by Peter Goodhall | Feb 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Winter 2014 edition of Radio Waves, ARRL’s e-newsletter for instructors and teachers, is now available for download. Among the selection of articles: “High School Students Put Packet Radio to Work for Local Environmental Study,” “Club Boasts Fourfold...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) school contact took place at 17:24 UT on Thursday, February 13, 2014. Students at Escola Estadual ‘Gonçalves Dias’, Boa Vista, Brazil, using the station of Paulo PV8DX, were able to talk to...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 13, 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 | Feb 13, 2014 | Daily Updates
Beijing’s Jade Rabbit (Yutu) lunar rover had been thought to be dead but its radio signal on 8462.078 MHz was received by radio amateur Paul Marsh G7EYT / M0EYT on February 12, 2014. In their story about Jade Rabbit’s return CNN mentions that the amateur...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 13, 2014 | Daily Updates
Since deployment on November 21, 2013 of FUNcube-1 (AO-73) the FUNcube team have been capturing the minimum and maximum Realtime values for each channel when they have been uploaded by a ground station. This has given a good overview for the early operation and...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2014 | Daily Updates
David Bowman G0MRF will be giving a presentation on the FUNcube satellite project to the Sutton & Cheam Amateur Radio Society on Thursday, February 20. The FUNcube-1 CubeSat was launched on November 21, 2013 and provides a 435/145 MHz transponder for SSB and CW...
