Oct 13, 2015
If you’re keen on amateur radio satellites you might have noticed that in the last two months there’s been an increase in satellites available to use on the 19th of September on a rocket from China saw the launch of a six satellites under the brand of CAS-2 all...
May 29, 2015
On Wednesday the 20th of May while away on the Isle of Mull, another group of satellites got launched into space, included in this military launch was PSAT a satellite which has onboard a APRS digi on 145.825 but a PSK transponder with a 10m uplink and 70cms downlink...
Aug 15, 2013
After returning from Ham Radio 2013 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, I had made my mind up that I was going to replace my satellite antennas (standard Diamond yagis) that I first purchased for satellite use with X-Quads from Wimo which I order on the day I returned. Sadly...
Feb 27, 2013
On Monday this week a rocket blasted off with a collection of satellites which included STRaND-1 cubesat which was developed by researchers from the University of Surrey and SSTL. The satellite was built using commercial off the shelf bits and more impressively a...
Nov 17, 2012
On Thursday (15/11/12) I got sent an audio recording of myself working DG2US at 16:58 via AO-07 from M0PCB, thought I’d add it to the blog for a bit of history 🙂...
