by Peter Goodhall | Apr 22, 2019 | Daily Updates
The April 2019 issue of the free DKARS magazine features an article in English – Simple dual band dish feed for Es’hail-2 / QO-100 by Mike Willis G0MJW, Remco den Besten PA3FYM and Paul Marsh M0EYT. Their article, on pages 18-23, describes an easy to build...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 18, 2019 | Daily Updates
The May edition of HackSpace magazine, issue 18, featuring articles by radio amateur Jo Hinchliffe MW6CYK is available as a free PDF. On pages 34-47 is his special feature on Space, which explains how you can build a SatNOGS satellite ground station to receive amateur...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 18, 2019 | Daily Updates
Dave G4DPZ reports on a change to the URL used by the AMSAT-UK Data Warehouse for the FUNcube amateur radio satellites. As part of the migration of the data warehouse to the new server, we are now redirecting all dashboard data submissions to:...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 14, 2019 | Daily Updates
The International Space Station SSTV transmissions were received during rehearsals for the Music is Magic in Space performance that will take place at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday, April 15. Russian cosmonauts on the ISS transmitted amateur radio SSTV on 145.800...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 14, 2019 | Daily Updates
50 students in Rajkot, India enjoyed a live demonstration of Slow Scan Television (SSTV) from the International Space Station during a visible pass of the ISS. Russian cosmonauts on the ISS transmitted amateur radio SSTV on 145.800 MHz FM from April 11-14. AMSAT-INDIA...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 12, 2019 | Daily Updates
The IARU Satellite Coordination Panel has announced the amateur radio frequencies for the Australian 76 GHz CubeSat CUAVA-1 that is expected to launch in July 2019. CUAVA-1 is a 3U CubeSat and the first CubeSat project of the new ARC Training Centre for CubeSats,...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 7, 2019 | Daily Updates
ARISS Russia is planning Slow Scan Television (SSTV) image transmissions on 145.800 MHz FM from the International Space Station. UPDATE April 12: Transmissions on Thursday and Friday, April 11/12 had very low audio. Dmitry R4UAB reports the ISS cosmonauts plan to try...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 7, 2019 | Daily Updates
Spain’s national amateur radio society URE reports the regulator has agreed to allow amateur use of 2400.050 to 2409.500 MHz to access the E’hail-2 / QO-100 geostationary satellite. A Google translation of the URE announcement reads: Since the State of...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 5, 2019 | Daily Updates
AMSAT believes several of FCC’s proposed rule changes concerning orbital debris would have an extremely detrimental affect on the amateur satellite service. The AMSAT News Service Reports: The Federal Communications Commission has proposed several rules changes...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 30, 2019 | Daily Updates
An APRS payload from AMSAT INDIA will be flown on the PSLV-C45 mission expected to launch on April 1, 2019 at 03:57 GMT. On the AMSAT Bulletin Board Nitin VU3TYG writes: The payload will be powered on approximately over Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Poland and...
