by Peter Goodhall | Sep 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
The POSTPONEMENT of this contact was announced on September 21 at 19:55 ARISS Contact Tuesday POSTPONEDDue to the one day delay of the Space X launch, berthing day now falls on Tuesday and has resulted in the cancellation of the Winter Gardens Primary School, Canvey...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
The AMSAT symposium committee has confirmed that one of the original Tuskegee Airman, Col. Charles E. McGee, will be attending the conference on Friday, October 10. Col. McGee will give a special presentation at our symposium on his experiences as a Tuskegee Airman...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 19, 2014 | Daily Updates
IARU Region 1 have released edition 6.14 of the free VHF Managers Handbook covering the VHF, UHF and Microwave amateur radio bands. The handbook has chapters on Band Planning, Contests, Propagation Research, Operating Procedures and Satellites. On page 122 it even...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Sunday, September 21 at 0522 UT SpaceX plan to launch a Falcon 9 from Florida carrying the satellite SpinSat with its amateur radio payload to the International Space Station (ISS). UPDATE: Report on the successful launch at...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 17, 2014 | Daily Updates
A new Lithuanian postage stamp features the amateur radio satellites LituanicaSAT-1 and LitSat-1. The two CubeSats were launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on January 9, 2014 and deployed from the ISS on February 28. LituanicaSAT-1 carried a FM...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 17, 2014 | Daily Updates
Dave G4UVJ reports that on September 23 there will be an ARISS contact between students at Winter Gardens Primary School, Canvey, Essex and astronaut Alexander Gerst KF5ONO on the International Space Station (ISS). Just confirming that our ARISS contact has been...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
Issue 207 of the AMSAT-UK amateur radio satellite publication OSCAR News was released on September 11. E-members can download it here. The paper edition is usually posted 2-3 weeks after publication of the electronic issue. In this issue: • Goonhilly Earth Station...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
I’m glad to announce that after more than a year of preparations on Tuesday, September 16, 2014, the team are starting to deploy the electric solar sail tether on-board ESTCube-1. The process of burning the tether end-mass and spool locks and reeling out the...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
The LuxSpace 4M amateur radio payload is expected to fly around the Moon at the end of October and you can upload a message to the 4M website that will be transmitted on 145.980 MHz using JT65B during the flight. There is room for 2500 messages each up to 13...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 9, 2014 | Daily Updates
Ofcom has published a public consultation setting out proposals for updating the terms and conditions of the amateur radio licence – Essex Ham summary here. Ofcom say: These proposals include changes which would provide amateurs with access to some frequency...
