by Peter Goodhall | Aug 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
Towards the end of the year radio amateurs will have the opportunity to receive what must be the ultimate DX from a ham radio payload transmitting the data mode JT65B as it flies around the Moon. Beijing plans to send a lunar orbiter around the Moon carrying a 14 kg...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
Founded in 1975 AMSAT-UK is a voluntary organisation that supports the design and building of equipment for amateur radio satellites. AMSAT-UK initially produced a short bulletin called OSCAR News to give members advice on amateur satellite communications. Since those...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
A test of the D-STAR Parrot Repeater on the TabletSat-Aurora satellite is expected to take place during Monday, August 11 on 437.050 MHz (+/- 10 kHz Doppler shift). TabletSat-Aurora launched with 11 other satellites carrying amateur radio payloads from Dombarovsky...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 7, 2014 | Daily Updates
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 amateur radio satellites transmitting in the 145.800 – 146.000 MHz band. Martin Ehrenfried G8JNJ has...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 6, 2014 | Daily Updates
Many stations, who have their FUNcube Dongle Software Defined Radio (SDR) setup to automatically receive telemetry signals from FUNcube-1, will have noticed that they are now also seeing the telemetry from the FUNcube-2 sub-system which is flying on-board the UKube-1...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
AMSAT have announced that they are using the FundRazr crowdfunding platform to raise donations for the Fox-1C CubeSat. AMSAT is excited to announce a launch opportunity for the Fox-1C Cubesat. AMSAT has teamed with Spaceflight Inc. for integration and launch utilizing...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
Make sure you book for this years International UKHAS conference at the University of Greenwich in London on Saturday, August 16. There is an impressive line up of presentations by radio amateurs.The UK High Altitude Society (UKHAS) conference attracts those...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
There will be an amateur radio village and special event station GB2EMF at the Electromagnetic Field EMF 2014 event taking place August 29-31 at Bletchley near Milton Keynes. EMF 2014 is a festival for anyone interested in radio, electronics, space, homebrewing,...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
NASA is opening the next round of its CubeSat Launch Initiative, part of the White House Maker Initiative, in an effort to engage the growing community of space enthusiasts that can contribute to NASA’s space exploration goals. The CubeSat Launch Initiative...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 5, 2014 | Daily Updates
Pedro Converso LU7ABF reports that AMSAT-LU have developed an online satellite prediction page which quickly provides on a single screen most data required for the amateur radio satellites and includes active maps and graphics. The predictor allows selection of...
