by Peter Goodhall | Mar 16, 2020 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-Brazil is organizing a reverse beacon FT8 QRPp experiment/contest via the QO-100 geostationary amateur radio transponder. The first 10 spotted stations with lower SNR will receive a Certificate of Accomplishment.The dead line will be May 1st 2020. To qualify,...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 2, 2020 | Daily Updates
Somaiya Space Conclave 2020 was organised by KJ Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology – Mumbai, India on Friday, February 28, 2020. Rajesh Vagadia VU2EXP reports: It was a full day event covering topics related to Students Satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 1, 2020 | Daily Updates
DARC reports on a Practical Seminar about the amateur radio QO-100 geostationary satellite transponders. Part of seminar fees goes to the “School stations on QO-100” project. A translation of the DARC post reads: Top-class seminar in the DARC office in...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 1, 2020 | Daily Updates
Radio amateurs built Quadrifilar Helicoidal (QFH) satellite antennas at a workshop in Indonesia organised by a local branch of the national amateur radio society ORARI. A translation of the ORARI website report reads: On Saturday, February 22, 2020, South Jakarta...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 24, 2020 | Daily Updates
Ofcom is holding a public consultation on proposed measures to require all those with transmitting equipment capable of generating more than 10 watts EIRP to demonstrate compliance with international guidelines for limiting exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF). An...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 23, 2020 | Daily Updates
AMSAT has filed comments on the Federal Communications Commission’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking which proposes to delete the 3.3 – 3.5 GHz (9 cm) amateur band, including the 3.40 – 3.41 GHz amateur satellite service allocation. In the comments,...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 16, 2020 | Daily Updates
Sarah Rogers KI7OOY reports that following the successful launch of NG-13 on Feb 15, the upcoming CubeSat deployment from the ISS is now scheduled for Wednesday, February 19. This deployment times and frequencies for the CubeSats being deployed on this date are listed...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 16, 2020 | Daily Updates
Rajesh Vagadia VU2EXP is well-known as the West India Zone Regional Coordinator for AMSAT-INDIA. Over the years he has done a great of educational outreach explaining and demonstrating amateur satellite communications to school and college students. In December 2019...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 14, 2020 | Daily Updates
CEPT ECC has released its news summary for January 2020 that includes the SE40 Rome meeting on January 14-16 which discussed compatibility between RNSS and Amateur Services in 1240-1300 MHz. The coexistence between the Radio Navigation Satellite Service (RNSS) and the...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 11, 2020 | Daily Updates
Several CubeSats are expected to be deployed from the International Space Station into orbit next week, among them are QARMAN and Phoenix. Amandine Denis ON4EYA of the QARMAN project reports that due to the delays in Cygnus launch, deployments are postponed most...
