SA  AMSAT SPACE  SYMPOSIUM 2013   
Space - a challenging  Amateur Radio frontier 

Saturday 18 May 2013

The  Innovation Hub, Pretoria 

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Programme

08:15  Registration

08:45  Official welcome
Dave Long ZS5FR
 President SA AMSAT

09:00 Key note address “Innovation is veryone’s Business”
McLean Sibanda,
CEO Innovation Hub

09:30 ISIS - Preparing Small satellites for big
           operations
           Johan Erasmus
            ISIS - Innovative Solutions in Space, South
            South African Branch     

 10:15  Refreshment break 

10:45  DynaCube: A South African CubeSat Mission to Study Particle Radiation in the South Atlantic Anomaly
Daniel Fredrick Botha (B. Eng. Mechanical)
Denel Dynamics

11:30 DynaCube: Communication systems and radiation considerations
Wynand Lambrechts
Denel Dynamics

12:15  Developing a 14MHz receiver to measure the signal properties of the beacon on  ZACUBE1 -  A learning experience
Deon Coetzee ZR1DE

13:00  The Las Vegas Boulevard Tracker Interface - Why do we need another rotator tracking interface?
Frik Wolff ZS6FZ

13:30 Lunch Break

14:00  "Living the dreams of our space pioneers" - What can we learn from the past (AO-7 / FO-29)
Eddie Leighton ZS6BNE

14:30  KLETSkous

            General overview
Hannes Coetzee ZS6BZP

            The Space Frame
Deon Coetzee ZR1DE

            The control System
Brian MacKenzie ZS6BME

The transponder
Jacques Roux ZR1

Demonstration of the transponder

16:10 Open Forum

16: 25 Attendance prize draw

16:40 SA AMSAT AGM

17:00 ends