by Peter Goodhall | Feb 19, 2015 | Daily Updates
SatNOGS won the Hackaday grand prize of $196,418 for their satellite ground station, they plan to give the money to the Libre Space Foundation. The Libre Space Foundation (LSF) is a non-profit foundation registered in Greece by the creators of the SatNOGS project. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 16, 2015 | Daily Updates
The latest advert from Internet Services provider MTN Global features amateur radio and the International Space Station (ISS). MTN Global’s latest brand commercial tells the story of a little boy who discovers, via the internet, that it is very simple to build a...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 15, 2015 | Daily Updates
Bob McGwier, N4HY shares his views about Women in Science, Technoloy, Engineering, Math and Amateur Radio. Bob, a former AMSAT director and vice president for engineering, is Director of Research, Hume Center and Research Professor of Electrical and Computer...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 14, 2015 | Daily Updates
The ARRL report the the USA is to propose the use of 9.9-10.5 GHz for the Earth Exploration Satellite Service. US proposal for World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 (WRC-15) Agenda Item 1.12 — to expand the Earth Exploration Satellite Service (EESS) in the vicinity...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 13, 2015 | Daily Updates
The student built GRIFEX CubeSat was launched, along with FIREBIRD-2, ExoCube and NASA’s SMAP, on Saturday, January 31 on a Delta 2 rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base. The first reception report of the spacecraft’s 437.485 MHz 9600 bps AX.25 GMSK signal...
