by Peter Goodhall | Dec 17, 2014 | Daily Updates
The Board of the UK communication regulator Ofcom has announced the appointment of Sharon White as Chief Executive. Sharon will join Ofcom in late March 2015 from HM Treasury, where she is Second Permanent Secretary. In this role Sharon is the lead official...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 17, 2014 | Daily Updates
Issue 208 of the AMSAT-UK amateur radio satellite publication OSCAR News was released on December 17. E-members can download it here. The paper edition is usually posted 2-3 weeks after publication of the electronic issue. In this issue: • Scouts Jamboree On The Air...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 16, 2014 | Daily Updates
Samantha Cristoforetti IZ0UDF has written about her first amateur radio school contact from the International Space Station. 20 students from “Elena di Savoia” in Bari and “Alessandro Volta” in Bitonto were able to ask her questions about space and the ISS. Read her...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 15, 2014 | Daily Updates
Zdenek Samek OK1DFC and Rob Hardenberg PE1ITR reported receiving the amateur radio beacon from the ARTSAT2:DESPATCH spacecraft on December 14 at a distance of 4,700,000 km. Congratulations to both radio amateurs on a remarkable achievement. The amateur radio...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 13, 2014 | Daily Updates
OSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan, W3XO issued this announcement on December 12: “Since DESPATCH appears to have met all of the requirements for an OSCAR number, including IARU coordination, I hereby with the authority vested in me be by the AMSAT-NA...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 13, 2014 | Daily Updates
On November 19 Oleg Nizhnik gave a presentation on CubeSat amateur laser communication with Earth to Moon orbit data link capability. In his paper Oleg says the available bands at 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz for amateur satellite communication are increasingly crowded. Higher...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 13, 2014 | Daily Updates
On December 2, 2014 the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors approved Technology Development Seed Funding. As a part of AMSAT’s “Design The Next AMSAT Satellite” challenge, the Board of Directors approved $5000, within the 2015 engineering budget, to be used...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 11, 2014 | Daily Updates
UWE-3 was launched with FUNcube-1 on November 21, 2013, the team say they will now be temporarily ending operations. Today, more than one year after launch, there will be a temporary end of operations caused by the end of funding. However, UWE-3 is in a very good...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
Leading UK space organisations have joined forces with UK Astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI and Raspberry Pi to offer students a chance to devise and code their own apps or experiment to run in space. Two Raspberry Pi computers are planned to be flown to the International...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 10, 2014 | Daily Updates
Ofcom has now published a statement on the revised Amateur Radio Licence and has also advised that there will be ‘Guidance’ to accompany the licence. The RSGB has now opened a forum to provide the opportunity to discuss what information would be helpful in...
