by Peter Goodhall | Apr 26, 2017 | Daily Updates
The bulk of this episode is an on-location interview with two Raleigh NC area hams who gave a couple of live demonstrations of operating through satellites at the Raleigh Hamfest, April 15, 2017. There’s some banter between hosts David Goldenberg W0DHG and Gary...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 24, 2017 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK are providing an amateur radio 1260/145 MHz FM transponder and a 145 MHz BPSK telemetry beacon for the European Student Earth Orbiter (ESEO) satellite. Over the weekend of April 22-23, 2017, AMSAT-UK members met at the Surrey Space Centre to conduct some...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 23, 2017 | Daily Updates
Members of the Camb-Hams will once again be active on the amateur radio satellites as GS3PYE/P, but this time from Islay Island between May 6-12. The Camb-Hams have been activating the Scottish Isles each year since 2008. As in the past, ten or more operators will be...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 21, 2017 | Daily Updates
Despite the Bank Holiday Essex Skills Night attracted 55 people to the Danbury Village Hall on April 17, 2017. The busy evening consisted of a wide range of activities, among them was 10 GHz SSB by Graham G8HAJ. He demonstrated how you can start with a simple low-cost...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 21, 2017 | Daily Updates
Over 80 Israeli high school students have built a CubeSat called Duchifat-2 as part of the QB50 Thermosphere research program. Duchifat-2 is one of 28 QB50 CubeSats from 23 countries launched on April 18, 2017 to the International Space Station (ISS) from where they...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 21, 2017 | Daily Updates
In March Stuart McAndrew gave a presentation on OzQube-1 a tiny PocketQube satellite which aims to transmit images of the Earth from space. OzQube-1 will be just 5x5x5 cm (1P) in size and the aim is to keep the hardware costs down to under $1,000. The satellite...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 15, 2017 | Daily Updates
Two South African built satellites are about to be launched to the International Space Station as part of the QB50 project. SARL News reports: The South African satellite industry is taking another step forward as a player in the international space arena with the...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 15, 2017 | Daily Updates
ARISS is pleased to announce that Packet Radio from the International Space Station is back on 145.825 MHz FM. A few months back, the ARISS Team did the foot work and paperwork to launch the final copy of the Ericsson VHF handheld radio to the ISS. This work was...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 13, 2017 | Daily Updates
The RSGB has published its response to the Ofcom statement on increasing the amount of the 5 GHz band that can be used for WiFi. The Amateur Satellite Service has a Space-to-Earth allocation at 5830-5850 MHz. Annex 6 of the Ofcom 5 GHz statement says regarding Fixed...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 3, 2017 | Daily Updates
On Saturday, April 8 at 08:00 GMT, weather permitting, Amsat Argentina plans to launch the amateur radio HF WSPR Leila PicoBalloon from the East Argentina coast. This 24 gram PicoBalloon, with micro Atmel328, of long duration (circumnavigator) would flight around...
