by m0xtd | Oct 31, 2011 | Daily Updates
When a competion was run to find Apps to fly on the Smartphone CubeSat STRaND-1 one of the wining entries was an App which was a spin-off of the work done by the AMSAT-UK FUNcube team. See the story at:...
by m0xtd | Oct 31, 2011 | Daily Updates
AMSAT Director of Contests and Awards, Bruce Paige, KK5DO says that congratulations are in order for the latest AMSAT Awards recipients:The following have entered into the Satellite Communicators Club for making their first satellite QSO: Stephen Licht, WF2S Jay...
by m0xtd | Oct 30, 2011 | Daily Updates
A vintage TV news report first broadcast Aug 4, 1985 shows a contact between RSGB HQ in Potters Bar and Astronaut Tony England W0ORE in the Challenger shuttle on mission STS 51-F. Tony W0ORE was running a Motorola model MX-340 handheld 2-meter transceiver and a Robot...
by m0xtd | Oct 30, 2011 | Daily Updates
The original TV news reports about the United Kingdom’s first Amateur Radio satellites, UOSAT-1 (OSCAR-9) and UOSAT-2 (OSCAR-11), can now be seen on the web. In ‘Talking Satellite’, made February 15, 1983, Martin Sweeting G3YJO talks about OSCAR-9...
by m0xtd | Oct 30, 2011 | Daily Updates
An Amateur Radio Satellite activity and instruction video by the Hams in Space Team at Bennett Spring State Park, Missouri. Watch Ham and Fish, Amateur Radio Satellites by Hams in Space [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNCgiljwQgQ] Hams in Space...
