by Peter Goodhall | Sep 29, 2018 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK will be hosting a Construction Competition at our 2018 Colloquium on October 13/14th at Kents Hill Park, Milton Keynes. The competition is open to all. The rules are simple: 1. Entries must be built from Kits or Home Constructed 2. The judging will take place...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 24, 2018 | Daily Updates
The Hindu newspaper interviews radio amateur Gurudatta Panda VU3GDP about the ExseedSat CubeSat built by an eight-person team at the Hyderabad-based Exseed Space Private Limited that was co-founded by Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE. ExseedSat carries an amateur radio FM...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 5, 2018 | Daily Updates
AMSAT EA will be on air on all available satellites with callsign AM1SAT from Sept 10-17 to celebrate IberRadio 2018 – IV Radiocommunications Fair, the biggest HAM party event in Spain and Portugal, Sept 15-16 Main grid will be IN70 but other ones will be...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 27, 2018 | Daily Updates
Dr Chris Bridges M0IEB will be giving a presentation on FUNcube-4, an amateur radio transponder payload on the ESEO satellite mission, to the combined AMSAT-UK Colloquium / RSGB Convention in Milton Keynes at 1:30 pm on Sunday, October 14. Thanks to the British...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 26, 2018 | Daily Updates
AO73/FUNcube-1 has been in space for almost five years and the original Sun Synchronous Orbit has now changed slightly such that the spacecraft will no longer be in eclipse for 35 mins every orbit. The eclipse period has already reduced and will again become zero on...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 13, 2018 | Daily Updates
The Philippine Diwata-2 satellite carrying an amateur radio FM transponder and APRS digipeater is expected to launch in October. The Business Mirror reports: The 50-kilogram satellite shall soon be sent into orbit by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 8, 2018 | Daily Updates
Four Russian satellites with amateur radio payloads are expected be deployed from the International Space Station on Wednesday, August 15 during a spacewalk (EVA-45) by Sergei Prokopiev and Oleg Artemiev. SiriusSat-1 (SXC1-181) RS13S beacon 435.570 MHz (signal...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 3, 2018 | Daily Updates
Es’hailSat has tweeted their geostationary satellite Es’hail-2 is expected to be launched by SpaceX in the 4th quarter of 2018. Qatar’s Es’hail-2 satellite will provide the first amateur radio geostationary communications and is capable of linking amateurs...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 3, 2018 | Daily Updates
Masa JN1GKZ reports JAXA has announced three BIRDS-2 CubeSats with APRS digipeaters will deploy from the International Space Station at about 0945 GMT on August 10, 2018. BHUTAN-1, MAYA-1 and UiTMSat-1 will transmit 30 minutes after deployment. Initial mode looks CW...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 25, 2018 | Daily Updates
To popularise Ham Radio in western India two events were conducted back to back recently by Rajesh Vagadia VU2EXP Regional Coordinator AMSAT-INDIA. LDRP College Gandhinagar ‘Ham Radio for GenX’ – Full day workshop with demo was conducted at LDRP...
