by m0xtd | Apr 22, 2012 | Daily Updates
The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) inexplicably applies to amateur radio satellites. It threatens US hams with jail terms or six figure fines if they cooperate with amateurs outside the USA on satellite projects. Cooperation includes talking about or...
by m0xtd | Apr 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
Sponsor plaques have now been fitted in the reception to the RSGB National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park. Dave Johnson G4DPZ is one of a number of individuals and organisations who either gave freely of their time or supplied equipment to make the National Radio...
by m0xtd | Apr 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
NASA report that last month, when the sun unleashed the most intense radiation storm since 2003, peppering satellites with charged particles and igniting strong auroras around both poles, a group of high school students in Bishop, California, knew just what to do....
by m0xtd | Apr 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
It was 13 months of preparation for 10 minutes of conversation – but what a conversation! On Thursday morning, a select group of students from the Flabob Airport Preparatory Academy spent about 10 minutes on an amateur radio teleconference call with the...
by m0xtd | Apr 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
The Olympic and Paralympic Games will be using almost half of the 430 MHz amateur radio allocation as well as segments of 2.3 GHz and 3.4 GHz during the period June 28 to September 23. The impact on the Amateur-satellite Service 435-438 MHz allocation has been...
