Archive for August, 2014
Geoff Barwell, G0EEB, 6 June 2014
Geoff Barwell, G0EEB passed away on 6 June and his well-attended funeral was on Friday 13 June. Geoff was a friend of mine for well over 20 years. He was an Old Soldier and served in Singapore in the Redcaps (Military Police). He was an old Freemason and also won the Midlands small bore rifle championships three years […]
John P Slater, G8FMJ, 21 August 2014
August 21st 2014 will be remembered as the day all his friends at Worthing and District Amateur Radio Club lost their President and fellow club member of many years. John was taken to hospital as an emergency admission on Monday 18th and was diagnosed as having suffered a brain haemorrhage; he did not recover consciousness […]
Electromagnetic Field Camp 2014 next weekend
The Electromagnetic Field or EMF 2014 event is taking place from the 29 to 31 August at Bletchley near Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire. It is described as a camping festival for anyone interested in radio, electronics, space, homebrewing, robotics, 3D printing, the internet culture and pretty much anything else you can think of. Attendees are […]
New 5MHz allocation chart issued
A new and updated 5MHz allocation chart has been issued and it has been several months since the last update. Due to the increasing number of 5MHz allocations it has been reconfigured as a Microsoft Excel file instead. The current updated Worldwide Amateur 5MHz Allocations Chart can be found at http://tinyurl.com/oofmemh.
Chasqui-1 amateur radio satellite deployed
The Chasqui-1 amateur radio satellite has been successfully deployed from the International Space Station during a spacewalk by two Russian Cosmonauts. It is a research satellite designed to standard CubeSat dimension by the Peruvian National University of Engineering in collaboration with the Southwest State University in Kursk. Experiments onboard include cameras that work by visible […]
World Digital ATV QSO Party
The 4th annual World Digital ATV QSO Party will be held on 29 and 30 August. The event will have anchors in England, the United States and Australia. This will be a show and tell format that uses a combination of direct inputs for those within range of interconnected ATV repeaters and other contributions via […]
