by Peter Goodhall | Nov 20, 2021 | Daily Updates
Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are planning to transmit Slow Scan TV images on 145.800 MHz FM using the SSTV mode PD-120. The transmissions are part of the Moscow Aviation Institute SSTV experiment (MAI-75) and will be made from the...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 13, 2021 | Daily Updates
Former AMSAT-DL President Prof. Dr. Karl Meinzer, DJ4ZC, who was first licensed in 1957 aged 17, has been named a new DARC honorary member. He was awarded the AMSAT-UK G3AAJ Trophy in 2000. A translation of the DARC post reads: This was announced by DARC chairman...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 30, 2021 | Daily Updates
During the period October 20-29, 2021, the IARU continued to engage in the preparatory work for WRC-23 agenda item 9.1b in ITU‑R Working Party 4C (WP4C). The IARU Region 1 reports says: The working party is considering simulations provided by two administrations to...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 25, 2021 | Daily Updates
A video of the talks given at the 36th annual AMSAT-UK Space Colloquium on October 24, 2021, is now available on YouTube. Timestamps 00:00:00 Stream starts 00:08:00 Official opening by Martin Sweeting, G3YJO 00:19:38 IARU Amateur Satellite co-ordination. Hans Blondeel...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 13, 2021 | Daily Updates
The ARISS Operations UK Team have released a 57 minute video of the ARISS event at Mary Hare School for the deaf in Newbury, on Tuesday, October 12, 2021. Radio amateurs in the UK and across Europe were able to receive the signal from the ISS on 145.800 MHz FM. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 11, 2021 | Daily Updates
The AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium will be held as an online Zoom Webinar on Sunday the 24th October 2021. You don’t have to be a member of AMSAT-UK to attend, and the event is free. The Colloquium will run from 10.45 BST to approximately 16.00 BST (0945-1500...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 10, 2021 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-EA is already working on the mission of what will be the first satellite of URE (Spain’s national amateur radio society), URESAT-1. A translation of post by URE says: At the IberRadio Fair, held in September, the possible functionalities that this...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 8, 2021 | Daily Updates
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is the group that puts together special amateur radio contacts between students around the globe and crew members with ham...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 6, 2021 | Daily Updates
UoSAT-OSCAR-9 (UoSAT-1), developed at the University of Surrey by Martin Sweeting G3YJO and his team, was launched into orbit 40 years ago on October 6, 1981. UoSAT-1 was the first modern microsatellite with in-orbit re-programmable computers and its signals were...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 4, 2021 | Daily Updates
At 11:12:33 GMT on Tuesday, October 12, students at Newbury’s Mary Hare School for deaf children will be using amateur radio to talk to astronaut Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Mark will be using the ISS callsign NA1SS and...
