by Peter Goodhall | Jun 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
The D-STAR satellite TabletSat-Aurora is expected to launch with 11 other satellites carrying amateur radio payloads from Dombarovsky near Yasny on Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 19:11:11 UT. It carries a D-STAR Parrot (Store and Forward) Repeater running 0.8 watts of...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 17, 2014 | Daily Updates
QST Editor and ARRL Publications Manager Steve Ford, WB8IMY will give a presentation to the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium at the Holiday Inn in Guildford on Saturday, July 26. Steve will be traveling to the UK to talk about the satellite operations at the...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube team anticipate that the Dnepr launch of the amateur radio FUNcube-3 payload on the QB50p1 CubeSat will take place as previously stated. This Thursday is the day! To be precise, lift off is expected to take place from Yasny on June 19, 2014 at 19:11:11 UT...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 13, 2014 | Daily Updates
E-members of AMSAT-UK can now download the Summer edition of OSCAR News here. In this issue is a picture of Brent Salmi KB1LQD and Bryce Salmi KB1LQC at the National Radio Centre in Bletchley Park where they met up with AMSAT-UK’s Graham Shirville G3VZV. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
Special event station GB1JSS will be active on the amateur radio satellites during the Summer Solstice on Saturday, June 21, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The event is open to all radio amateurs and listeners. On that day the sun will rise at...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Monday, June 9, more than 350 of the UK’s most successful and most promising technologists were invited to Buckingham Palace by the Queen and the Duke of York for Tech at the Palace. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was shown the Raspberry Pi High Altitude...
