{"id":630718,"date":"2019-09-13T12:20:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T16:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=630718"},"modified":"2019-09-13T12:20:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T16:20:40","slug":"university-cubesat-club-members-get-ham-radio-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=630718","title":{"rendered":"University CubeSat Club members get ham radio licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dawson Duckworth KC3NNB, Lauren Hurley KD2RHC, Kaixuan Ji AC3EN and Dr. Alan Johnston KU2Y staffed the AMSAT \/ Villanova CubeSat Club table at the Robotstock\/STEM event in August<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Students at the Villanova University College of Engineering started a CubeSat Club in the fall of 2018 and have since got their amateur radio licenses.<\/p>\n

The university website reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A CubeSat is a nanosatellite\u2014a small, lightweight satellite that is cheaper to build than a conventional satellite. They can be launched from rockets, or occasionally from the International Space Station by astronauts. CubeSats send telemetry information\u2014measurements communicated at remote points by automated processes\u2014over radio signals received on earth by a ground station.<\/p>\n

The CubeSat club\u2019s 2018-2019 year was packed with a variety of workshops and projects, including:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Setting up temporary ground stations called SatNOGS (Satellite Network Operators Group)
\n\u2022 Building Yagi-Uda antennas from tape measurers and scrap wood and using them to track low earth orbit satellites as they flew over Villanova
\n\u2022 Building an AMSAT CubeSat Simulator, a functional satellite model
\n\u2022 Assisting with the freshman CubeSat mini-design projects
\n\u2022 Earning amateur radio licenses and ham radio callsigns
\n\u2022 Assembling and selling electronic transceiver boards used in CubeSats as a fundraiser
\n\u2022 Attending the 2019 Hamvention conference and running the AMSAT education table
\n\u2022 Received and decoded a special message<\/a> sent from the AO-73 FUNcube Satellite especially for Villanova<\/p>\n

Read the full story at
\nhttps:\/\/www1.villanova.edu\/villanova\/engineering\/newsevents\/newsarchives\/2019\/community\/CubeSat-Club.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The students emailed a request to the FUNcube Operations Team to get their special message transmitted from space by the AO-73 satellite. Further information on these \u2018Fitter\u2019 messages is available at https:\/\/funcube.org.uk\/ground-segment\/fitter-messages\/<\/a><\/p>\n


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