I recently purchased the 2 meter and 70 cm X-Quad antennas from WIMO. They can run horizontal or vertical, or circular with a phasing cable. With switching, I can select any one of the three polaritie

Several workable passes over Southern CA - IF there’s an SSTV event December 14-15 ... Watch for details!

Good Morning. Yesterday I finished doing the K0PIR camera mount mod. Need a lock washer. But was able just now to hear some signals off the just completed AO91 pass over WV. I couldn’t make out any ca

Good Morning, first timer so please bear with me. Would like to check out the sats. I have an Elk antenna for use A friend gave me a GT3-TP handheld to use. It is in a virgin state with nothing progra

ISS SSTV Oct 9 and 10 by m5aka ISS SSTV MAI-75 image 9/12 received by Chertsey Radio Club on Baofeng handheld Russian cosmonauts are expected to activate Slow Scan Television (SSTV) image transmission

ARRL instructor Clint Bradford, K6LCS, will be giving his "Working Amateur Satellites With Your HT” presentation at the following clubs and hamfest in the next few weeks. ALL are welcome to attend! -M

ARISS Invites Proposals to Host Ham Radio Contacts with Space Station Crew The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions an

NASA Television to Air 10 Upcoming Spacewalks, Preview Briefing NASA astronaut Christina Koch participates in her first spacewalk on March 29, 2019. International Space Station astronauts are gearing

With the HTV delay and numerous planned EVAs, didn't think there'd be an SSTV project from the ISS until late October. But Rudy has posted the dates/times below. Minimal equipment required to download

Something rather extraordinary - excuse me if you have already received this —- AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-272.02 In this edition: * AO-92 Remaining in U/v For Potential Emergency Traffic

Thank you to John Costanza KG7AUP and the Maple Valley (WA) Amateur Radio Club for the invitation to speak this morning. We had a great time! AND - Thanks to AMSAT-UK for publishing my satellite tutor

From email ... There are a lot of sites that provide valuable information on working the satellites. I'd like to acknowledge one in particular. I found it rather awkward to hold the Arrow antenna usin

Satellite shows scheduled for San Diego, Indiana, and Washington in the next couple of months ... Details to follow. Clint

https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/09/06/chandrayaan-2-mission-status-center/

‪From the Control Team: Sunday’s AO-92 Mode L/v activation has been rescheduled to UTC Wednesday (Sep 25). The satellite will remain in U/v mode throughout this weekend.‬

As a result of the 2019 Board of Directors Election ... Jerry Buxton, N0JY Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK and Michelle Thompson, W5NYV ... will serve on the board for two years. The

Hackaday article ... https://hackaday.com/2019/09/16/hams-in-space-gearing-up-for-the-lunar-gateway/

When NASA’s #Mars2020 rover lands on the Red Planet in 2021, it will carry a microchip etched with the names of millions of people from planet Earth. Is yours on it? There are 20 days left to get your

http://www.arrl.org/news/view/fcc-proposes-to-make-all-universal-licensing-system-filings-electronic?fbclid=IwAR2WxE-joI42OpryYE7yABEQmaMNeNiNa7hS1cNosupE5BrVbZG5_ErCb2w

Summarizing ... -Use VFO B for TX -VFO A for RX (it has better sensitivity) -balanced audio all the way to VFO A -open squelch for VFO A -5W transmit Clint