by Peter Goodhall | Oct 31, 2014 | Daily Updates
Patrick Stoddard WD9EWK/VA7EWK has secured the special call sign W7O (Whiskey Seven Oscar) for use in commemorating the 40th anniversary of the launch of OSCAR 7 on November 15, 1974. On the AMSAT Bulletin Board he writes: I plan on having this call on the air between...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 30, 2014 | Daily Updates
The successful amateur radio lunar payload 4M launched on October 23 has generated a number of articles, the latest is in The Daily Beast. Read The Daily Beast article about the first privately-funded spacecraft to travel the Moon at...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 30, 2014 | Daily Updates
Friday, October 31 is the formal start of the 146-147 MHz ‘experiment’ for Full licence holders with NoV’s and the RSGB has released a bandplan. The bandplan has an allocation for digital modes with up to 500 kHz bandwidth and 12.5 kHz channels for...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 30, 2014 | 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 | Oct 28, 2014 | Daily Updates
The new 146-147 MHz allocation is available to UK Full licence holders from October 31, 2014. The RSGB have issued a FAQ document which answers some of the common questions about the new allocation. They say in terms of enabling innovation and experimentation it might...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 26, 2014 | Daily Updates
FUNcube-1 was launched on November 21, 2013 and since then radio amateurs and schools have been collecting the telemetry which has been stored in the Data Warehouse. The Data Warehouse statistics as of 21:49 GMT on October 25, 2014 were: Number of registered users:...
