by Peter Goodhall | Aug 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
Paul Stoetzer N8HM has announced a new award for contacts made via the AO-73 (FUNcube-1) amateur radio satelliteI am pleased to announce that I will be sponsoring a new award to promote activity on AO-73 (FUNcube-1). The requirements for this award are simple:1. Work...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 15, 2014 | Daily Updates, Uncategorized
On August 18, 2014 at 14:00 UT the Russia Cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS), Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev, opened the hatches of the Pirs docking module and to start Extra Vehicular Activities (EVA).One of their tasks was the deployment of...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Southampton University Wireless Society SUWS VHF/UHF/Microwave WebSDR has now moved to its new site in Farnham.You can use the free online SUWS Web Software Defined Radio (WebSDR) from your PC or Laptop to receive the International Space Station (ISS) and the many...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 14, 2014 | Daily Updates
The UKHAS conference on Saturday will be streamed live and the radio amateurs giving the presentations will if time permits take questions via the web.The annual UK High Altitude Society (UKHAS) conference at the University of Greenwich in London attracts those...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 14, 2014 | Daily Updates
According to an ITAR-TASS report the launch of a Russian-Ukrainian conversion rocket Dnepr (RS-20) with Japanese satellites, should take place in early October from the Orenburg region, southern Urals.On Wednesday, August 13, when asked by ITAR-TASS whether the plans...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 13, 2014 | Daily Updates
A paper to be discussed at the IARU Region 1 Conference in Varna-Albena, Bulgaria, September 21-27, 2014 highlights the threat to continued amateur radio usage of our 23 cm allocation which is now being used by the Galileo GPS system. The amateur 23 cm allocation...
