Just go to http://soldersmoke.com. On that archive page, just click on the blue hyperlinks and your audio player should play that episode.
http://soldersmoke.com
I walked into the shack this morning hoping to read good news about the InSight landing and the impending launch of Farhan's satellite, but instead I found this message from Farhan in a police station. This is really absurd and disheartening. Someone (not Farhan!) altered the Indian flag and put it into an image of Farhan's CubeSat. So with 24 hours to go before the launch, our friend Farhan finds himself in a police station.
Stay strong Farhan! You have a lot of support around the world.
I understand the launch of Farhan's CubeSat has been delayed a few days. That's the way it works in the rocket launch biz --patience is required. In the meantime, I've been practicing with my receive system. Today at 1000 local the Max Valier satellite flew to my west. It rose 78 degrees above my horizon to the W NW. I left my three element quad pointed in that direction and waited for the satellite (which had been launched from India) to fly through its pattern. The CW beacon was quite strong, very visible and audible through my RTL-SDR dongle and HD-SDR software. You can see it and hear it in the video above. There is something quite charming about this very personal Morse message coming down from orbit and then passing through all that digital technology. More info on the satellite:
"Max Valier Sat" is an amateur satellite built in cooperation by:
"Max Valier" High School in Bolzano/Bozen (Italy)
OHB System AG from Bremen (Germany)
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics from Garching (Germany)
Its main payload is an X-Ray telescope devised and made by MPE. Data generated by this detector will be transmitted, together with housekeeping data, over an amateur radio link with frequency 145.860 MHz.
A second payload is an amateur radio beacon transmitting a message in Continuous Wave. The beacon's frequency is 145.960 MHz
"Max Valier Satellite" was launched by the Indian Rocket PSLV-C38 on June 23, 2017 at 9:29 am IST (05:59 am CET) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
SpaceX will live-stream the launch as well on their YouTube stream. Also - this will be the first SpaceX booster to fly three times, and the first to launch from all three SpaceX pads.
"SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" is now available as an e-book for Amazon's Kindle.
Here's the site:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004V9FIVW
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