by Peter Goodhall | Jul 20, 2020 | Daily Updates
The objective of the AMSAT-UK OSCAR Satellite QSO Party is to encourage all radio amateurs around the world to get on the air and make contacts via satellites during northern hemisphere summer. We would like to attract both seasoned die-hard operators as well as all...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 17, 2020 | Daily Updates
The DARC reports unauthorized transmissions are taking place in the 144 MHz satellite segment of the 2m amateur radio primary allocation. A translation of the DARC post reads: In the 144.010 MHz to 144.020 MHz range, illegally operated transmitters are increasingly...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 16, 2020 | Daily Updates
Spain’s national amateur radio society URE says SpaceX expect to launch the EASAT-2 and Hades satellites in December 2020. AMSAT-EA, the URE satellite group, is building the satellites together with the European University of Madrid. The launch has been managed...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 14, 2020 | Daily Updates
The 69th meeting of CEPT ECC Working Group SE-40, held June 23-25, discussed the amateur radio 1240-1300 MHz band, the meeting documents are now available. Several contributions were received for the ECC Report dealing with the coexistence between the...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 10, 2020 | Daily Updates
The European Space Agency (ESA) website has published a proposal by radio amateurs from AMSAT-DL for LunART (Lunar Amateur Radio Transponder): a Communications Platform on the Large European Lander to support communication and payload experiments. Peter Gülzow DB2OS...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 9, 2020 | Daily Updates
Nature carries an article about the spacecraft Longjiang-2 / Lunar-OSCAR 94 (LO-94), built by students at the Harbin Institute of Technology, that carried the first Amateur Radio communication system to operate in lunar orbit. As a part of China’s Chang’e-4 lunar far...
