by Peter Goodhall | Mar 27, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Saturday, March 29, at around 10:00 GMT Chris Stubbs M6EDF will be launching a balloon CHEAPO carrying a payload transmitting 50 bps 7n2 RTTY on 434.300 MHz USB. Chris gave a well received presentation on high altitude balloons at a recent Chelmsford Amateur Radio...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 27, 2014 | Daily Updates
The March 2014 edition of the British Amateur Television Club (BATC) magazine CQ-TV has several articles on HamTV, the new ISS Digital Amateur Television station. In the March 2014 issue of CQ-TV: – First Video received from the ISS – Receiving HamTV from...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 27, 2014 | Daily Updates
A greetings message from the President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė has been transmitted by the amateur radio satellite LituanicaSAT-1. She is believed to be the first President of any nation to have a greetings message sent from space since...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 27, 2014 | Daily Updates
The BAA Radio Astronomy Group will be holding its 2014 General Meeting on Saturday, May 17 at the National Space Centre, Leicester, LE4 5NS. Paul Hyde G4CSD writes: 1. Demos and posters With seven weeks to go we need to sort out the amount of space to be allocated for...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 26, 2014 | Daily Updates
In 2013 the President of the Republic of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė visited the Science Communication and Information Center (SCIC ) at Vilnius University. There she saw the amateur radio CubeSat LituanicaSAT-1 and tested the satellite’s FM voice transponder...
