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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Antennas up for South West Hants RAYNET support of the New Forest Marathon tomorrow.

Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Looking for new sources of POTY lenses, unexpectedly found a better one than my own. New (white) is 0.5dB better than old (red). +2.1dB and +1.6dB over no lens respectively.

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The AMSAT-UK village at @emfcamp.bsky.social is coming together! Thanks to AMSAT-UK, BATC, and UK Microwave Group.

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hot and sunny day in Cornwall for antenna maintenance at M0XGH. Task 1 is replacing the G5500 controller after the June heatwave cooked the transformer in the shack! Fingers crossed it won't be a regular issue..

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

70cm station up and ready for G0ARC/P VHF NFD. It's even stopped raining!

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Easy optical sun alignment, with +1.3dB of RF sun noise - that'll do!

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ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station @arissintl.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Tomorrow's UK contact will be streamed live at live.ariss.org. It will use HamTV video from the ISS to provide a crew view of the contact. Watch that at live.ariss.org/hamtv. HamTV is transmitted from the ISS on 2.395 GHz. It's a DATV signal using DVB-S modulation.

live.ariss.org

ARISS Live Webcast

Live Webcast of Amateur Radio Contacts between students and astronauts on the International Space Station

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Event live stream will be on live.ariss.org

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Last week with the support of @goonhilly.org the UK ARISS team assembled and installed a new HamTV ground station to Cornwall to provide downlink for the School Contact at the Simon Langton Grammar School this coming Monday. This afternoon it provided first AoS of the HDMI Camera test!

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AMSAT-DL @amsat-dl.org · 07/12/2025

CCSDS Outreach Initiative and Competition for future cislunar amateur radio payload. ESA, in partnership with Goonhilly Earth Station, CCSDS, AMSAT-UK, and AMSAT-DL, are launching a competition to develop high-quality reference implementations of selected CCSDS protocols amsat-dl.org/en/ccsds-out...

amsat-dl.org

CCSDS Outreach Initiative and Reference Implementation Development Competition

ESA is presenting a pilot programme on behalf of The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) and is pleased to announce a new outreach initiative aimed at strengthening engagement with t...

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ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station @arissintl.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Saturday's contact with 1st Radford Semele Scout Group in the UK will attempt to capture a live HamTV transmissions from the ISS. Check the graphic for more info and visit the BATC forum or ARISS Discord for more HamTV discussion. forum.batc.org.uk/viewforum.ph... discord.gg/JrmXw58U8T

The image announces an upcoming HamTV test contact on Saturday, 18-October at 09:49 UTC (5:49 AM ET) between the 1st Radford Semele Scout Group in Radford Semele, UK, and the ISS. The space and ground teams will attempt to use the recently reinstalled HamTV device. If successful, this will be a step in recommissioning the HamTV system, repaired after a 2018 failure. Watch at https://live.ariss.org/hamtv/, with HamTV's DATV frequency at 2395 MHz. The image shows Jonny Kim making a 2025 school contact via the ARISS Columbus Module radio.

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AMSAT-DL @amsat-dl.org · 06/09/2025

💥Greater (partial) success for #amateurradio and #amsat satellite operators in dispute with AST Spacemobile over commercial use of the 430-440 MHz amateur radio band for TT&C! 💥 In its reference Attachment to the recent grant, dated August 29, 2025, the FCC imposes clear limits ⬇️

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ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station @arissintl.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

ARISS is looking for hams worldwide who are interested in establishing HamTV ground stations. An organizational meeting will be held this Thursday at 19:00 UTC (3 PM ET) to discuss. Respond to the email address in the graphic (and image alt text) to request the meeting invite.

Interested in getting involved as a ARISS HamTV Ground Station?

Ciaran, M0XTD (an ARISS International Operations Scheduling Coordinator) is calling a meeting of interested parties who can establish, or are wanting to establish, a HamTV Ground Station in their geographical area.

Meeting scheduled for Thursday August 28th at 1900UTC via Zoom. If you are interested in joining the meeting, please send an email to hamtvops@ariss-i.org with your details (name, callsign, id on Discord, location and status of any ground station you may have) and Ciaran will forward details of the meeting to you.

