by Peter Goodhall | Oct 4, 2019 | Daily Updates
Spain’s national amateur radio society URE reports that amateurs will be allowed to use 2,400.050 to 2,409.500 MHz for QO-100 (Es’hail-2) geostationary satellite contacts until Dec 26, 2020. A translation of the URE post says: At the request of the Spanish...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 3, 2019 | Daily Updates
An International Space Station ARISS school contact has been planned between astronaut Drew Morgan KI5AAA and participants at Bampton School, Bampton, United Kingdom on Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 12:51 GMT, which is 1:51 PM BST. The contact between GB4BPS at the...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 2, 2019 | Daily Updates
Young people at Bampton School in Devon will get an opportunity to use amateur radio to talk to an astronaut on the International Space Station on Tuesday, October 8. The school has tweeted: “The news we’ve all been waiting for: @BamptonSCH contact with...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 29, 2019 | Daily Updates
Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, AMSAT VP Operations has received a request from amateurs involved with emergency communications in the Azores, requesting we forego L/v operation on AO-92 this week. AMSAT News Service reports: Hurricane Lorenzo is expected to pass through the...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 28, 2019 | Daily Updates
E-members of AMSAT-UK can now download the Autumn 2019 edition of OSCAR News, issue 227, here. The paper edition should be sent to postal members in 2-3 weeks. In this issue: • From the Secretary’s Keyboard • Editors welcome • 2019 Meetings & Events Calendar •...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 13, 2019 | Daily Updates
Mark M5BOP reports the complete set of amateur radio technical talks from this year’s Martlesham Microwave Round Table is now available to watch on YouTube. Videos of these MMRT 2019 talks are available: • Practical GNUradio – Heather Lomond M0HMO • From...
