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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

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?

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.

SBARC are planning another free on-line Foundation course, read more and sign-up with friends

GB3WR was forced off air in June 2024 following a dispute with the site owners. This was a sad loss to the local Ham Radio community around the south-west and South Wales and robbed a lot of coverage. Behind the scenes the GB3WR Repeater Group has been negotiating with the site owner/operator to try to reach a resolution that would allow GB3WR to return to the site. This took a very long time but has now been resolved to the satisfaction of all parties clearing the way for the operational return of GB3WR.

In a Facebook announcement on the Novers Park Community and Social Group, Ian announced the reopening of the upper rooms following completion (or near completion) of the redecoration work.

ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) have organised another SSTV Experiment from the ISS over the Christmas/New Year break. It looks like a lot of the passes over IO81qk (the GX4WAW Club House) are in the early morning.

South Bristol ARC has added Bluesky to its Social Media presence. We invite all of our members to create a Bluesky profile and follow the Club there.

A bit like buses, you wait forever and then there's two ISS SSTV experiments in a matter of weeks

OfCom have announced that the implementation of the third release of their Licensing Platform Evolution (LPE 3) has been delayed due to issues that have arisen during product development. The delays have impacted the availability of the first phase of automation for shared access licences and have also delayed implementation of a few other policy decisions. The impacted (delayed) policy decisions include primarily those documented in: Updating the amateur radio licensing framework (Phases 2 and 3); Extending access in the 26 GHz bands for Shared Access; and a subset of the Proposed enhancements for Shared Access. LPE 3 was originally planned for calendar Q2’2024 and is now expected to be available in calendar Q2’2025.