by Peter Goodhall | Aug 16, 2016 | Daily Updates
There’s an impressive line-up of radio amateurs among those giving presentations at the UK High Altitude Society (UKHAS) conference in Cambridge on Saturday, September 10, 2016. Watch Live at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/ioa/streaming YouTube...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 16, 2016 | Daily Updates
Pete Sipple M0PSX from Essex Ham will be giving a talk about the Tim Peake GB1SS amateur radio school contacts at the Southend Raspberry Jam on Saturday, August 20. The talk about Tim Peake’s amateur radio educational outreach activity starts at 10:30. Other...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 15, 2016 | Daily Updates
The Chertsey Radio Club demonstrated that you can receive pictures from Space using simple low-cost equipment such a Baofeng VHF handheld radio and a Lynx-7 Tablet. On Monday, August 15, 2016 radio amateurs from Japan, India and countries as far west as Brazil...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 14, 2016 | Daily Updates
Amateur radio satellite operating featured in episode 12 of the popular TX Factor Show. In this episode Bob McCreadie G0FGX teaches Mike Marsh G1IAR a thing or two about amateur satellite operating. The show highlights the book – Getting Started with Amateur...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 11, 2016 | Daily Updates
The BIRDS-1 constellation consists of five 1U CubeSats (BIRD-B, BIRD-J, BIRD-G, BIRD-M and BIRD-N). They launched to the ISS on a SpaceX Falcon 9 CRS-11 on June 3, 2017. The satellites are made of the exactly same design including the radio frequencies to be used and...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 10, 2016 | Daily Updates
The ARRL reports Slow-scan television (SSTV) transmissions will be made from the International Space Station (ISS) on August 15-16, 2016. The MAI-75 Experiment will transmit SSTV images on 145.800 MHz FM over the course of a few orbits as the space station passes over...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 8, 2016 | Daily Updates
Daniel Cussen EI9FHB describes the equipment needed to receive live video direct from space and his adventure in setting up equipment and helping with video link between the ISS and school students In this video, recorded at the Electromagnetic Field event EMF 2016 in...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 8, 2016 | Daily Updates
The story behind $50SAT, a new approach to amateur satellite design which became the world’s smallest operational satellite, built for £125 in a garden shed. On Saturday, August 6, Stuart Robinson GW7HPW gave a presentation on the amateur radio satellite $50SAT to the...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 7, 2016 | Daily Updates
Dave Rowntree 2E0DVR, drummer in the rock-band Blur, gave a presentation on amateur radio satellites at the Electromagnetic Field event EMF 2016 in Guildford. Talk description: There are about a dozen communications satellites orbiting the earth that were designed and...
by Peter Goodhall | Aug 4, 2016 | Daily Updates
On July 31 at the AMSAT-UK International Space colloquium in Guildford the RSGB Board Chair Steve Hartley G0FUW presented the RSGB Louis Varney Cup for Advances in Space Communications to Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG. The award was in recognition of Wouter’s...
