At the Technology Convention hosted by the Auckland VHF Group this weekend, we had a chance to see KiwiSAT in operation. Fred ZL1BYP and Ian ZL1AOX arranged to bring the satellite in its "clean cabinet" to the convention so that the audience would have a chance (hopefully, a first and last chance) to see it. Ian had brought along his station (and dummy loads) and demonstrated commanding the satellite and collecting telemetry across the room.

I thought it was pretty exciting that they would go to the amazing effort (and risk, gulp :-) of bringing the satellite and its support equipment to the convention so that the rest of us could see it.

The satellite is on the air from a well elevated site just south of Auckland... so hams in the area can try listening for it or even working through it during its final tests.

Photo album: http://goo.gl/hY3Yi KiwiSAT: http://www.KiwiSAT.org.nz/