by Peter Goodhall | Apr 15, 2015 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK member Andrew Garratt M0NRD got some good publicity for Amateur Radio from the recent ISS Slow Scan Television transmissions. The SSTV pictures were sent in celebration of Yuri Gagarin becoming the first human to reach space, on April 12, 1961. The Russian...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 14, 2015 | Daily Updates
Martin Ehrenfried G8JNJ describes how he uses WebSDR’s to listen to ISS transmissions on 145.800 and 145.825 MHz. The SUWS SDR at Farnham can even receive the 143.625 MHz ISS comms channel. We were treated to more Slow Scan Television (SSTV) pictures from the...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 12, 2015 | Daily Updates
Michael Ossmann, AD0NR, will give a talk “Adventures of a Hacker Turned Ham” to the AMSAT/TAPR Banquet at the Dayton Hamvention. The ninth annual TAPR/AMSAT Banquet will be held on Friday night, May 15, at 1830 EDT. This dinner is always a highlight of the...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 3, 2015 | Daily Updates
The Australian regulator the ACMA is consulting on a number of changes to the amateur radio licence including removal of a key 3400 MHz allocation. 3400-3410 MHz is allocated to the Amateur Satellite Service in ITU Regions 2 and 3. It is used by amateurs in many...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 31, 2015 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Dennis Wingo KD4ETA along with freelance science writer and broadcast journalist journalist Kate Arkless Gray were on the BBC World Service Click radio show. The show – Space and Citizen Science – was broadcast live from the BBC Radio...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 31, 2015 | Daily Updates
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has announced another round of amateur radio Slow Scan Television (SSTV) activity from the International Space Station (ISS). It will commemorate the anniversary of the first human spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin which took...
