The Russians might have another SSTV project from the ISS in October - watch for details! Receiving beautiful images from the ISS can be as simple as holding your smartphone up to your HT - NO wiring

Rocket Headed For International Space Station Fails, Forcing Emergency Landing https://www.npr.org/2018/10/11/656473889/rocket-launch-failure-forces-astronaut-and-cosmonaut-to-make-ballistic-landing

https://amsat-uk.org/2018/10/08/funcube-operations/

Had a great time last night presenting "How to Work the FM Voice Amateur Satellites With Your HT" show to the WARA - Western Amateur Radio Association - club in Fullerton, CA. What a classy club ... I

Just talked to a fellow ham who was considering the Yaesu FT-65 HT. I mean, a radio labelled "65" must be better than a "60," right? Not necessarily. The FT-60R has 1,000 memories. The '65 - about 800

Launch announced for Es’hail-2 carrying ham radio transponders Es’hailSat has tweeted their geostationary satellite Es’hail-2 is expected to be launched by SpaceX in the 4th quarter of 2018. Qatar’s E

My sis-in-law is visiting from Florida. We’re enjoying hot drinks ... sitting in the back yard. GoSatWatch gives my iPhone a buzz: SO-50 is a’comin’ - with a 65-degree elevation pass. I saunter over t

Thank you, AMSAT-NA President Joe, for mentioning my work-sat.com Web site, using a couple photos of my “unique” Arrow antenna, and my frequency charts for the FM voice satellites during your segment

September 19, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-141 NASA Updates Preview Briefing for International Space Station Spacewalks, Live Coverage Experts from NASA will preview two upcoming spacewalks outside the Int

I have just started setting up my ground station for use with SATNOGS https://satnogs.org/documentation/ Over View https://satnogs.org/2017/09/satnogs-raspi3-images/ Ground Stations https://wiki.satno

Announcing the 2018-19 European Astro Pi Challenge in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA). It's open to students from all 22 ESA member countries, including associate members Canada and S

About 45 folks attended my satellite show this evening - including at least five "first-timers!" - at the Victor Valley (CA) Amateur Radio Club monthly meeting. And when I returned home, emails were w

AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14 AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA says that the camera on AO-92 is planned to be used to try to image Hurricane Floren

Lakeside (CA) Amateur Radio Club is looking for someone to demo working satellites at their 4th annual ARRL-sanctioned HamFest on October 6, 2018. Tentatively, it looks like FO-29, SO-50, AO-92, AO-91

THANKS to the wonderful folks at SANDRA - the San Diego Repeater Association - for the welcome this evening! (As well as for the coffee and snacks ... (grin).) We drew NINE FIRST-TIME visitors tonight

Recently there has been a DMR signal QRM'ing the AO-92 uplink on 435.350 or close by. Hotspots, repeaters, terrestrial simplex (anything not satellite) should not be in 145.8-146.0 or 435-438 by inter

ICOM will include 1.2gHZ as a standard band on the IC-9700. Here is website with a lot of the specifications: http://www.qsl.net/ab4oj/icom/ic9700/main.html

Not sure if 1.2gHZ out of the box is included ...

New post on AMSAT-UK AO73/FUNcube-1 is entering a further period of full sunlight by m5aka AO73/FUNcube-1 has been in space for almost five years and the original Sun Synchronous Orbit has now changed

I was reading the earlier post on the mini ground station and thought of the SATNOGS project. They have plans for a AZ-EL rotor and various sat antennas. They use 3D Printed parts in the rotor and a a