Amateur radio, space technology and other geeky stuff by Alexandru Csete
It was a good day today. At long last, I have received my WBX transceiver boards for the USRP! I have been waiting for this transceiver board for quite some time now because I didn’t really have and transmit capabilities in the VHF and UHF bands. This board was expected to cover 50 MHz to … Read more
Do you even wonder how the sky might look like from the surface of the Moon? I certainly did so recently and here is what I learned… We had some discussions on the Team FREDNET public forum about using the stars and the planets for guidance and navigation on lunar surface. Of course, it raised … Read more
My name is Alexandru Csete, also known as OZ9AEC. I am a physicist from the University of Aarhus and I work as a development engineer in the antenna department at Thrane & Thrane (Cobham Satcom). Before that I was 8 years in the European space industry working on the Automated Transfer Vehicle called Jules Verne and … Read more