by Peter Goodhall | Sep 29, 2018 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK will be hosting a Construction Competition at our 2018 Colloquium on October 13/14th at Kents Hill Park, Milton Keynes. The competition is open to all. The rules are simple: 1. Entries must be built from Kits or Home Constructed 2. The judging will take place...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 24, 2018 | Daily Updates
The Hindu newspaper interviews radio amateur Gurudatta Panda VU3GDP about the ExseedSat CubeSat built by an eight-person team at the Hyderabad-based Exseed Space Private Limited that was co-founded by Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE. ExseedSat carries an amateur radio FM...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 5, 2018 | Daily Updates
AMSAT EA will be on air on all available satellites with callsign AM1SAT from Sept 10-17 to celebrate IberRadio 2018 – IV Radiocommunications Fair, the biggest HAM party event in Spain and Portugal, Sept 15-16 Main grid will be IN70 but other ones will be...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 27, 2018 | Daily Updates
Dr Chris Bridges M0IEB will be giving a presentation on FUNcube-4, an amateur radio transponder payload on the ESEO satellite mission, to the combined AMSAT-UK Colloquium / RSGB Convention in Milton Keynes at 1:30 pm on Sunday, October 14. Thanks to the British...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 26, 2018 | Daily Updates
AO73/FUNcube-1 has been in space for almost five years and the original Sun Synchronous Orbit has now changed slightly such that the spacecraft will no longer be in eclipse for 35 mins every orbit. The eclipse period has already reduced and will again become zero on...