Teams are continuing to
work to schedule an
end-to-end video test
originating from the ISS.

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

No, UK Government is not scrapping its space programmes. There’s been some confusion and bungled communications over the musical chairs in civil space policy and the UK Space Agency this week. It all matters less than the chronic lack of focus and leadership from UK Government for 15 years. 👇👇👇

theconversation.com

The UK Space Agency has been absorbed into the science department. The potential effects are still unclear

The agency has been the subject of some criticism and some aspects of the new arrangement could be positive.

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ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station @arissintl.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Reminder of the HamTV outage THIS week.

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C3VOC releases @media.ccc.de · 10/08/2025

What's that CubeSat Satellite stuff anyhow? has been released on media.ccc.de and YouTube #why2025 #Thesquarehole #Brachium #why2025eng media.ccc.de/v/why2025-94-what-s-th… www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTR3y1KdkG0

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ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station @arissintl.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

HamTV testers, the transmissions will go off-line for the first part of the upcoming week. See the graphic for timing. No timing for a full video test yet, you know we'll share as soon as we know.

The image is a notice about a planned outage for HamTV, which will go off-line to support other payload operations on the International Space Station this week. The expected outage schedule is:Power Off: Monday, 18-August, 14:15 UTC (10:15 AM ET)
Power On: Wednesday, 20-August, 12:35 UTC (8:35 AM ET)

The image also includes a 2015 NASA photo of Samantha Cristoforetti (IZ0UDF) with the ARISS HamTV Transmitter on the ISS.

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ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station @arissintl.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Let's start the week with some HamTV updates - we compiled the FAQ in the graphic with our experts. If you'd like to get involved in the HamTV discussion, join the ARISS Discord. Link below.

When will HamTV start transmitting video?
We expect to schedule a end-to-end video test after Crew 11 gets settled aboard the ISS.

When will HamTV start to be used for educational contacts?
That will be dependent on the testing mentioned above.

Can an SDR device be used?
The software used with SDR devices has developed significantly since the first use of HamTV in 2014. We look forward to hams experimenting with this and seeing the results.

Will HamTV output video that can be decoded with the Icom IC-905?
No, the IC-905 does not currently support decoding digital video.

The BATC site talks about receivers not available in my part of the world. Are there alternative parts lists?
As we get more
information on devices,
we’ll work with the BATC
and our other teams
to publish more info.

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ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station @arissintl.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

HamTV Acquisition of Signal (AOS) reports! Thanks to several European hams for confirming the HamTV carrier transmissions earlier today. Several North American passes upcoming, so we'll watch for those reports too.

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ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station @arissintl.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Scheduling update: Work on the station will occur later in the day Tuesday. Now planned from 14:05 to 16:05 UTC (10:05 AM to 12:05 PM ET).

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derekkozel.com @derekkozel.com · 26/07/2025

GNU Radio is looking for a contractor to either port the existing Qt based GNU Radio Companion application to the web (running proof of concept exists), or to develop a new frontend capable of creating flowgraphs, executing the resulting program, and displaying the UI in the web. Could that be you?

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Another new set of receivers at the Goonhilly WebSDR site - this time for the motus.org Wildlife tracking project. A set of four (N,S,E,W) UHF yagis with RTL-SDRs on a Raspberry Pi will allow them to detect any tagged species migrating across the Lizard peninsula. Project info: youtu.be/3PudxFM_i_g

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Electromagnetic Field @emfcamp.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

We are finally ready to announce that EMF 2026 will happen on July 16-19, 2026, at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire. Expect more updates soon as we start spinning up the organisation again.

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Arrigo Triulzi @cynicalsecurity.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

UPDATE: the complete report, in English, is out¹. __ ¹ archive.today/2kJ4i

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Watching the EI1ISS ARISS contact on live.ariss.org , and listening on M0XGH AMSAT station at Goonhilly - great copy in Cornwall!

