The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program is hoping its “Ham Video” digital television transmitter, now stowed onboard the International Space Station (ISS), will be installed and commissioned this fall. US Astronaut Mike Hopkins, KF5LJG, who heads into space September 25, is scheduled to handle the tasks involved with getting the S Band Ham Video DATV setup on the ai…
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The Amsterdam Island DXpedition team has made “significant progress” in the past couple of months in preparation for its January 2014 DXpedition, the team reported in a news release July 27. Located in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Amsterdam and St Paul Islands is the seventh most-wanted DXCC entity, according to Clublog. The news release says the team has begun receiving supplies and equipme…
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