by Peter Goodhall | Nov 18, 2019 | Daily Updates
The IARU has issued its report on Week 3 of the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from October 28 to November 22, 2019. With just 3-1/2 days left for substantive work – the final session of the Plenary to approve texts to be...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 17, 2019 | Daily Updates
The second week of the World Radiocommunication Conference reports on the status of two issues affecting the amateur satellite service. In a report written by Dave Sumner, K1ZZ, first is an agenda item currently under review during this WRC-19 session; second is...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 14, 2019 | Daily Updates
On October 7, 8 and 9, 2019, the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and CubeSat NB hosted the first of three Preliminary Design Review (PDR) meetings for the Canadian CubeSat Project initiated by the Canadian Space...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 10, 2019 | Daily Updates
The RSGB have released a report on days 9 and 10 of the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from October 28 to November 22, 2019. The report covers Satellites, HF (7 MHz), a proposed 50 MHz band for the Amateur Service only...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 5, 2019 | Daily Updates
The RSGB have posted an update on activities at the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference during Tuesday, November 5. A somewhat difficult start to the day’s proceedings began with another AI-10 Proposal being introduced for WRC-23 – protecting RNSS (Galileo etc)...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 4, 2019 | Daily Updates
The 3rd PocketQube Satellite Workshop, hosted by Alba Orbital, was held September 5-6, 2019, in Glasgow. Talks given at the event are now available on YouTube. Among the presenters were: • Stuart Robinson GW7HPW, $50SAT Team • Julian Fernandez EA4HCD, Fossasat-1 • Zac...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 1, 2019 | Daily Updates
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, November 1, 2019 – Week 1 of the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference saw agreement reached on several issues on which discussions prior to the conference had revealed consensus. Those were the easy ones; the rest will be more difficult....
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 21, 2019 | Daily Updates
Videos of the presentations given at the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium, which was held as part of the RSGB Convention in Milton Keynes, October 12-13, 2019, are being made available on YouTube. A recent release is the talk on the geostationary satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 21, 2019 | Daily Updates
NASA highlight the role of amateur radio in letting young people speak directly with astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station: An ARISS contact takes place as a part of a comprehensive suite of education activities. To prepare for an exchange,...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 19, 2019 | Daily Updates
Brazilian radio amateurs participated in a Science Fair at Gonçalves Dias School, Boa Vista on October 16, 2019. Paulo PV8DX used basic concepts of physics and geography when explaining amateur radio to the students. As well as theory they there were also practicals...
