Author: Johnson Francis

Diwata-2 (PO-101) was designated as  Philippines-OSCAR 101 by AMSAT, the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, headquartered in Washington, D.C. I have been hearing the FM voice transponder of PO-101

There was an Eastern pass of Space Station at 8 am IST today morning with maximum elevation of 32 degrees in this region. As usual I had pointed

I had homebrewed a Moxon Yagi some time back and have been using it for LEO Amateur Radio Satellite operations for the past few months. Being an antenna

There was a pass of Space Station from North to South along the Eastern side today evening at around 6.45 pm IST. So I kept my Moxon Yagi

New SD card has to be formatted before first use in FT-710. Formatting has to be done within the radio. Even if it has been format elsewhere, it

Especially when the bands are not that good, it could be a tiring process to give CQ calls. In that situation, using a recorded CQ call might come

Today evening I had a QSO with UA9FGR on 21.225 MHz SSB. After giving me 5,7 report, he surprised me by mentioning that we had a contact in

N2YO.COM is one of my favourite websites for checking amateur radio satellite passes. It is a wonderful site which is currently tracking about twenty nine thousand objects in

A new weekly Amateur Radio HF Net was started today at 17:00 IST (UTC+5.30) on 14.195 MHz. Net controllers were S21HA from Bangladesh and VU3JXF from Kolkatha, India.

There was a pass of Space Station in this region with maximum elevation of about 77 degrees. I had kept my Moxon Yagi pointed slightly more to the