In looking for records of phonesats, I can't find much information beyond the Ames trio and STRaND, save for projects at UCI and Southampton that both seem to be on indefinite hold. They received a lot of praise in 2013 for helping open up affordable space access, but why didn't they seem to gain much traction beyond that?
Picked up a system health packet, 437.420MHz, using a Yaesu FT-8800, 2m/70cm J-pole on the roof, and AES PK-900. This is a far from optimal satellite configuration, if I can, you probably can, too!
I've had success with the ISS digipeating my signals using APRSdroid and am getting curious about other digipeating satellites.
What other birds are popular among hams?
I see that there is not much information online about contacting phonesats (NUDT-Phonesat for example). Are these easily contacted?
Thanks!
http://www.phonesat.org/ I am signed in on this site. If you supply your latitude and longitude it will give you pass predictions.
see also http://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/1cjuzs/nasa_needs_amateur_radio_operators_to_help_with/
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies π
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Theyβre on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
BamBOO!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
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I've had success with the ISS digipeating my signals using APRSdroid and am getting curious about other digipeating satellites.
What other birds are popular among hams?
I see that there is not much information online about contacting phonesats (NUDT-Phonesat for example). Are these easily contacted?
Thanks!
