by Peter Goodhall | Aug 24, 2014 | Daily Updates, Uncategorized
The Japan AMSAT Association (JAMSAT) and students at the Nippon University are jointly developing a CubeSat called NEXUS which will have a 145 to 435 MHz (Mode-J) transponder and a 38 kbps data downlink. Nippon University students have previously developed the SEEDS...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 23, 2014 | Daily Updates, Uncategorized
A test of the Slow Scan Television (SSTV) experiment MAI-75, callsign RS0ISS, took place on the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, August 27 between 1100-1300 GMT on 145.800 MHz FM. Although a strong carrier was heard there were no reports of SSTV tones...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 23, 2014 | Daily Updates
Lambda-Sat was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on July 13, 2014, in an Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket CRS-2/ORB-2. UPDATE: Deployment from the ISS took place on March 4, 2015 along with the...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
Ofcom staff will be among those giving presentations at the RSGB Convention which takes place October 10-12.The Ofcom public consultation on Amateur Radio has been eagerly awaited for many months now and will hopefully have been released before the Convention.The...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Leo Bodnar M0XER launched his solar powered balloon B-64, carrying an 11 gram transmitter payload, from Silverstone in the UK at 06:51 UT on July 12, 2014 and it’s still flying.It completed its first circumnavigation of the Northern Hemisphere at...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 20, 2014 | Daily Updates
The annual UK High Altitude Society (UKHAS) conference was held on Saturday, August 16, 2014 at the University of Greenwich in London. It attracted those interested in learning about building and flying High Altitude Balloons or in tracking their 434 MHz signals.There...
