by Peter Goodhall | Oct 7, 2014 | Daily Updates
The IARU Region 1 Roy Stevens, G2BVN, Memorial Trophy was awarded to Gaston Bertels, ON4WF, for his meritorious service to amateur radio over many years. Gaston was the chairman of the Eurocom Working Group and then the chairman of the ARSPEX Working Group. Gaston,...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
The 6th European CubeSat Symposium will take place from October 14-16, 2014 at Estavayer-le-Lac in Switzerland. The Symposium has attracted more than 100 abstracts submitted from 31 different countries. Von Karman Institute and Swiss Space Systems are proud to support...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 4, 2014 | Daily Updates
The B-64 balloon launched at 06:51 GMT on July 12, 2014 from Silverstone is still in the air flying at just over 12,000 metres and transmitting on 434.500 MHz Contestia 64/1000 and also APRS. On Saturday, October 3 Phil Heron MI0VIM reported decoding data while it was...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 4, 2014 | Daily Updates
Ghislain Ruy LX2RG reports the 4M Lunar flyby amateur radio payload was shipped on Thursday, October 2 and he departs for the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Sunday, October 5. He says the lifetime of 4M is quite an unknown: it may be as short as 100 hours (so at...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 2, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Wednesday, October 8 at 10:08:49 UT there will be an ARISS contact between astronaut Alexander Gerst KF5ONO on the International Space Station (ISS) and students at the Winter Gardens Primary School, Canvey, Essex and Pilton Bluecoat School, Barnstaple, Devon. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 30, 2014 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur and astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti IZ0UDF has put the final touches to the official crew poster for the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 42. It is now available to download. The poster parodies the popular The Hitchhiker’s Guide to...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 30, 2014 | Daily Updates
Benjamin Longmier KF5KMP and his team are looking for stations in the Azores and Portugal to help track their balloons. On the UK High Altitude Society (UKHAS) group he writes: My team (Project Aether) launched a balloon recently that did a lap around the Midwest in...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 29, 2014 | Daily Updates
On October 11-2 the Monkton Nature Reserve & Thanet Observatory will be listening to the amateur radio satellite FUNcube-1 and will have an ARDF activity. On the BIS World Space Week pages they say: Daytime – we will have solar telescopes to observe the...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 29, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Administrative Council (AC) of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) held its annual meeting on September 27-28, 2014 in Albena, Bulgaria. The AC is responsible for the policy and management of the IARU and consists of the three IARU international officers...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 28, 2014 | Daily Updates
Paul Stoetzer N8HM reports the first AO-73 (FUNcube-1) 73 on 73 Award has been issued to Wyatt Dirks AC0RA. The award aims to promote activity on AO-73 satellite. The requirements are straight-forward: 1. Work 73 unique stations on AO-73. 2. Contacts must be made on...
