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Cool swag from Part Time Scientists

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Last week I participated in a small competition held by Google Lunar X Prize team Part Time Scientists and won a t-shirt with their slogan "Hell Yeah, it's rocket science!"

Alexandru Csete OZ9AEC proudly wearing the newly acquired swag from Part Time Scientists in front of the OZ7SAT antennas

 

Getting into space when you're broke

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A very interesting and inspirational talk given by Kristian von Bengtson of Copenhagen Suborbitals at TEDx Copenghagen on November 30, 2010.

Kristian von Bengtson at TEDx Copenhagen

 

Funcube Dongle with Quisk SDR

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Today I have spent some time trying the Funcube Dongle with Quisk SDR. The setup procedure was quite painless and the results very satisfactory: Using an Arrow II hand-held yagi connected directly to the FCD I could receive the HO-68 CW beacon with very good SNR.

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Lunar eclipse and my new camera

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I got up early this morning to watch the lunar eclipse. In Denmark only partial eclipse was visible since the moon went down already at around 7:40 UTC where I live. Unfortunately, it was cloudy so I didn't even see the partial eclipse. Too bad because it seems that my new Fuji HS10 camera with 30x optical zoom is quite well suited for taking photos of the moon without any telescope. I took this photo of the full moon yesterday evening while trying to find some proper settings for capturing the eclipse

Full Moon (cropped)

Not bad for a 500€ camera, is it? More photos here. I got the camera about a week and I didn't have much time to get acquainted with it so I expect the pictures will improve as time goes.

The camera has some pretty neat high speed video recording modes which was one of the reasons I bought it.

 

Mast take-down and 7m dish maintenance

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Sunday, April 10, 2011 we met at OZ7SAT to start working on our antennas. The weather is becoming better and we have a few plans for upgrading the antenna farm at AMSAT OZ headquarters.

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