by Peter Goodhall | Jul 10, 2020 | Daily Updates
The European Space Agency (ESA) website has published a proposal by radio amateurs from AMSAT-DL for LunART (Lunar Amateur Radio Transponder): a Communications Platform on the Large European Lander to support communication and payload experiments. Peter Gülzow DB2OS...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 9, 2020 | Daily Updates
Nature carries an article about the spacecraft Longjiang-2 / Lunar-OSCAR 94 (LO-94), built by students at the Harbin Institute of Technology, that carried the first Amateur Radio communication system to operate in lunar orbit. As a part of China’s Chang’e-4 lunar far...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 8, 2020 | Daily Updates
The space agency ESA has released a video ‘How to get pictures from the International Space Station via Amateur Radio’ along with a collection of Tutorial videos explaining how to receive ISS Slow Scan TV (SSTV) pictures for different computers and mobile...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 7, 2020 | Daily Updates
Sasha M6IOR and Sophie M6NYX have made available a Guide for the reception of NOAA satellite images using software defined radio on Windows or MacOS. The guide suggests a few ways to receive an Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) from active National Oceanic and...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 3, 2020 | Daily Updates
E-members of AMSAT-UK can now download the June 2020 edition of OSCAR News, issue 230, here. The paper edition edition will be sent to postal members and should arrive in the next 2-3 weeks. In this issue: • From the Secretary’s Keyboard • Meetings & Events •...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 20, 2020 | Daily Updates
The CAMSAT CAS-6 satellite was launched December 20, 2019. Alan Kung BA1DU reports the V/UHF antenna was deployed on Saturday, June 20, 2020 and the linear transponder activated. Due to some OBC failures, CW beacon and GMSK telemetry are not working properly. At...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 15, 2020 | Daily Updates
The FUNcube Team has announced the availability of FUNcube CubeSat satellite telemetry decoder software for the popular Raspberry Pi computer board. The original FUNcube telemetry decoder and Dashboard was designed to run on Windows devices and the FUNcube team did...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 13, 2020 | Daily Updates
Rohit Bokade VU3OIR has started a petition requesting a change to the Amateur Radio licence in India to permit all grades of licence to use the amateur radio satellites. In India holders of the Restricted grade of licence (VU3 prefix) are not permitted to use amateur...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 10, 2020 | Daily Updates
Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) report 15 CubeSat satellites are being built by students in Canada, all are expected to carry amateur radio payloads. The RAC post says: The Canadian Space Agency has been providing support and guidance to 15 teams of university and...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 9, 2020 | Daily Updates
Tony Hutchison VK5ZAI was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List released June 8, 2020. The citation reads: “For significant service to amateur radio, particularly to satellite and space communication.” For...
