London Hackspace work on HackSat1

Members build a wide range of electronic projects

In September members of London Hackspace took an Amateur Radio Foundation course at their Shoreditch venue. It was led by Chris Driver G6CMD of the Verulam Amateur Radio Club and all passed. It is hoped a further course will be held in the near future.

The group are involved in a wide range of electronic projects, one of their latest is a tiny Amateur Radio satellite called HackSat1. This sprite will have a downlink of just 10 milliwatts on 437 MHz and is planned to be deployed into earth orbit by KickSat in 2013. Zac Manchester KD2BHC of the KickSat development team has said they are aiming for the sprites to be receivable using an AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle SDR.

The Hack Space in Shoreditch, London, is right next to Hoxton station, and open to members 24 hours a day. They hold regular free hack evenings and workshops which are open to everyone.

London Hackspace is a registered Amateur Radio exam centre http://www.rsgb.org/local/examcentres/region.php?id=9

Amateur Radio Training http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/
Project:Amateur_Radio_Training

HackSat1 http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Project:HackSat1

London Hackspace Project: Hoxton Space Centre

KickSat – a personal spacecraft of your own in space
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/251588730/kicksat-your-personal-spacecraft-in-space

The BBC Radio 4 show Click On, broadcast November 14, visited London Hackspace. Download the Podcast at http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/clickon/clickon_20111114-1700c.mp3

2009 BBC TV news on Hack Spaces http://www.southgatearc.org/news/june2009/diy_gadgetry.htm

There are Hack Spaces around the country where people meet up to carry out constructional projects see http://hackspace.org.uk/

AMSAT-UK publishes a colour A4 newsletter, OSCAR News, which is full of Amateur Satellite information.
OSCAR News – Free Sample Issue.AMSAT-UK Membership-Join Here

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