by Peter Goodhall | Jul 27, 2023 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK is pleased to announce that the 2023 Colloquium will take place alongside the RSGB Convention at Kents Hill Park Conference Centre, Milton Keynes on the weekend of 14/15th October 2023. Full details of the Colloquium will be made available nearer the time on...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 19, 2023 | Daily Updates
EO-88, with its 70cm to 2m linear transponder, having spent a trouble free 6 years and 5 months in space, finally re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and burned up on Tuesday, 18th July. Having originally been launched into a 500km orbit, EO-88 has reduced in...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 19, 2023 | Daily Updates
As you may be aware, Solar Cycle 25 has already shown that we cannot yet predict what the sun will be doing with any great accuracy. Sunspots, X-class solar flares and CMEs (coronal mass ejections) are increasing in frequency and intensity on a daily basis. The peak...
by Peter Goodhall | Jun 1, 2023 | Daily Updates
E-members of AMSAT-UK can now download the Summer 2023 edition of OSCAR News, issue 241, here. The paper edition edition will be sent to postal members and should arrive in the next 2-3 weeks. In this issue: • From the Secretary’s Keyboard • Satellite News • “St...
by Peter Goodhall | May 16, 2023 | Daily Updates
DX-Adventure is proud to announce a partnership with the United Nations Amateur Radio Contest DX Club (ARCDXC). During 18 | 19 | May 20th we have the scoop to make the very first QO-100 connections from the United Nations – Vienna International Center. On the...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 23, 2023 | Daily Updates
ITU-R WRC-23 Agenda Item 9.1b: Measures to be applied in the frequency band 1240-1300 MHz to ensure the protection of the radionavigation-satellite service (RNSS) in accordance with Resolution-774. This presentation on 23cm Amateur/RNSS Coexistence was given by the...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 19, 2023 | Daily Updates
Austria has become the latest country to impose restrictions on Amateur Radio operation in the 23 cm band (1240-1300 MHz) to protect to protect ground-based receivers for the Galileo RNSS satellite constellation. Austria’s national amateur radio society ÖVSV...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 10, 2023 | Daily Updates
To celebrate National Science Day of India on February 28 one of the biggest Science Carnival 2023 was organised by Gujarat state – India at prestigious Science City Ahmedabad during 28th February to 4th March 2023. AMSAT-INDIA was specially invited to...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 9, 2023 | Daily Updates
An ARISS contact between students at Stella Maris College, Gzira, Malta, callsign 9H1MRL and the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled for 12:34 GMT on Wednesday, February 15. Update March 26: Report on the contact in the Times of Malta newspaper...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 23, 2022 | Daily Updates
On December 18, 2022, CAMSAT’s satellite XW-4 (CAS-10) was deployed from the Tianzhou-5 cargo ship that was docked to the Tiangong space station. CAS-10 carries a linear amateur radio transponder. The satellite user manual can be downloaded here: CAMSAT XW-4 (CAS-10)...