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AstroMeganne @astromeganne.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Fascinating visit to @goonhilly.org Thanks for all the work you do to keep us in contact with our satellites, deep space missions, and each other. #Cornwall

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Radiotelescoop Dwingeloo @radiotelescoop.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

On the occasion of the @unesco.org International Day of Light, we created a 'light painting' using the Dwingeloo Telescope by mounting a light bulb at the focus for half an hour. #lightday2025 @idlofficial.bsky.social

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The BATC & AMSAT-UK Goonhilly WebSDRs will shortly be offline for server hardware migration. There may be intermittent service during the migration process. I'll post an update here once completed.

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UK Space Agency @ukspaceagency.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Tune into the latest Space Boffins podcast to hear about the UK-led @esa.int space weather mission Vigil. 🛰️ Our Head of Space Weather, Mike Willis, talks about how Vigil will help us mitigate the damage space weather could cause to vital services. ☀️ 👉 www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/ast...

Artist's impression of space scene, with spacecraft facing Sun, with Earth in background. Credit: ESA.

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ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station @arissintl.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

To get past 1,700 STEM contacts with the ISS for students, it takes someone on the inside at NASA. Our person on the inside for 20+ years has been Kenneth, N5VHO (and @RF2Space on X). We wish him nothing but the best in retirement when he departs later this year. 73 to N5VHO!

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AMSAT-DL @amsat-dl.org · 06/03/2025

We are already streaming #IM-2 Intuitive Machines #Athena lander live signal in preparation for descent and landing via the Bochum 20m observatory on our YouTube link ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkRS...

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Sunset in Cornwall. Looking closely you can see that Goonhilly-6 is not quite pointed at the moon. Not yet.

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Back in the blue skies of Cornwall to support some exciting customer passes over the next couple of days. #adlunam

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

An upcoming scheduled power outage at the Goonhilly WebSDR site means this'll be reset soon.. Leo Bodnar LeoNTP with solid GPS lock for 521 days, currently serves 1.5% of UK NTP pool requests - 125.5 billion good-times served since last reboot!

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

After a spectacular sunny day in Cornwall, it's a clear cold night to stare moon-wards in another lunar mission validation campaign.

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Weekend adventures at new QTH with @davegkq

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

CQ JOTA de @GB2GP on QO-100 DATV, from Gilwell Park UK Scouting HQ. Currently with live green screen of the scouts this morning. Ping us on the WB chat if you're available for a QSO! You can also watch our transmissions on batc.org.uk/live/oscar100net

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Live stream for AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2024 now live at www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ve4q43pdF0… Streaming provided by @BATCOnline @AmsatUK #amsat

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Standing by for @ARISS_Intl AOS at the Brooklands Museum. Live stream at live.ariss.org , contact starts 1229 BST approx.

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Powering up data comms at New Park ready for New Forest Marathon with @SWHantsRAYNET

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Final satellite test pass for today in preparation for the @ARISS_Intl School Contact with the ISS tomorrow. All looking good! Watch live at 1144 BST tomorrow at: live.ariss.org

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

Using the brief moments of sun today to sort out @ARISS_Intl HAMTV dish alignment. Now just need to work out what to do about that both-adjacent-channel RFI! (ignore Pluto DC spike at centre)

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

Ciaran M0XTD @m0xtd sharing his experience of early HamTV operations on the @astro_timpeake school contacts, at the 40th Anniversary @ARISS_Intl Conference in Florida. @AmsatUK @theRSGB

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Early morning start at St. Peter-in-Thanet school. @ARISS_Intl contact with the ISS at 10:57 BST, streamed at live.ariss.org

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

There will be another short interruption to the Goonhilly WebSDR (HF, VHF, UHF, QO-100) and QO-100 Spectrum Monitor facilities this afternoon (Monday 4th September) to complete power renovation works in the building. @BATCOnline @AmsatUK @amsatdl

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Phil Crump @philcrump.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

There will be a short interruption (< 2 hours) to the Goonhilly WebSDR (HF, VHF, UHF, QO-100) and QO-100 Spectrum Monitor facilities tomorrow morning (Tuesday 22nd August) for power works in the building. @amsatdl @BATCOnline #amsat

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