by Peter Goodhall | Oct 2, 2021 | Daily Updates
It is expected four CubeSats carrying amateur radio payloads will be deployed on the morning of Wednesday, October 6. You can watch live at these URL’s: #1 0855-0945 GMT Binar-1, Maya-3, Maya-4 #2 1035-1105 GMT CUAVA-1 On the AMSAT Bulletin Board Masa JN1GKZ...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 28, 2021 | Daily Updates
Yasutaka Narusawa JR2XEA of the Komaki Amateur SATCOM Club reports the satellite Z-Sat is now planned to launch on an Epsilon rocket at 00:51:21-00:55:16 GMT on Thursday, October 7. It will be sending CW on 145.875 MHz. On the AMSAT Bulletin Board Yasutaka JR2XEA...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 23, 2021 | Daily Updates
Ian GM3SEK is giving an online talk on the application of the RSGB-Ofcom Calculator to Microwaves and QO-100 satellite operation on Saturday, October 16, at 1230 GMT (1:30pm BST) John G3XDY, Secretary UK Microwave Group, writes: As I expect you are aware, UK stations...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 15, 2021 | Daily Updates
After a few months of normal eclipse periods, FUNcube-1 (AO73) will, next week, re-enter full sunlight from next week for a period of approximately two months. As we have been in continuous transponder mode for some time now, we have decided that, during this sunlight...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 1, 2021 | Daily Updates
After a year waiting, finally this Friday, September 3, at 01:00 UTC the digital GENESIS satellites are expected to launch from Vanderberg AFB aboard Firefly’s Alpha rocket in its maiden flight. Update Sept 3. 2021: A flight anomaly resulted in the loss of the...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 21, 2021 | Daily Updates
Spain’s national amateur radio society, the URE, report two AMSAT-EA GENESIS satellites are expected to be launched on September 2, 2021. A translation of the URE post reads: The GENESIS-L and GENESIS-N satellites, designed and built by AMSAT-EA in collaboration...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 18, 2021 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-DL reports the antenna used by DP0GVN in Antarctica for the QO-100 geostationary satellite amateur radio transponder is completely destroyed. According to the Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI), a severe winter storm hit Atka Bay (Antarctica) at the end of last...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 15, 2021 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-SM have published a guide to using the popular digital mode FT4 via the amateur radio satellites using SDR-Console software, a SDR receiver and the Icom IC-705 as the transmitter. We have also had information from Jef ON8NT of the setup that he and Thierry...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 27, 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 | Jul 21, 2021 | Daily Updates
The Chair of IARU Region 1 Spectrum Affairs, Barry Lewis G4SJH, reports on the meeting of the ITU-R Working Party 4C (WP4C) July 5-13 which discussed the amateur radio 1240 MHz band. On the IARU-R1 site he writes: During the period 5 – 13 July 2021, the preparatory...
