This coming Sunday (11 February) we have our second QS QO-100 QSO Party. This is a fun activity to promote contacts between radio amateurs from South Africa and the world using the QO-100 satellite. The goal for stations from ZS … Continue reading 11 February 2024 – ZS QO-100 QSO Party
This coming Sunday (12 February) we have our first QS QO-100 QSO Party. This is a fun activity to promote contacts between radio amateurs from South Africa and the world using the QO-100 satellite. The goal for stations from ZS … Continue reading 12 February 2023 – ZS QO-100 QSO Party
We have a new competition and as some of you have noticed we have moved the competition dates to the beginning of each month. Congratulations to our previous winner, Gary Cundill (ZS1GAR). For our new competition we are focusing on … Continue reading June 2022 Competition – Oscar 100 Reception
First off, thanks to everyone who contacted us about our competition sharing their adventures, successes and failures. A big congratulations to our winner, Gary Cundill (ZS1GAR) who has been decoding Oscar 100 beacons and telemetry. He sent us a complete … Continue reading April/May Telemetry Competition Results
As radio amateur satellite enthusiasts we might soon have another space station with an amateur radio payload. An IARU satellite frequency coordination application has been made by CRAC (Chinese Radio Amateurs Club) for CSSARC which is an amateur radio payload … Continue reading Upcoming Amateur Radio Payload on the Tiangong Space Station
Many Amateur Radio satellites contains various experiments, payloads from universities and individuals. An exciting part of the hobby is to “hunt” these satellites and receive and decode the Telemetry. Telemetry typically contains status information about the satellite as well as … Continue reading Decoding Telemetry from Satellites (Competition)
As is customary every year around Yuri’s Night (12 April), the ARISS had another SSTV event for all the amateur radio satellite enthusiasts. Between 11 and 13 April the ISS was transmitting images celebrating Women in Space and Cosmonauts Day. … Continue reading ISS SSTV Event 11 – 13 April 2022
Working with Amateur Radio Satellites might sound daunting at first, but once your start reading up more about it then you realize that its actually quite simple. Its a fun aspect of our hobby and you can get start very … Continue reading Satellite Manual Project