by m0xtd | Jul 4, 2012 | Daily Updates
Independence Day, July 4, saw AC0RA and OM3BD set another world distance record using the amateur radio satellite AMSAT-OSCAR-7 breaking their own record set just 48 hours earlier. The new distance record was 7903.55km comfortably exceeding the previous record of...
by m0xtd | Jul 3, 2012 | Daily Updates
Erin King, AK4JG, a 17-year-old from Columbus, Georgia, who re-founded her high school’s radio club and then lofted a ham radio-carrying balloon to over 90,000 feet, recovered the flight data and used it to produce a truly striking video of that flight, has been...
by m0xtd | Jul 3, 2012 | Daily Updates
ARI, the Associazione Radioamatori Italiani, and their club station IQ1TW have announced a special operating award “Apollo Space Program – From the Earth to the Moon” for contacts between July 1 – July 31, 2012. This is to commemorate and keep...
by m0xtd | Jul 2, 2012 | Daily Updates
Wyatt AC0RA and Bill OM3BD have broken the AMSAT-OSCAR-7 (AO-7) long distance (DX) record set in 2010. Their GPS-measured 7849km QSO between grid squares EN31vx and JN88mf surpassed the prior 7843km record set by PY5LF and K3SZH in 2010. Bill says that Wyatt did all...
by m0xtd | Jun 30, 2012 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio SwampSat satellite, built by students at the University of Florida (UF) was recently unveiled. Its downlink will use 1200 bps AX25 packet radio on 437.385 MHz with 1 watt of RF. The team are planning on a December 2012 launch on the SpaceX Falcon 9...
by m0xtd | Jun 28, 2012 | Daily Updates
The minutes of the ARISS International Monthly Teleconference for June 19 carry this report on the status of the amateur radio equipment for the ISS Columbus module. Kenneth [N5VHO] reported that an onboard power issue somewhat impacted ARISS radio operations. The air...
