by Peter Goodhall | Aug 21, 2021 | Daily Updates
Spain’s national amateur radio society, the URE, report two AMSAT-EA GENESIS satellites are expected to be launched on September 2, 2021. A translation of the URE post reads: The GENESIS-L and GENESIS-N satellites, designed and built by AMSAT-EA in collaboration...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 18, 2021 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-DL reports the antenna used by DP0GVN in Antarctica for the QO-100 geostationary satellite amateur radio transponder is completely destroyed. According to the Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI), a severe winter storm hit Atka Bay (Antarctica) at the end of last...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 15, 2021 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-SM have published a guide to using the popular digital mode FT4 via the amateur radio satellites using SDR-Console software, a SDR receiver and the Icom IC-705 as the transmitter. We have also had information from Jef ON8NT of the setup that he and Thierry...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 27, 2021 | Daily Updates
Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are planning to transmit Slow Scan TV images on 145.800 MHz FM using the SSTV mode PD-120. The transmissions are part of the Moscow Aviation Institute SSTV experiment (MAI-75) and will be made from the...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 21, 2021 | Daily Updates
The Chair of IARU Region 1 Spectrum Affairs, Barry Lewis G4SJH, reports on the meeting of the ITU-R Working Party 4C (WP4C) July 5-13 which discussed the amateur radio 1240 MHz band. On the IARU-R1 site he writes: During the period 5 – 13 July 2021, the preparatory...
