by Peter Goodhall | Sep 1, 2014 | Daily Updates
Paul Stoetzer N8HM provides an update on the 73 on 73 Award for contacts made via the amateur radio satellite AO-73 (FUNcube-1). Just a reminder that the award period for the 73 on 73 Award begins at 0000Z on September 1st, so begin keeping track of the unique...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 29, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Electromagnetic Field EMF 2014 event is taking place this weekend at Bletchley near Milton Keynes and the presentations will be streamed live to a global audience. GB2EMF will be on-the-air. EMF 2014 is a festival for anyone interested in radio, electronics,...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 24, 2014 | Daily Updates, Uncategorized
The Japan AMSAT Association (JAMSAT) and students at the Nippon University are jointly developing a CubeSat called NEXUS which will have a 145 to 435 MHz (Mode-J) transponder and a 38 kbps data downlink. Nippon University students have previously developed the SEEDS...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 23, 2014 | Daily Updates, Uncategorized
A test of the Slow Scan Television (SSTV) experiment MAI-75, callsign RS0ISS, took place on the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, August 27 between 1100-1300 GMT on 145.800 MHz FM. Although a strong carrier was heard there were no reports of SSTV tones...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 23, 2014 | Daily Updates
Lambda-Sat was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on July 13, 2014, in an Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket CRS-2/ORB-2. UPDATE: Deployment from the ISS took place on March 4, 2015 along with the...
