by Peter Goodhall | Sep 13, 2019 | Daily Updates
Students at the Villanova University College of Engineering started a CubeSat Club in the fall of 2018 and have since got their amateur radio licenses. The university website reports: A CubeSat is a nanosatellite—a small, lightweight satellite that is cheaper to build...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 13, 2019 | Daily Updates
Taurus-1 (Jinniuzuo-1) carrying an amateur radio FM to Codec-2 transponder was launched on a CZ-4B rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on Thursday, September 12 at 0326 GMT. Taurus-1 is a CubeSat project developed by Aerospace System Engineering Research...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 12, 2019 | Daily Updates
The IARU Region 3 Directors meeting was held in Tokyo September 2-3. A modified interim Region 3 bandplan was approved which included an Amateur-Satellite Service allocation in the 15m band. The Chairman of IARU Region 3 directors, Wisnu Widjaja YBØAZ and the...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 12, 2019 | Daily Updates
The WSPR Picoballoon on 14.0956 USB released August 31 is about to complete its first circumnavigation of the globe after traveling 33,000 km in 12 days. AMSAT-LU appreciate any WSPR stations that help to receive it, AMSAT-LU will recognize with a certificate to...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 30, 2019 | Daily Updates
“At the insistence of the European Commission, a WRC-23 agenda item was considered necessary to address the world-wide protection of Regional Navigational Satellite Systems from amateur emissions in the band 1240-1300 MHz.” The CEPT ECC CPG met in Ankara...
