{"id":474,"date":"2015-02-20T05:54:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T05:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cs.uleth.ca\/~benkoczi\/wordpress\/?page_id=474"},"modified":"2015-02-20T22:03:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T22:03:44","slug":"satellites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cs.uleth.ca\/~benkoczi\/wordpress\/?page_id=474","title":{"rendered":"Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Funcube 1 project:<\/strong><br \/>\nFuncube is a project developed by AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL organizations. It consists of a collection of small satellites launched on a low Earth orbit whose primary mission is to support science education in high schools and colleges worldwide. Below is a set of links and mirrored resources that can help individuals, teachers, and students, in receiving signals from these satellites and interpreting the data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funcube links, videos<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/funcube.org.uk\/education-outreach\/\">Funcube official site<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-25084547\">BBC video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.funcubedongle.com\/\">Dongle<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Antenna resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.repeater-builder.com\/antenna\/pdf\/cheap-yagis.pdf\">The yagi I built<\/a>, and some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredspinner.com\/W0FMS\/CheapYagi\/vjbcy.html\">additional advice<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/\">AMSAT-UK<\/a> contains links to other antenna designs (including some quadrifillar helix ones). The shop sells a turnstile antenna designed for receiving the funcube-1 telemetry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SWATCA 2015 presentation <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.uleth.ca\/~benkoczi\/files\/swatca-2015.pdf\">PDF file<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Classroom resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/files\/file\/ETP\/FunCube\/FUNCube%20Guide-1_0.pdf\">Pragmatic Guide for Using the FUNCube Materials Science Experiment in the Classroom<\/a>, Mike Spencer, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/classroom-library-satellite-communications\">More classroom resources from ARRL<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li> Exercises from Heathland School available from the <a href=\"http:\/\/funcube.org.uk\/education-outreach\/\">funcube outreach<\/a> page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funcube 1 project: Funcube is a project developed by AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL organizations. It consists of a collection of small satellites launched on a low Earth orbit whose primary mission is to support science education in high schools and colleges &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.uleth.ca\/~benkoczi\/wordpress\/?page_id=474\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-satellite.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-474","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.uleth.ca\/~benkoczi\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.uleth.ca\/~benkoczi\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.uleth.ca\/~benkoczi\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.uleth.ca\/~benkoczi\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.uleth.ca\/~benkoczi\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.uleth.ca\/~benkoczi\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.uleth.ca\/~benkoczi\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/474\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.uleth.ca\/~benkoczi\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}