by m0xtd | Sep 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
The IARU International Amateur Radio Satellite Forum will this year be held in conjunction with the AMSAT-UK Colloquium which takes place in Guildford, England on the weekend of September 15-16. The forum, chaired by IARU Amateur Satellite Advisor Hans van de...
by m0xtd | Sep 7, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Olympic special event station GB2012MV was active on the amateur radio satellites. This video shows a contact with ON5NY via the amateur satellite FO29. Watch GB2012MV amateur radio satellite contact with ON5NY via FO29 [youtube...
by m0xtd | Sep 1, 2012 | Daily Updates
The technology camp EMF 2012 being held at Pineham Park, Milton Keynes runs from Friday August 31 to Sunday, September 2. BBC TV reports that two 20m high masts linked by microwaves have been erected for the event, one at the campsite and the other in the car park of...
by m0xtd | Aug 30, 2012 | Daily Updates
Erin King AK4JG, a 17-year-old from Columbus, Georgia, was named Amateur Radio Newsline’s Young Ham of the Year for 2012. She re-founded her high school’s radio club and then built a ham radio-carrying balloon that got to 91,000 feet (27.7 km), recovered the...
by m0xtd | Aug 29, 2012 | Daily Updates
Duchifat-1 is an experimental and educational spacecraft developed and built by young Israeli students at the Space Laboratory of the Herzliya Science Centre (HSC). As well as APRS on 145.825 MHz it also carries a UHF/VHF 1200 bps BPSK transceiver that can provide a...
