 Amateur
Radio in the BBC Sky at Night magazine
The December issue of the BBC Sky At Night magazine, in the shops now,
has an article featuring Amateur Radio.
The 3 page article written by David Worboys M0ZLB
is entitled 'How to... Get pictures from space'
and starts on page 82.
In it David describes the Amateur Radio SpaceCam1 system, which is onboard,
the International Space Station (ISS) and provides a step-by-step guide
on how to receive ISS Slow Scan TV (SSTV) pictures.
It is written in a straightforward way that should be readily understandable
by the readers of that magazine, very few of who would be Radio Amateurs.
At the end of the article David gives a plug for the Amateur Radio Foundation
courses and hopefully some of the readers will be interested enough to
follow it up.
In "Inbox" on page 23 of the magazine there is a letter regarding
the need for a licence to receive ISS pictures (you don't need one) and
the editor references David’s SpaceCam1 article.
The article illustrates something we could do with a lot more of - Radio
Amateurs writing about the hobby in non-radio magazines. It's a very good
way to get Amateur Radio more widely known.
SpaceCam1 Status:
The SpaceCam1 SSTV system is currently switched off, but it is hoped that
it will become operational again in the near future.
Related URL's
BBC Sky at Night magazine
http://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/
MAREX-MG - Amateur Radio Satellite Experiments on board
the ISS
http://www.marexmg.org/
MMSSTV Slow Scan TV Freeware
http://mmhamsoft.amateur-radio.ca/
AMSAT Online Satellite Predictions:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/predict/
Google Earth Satellite Tracking:
http://www.n2yo.com/
Satscape Satellite Tracker:
http://www.satscape.co.uk/
ISS Fan Club:
http://www.issfanclub.com/
ARISS – Amateur Radio on the International Space
Station
http://www.rac.ca/ariss/
AMSAT-UK - United Kingdom Amateur Satellite organisation
http://www.uk.amsat.org/
AMSAT-NA - North American Amateur Satellite organisation
http://www.amsat.org/
Chelmsford ARS member receives ISS SSTV pictures
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/august2006/cars_iss_sstv_pictures.htm
AMSAT-UK produces a newsletter Oscar News packed
full of Amateur Satellite information.
For membership details contact the secretary Jim Heck
G3WGM
Tel: +44 (0)1258 453959
Email: g3wgm@amsat.org
Website: http://www.uk.amsat.org/
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