by Peter Goodhall | Apr 8, 2018 | Daily Updates
ARISS Russia is planning a special Slow Scan Television (SSTV) event April 11-14 from the International Space Station in celebration of Cosmonautics Day. The transmissions are to begin on April 11 at 11:30 UT and run through April 14 ending at 18:20 UT. Supporting...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 8, 2018 | Daily Updates
Entrepreneur and electrical engineer Jeri Ellsworth AI6TK will be guest speaker at the AMSAT/TAPR banquet which takes place during Hamvention 2018 in May. The twelfth annual joint AMSAT/TAPR Banquet will be held on Friday, May 18 at the Kohler Presidential Banquet...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 5, 2018 | Daily Updates
PicSat, launched January 12, carried an amateur radio FM transponder. Unfortunately following a loss of communications in March the team has had to announce the end of the mission. On the afternoon of Tuesday, March 20, 2018 PicSat suddenly fell silent, after two...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 3, 2018 | Daily Updates
Two microsatellites DSLWP-A and DSLWP-B carrying amateur radio payloads are planned to launch with the Chang’e 4 Relay satellite on a CZ-4C from the Xichang Space Center into lunar orbit early Monday, May 21 Beijing time (2130 GMT May 20). Wei Mingchuan BG2BHC...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 29, 2018 | Daily Updates
The Athenoxat-1 project team has implemented an interesting experiment (puzzle) where frames containing fragments of images of QSL cards are periodically transmitted by the satellite. Amateurs can participate in the experiment by receiving the fragments and sending...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 27, 2018 | Daily Updates
The International Space Station (ISS) amateur radio Slow Scan Television (SSTV) transmissions on 145.800 MHz FM are expected to be activate over several days in April. The Inter-MAI-75 SSTV experiment should be active on: • Monday, April 2 from 15:05-18:30 UT •...
