Phil Crump
@philcrump.bsky.social
Satellite Comms Engineer by day, SDR and Ham Radio in the off time.
The AMSAT-UK village at @emfcamp.bsky.social is coming together! Thanks to AMSAT-UK, BATC, and UK Microwave Group.
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..
70cm station up and ready for G0ARC/P VHF NFD. It's even stopped raining!
Easy optical sun alignment, with +1.3dB of RF sun noise - that'll do!
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.
ARISS Live Webcast
Live Webcast of Amateur Radio Contacts between students and astronauts on the International Space Station
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Event live stream will be on live.ariss.org
ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station@arissintl.bsky.social · 4mo agoContact upcoming with the U.K.! Students at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, The Langton in Canterbury will talk with Jack Hathaway on the ISS via ham radio. Sched. for Mon. 30 Mar at 13:28 UTC | 9:28 AM ET | 2:28 PM BST direct via GB4SLS. Listen on 145.800 MHz FM.
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!
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...
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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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
💥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 ⬇️
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.
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. 👇👇👇
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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Reminder of the HamTV outage THIS week.
ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station@arissintl.bsky.social · 12mo agoHamTV 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.
What's that CubeSat Satellite stuff anyhow? has been released on media.ccc.de and YouTube #why2025 #Thesquarehole #Brachium #why2025eng https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-94-what-s-that-cubesat-satellite-stuff-anyhow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTR3y1KdkG0
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.
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.
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.
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).
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?
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
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.
It's always fun to use the large dishes for some less serious work, such as out-of-this-world birthday messages! www.intuitivemachines.com/post/ringo-s...
Ringo Starr sends birthday "Peace and Love" message to the Moon and Back with intuitive machines & goonhilly earth station ltd.
On July 7, 2025, Ringo Starr turned 85. This year, in collaboration with Intuitive Machines, his message of “peace and love” traveled to the Moon and back—transmitted through the same ground infrastru...
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UPDATE: the complete report, in English, is out¹. __ ¹ archive.today/2kJ4i
Arrigo Triulzi@cynicalsecurity.bsky.social · last yr.For those interested in complex systems and their failures, the summary of the report on the Spanish blackout is out (in Spanish)¹. If you are into InfoSec it is like reading an incident report: the classic descent into the abyss. __ ¹ mcusercontent.com/2702b812ce1f...
Watching the EI1ISS ARISS contact on live.ariss.org , and listening on M0XGH AMSAT station at Goonhilly - great copy in Cornwall!
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
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
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.