by Peter Goodhall | Oct 12, 2015 | Daily Updates
The IARU Administrative Council meeting in Bali, Indonesia has stressed the importance of antenna systems for Amateur Radio and agreed in principle to new guidelines for amateur satellite coordination. The Administrative Council (AC) of the International Amateur Radio...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 10, 2015 | Daily Updates
The after-dinner speaker at the RSGB Convention Saturday night Gala dinner was Howard Long, G6LVB, who spoke about the trials and tribulations involved in developing the ground station segment of the FUNcube satellite project which became the successful FUNcube Dongle...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 9, 2015 | Daily Updates
On behalf of all members of AMSAT-UK I send our congratulations the AMSAT team in the USA for all their hard work in recent years on FOX-1A which having been successfully launched, and from which telemetry signals have been successfully received and decoded on earth,...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 9, 2015 | Daily Updates
The 435 to 145 MHz FM voice transponder on AO-85 was activated during Friday, October 9 allowing many contacts to be made. Among those active on the satellite was 9-year-old Hope KM4IPF. Hope is the daughter of Michelle N8ZQZ and James WX4TV, other radio amateurs in...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 9, 2015 | Daily Updates
Willian (Bill) Tynan, W3XO, AMSAT-NA OSCAR Number Administrator has issued the following release: I have been informed of the successful launch today, October 8, 2015 of the AMSAT-NA-built Fox-1A CubeSat. I am also informed that the satellite has been heard by several...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 7, 2015 | Daily Updates
The amateur radio FM transponder CubeSat, AMSAT Fox-1A, was among 13 CubeSats flying as secondary payloads on the NROL-55 mission. The launch took place at 12:49:30 UT on Thursday, October 8 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 7, 2015 | Daily Updates
Radio amateurs Jerry Buxton, N0JY and Courtney Duncan, N5BF were on the panel at a NASA prelaunch briefing on Wednesday, October 7. Participants in the news briefing discussed several of the specific CubeSats aboard the National Reconnaissance Office’s NRO-L55...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 7, 2015 | Daily Updates
LQSat was launched into a 656 km sun synchronous orbit at 0413 UT on Wednesday, October 7 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC) in Inner Mongolia on a Chang Zheng 2D (CZ-2D) rocket. The satellite was developed by researchers and students at the Changchun...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 5, 2015 | Daily Updates
Thanks to the efforts of Joe KM1P and Peter 2E0SQL, and with the permission of David KD5QGR, we have set up a copy of the OSCAR satellite status page. This page will be maintained by multiple volunteers, including myself, and we will be able to add and delete...
by Peter Goodhall | Oct 2, 2015 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-NA VP-Engineering Jerry Buxton, N0JY will be on the panel at a NASA prelaunch briefing on Wednesday, October 7 at 1800 UT. The briefing will be shown live on NASA TV. The amateur radio FM transponder CubeSat, AMSAT Fox-1A, will be among 13 CubeSats flying as...
