by Peter Goodhall | Nov 3, 2014 | Daily Updates
The minutes of the Final Plenary, 23rd IARU Region 1 General Conference have been released. The Conference approved these Youth budgets: a. Youth Projects – 25,000 Swiss Francs for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 b. Youth Working Group – 2,000 Swiss Francs for the...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 31, 2014 | Daily Updates
Patrick Stoddard WD9EWK/VA7EWK has secured the special call sign W7O (Whiskey Seven Oscar) for use in commemorating the 40th anniversary of the launch of OSCAR 7 on November 15, 1974. On the AMSAT Bulletin Board he writes: I plan on having this call on the air between...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 30, 2014 | Daily Updates
The successful amateur radio lunar payload 4M launched on October 23 has generated a number of articles, the latest is in The Daily Beast. Read The Daily Beast article about the first privately-funded spacecraft to travel the Moon at...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 30, 2014 | Daily Updates
Friday, October 31 is the formal start of the 146-147 MHz ‘experiment’ for Full licence holders with NoV’s and the RSGB has released a bandplan. The bandplan has an allocation for digital modes with up to 500 kHz bandwidth and 12.5 kHz channels for...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 30, 2014 | Daily Updates
Founded in 1975 AMSAT-UK is a voluntary organisation that supports the design and building of equipment for amateur radio satellites. AMSAT-UK initially produced a short bulletin called OSCAR News to give members advice on amateur satellite communications. Since those...
