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Controversial thoughts from the shackISS celebrates the 80th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin by sending SSTV (Saturday 20th)
They say good things come in threes but in this case twos, the ISS again was transmitting SSTV images Saturday afternoon celebrating the 80th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to orbit Earth. Decoding images was a little tricky unlike Thursday as a lot of...
Russian ARISS team members activated SSTV from the International Space Station (ISS)
Today the Russian ARISS team members activated SSTV from the International Space Station, using the replacement Kenwood D710 transceiver located in the Russian Service Module, which has an output of around 5w which was more than enough for receiving stunning images...
HG-7028 Transverter
I've been waiting to get on 4m for some time but for various reasons never got around to it, however in early September Iain (M0PCB) said that he had a HG-7028 transverter and a 4el LFA for sale at a good price so I jumped at the chance, not only that Iain offered to...
RSGB Convention
I've been meaning to write a quick post about the RSGB Convention for weeks but other things got in the way, this year it moved into central Milton Keynes at the Kent Park Conference Centre, however instead of staying at the venue a few of us opted to stay at the...
SSB Field Day 2014 – G8PX/P
While SSB Field Day is clear in my mind still I thought I’d write down some after thoughts, its been two years since I last took part seriously, my contesting is normally the big events like CQ & IOTA events so the first thing to do is to clear up the fact it...