by Peter Goodhall | Oct 12, 2015 | Daily Updates
The IARU Administrative Council meeting in Bali, Indonesia has stressed the importance of antenna systems for Amateur Radio and agreed in principle to new guidelines for amateur satellite coordination. The Administrative Council (AC) of the International Amateur Radio...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 10, 2015 | Daily Updates
The after-dinner speaker at the RSGB Convention Saturday night Gala dinner was Howard Long, G6LVB, who spoke about the trials and tribulations involved in developing the ground station segment of the FUNcube satellite project which became the successful FUNcube Dongle...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 9, 2015 | Daily Updates
On behalf of all members of AMSAT-UK I send our congratulations the AMSAT team in the USA for all their hard work in recent years on FOX-1A which having been successfully launched, and from which telemetry signals have been successfully received and decoded on earth,...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 9, 2015 | Daily Updates
The 435 to 145 MHz FM voice transponder on AO-85 was activated during Friday, October 9 allowing many contacts to be made. Among those active on the satellite was 9-year-old Hope KM4IPF. Hope is the daughter of Michelle N8ZQZ and James WX4TV, other radio amateurs in...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 9, 2015 | Daily Updates
Willian (Bill) Tynan, W3XO, AMSAT-NA OSCAR Number Administrator has issued the following release: I have been informed of the successful launch today, October 8, 2015 of the AMSAT-NA-built Fox-1A CubeSat. I am also informed that the satellite has been heard by several...
