by Peter Goodhall | Apr 26, 2017 | Daily Updates
The bulk of this episode is an on-location interview with two Raleigh NC area hams who gave a couple of live demonstrations of operating through satellites at the Raleigh Hamfest, April 15, 2017. There’s some banter between hosts David Goldenberg W0DHG and Gary...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 24, 2017 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK are providing an amateur radio 1260/145 MHz FM transponder and a 145 MHz BPSK telemetry beacon for the European Student Earth Orbiter (ESEO) satellite. Over the weekend of April 22-23, 2017, AMSAT-UK members met at the Surrey Space Centre to conduct some...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 23, 2017 | Daily Updates
Members of the Camb-Hams will once again be active on the amateur radio satellites as GS3PYE/P, but this time from Islay Island between May 6-12. The Camb-Hams have been activating the Scottish Isles each year since 2008. As in the past, ten or more operators will be...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 21, 2017 | Daily Updates
Despite the Bank Holiday Essex Skills Night attracted 55 people to the Danbury Village Hall on April 17, 2017. The busy evening consisted of a wide range of activities, among them was 10 GHz SSB by Graham G8HAJ. He demonstrated how you can start with a simple low-cost...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 21, 2017 | Daily Updates
Over 80 Israeli high school students have built a CubeSat called Duchifat-2 as part of the QB50 Thermosphere research program. Duchifat-2 is one of 28 QB50 CubeSats from 23 countries launched on April 18, 2017 to the International Space Station (ISS) from where they...
