by Peter Goodhall | Jun 24, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Tuesday, July 1, Chris Stubbs M6EDF will be giving a talk on 434 MHz high altitude balloons to the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society (CARS). Weather permitting it is hoped to be able to do a balloon launch (434.300 MHz FSK). The meeting is open to all. Chris took...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
In the BBC TV show Newsnight broadcast June 17, 2014 Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock reports on the space program in the Isle of Man. The space segment start 39:25 into the show which can be seen at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b047bxqg/newsnight-17062014 Note...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 19, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 19:11:11 UT a Dnepr rocket was launched from Dombarovsky near Yasny in the Russian Federation, 12 of the satellites on-board carried amateur radio payloads. In total 33 satellites were deployed from the Dnepr on June 19. One of those...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
The D-STAR satellite TabletSat-Aurora is expected to launch with 11 other satellites carrying amateur radio payloads from Dombarovsky near Yasny on Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 19:11:11 UT. It carries a D-STAR Parrot (Store and Forward) Repeater running 0.8 watts of...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 17, 2014 | Daily Updates
QST Editor and ARRL Publications Manager Steve Ford, WB8IMY will give a presentation to the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium at the Holiday Inn in Guildford on Saturday, July 26. Steve will be traveling to the UK to talk about the satellite operations at the...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube team anticipate that the Dnepr launch of the amateur radio FUNcube-3 payload on the QB50p1 CubeSat will take place as previously stated. This Thursday is the day! To be precise, lift off is expected to take place from Yasny on June 19, 2014 at 19:11:11 UT...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 13, 2014 | Daily Updates
E-members of AMSAT-UK can now download the Summer edition of OSCAR News here. In this issue is a picture of Brent Salmi KB1LQD and Bryce Salmi KB1LQC at the National Radio Centre in Bletchley Park where they met up with AMSAT-UK’s Graham Shirville G3VZV. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
Special event station GB1JSS will be active on the amateur radio satellites during the Summer Solstice on Saturday, June 21, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The event is open to all radio amateurs and listeners. On that day the sun will rise at...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
On Monday, June 9, more than 350 of the UK’s most successful and most promising technologists were invited to Buckingham Palace by the Queen and the Duke of York for Tech at the Palace. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was shown the Raspberry Pi High Altitude...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-NA has announced that the amateur radio satellite LituanicaSAT-1 has been awarded the designation OSCAR-78, or LO-78. In a message to the LituanicaSAT-1 team, AMSAT-NA OSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan, W3XO announced: “LituanicaSAT-1 has met all of...
