by Peter Goodhall | Aug 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
Ofcom staff will be among those giving presentations at the RSGB Convention which takes place October 10-12.The Ofcom public consultation on Amateur Radio has been eagerly awaited for many months now and will hopefully have been released before the Convention.The...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Leo Bodnar M0XER launched his solar powered balloon B-64, carrying an 11 gram transmitter payload, from Silverstone in the UK at 06:51 UT on July 12, 2014 and it’s still flying.It completed its first circumnavigation of the Northern Hemisphere at...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 20, 2014 | Daily Updates
The annual UK High Altitude Society (UKHAS) conference was held on Saturday, August 16, 2014 at the University of Greenwich in London. It attracted those interested in learning about building and flying High Altitude Balloons or in tracking their 434 MHz signals.There...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
Paul Stoetzer N8HM has announced a new award for contacts made via the AO-73 (FUNcube-1) amateur radio satelliteI am pleased to announce that I will be sponsoring a new award to promote activity on AO-73 (FUNcube-1). The requirements for this award are simple:1. Work...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 15, 2014 | Daily Updates, Uncategorized
On August 18, 2014 at 14:00 UT the Russia Cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS), Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev, opened the hatches of the Pirs docking module and to start Extra Vehicular Activities (EVA).One of their tasks was the deployment of...
