by Peter Goodhall | Aug 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
There are a few tickets still available for the UKHAS conference at the University of Greenwich, London on Saturday, September 7.The UK High Altitude Society (UKHAS) conference attracts those interested in learning about building and flying High Altitude Balloons or...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 14, 2013 | Daily Updates
On his ESA blog astronaut Luca Parmitano KF5KDP talks about his ham radio contacts from the International Space Station. I set the radio to the ‘random’ contacts frequency, and without knowing what to expect, I put on the headphones. Physically, the International...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 13, 2013 | Daily Updates
In addition to the amateur radio FUNcube boards the UK Space Agency’s first CubeSat UKube-1 will also carry designs by artists Jon Gibson and Amanda White, who run the famous iam8bit gallery in Los Angeles. The Wired story says “[Nanosatellites] open the...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 12, 2013 | 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 12, 2013 | Daily Updates
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano KF5KDP has been making random voice contacts from the International Space Station (ISS) to other radio amateurs on Earth on 145.800 MHz. When the astronauts put out a CQ call, in range of Europe and Africa, they transmit on 145.800 MHz FM...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 10, 2013 | Daily Updates
The Thailand Amateur Radio Satellite Group are developing their first satellite JAISAT-1. The group hope to complete the satellite, a 1U CubeSat, by the end of 2015. Plans include a 145 to 435 MHz linear transponder for SSB/CW communications, APRS, a packet bulletin...
