by Peter Goodhall | Aug 12, 2014 | Daily Updates
Volume 2 issue 1 of the free BAA-RAG radio astronomy publication RAGazine is now available for download. In this edition: – VLF quarterly observing report – Simple equipment for SID observations – Intro. to radio objects that can be detected by the...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
Towards the end of the year radio amateurs will have the opportunity to receive what must be the ultimate DX from a ham radio payload transmitting the data mode JT65B as it flies around the Moon. Beijing plans to send a lunar orbiter around the Moon carrying a 14 kg...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 10, 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 | Aug 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
A test of the D-STAR Parrot Repeater on the TabletSat-Aurora satellite is expected to take place during Monday, August 11 on 437.050 MHz (+/- 10 kHz Doppler shift). TabletSat-Aurora launched with 11 other satellites carrying amateur radio payloads from Dombarovsky...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 7, 2014 | Daily Updates
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 amateur radio satellites transmitting in the 145.800 – 146.000 MHz band. Martin Ehrenfried G8JNJ has...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 6, 2014 | Daily Updates
Many stations, who have their FUNcube Dongle Software Defined Radio (SDR) setup to automatically receive telemetry signals from FUNcube-1, will have noticed that they are now also seeing the telemetry from the FUNcube-2 sub-system which is flying on-board the UKube-1...
