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09/29/2015 | More Chinese Amateur Radio Satellites are Aloft
Quick on the heels of the September 19 launch of nine satellites carrying Amateur Radio transponders comes word that three more satellites were launched by China on September 25.
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08/21/2015 | IARU Reiterates Commitment to Coordinate Satellites Only Within International Band Plans
In apparent reference to efforts by China’s Amateur Satellite Group (CAMSAT) to coordinate operating frequencies for nine satellites set to launch in early September, the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) has made it clear that it will not coord...
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02/02/2015 | Amateur Radio Payloads Share Ride into Space with Soil Moisture Monitoring Satellite
Amateur Radio Payloads Share Ride into Space with Soil Moisture Monitoring Satellite.
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12/21/2009 | Chinese Satellite XW-1 Receives OSCAR Designation
Less than one week after China’s first Amateur Radio satellite -- XW-1 -- was successfully launched, AMSAT has designated it Hope-OSCAR 68, or HO-68. “Amateur Radio Operators around the world have received beacon sig
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12/15/2009 | First Chinese Amateur Radio Satellite Now in Space
AMSAT China (CAMSAT) reports that at around 0230 UTC on December 15, China launched its first Amateur Radio satellite -- named Learn More
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01/28/2009 | Amateur Radio Quiz: Here It Comes, Here It Is, There It Goes!We’ll take satellite technology for the sheer fun of it! Let’s do things backwards -- retrograde, as they say down at Kennedy Space Center -- as the questions become the answers. Or are they still questions and the answers are the questions? C
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