by Peter Goodhall | Feb 19, 2015 | Daily Updates
SatNOGS won the Hackaday grand prize of $196,418 for their satellite ground station, they plan to give the money to the Libre Space Foundation. The Libre Space Foundation (LSF) is a non-profit foundation registered in Greece by the creators of the SatNOGS project. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 16, 2015 | Daily Updates
The latest advert from Internet Services provider MTN Global features amateur radio and the International Space Station (ISS). MTN Global’s latest brand commercial tells the story of a little boy who discovers, via the internet, that it is very simple to build a...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 15, 2015 | Daily Updates
Bob McGwier, N4HY shares his views about Women in Science, Technoloy, Engineering, Math and Amateur Radio. Bob, a former AMSAT director and vice president for engineering, is Director of Research, Hume Center and Research Professor of Electrical and Computer...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 14, 2015 | Daily Updates
The ARRL report the the USA is to propose the use of 9.9-10.5 GHz for the Earth Exploration Satellite Service. US proposal for World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 (WRC-15) Agenda Item 1.12 — to expand the Earth Exploration Satellite Service (EESS) in the vicinity...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 13, 2015 | Daily Updates
The student built GRIFEX CubeSat was launched, along with FIREBIRD-2, ExoCube and NASA’s SMAP, on Saturday, January 31 on a Delta 2 rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base. The first reception report of the spacecraft’s 437.485 MHz 9600 bps AX.25 GMSK signal...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2015 | Daily Updates
David Morgan 2W0CXV has released several papers covering the use of the RTL-SDR Dongle in radio astronomy. In 2011 David described the equipment configuration and software involved in setting to work a small 3m diameter amateur radio telescope using the FUNcube Dongle...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 11, 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) will take place. Continuous operation, using the call sign RS0ISS, is expected during Sunday,...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 6, 2015 | Daily Updates
This is the first call for speakers for the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium 2015 which will be held from Saturday, July 25 to Sunday, July 26, 2015 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, United Kingdom. http://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2015/ AMSAT-UK...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 6, 2015 | Daily Updates
This is the first call for speakers for the AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2015 which will be held from Saturday, July 25 to Sunday, July 26 2015 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, United Kingdom. AMSAT-UK invites speakers, to cover topics about micro-satellites, CubeSats,...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 4, 2015 | Daily Updates
The Daily Mail reports that 22-year-old Radoslaw Karwacki received the recent amateur radio Slow Scan Television (SSTV) transmissions from the ISS Radoslaw (Radek) used an RTL-SDR dongle costing about £10 ($15) to receive the SSTV signal on 145.800 MHz FM during the...
