by Peter Goodhall | Mar 16, 2015 | Daily Updates
The ARRL reports International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) representatives were in Prague earlier this month to join discussions on the regulatory aspects of orbits and spectrum usage for nanosatellites and picosatellites. On hand for the International...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 16, 2015 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur David Akerman M0RPI will be launching a 434 MHz balloon from the BBC Stargazing Live solar eclipse event in Leicester on March 20. The flight is to primarily to take photographs during the partial solar eclipse. Slow Scan Digital Video (SSDV), RTTY and...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 15, 2015 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube team are pleased to announce that the Data Warehouse has received two million packets of telemetry data from ground stations around the world. FUNcube-1 (AO-73) was launched on November 21, 2013 and since then radio amateurs and schools have been receiving...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 14, 2015 | Daily Updates
ESERO-UK, the UK space education office, based in York, has announced the winner of the UK round of the International CanSat competition . A CanSat is a student built simulated satellite with all the major subsystems including radio communications on 433/434 MHz and...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 14, 2015 | Daily Updates
8-year-old radio amateur Hope Lea KM4IPF made her first contact just 45 minutes after her callsign appeared in the FCC database. The contact with Arthur K4YYL, via the FO-29 satellite, took place on March 11, 2015 at 2100 UT. Her elder sister Faith WA4BBC and brother...
