by Peter Goodhall | Mar 18, 2015 | Daily Updates
The Kent and Sussex Courier newspaper reports a picture from space has been decoded by an over-the-moon radio amateur from Tunbridge Wells. Colin Bowman M0NLP spoke to his local newspaper after receiving a Slow Scan TV (SSTV) picture from the International Space...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 18, 2015 | Daily Updates
Issue 209 of the AMSAT-UK amateur radio satellite publication OSCAR News was released on March 17, 2015. E-members can download it here. The paper edition is usually posted 2-3 weeks after publication of the electronic issue. In this issue: • 4M: A Moon Mission •...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 16, 2015 | Daily Updates
The ARRL reports International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) representatives were in Prague earlier this month to join discussions on the regulatory aspects of orbits and spectrum usage for nanosatellites and picosatellites. On hand for the International...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 16, 2015 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur David Akerman M0RPI will be launching a 434 MHz balloon from the BBC Stargazing Live solar eclipse event in Leicester on March 20. The flight is to primarily to take photographs during the partial solar eclipse. Slow Scan Digital Video (SSDV), RTTY and...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 15, 2015 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube team are pleased to announce that the Data Warehouse has received two million packets of telemetry data from ground stations around the world. FUNcube-1 (AO-73) was launched on November 21, 2013 and since then radio amateurs and schools have been receiving...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 14, 2015 | Daily Updates
ESERO-UK, the UK space education office, based in York, has announced the winner of the UK round of the International CanSat competition . A CanSat is a student built simulated satellite with all the major subsystems including radio communications on 433/434 MHz and...
