January 17, 2021
DP0POL/mm arrives Non-Stopp in Antarctica
2021-01-17: we will be reaching the edge of the ice shelf some time tonight. The QO-100 station is safely packed…
January 17, 2021
DP0POL/mm arrives Non-Stopp in Antarctica
2021-01-17: we will be reaching the edge of the ice shelf some time tonight. The QO-100 station is safely packed back into its boxes. It is again quite stormy, so we might not be able to start unloading the ship...
January 10, 2021
The “OSCAR 100 AWARD”
is an international award organized by the Fidenza’s branch of A.R.I. (Associazione Radioamatori Italiani, Italian Radioamateur League) with the aim of promoting, spreading and fostering the experimental activities and the radio contacts by means of the first geosynchronous amateur radio...
January 2, 2021
A new “star” has risen on QO-100
A portable satellite station for the QO-100 geostationary satellite (Es'hail-2) was commissioned on the icebreaker FS "Polarstern" at 14:23 UTC on December 27, 2020, with an initial QSO between DP0POL/mm and DK3ZL. A very special experiment, originated from an idea...
December 23, 2020
Chinese Mars probe Tianwen-1 successfully received by AMSAT-DL
Soon after its launch on July 23rd, the Chinese Mars mission Tianwen-1 has been received by AMSAT-DL with its 20m ground station in Bochum, Germany. Amateur radio observers Paul Marsh M0EYT and his #hearsat group have been tracking Tianwen-1 since...
December 23, 2020
AMSAT-DL and Bochum Observatory are part of ESA’s ESERO education campaign
On May 16, 2018, the official launch of the newly established European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO) in Germany, ESERO Germany for short, took place during a ceremony at the Planetarium Bochum. So far, there have been a total of...
December 23, 2020
New QO-100 band plan
Just in time for the 1-year anniversary of the successful commissioning of the two transponders of Qatar-OSCAR 100, the capacity of the NB transponder was expanded from around 250 KHz to just under 500 KHz! Attentive observers have of course...
