by Peter Goodhall | Feb 10, 2020 | Daily Updates
The AMSAT-UK shop is now stocking a 5 watt 2.4 GHz amplifier kit for use with the QO-100 geostationary satellite. The amplifier was designed by Kurt Moraw DJ0ABR and the kit was implemented by Arved Viehweger M0KDS. The kit includes a single sided PCB on which is...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 7, 2020 | Daily Updates
The ARISS-UK Team have announced that the Electromagnetic Field 2020 event is to host an ARISS contact during the weekend of July 23-26. The event will be held at Easton Manor Deer Park, near Ledbury in Herefordshire. The callsign for the contact will be GB4EMF and...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 30, 2020 | Daily Updates
ARRL reports University of Washington’s HuskySat-1 3U CubeSat, launched November 2, 2019, is set to deploy January 31 after the vehicle that carried it to the International Space Station undocks. Update January 31, 2020: HuskySat-1 is expected to be deployed by Cygnus...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 29, 2020 | Daily Updates
On Thursday, January 30 at 1400 GMT AMSAT Argentina will deploy drifting Buoy on South Atlantic Seas that aims to transmit APRS on the satellite packet frequency of 145.825 MHz. WSPR will also be transmitted. AMSAT Argentina report: The APRS beacon, callsign LU7AA-11,...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 28, 2020 | Daily Updates
Russian cosmonauts are expected to activate Slow Scan Television (SSTV) image transmissions on 145.800 MHz FM from the International Space Station on Thursday, January 30 and Friday, January 31 as part of the MAI-75 experiment. The expected activation times are: •...
