News – South Bristol Amateur Radio Club

2025 On-line UK Amateur Radio Intermediate Course

25/10/2025 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

There are a number of sources for Foundation training on-line but for the higher licence classes there is a much smaller selection of available courses. South Bristol ARC are able to offer an on-line classroom course for the Intermediate exam starting in mid November 2025. Contact us to register your interest.

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Virtual Foundation Course Success

11/09/2025 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

SBARC ran another “virtual classroom” Foundation course during July and August 2025, the first results of the remote invigilated exams are in

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Ofcom to Authorise Satellite Connectivity for Standard Smartphones

10/09/2025 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

On September 9 2025 Ofcom confirmed that it will move ahead with plans to make the UK the first country in Europe to enable standard smartphones to connect to satellites using mobile spectrum bands.

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Two Possible #SSTV Activity Periods From the #ISS are being Scheduled

31/08/2025 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

The ARISS team plans two short SSTV activiations in October 2025, each running from Friday to Monday (unless extended).

Participants who receive and submit at least one SSTV image to the gallery can earn electronic award diplomas.

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VHF Field Day 2025 – Results Published

04/08/2025 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

VHF Field Day 2025 took place over the weekend of 5/7 July 2025. The deadline for log submission was 14 July 2025 and the Contest Committee has since been analysing the logs. See how we got on.

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48th International Amateur Radio Exhibition

14/07/2025 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

Held over 27 – 29 June 2025 at Messe Friedrichshafen under the banner “Remote Radio – Connecting the World” the organisers have released some preliminary figures from the event

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#ARISS #SSTV Activity from the #ISS (14 – 20 July 2025)

09/07/2025 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

ARISS has once again organised a SSTV activity period from the ISS. Lasting 7 days, 12 images will be tansmitted on 145.800MHz using PD120

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ARISS-Russia #ISS #SSTV Activity Period

05/05/2025 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

Details on this period seem to be sparse and slightly contradictory but it is believed that ARISS RUSSIA have a short #SSTV activity period running from 12:00UTC on 05/05/2025 possibly through to 12/05/2025. In case this is true we have prepared our usual pass predictions for the SBARC Clubhouse

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The International Day of Human Spaceflight (#ARISS #ISS #SSTV)

09/04/2025 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

Saturday 12 April is the International Day of Human Space Flight. ARISS have created another series of 12 images in their SSTV activity periods entitled “Humans in Space”. Can you catch them all?

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FRAM2Ham #SSTV #ISS Simulation

14/02/2025 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

FRAM2 is a manned Low Earth Orbit mission that will insert into a Polar Orbit around the Earth. The manned mission will be in operation for 3 – 5 days in March 2025 from a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and will be transmitting SSTV on the 70cm band. ARISS have partnered with the FRAM2 mission to create FRAM2Ham including an engaging competition for students aged under 25.

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