Page last updated on: Friday, April 4, 2014 Ham radio $50sat Rev-Ed project of the month The $50sat (MO-76) amateur radio satellite team is pleased to announce that the PICAXE based $50sat was chosen as Project of the Month by Bath based Revolution Education who supply PICAXE microcontroller development systems



$50SAT is one of the smallest amateur radio satellites ever launched at 5x5x7.5 cm and weighs only 210 grams. Transmitter power is just 100 mW on 437.505 MHz (+/-9 kHz Doppler shift) FM CW/RTTY. It uses the low cost Hope RFM22B single chip radio and PICAXE 40X2 processor.



$50SAT was a collaborative education project between Professor Bob Twiggs, KE6QMD, Morehead State University and three other radio amateurs, Howie DeFelice, AB2S, Michael Kirkhart, KD8QBA, and Stuart Robinson, GW7HPW.



PICAXE $50sat

http://www.picaxe.com/Project-Gallery/50SAT/



Bath based Revolution Education

http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/



Further information on $50SAT

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l3919wtfiywk2gf/-HxyXNsIr8



There is a discussion group for $50SAT

http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/50dollarsat/



50DollarSat http://www.50dollarsat.info/



AMSAT-UK http://amsat-uk.org/

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