by Peter Goodhall | May 24, 2014 | Daily Updates
The key Ofcom public consultation to give radio amateurs temporary access to 146 to 147 MHz closes at the end of Monday, May 26. You can let Ofcom know your view on this by filling in the simple online question form at...
by Peter Goodhall | May 23, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Surrey Electronics and Amateur Radio Society (EARS) 434 MHz balloon flight was the top news story on the front page of the Surrey Advertiser newspaper. On Sunday, May 4, the Surrey EARS team launched a High Altitude Balloon from Cambridgeshire carrying University...
by Peter Goodhall | May 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
The IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel has announced frequencies for the Shin’en2 linear transponder. Shin’en2 is a 17 kg satellite measuring 490×490×475 mm built by students at Kagoshima University in Japan which will carry a 145 to 435...
by Peter Goodhall | May 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
An IEEE article describes how volunteers, including many radio amateurs, are attempting command a 35-year-old NASA spacecraft, the International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3). Rachel Courtland interviews Dennis Wingo KD4ETA about the project and mentions the Bochum...
by Peter Goodhall | May 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
SPROUT, a 20 x 20 x 22 cm amateur radio nano-satellite with a mass of 7.1 kg, launched successfully with the L-band (1236.5 MHz/1257.5 MHz/1278.5 MHz) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite ALOS-2 on May 24, 2014 at 0305 UT. SPROUT is now in a 654 km, 97.9 degree...
by Peter Goodhall | May 21, 2014 | Daily Updates
Steve Hedgecock M0SHQ took along some rigs, antennas and software to the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society (CARS) Skills Workshop held in Danbury, Essex on May 19. He explained how to get started in listening to satellites, track them, and have contacts through them....
by Peter Goodhall | May 20, 2014 | Daily Updates
The CubeSat UKube-1 will be launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on a Russian Soyuz-2-1b Fregat-M rocket which has Meteor-M 2 as the primary payload. The new planned launch date for UKube-1 is July 8, 2014 with separation +9253 s Greenwich inertial (-1859.49,...
by Peter Goodhall | May 19, 2014 | Daily Updates
The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) inexplicably applies to amateur radio satellites. It threatens US radio hams with jail terms or six figure fines if they cooperate with amateurs outside the USA on satellite projects. Cooperation includes talking...
by Peter Goodhall | May 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
The ARRL report representatives of the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) International partners met in person last month for the first time in 2-1/2 years to reassess the program’s direction and to consider new objectives. The European Space...
by Peter Goodhall | May 18, 2014 | Daily Updates
Radio amateurs Jerry Sandys G8DXZ, Andrew Ashe G8SRV and Michael Johnson M0MJJ appeared in the May 17 edition of the BBC TV technology show Click which is now available on the web. (Overseas viewers may need to use a UK based proxy server) Jerry Sandys G8DXZ along...
