by Peter Goodhall | May 13, 2015 | Daily Updates
Sarah Brightman announced Wednesday, May 13, 2015 that she is postponing her plans to launch aboard the upcoming Soyuz TMA-18M spaceflight mission expected for September. Ms. Brightman said that for personal family reasons her intentions have had to change and she is...
by Peter Goodhall | May 12, 2015 | Daily Updates
Congratulations to Hideo Kambayashi, JH3XCU, for working 73 different stations on AO-73 since September 1, 2014. Notably, he is the first to work all 73 different stations using CW. For more information on the award see 73 on 73 Award 73, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM...
by Peter Goodhall | May 6, 2015 | Daily Updates
On April 27, 2015 at 1901 GMT, Cuban radio amateur Hector Martinez W5CBF/CO6CBF achieved a 7537.8 km DX contact with UK amateur Peter Atkins G4DOL via FO-29. I am pleased to report that Peter G4DOL and I had another extreme QSO on FO-29. It is my furthest contact on...
by Peter Goodhall | May 4, 2015 | Daily Updates
In 2012 St. Paul’s school student Sakshi Vagadia spoke to astronaut Sunita Williams KD5PLB as part of an ARISS school contact. Now, at 15, she has received her amateur radio licence VU3EXP. Sakshi has just finished her 9th grade in St. Paul’s School,...
by Peter Goodhall | May 3, 2015 | Daily Updates
Friday, May 1, 2015 the Ham Video transmitter on board the Columbus module of the International Space Station was powered on and started transmitting in “Blank Transmission” (BT) mode. In this mode, the transmitter is operated without camera. The digital TV signal is...
by Peter Goodhall | May 3, 2015 | Daily Updates
On Monday, May 4 at around 0830 UT it is intended to activate for one orbit the AMSAT-NL FUNcube-3 transponder on QB50p1 / EO-79. TLEs are in the normal repositories, COSPAR 2014-033-R, Object# 40025. Real-time tracking at http://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=40025 (Click...
