by Peter Goodhall | Apr 4, 2013 | Daily Updates
Hector Martinez CO6CBF in Cuba has worked Joe Murphy EI5EV in County Kilkenny on FO-29 over a distance of 6955.1 km. Hector writes: I am pleased to report that on Wednesday, April 3 I had my first contact on satellites with Ireland. Joe, EI5EV and I completed it...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 4, 2013 | Daily Updates
Flight Refueling Amateur Radio Society (FRARS) were active on the amateur radio satellites on Thursday, April 4 using the special event callsign G100RSGB . On one pass of the satellite FO-29 club member Clive Lambert-Hutchinson G7SVI had arranged a schedule with...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 3, 2013 | Daily Updates
PicoDragon is a 1U CubeSat project intended to take low resolution Earth images and to test on-board systems. It is planning to use two amateur radio downlinks and frequencies for these have been coordinated by the IARU. The 100mW CW beacon will be on 437.250 MHz and...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 3, 2013 | Daily Updates
NASA is seeking small spacecraft technology project proposals from U.S. colleges and universities that would like to collaborate with agency researchers. Small spacecraft, or smallsats, represent a growing field of space research and operations in which universities...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 3, 2013 | Daily Updates
Dr Chris Bridges M6OBC from the Surrey Space Centre has advised that the amateur radio beacon on their STRaND-1 CubeSat became intermittent over the Easter weekend. Both Mike Rupprecht DK3WN and Nader Omer ST2NH have reported that no signals have been heard since...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 2, 2013 | Daily Updates
The final set of VHF/UHF/uW papers for the IARU Region 1 Interim meeting in Vienna, April 20-21, have been released. They include a number of papers related to Amateur-Satellite Service allocations: • VIE13_C5_03 Increased Amateur‐Satellite Service 144MHz Usage •...
