by Peter Goodhall | Mar 31, 2015 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Dennis Wingo KD4ETA along with freelance science writer and broadcast journalist journalist Kate Arkless Gray were on the BBC World Service Click radio show. The show – Space and Citizen Science – was broadcast live from the BBC Radio...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 31, 2015 | Daily Updates
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has announced another round of amateur radio Slow Scan Television (SSTV) activity from the International Space Station (ISS). It will commemorate the anniversary of the first human spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin which took...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 30, 2015 | Daily Updates
The Japanese Space Agency, JAXA, have released a video showing the deployment of the Brazilian amateur radio satellite AESP-14 from the International Space Station (ISS). The AESP-14 is a 1U CubeSat developed by undergraduate and graduate engineering students at the...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 24, 2015 | Daily Updates
Ten members of the Camb-Hams are returning to Grasspoint IO76EJ on Mull (IOTA EU-008) from May 15-21, 2015 as GS3PYE/P. They will be QRV with multiple stations on HF on 3.5-28MHz SSB, CW, RTTY and PSK with dipoles and verticals and up to 400W if necessary. VHF...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 20, 2015 | Daily Updates
[wpvideo xSHpsokT] Tim Peake KG5BVI, the first British ESA astronaut, has issued an invitation to UK school pupils to contact him via amateur radio whilst he is in space. Tim will launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in November of this year and will spend...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 20, 2015 | Daily Updates
As expected, FUNcube-1 (AO-73) entered the shadow of the moon around 1000 UT on Friday, March 20, 2015. This is what happened to the solar panel currents, they dropped to almost zero. This is what we usually see from our Whole Orbit Data telemetry. Normally the...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 18, 2015 | Daily Updates
The University of Southampton Spaceflight Society will be launching for the solar eclipse on Friday, March 20, with two 434 MHz Slow Scan Digital Video (SSDV) balloon payloads. The transmitters are as follows: MAJORA – 434.211 MHz USB, 600 bps RTTY, 600 Hz Shift, 8n2...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 18, 2015 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Philip Heron MI0VIM reports on a Raspberry Pi balloon which will be launched for the eclipse and should be receivable across the British Isles. All being well there will be a launch from Cookstown, N.Ireland on Friday, March 20 at about 0700 UT. The plan...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 18, 2015 | Daily Updates
The Kent and Sussex Courier newspaper reports a picture from space has been decoded by an over-the-moon radio amateur from Tunbridge Wells. Colin Bowman M0NLP spoke to his local newspaper after receiving a Slow Scan TV (SSTV) picture from the International Space...
by Peter Goodhall | Mar 18, 2015 | Daily Updates
Issue 209 of the AMSAT-UK amateur radio satellite publication OSCAR News was released on March 17, 2015. E-members can download it here. The paper edition is usually posted 2-3 weeks after publication of the electronic issue. In this issue: • 4M: A Moon Mission •...
