by Peter Goodhall | Feb 23, 2019 | Daily Updates
The impressive artwork “Ten Minute Transmission”, featuring the amateur radio Kenwood TS-2000 transceiver and the International Space Station, is once again on display at the Tate Gallery in London. The Tate Gallery says: Ten Minute Transmission is a...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 14, 2019 | Daily Updates
The solar sails on the SSO-A mission “Free Flyer” deployers, launched December 3, 2018 with many amateur radio satellites, are believed to have deployed and may now be quite bright to the naked eye. Ben Taylor writes: I represent a team from the University...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 14, 2019 | Daily Updates
ARISS is planning another of their popular Slow Scan Television (SSTV) experiment events. Transmissions on 145.800 MHz FM are scheduled to begin Friday, Feb. 15 at 08:45 UT and run through Sunday, Feb. 17 at 17:25 UT. SSTV operations is a process by which images are...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 11, 2019 | Daily Updates
14-year-old Snehal Vagadia VU3WHO successfully received his first Slow Scan TV image from the International Space Station on Sunday, February 10. Snehal Vagadia VU3WHO (14), an 8th grade student of Saint Paul’s School, Rajkot, India, received the SSTV Image on...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 10, 2019 | Daily Updates
The BATC and AMSAT-UK 10 GHz Narrowband WebSDR and Wideband Spectrum Viewer for the amateur radio transponders on the Es’hail-2 / QO-100 geostationary satellite are now available online. The geostationary satellite Es’hail-2 carrying amateur radio transponders...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 10, 2019 | Daily Updates
Following the successful launch of Es’hail-2, the new Es’hailSat teleport will be inaugurated on February 14, 2019. AMSAT-DL report: This will also be the occasion to officially put the two amateur radio transponders of Qatar OSCAR-100, the first...
