by Peter Goodhall | Oct 11, 2017 | Daily Updates
Thanks to volunteers from the British Amateur Television Club (BATC) the presentations given at the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium will be streamed live to a global audience. This year the Colloquium is taking place as part of the RSGB Convention at the Kents...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 11, 2017 | Daily Updates
On Saturday, October 14 at 1:45pm BST (1245 GMT) AMSAT-DL President Peter Guelzow DB2OS will give a presentation on the Es’hail-2 Geostationary Satellite Amateur Radio Transponders to the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium in Milton Keynes. It is expected...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 3, 2017 | Daily Updates
The ARISS website reports on progress towards flying new amateur radio equipment to the International Space Station. On behalf of the ARISS International team, I am proud to announce that on Friday September 29th the ARISS team submitted the InterOperable Radio System...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 1, 2017 | Daily Updates
Pat Gowen, G3IOR, of Norwich, Norfolk, passed away on August 17, 2017, after a long illness. He was 85. The amateur-satellite world has lost one of its true pioneers. Ray Soifer, W2RS, writes: Pat was a co-founder of AMSAT-UK, and was elected to the board of directors...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 24, 2017 | Daily Updates
The Air Force Academy satellite Falconsat-3 is now open for amateur radio use as a digital store-and-forward system. FalconSAT-3 was built in 2005 and 2006 by cadets and faculty in the Space Systems Research Center at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO,...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 22, 2017 | Daily Updates
The 24th General Conference of IARU Region 1 was held in Landshut near München on September 17-21, 2017. In recognition of his outstanding and ongoing work with Satellite Coordination the IARU Region 1 Medal was awarded to Graham Shirville G3VZV.
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 20, 2017 | Daily Updates
E-members of AMSAT-UK can now download the Autumn/Fall edition of OSCAR News here. This edition features a low cost ground station using a DTV Dongle, SDRSharp and FUNcube Dashboard to capture Telemetry from the FUNcube satellites. The paper edition should be sent to...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 13, 2017 | Daily Updates
The British Amateur Television Club have made available videos of the talks given at the CAT17 event held at the Finningley Amateur Radio Club on September 9-10, 2017. Among the videos are: • Es’hail 2 satellite update by Dave G8GKQ • DigiTwist an experimental...
by Peter Goodhall | Sep 5, 2017 | Daily Updates
The Times of India reports students from Russia and India are building an amateur radio satellite that will transmit SSTV images from space. The 1U CubeSat Iskra-5 is being built by 20 students from Moscow Aviation Institute and 9 from Indian cities like Chennai and...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 27, 2017 | Daily Updates
Noel Matthews G8GTZ and Matthew Cosby talk to broadcast journalist Kate Arkless Gray about making a world record for the longest distance 3.4 GHz amateur radio voice contact with a signal bounced off the Moon. GB6GHY on 3.4 GHz – Hello Moon, this is Goonhilly...
