by Peter Goodhall | Aug 10, 2016 | Daily Updates
The ARRL reports Slow-scan television (SSTV) transmissions will be made from the International Space Station (ISS) on August 15-16, 2016. The MAI-75 Experiment will transmit SSTV images on 145.800 MHz FM over the course of a few orbits as the space station passes over...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 8, 2016 | Daily Updates
Daniel Cussen EI9FHB describes the equipment needed to receive live video direct from space and his adventure in setting up equipment and helping with video link between the ISS and school students In this video, recorded at the Electromagnetic Field event EMF 2016 in...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 8, 2016 | Daily Updates
The story behind $50SAT, a new approach to amateur satellite design which became the world’s smallest operational satellite, built for £125 in a garden shed. On Saturday, August 6, Stuart Robinson GW7HPW gave a presentation on the amateur radio satellite $50SAT to the...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 7, 2016 | Daily Updates
Dave Rowntree 2E0DVR, drummer in the rock-band Blur, gave a presentation on amateur radio satellites at the Electromagnetic Field event EMF 2016 in Guildford. Talk description: There are about a dozen communications satellites orbiting the earth that were designed and...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 4, 2016 | Daily Updates
On July 31 at the AMSAT-UK International Space colloquium in Guildford the RSGB Board Chair Steve Hartley G0FUW presented the RSGB Louis Varney Cup for Advances in Space Communications to Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG. The award was in recognition of Wouter’s...
