by Peter Goodhall | Sep 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
The POSTPONEMENT of this contact was announced on September 21 at 19:55 ARISS Contact Tuesday POSTPONEDDue to the one day delay of the Space X launch, berthing day now falls on Tuesday and has resulted in the cancellation of the Winter Gardens Primary School, Canvey...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
The AMSAT symposium committee has confirmed that one of the original Tuskegee Airman, Col. Charles E. McGee, will be attending the conference on Friday, October 10. Col. McGee will give a special presentation at our symposium on his experiences as a Tuskegee Airman...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 19, 2014 | Daily Updates
IARU Region 1 have released edition 6.14 of the free VHF Managers Handbook covering the VHF, UHF and Microwave amateur radio bands. The handbook has chapters on Band Planning, Contests, Propagation Research, Operating Procedures and Satellites. On page 122 it even...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Sunday, September 21 at 0522 UT SpaceX plan to launch a Falcon 9 from Florida carrying the satellite SpinSat with its amateur radio payload to the International Space Station (ISS). UPDATE: Report on the successful launch at...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 17, 2014 | Daily Updates
A new Lithuanian postage stamp features the amateur radio satellites LituanicaSAT-1 and LitSat-1. The two CubeSats were launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on January 9, 2014 and deployed from the ISS on February 28. LituanicaSAT-1 carried a FM...
