by Peter Goodhall | Oct 20, 2018 | Daily Updates
NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor KG5TMT, who is currently on the International Space Station, was active on 145.800 MHz FM making contacts on Saturday, October 20 using the callsign NA1SS. Watch a video at twitter.com/supercazzola/status/1053659932292247552 The...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 19, 2018 | Daily Updates
In space, satellites can be found. A recent development in this area are the “CubeSat” satellites. Normal satellites typically have a size ranging from that of a washing machine to a small truck. CubeSats have the size of a milk-carton! The JOTA-JOTI FUNcube Challenge...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 8, 2018 | Daily Updates
FUNcube-1 As you will know, AO73/FUNcube-1 has been in full sunlight for over one month and has been transmitting continuously high power telemetry for most of that time. This has now been changed to full time amateur mode so the transponder is once again available....
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 7, 2018 | Daily Updates
The special event station GB0AUK will be active on the amateur satellites at the AMSAT-UK Colloquium, part of the RSGB Convention, in Milton Keynes Oct 13-14. AMSAT-UK members will be running a demonstration amateur radio satellite ground station, using the equipment...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 6, 2018 | Daily Updates
At 10:45am on Sunday, October 14, the Chair of the UK Space Agency Steering Board Professor David Southwood will give a presentation on the Cassini-Huygens mission to the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium in Milton Keynes. More than 35 years ago, a small group...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 6, 2018 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-DL President Peter Gülzow DB2OS reports on a new amateur radio satellite forum that aims to help newcomers become active on the satellites. On the AMSAT Bulletin board (AMSAT-BB) he writes: We have set up a new online forum at https://forum.amsat-dl.org/...
