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

I am disabled and low income. It's hard to hold my large sat antenna. Can somebody build me an antenna like the ones listed below? 1 2 element on 2m, 3 element on 70cm 2. Ioio https://www.dxzone.com/d

From ARISS - **Update July 30, 2019** Confirmed that the SSTV images to be sent from Aug. 1-4 ( x-apple-data-detectors://2 ) will be the Owen Garriott images. It is unknown how the current hardware is

The docking of a cargo ship has been postponed until at least Monday ... all amateur gear is OFF until completion.

From AMSAT-NA - Heads up central and western North America - FO-99 SSTV activation is scheduled for approximately 03:25 UTC - 03:46 UTC tonight. Frequency is 437.075 MHz FM. SSTV mode is Scottie 1.

http://en.roscosmos.ru/20854/ Looks like a successful launch!