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Giant leap for radio ham’s Pi-powered teddy bear 27 Aug 2013 | 03:11 am
BBC News reports on radio amateur Dave Akerman M6RPI‘s successful 434 MHz balloon flight on Monday, August 26, 2013. The balloon carried transmitters on 434.200 MHz and 434.250 MHz and transmitted im...
UK radio ham’s Lunar CubeSat to go ahead 27 Aug 2013 | 12:03 am
Pocket Spacecraft Michael Johnson M0MJJ gave a presentation on his Pocket Spacecraft: Mission to the Moon project to the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium held in July at Guildford. Michael – ...
Ham Radio Satellites at Tokyo Ham Fair 25 Aug 2013 | 07:05 pm
JAMSAT stand at the Tokyo Ham Fair 2013 The JARL Ham Fair 2013 was held at Tokyo Big Sight, Ariake, Tokyo on August 24-25. JAMSAT and several amateur radio satellite projects were represented. The U...
UK stations wanted for FO-29 contacts with Cuba 24 Aug 2013 | 11:30 pm
Hector CO6CBF working Joe EI5EV on FO-29 2013-04-03 1440z Hector CO6CBF is looking for stations in UK to try contacts on the amateur radio satellite FO-29. Currently when the satellite in apogee it ...
Good News for CubeBug-1 24 Aug 2013 | 05:07 pm
CubeBug-1 The amateur radio satellite CubeBug-1, also known as El Capitán Beto, launched April 26, 2013, is recovering from the power budget issue that caused the transmitter to be turned off for sev...
APRS destination address for ham radio satellites 24 Aug 2013 | 02:36 am
APRS has standardized an ID series for amateur radio OSCAR spacecraft – APOxxx At the request of Juan Carlos, LU9DO, AMSAT-LU wanted a series of APRS designators for uniquely identifying AMSAT APRS a...
IARU-R1 release new VHF Handbook 23 Aug 2013 | 04:38 pm
IARU Region 1 have released edition 6.12 of the free VHF Managers Handbook. The handbook has chapters on Band Planning, Contests, Propagation Research, Operating Procedures and Satellites. It even de...
Successful Dnepr launch from Yasny – amateur radio satellite launch to follow 23 Aug 2013 | 12:45 am
A DNEPR Lift-Off On Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 14:39 UT Korea’s satellite KOMPSAT-5 launched on a Dnepr from Dombarovsky near Yasny. This marked the first flight of the Dnepr launcher since August ...
CubeSat to Mars 22 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
In order to prepare the Human Mission to Mars, some aspects of the mission have to be researched. During a transit to the Red Planet, future crews will be exposed to potentially hazardous radiations. ...
Ham Video transmitter onboard ISS Columbus module 22 Aug 2013 | 02:47 pm
How a DATV transmitter on S-band is being added to the ARISS equipment onboard the International Space Station has been related in an announcement recently circulated and available at http://www.aris...
