Radio Amateurs supporting a mission in space

Henk PA3GUO has made available a great YouTube video about the Amateur Radio ANDE-2 microsatellites Castor and Pollux

On the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) he writes:

Very often I find it difficult to explain to 'outsiders' what HAM radio is all about.

Therefore I have released a short video on YouTube about the recent ANDE-2 experiments and how radio amateurs world-wide contributed to this mission.

When I was young I watched the first Space Shuttle flight on TV. A far away, fantastic scientific event. Many years later we as radio amateurs are given opportunities to engage directly in space-experiments. It's a thrill !

Featured in the video are the launch and deploy from STS-127, as well as reception and decoding of the satellite's radio signals received from space.

For highest quality ensure you enable HD (it does slow-down the download a bit though)

Best regards,

Henk, PA3GUO

Watch the superb YouTube video 'Radio Amateurs supporting a mission in space'

Direct link for this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGvRnqII0j8

Castor and Pollux QSL cards
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/august2009/
castor_and_pollux_qsl_cards.htm