This coming Sunday (11 February) we have our second QS QO-100 QSO Party. This is a fun activity to promote contacts between radio amateurs from South Africa and the world using the QO-100 satellite. The goal for stations from ZS … Continue reading 11 February 2024 – ZS QO-100 QSO Party
This coming Sunday (12 February) we have our first QS QO-100 QSO Party. This is a fun activity to promote contacts between radio amateurs from South Africa and the world using the QO-100 satellite. The goal for stations from ZS … Continue reading 12 February 2023 – ZS QO-100 QSO Party
We have a new competition and as some of you have noticed we have moved the competition dates to the beginning of each month. Congratulations to our previous winner, Gary Cundill (ZS1GAR). For our new competition we are focusing on … Continue reading June 2022 Competition – Oscar 100 Reception
First off, thanks to everyone who contacted us about our competition sharing their adventures, successes and failures. A big congratulations to our winner, Gary Cundill (ZS1GAR) who has been decoding Oscar 100 beacons and telemetry. He sent us a complete … Continue reading April/May Telemetry Competition Results
Many Amateur Radio satellites contains various experiments, payloads from universities and individuals. An exciting part of the hobby is to “hunt” these satellites and receive and decode the Telemetry. Telemetry typically contains status information about the satellite as well as … Continue reading Decoding Telemetry from Satellites (Competition)