by Peter Goodhall | Aug 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
Ofcom staff will be among those giving presentations at the RSGB Convention which takes place October 10-12.The Ofcom public consultation on Amateur Radio has been eagerly awaited for many months now and will hopefully have been released before the Convention.The...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Leo Bodnar M0XER launched his solar powered balloon B-64, carrying an 11 gram transmitter payload, from Silverstone in the UK at 06:51 UT on July 12, 2014 and it’s still flying.It completed its first circumnavigation of the Northern Hemisphere at...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 20, 2014 | Daily Updates
The annual UK High Altitude Society (UKHAS) conference was held on Saturday, August 16, 2014 at the University of Greenwich in London. It attracted those interested in learning about building and flying High Altitude Balloons or in tracking their 434 MHz signals.There...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
Paul Stoetzer N8HM has announced a new award for contacts made via the AO-73 (FUNcube-1) amateur radio satelliteI am pleased to announce that I will be sponsoring a new award to promote activity on AO-73 (FUNcube-1). The requirements for this award are simple:1. Work...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 15, 2014 | Daily Updates, Uncategorized
On August 18, 2014 at 14:00 UT the Russia Cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS), Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev, opened the hatches of the Pirs docking module and to start Extra Vehicular Activities (EVA).One of their tasks was the deployment of...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Southampton University Wireless Society SUWS VHF/UHF/Microwave WebSDR has now moved to its new site in Farnham.You can use the free online SUWS Web Software Defined Radio (WebSDR) from your PC or Laptop to receive the International Space Station (ISS) and the many...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 14, 2014 | Daily Updates
The UKHAS conference on Saturday will be streamed live and the radio amateurs giving the presentations will if time permits take questions via the web.The annual UK High Altitude Society (UKHAS) conference at the University of Greenwich in London attracts those...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 14, 2014 | Daily Updates
According to an ITAR-TASS report the launch of a Russian-Ukrainian conversion rocket Dnepr (RS-20) with Japanese satellites, should take place in early October from the Orenburg region, southern Urals.On Wednesday, August 13, when asked by ITAR-TASS whether the plans...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 13, 2014 | Daily Updates
A paper to be discussed at the IARU Region 1 Conference in Varna-Albena, Bulgaria, September 21-27, 2014 highlights the threat to continued amateur radio usage of our 23 cm allocation which is now being used by the Galileo GPS system. The amateur 23 cm allocation...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 12, 2014 | Daily Updates
Volume 2 issue 1 of the free BAA-RAG radio astronomy publication RAGazine is now available for download. In this edition: – VLF quarterly observing report – Simple equipment for SID observations – Intro. to radio objects that can be detected by the...
