Recent News
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06/01/2015 | HEX-BEAMĀ® Manufacturer Traffie Technologies Shutting Down
Traffie Technologies, the Massachusetts-based family business that has pioneered and manufactured the HEX-BEAM line of rotatable wire beams, is closing its doors.
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05/30/2015 | Delayed Return of Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, IZ0UDF, Set for June 11
Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, IZ0UDF, now on an International Space Station duty tour that has been extended by about a month, will return to Earth on June 11.
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05/29/2015 | LightSail CubeSat Stops Transmitting
The Planetary Society is blaming a software glitch for causing its LightSail-A CubeSat to go dark.
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05/29/2015 | The K7RA Solar Update
Solar flux continues its downward trend
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05/28/2015 | Radio Call Saves SOTA Climber Following Fall
A Littleton, Colorado, radio amateur and mountaineer was happy to have his hand-held transceiver along on May 17 after he slipped and fell from an icy ledge while snowshoeing.
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05/28/2015 | Hams Invited to Test APRS on Duchifat-1 CubeSat
The Herzliya Science Center is inviting stations with the ability to send compressed APRS packets to take part in testing the Duchifat-1 CubeSat, launched almost 1 year ago by high school students in Israel.
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05/28/2015 | Sarah Brightman Spaceflight Postponed
British singer Sarah Brightman has announced that she is postponing plans to go into space as a paying guest aboard the International Space Station.
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05/28/2015 | USNA APRS/PSK31 CubeSats Offer Something Different
The APRS/PSK31-equipped US Naval Academy satellites appear to be operating, with one exception, according to Bob Bruninga, WB4APR.
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