by Peter Goodhall | Dec 27, 2019 | Daily Updates
Chris PA2CHR has released a video of the A21EME eight band Moonbounce and QO-100 satellite DXpedition to Botswana in October 2019. Watch A21EME EME DXpedition to Botswana, October 2019 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVrPtuB_nbU] The A21EME Story...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 24, 2019 | Daily Updates
Russian cosmonauts are expected to activate Slow Scan Television (SSTV) image transmissions on 145.800 MHz FM from the International Space Station from Saturday, December 28 to Wednesday, January 1. ARISS will be supporting SSTV transmissions worldwide in memory of...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 20, 2019 | Daily Updates
Iceland’s national amateur radio society, the IRA, reports Elín Sigurðardóttir TF2EQ, launched TF3YOTA from TF3IRA’s radio room in Skeljanes on December 19. First at 14 MHz and when the conditions disappeared it switched to the IRA’s satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 19, 2019 | Daily Updates
CAMST’s amateur radio payload CAS-6 piggybacked on a technology test satellite TIANQIN-1 launched at 03:21 UTC on December 20, 2019 at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center of China using a CZ-4B launch vehicle. Update December 20: Alan BA1DU reported:...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 13, 2019 | Daily Updates
ESA is challenging anyone with amateur radio equipment to catch the first signals from OPS-SAT, ESA’s brand new space software laboratory. On December 17, the 3U CubeSat OPS-SAT will be launched into low-Earth orbit on a Soyuz rocket from Kourou in South America,...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 6, 2019 | Daily Updates
Rajesh Vagadia VU2EXP reports a Special Hands on Workshop of Applied Physics was organised at well-known School of Science – RK University, Rajkot (Gujarat), India It was 5 day event from 2nd Dec to 6th Dec 2019. 50 final year B.Sc Physics Students from various...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 2, 2019 | Daily Updates
Russian cosmonauts are expected to activate Slow Scan Television (SSTV) image transmissions on 145.800 MHz FM from the International Space Station on Wednesday to Friday, December 4, 5 and 6. This is the schedule for the planned activation of the MAI-75 SSTV activity...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 24, 2019 | Daily Updates
An FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposes to remove the existing non-federal allocations in the 3.3-3.55 GHz band. The FCC say: By taking the initial step needed to clear the band of allocations for non-federal incumbents, the Commission furthers its...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 22, 2019 | Daily Updates
In the final week the meetings at WRC-19 have been running until 3am in the morning in an attempt to get the work completed. The RSGB have released their WRC-19 report covering small satellites and also the Amateur 1240-1300 MHz band. The report notes “A lesson...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 21, 2019 | Daily Updates
November 21st 2019, marked the sixth birthday of our very first CubeSat mission, FUNcube-1. A very short time after the launch from Yasny in Russia and within a few minutes from deployment, the very first frame of data from the low power transmitter on board, was...
