by Peter Goodhall | Feb 14, 2016 | Daily Updates
On February 13, Michelle Thompson W5NYV released her latest AMSAT Phase 4B Ground Engineering Report. Michelle has nine years experience in embedded hardware and software design and is managing the digital ground station program in support of a digital payload for an...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 14, 2016 | Daily Updates
Friday, February 19, 2016, at approximately 14:20 UT, an ARISS contact is planned for Oasis Academy Brightstowe, Bristol. The UK astronaut Tim Peake will be using the call sign GB1SS while the Academy will use GB1OAB. The ISS signal will be audible over the British...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 13, 2016 | Daily Updates
Founded in 1975 AMSAT-UK is a voluntary organisation that supports the design and building of equipment for amateur radio satellites. AMSAT-UK initially produced a short bulletin called OSCAR News to give members advice on amateur satellite communications. Since those...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2016 | Daily Updates
Thursday, February 11, 2016, at 18:09 UTC, an educational ARISS radio contact took place at the Royal Masonic School for Girls, Rickmansworth,, United Kingdom. The school contact was operated by Tim Peake KG5BVI in the frame of the Principia mission. It was a historic...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2016 | Daily Updates
Steve Nichols G0KYA got some good publicity for amateur radio by letting his local media outlets know he had received a signal from Tim Peake on the ISS. He was lucky enough to hear astronaut Tim Peake’s ISS contact with another UK school on Thursday, February...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2016 | Daily Updates
This is the 77 minute video of the ARISS contact between Tim Peake GB1SS and the Royal Masonic School for Girls Rickmansworth GB1RMS. The video starts with the students of Cadogan House, the prep school for girls aged 4 to 11 at the Royal Masonic School for Girls...
