by Peter Goodhall | Aug 16, 2016 | Daily Updates
There’s an impressive line-up of radio amateurs among those giving presentations at the UK High Altitude Society (UKHAS) conference in Cambridge on Saturday, September 10, 2016. Watch Live at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/ioa/streaming YouTube...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 16, 2016 | Daily Updates
Pete Sipple M0PSX from Essex Ham will be giving a talk about the Tim Peake GB1SS amateur radio school contacts at the Southend Raspberry Jam on Saturday, August 20. The talk about Tim Peake’s amateur radio educational outreach activity starts at 10:30. Other...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 15, 2016 | Daily Updates
The Chertsey Radio Club demonstrated that you can receive pictures from Space using simple low-cost equipment such a Baofeng VHF handheld radio and a Lynx-7 Tablet. On Monday, August 15, 2016 radio amateurs from Japan, India and countries as far west as Brazil...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 14, 2016 | Daily Updates
Amateur radio satellite operating featured in episode 12 of the popular TX Factor Show. In this episode Bob McCreadie G0FGX teaches Mike Marsh G1IAR a thing or two about amateur satellite operating. The show highlights the book – Getting Started with Amateur...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 11, 2016 | Daily Updates
The BIRDS-1 constellation consists of five 1U CubeSats (BIRD-B, BIRD-J, BIRD-G, BIRD-M and BIRD-N). They launched to the ISS on a SpaceX Falcon 9 CRS-11 on June 3, 2017. The satellites are made of the exactly same design including the radio frequencies to be used and...
