by Peter Goodhall | Oct 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
Radio amateurs Chris M6EDF and Steve G0TDJ will each be launching 434 MHz balloons from Essex for Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) this weekend. The balloons should be launched from Kingston Ridge Campsite in Essex on the Saturday and Sunday, Lat/Lon: 51.559144, 0.435010...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has announced an opportunity to fly payloads on the 3U CubeSat AlSat-1N. AlSat-Nano is primarily an education programme, its top level objective is to teach Algerian students how to design, build and operate a 3U CubeSat. The programme...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
Geert Jan de Groot PE1HZG reports that radio amateurs will be using the PI9CAM Dwingeloo 25 meter dish during Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) this weekend. On the AMSAT-BB he writes: In the Netherlands, the CAMRAS foundation took over the large radio telescope of...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
The integration of the LX0OHB-4M amateur radio payload was completed on Sunday night, October 12 and is now ready to launch. The onboard clock has been adjusted to start JT65B (145.980 MHz) at the UTC minute +/-1 second. It is likely to drift during the mission, and...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK have uploaded a special Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) Greetings Fitter Message to the amateur satellite AO-73 (FUNcube-1). Scouts and others can receive the message by downloading the Dashboard App software and listening to the beacon on 145.935 MHz (+/-...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 14, 2014 | Daily Updates
From the early planning stage of the project we decided that we would make telemetry information from the AO-73 (FUNcube-1) CubeSat available to end users. Since deployment the FUNcube Data Warehouse has displayed the latest data: • Reatime • Whole Orbit • High...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 13, 2014 | Daily Updates
The RSGB VHF Manager John Regnault G4SWX gave a key presentation to the RSGB Convention on October 12 about the new amateur radio allocation at 146 MHz. John said the future use of this band is very much in our hands. If we merely use it for more-of-the-same...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 13, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Radio Society of Great Britain General Manager, Graham Coomber G0NBI, has issued this statement on the Ofcom amateur radio licence review. We held our regular meeting with Ofcom last Thursday and, as you will know, Ofcom attended the Convention at the weekend....
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 13, 2014 | Daily Updates
The November issue of Practical Wireless (PW) magazine, in the shops now, devotes three pages to the 4M amateur radio lunar payload which will transmit JT65B on 145.980 MHz. Beijing plan to launch the payload on October 23. The article, written by Colin Redwood G6MXL,...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 12, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Southend Echo reports on the contact between pupils at Winter Gardens Primary School in Canvey, Essex and the International Space Station. The contact took place on October 8 having taken two years of preparation. It was organised by the South Essex Amateur Radio...
