by Peter Goodhall | Apr 12, 2019 | Daily Updates
The IARU Satellite Coordination Panel has announced the amateur radio frequencies for the Australian 76 GHz CubeSat CUAVA-1 that is expected to launch in July 2019. CUAVA-1 is a 3U CubeSat and the first CubeSat project of the new ARC Training Centre for CubeSats,...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 7, 2019 | Daily Updates
ARISS Russia is planning Slow Scan Television (SSTV) image transmissions on 145.800 MHz FM from the International Space Station. UPDATE April 12: Transmissions on Thursday and Friday, April 11/12 had very low audio. Dmitry R4UAB reports the ISS cosmonauts plan to try...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 7, 2019 | Daily Updates
Spain’s national amateur radio society URE reports the regulator has agreed to allow amateur use of 2400.050 to 2409.500 MHz to access the E’hail-2 / QO-100 geostationary satellite. A Google translation of the URE announcement reads: Since the State of...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 5, 2019 | Daily Updates
AMSAT believes several of FCC’s proposed rule changes concerning orbital debris would have an extremely detrimental affect on the amateur satellite service. The AMSAT News Service Reports: The Federal Communications Commission has proposed several rules changes...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 30, 2019 | Daily Updates
An APRS payload from AMSAT INDIA will be flown on the PSLV-C45 mission expected to launch on April 1, 2019 at 03:57 GMT. On the AMSAT Bulletin Board Nitin VU3TYG writes: The payload will be powered on approximately over Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Poland and...