by Peter Goodhall | Apr 20, 2015 | Daily Updates
The 2015 CubeSat Workshop took place on Wednesday, April 1 at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Videos of the presentations are now available on YouTube. Among the presenters were representatives of two UK space companies, Tom Walkinshaw of Alba Orbital and...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 18, 2015 | Daily Updates
Anatoly Zak reports on the maneuvers of Cosmos-2504 whose signals were detected by a Dutch amateur radio enthusiast Cees Bassa. Cosmos-2504 was launched on March 31, 2015, at 16:47:56 Moscow Time from Site 133 in Plesetsk. Just hours later it was noted it was...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 18, 2015 | Daily Updates
The request to power up the Ham Video system was added to the crew task list on April 16. That means, that crew is invited to activate Ham Video as a free time activity. No precise day/time for this activity is fixed. Please monitor the 2395 MHz at 2.0 Ms/s frequency...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 17, 2015 | Daily Updates
It is with great sadness that I have to inform you that I have just learnt of the passing of our dear friend Clive Wallis, G3CWV on 27th March 2015. Clive has been a very staunch supporter of AMSAT from the very early days. Many will recall his intense interest and...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 16, 2015 | Daily Updates
FUNcube-1 (AO-73) is again transmitting telemetry. A restart took place during the 0930 UT pass over Europe. The CubeSat had stopped transmitting at around 2018 UT on Wednesday, April 15. The team is still investigating the situation, but have concluded from earlier...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 15, 2015 | Daily Updates
On the weekend of April 11/12 Randy Hall K7AGE used his Arrow dual band J-Pole antenna, FT-817, Signalink USB interface and MMSSTV software to capture some great amateur radio Slow Scan Television (SSTV) images from the International Space Station (ISS). Watch SSTV...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 15, 2015 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-UK member Andrew Garratt M0NRD got some good publicity for Amateur Radio from the recent ISS Slow Scan Television transmissions. The SSTV pictures were sent in celebration of Yuri Gagarin becoming the first human to reach space, on April 12, 1961. The Russian...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 14, 2015 | Daily Updates
Martin Ehrenfried G8JNJ describes how he uses WebSDR’s to listen to ISS transmissions on 145.800 and 145.825 MHz. The SUWS SDR at Farnham can even receive the 143.625 MHz ISS comms channel. We were treated to more Slow Scan Television (SSTV) pictures from the...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 12, 2015 | Daily Updates
Michael Ossmann, AD0NR, will give a talk “Adventures of a Hacker Turned Ham” to the AMSAT/TAPR Banquet at the Dayton Hamvention. The ninth annual TAPR/AMSAT Banquet will be held on Friday night, May 15, at 1830 EDT. This dinner is always a highlight of the...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 3, 2015 | Daily Updates
The Australian regulator the ACMA is consulting on a number of changes to the amateur radio licence including removal of a key 3400 MHz allocation. 3400-3410 MHz is allocated to the Amateur Satellite Service in ITU Regions 2 and 3. It is used by amateurs in many...
