube-1, the upcoming Fox-1A, Fox-1B, Fox-1C, Fox-1D, and Fox-1E, it also includes information on several satellites of interest to radio amateurs expected to be launched in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>As last year, AMSAT-NA and the authors have very kindly allowed AMSAT-UK to print copies in the UK, and make them available from the AMSAT-UK shop at <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.amsat-uk.org\/Getting_Started_with_Amateur_Satellites_-_2016\/\" >http:\/\/shop.amsat-uk.org\/Getting_Started_with_Amateur_Satellites_-_2016\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&#038;blog=41081109&#038;%23038;post=29952&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 edition of the book Getting Started with Amateur Satellites is now available from the AMSAT-UK shop. This excellent book is written by G. Gould Smith, WA4SXM and Friends. This year&rsquo;s edition has been thoroughly updated and the book &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/06\/27\/getting-started-with-amateur-satellites-2016\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&amp;blog=41081109&amp;post=29952&amp;subd=ukamsat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-AMSAT"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241992,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241651\/revisions\/241992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}