RSGB Takes Over Radio Exam Management

The Radio Society of Great Britain has announced it is taking over management of the amateur / ham radio examinations.

In a move approved by Ofcom, the responsibility for overall management is being transferred from the Radio Communications Foundation (RCF) to the RSGB.

The same people will be doing the same things; but they will be reporting to the RSGB Board instead of the RCF.

RSGB Press Release - 
http://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/rsgb-notices/2015/09/18/press-release-uk-exam-changes/

LilacSat-2 – Linux Live CD for Telemetry Decoding

LilacSat-2 (CAS-3H) was launched along with eight other XW-2/CAS-3 amateur radio satellites on Saturday 19 September 2015 at 23:01:14 UT 

“During the first 16 hours in orbit, we have received nearly 1000 packets of LilacSat-2 from Harbin (BY2HIT), Shihezi (B0/BY2HIT), Nanjing (BI4ST), Xian (Northwestern Polytechnical University) and Singapore (9V1SV). Many thank to all!”

— WEI Mingchuan, BG2BHC

Linux LiveCD for telemetry decoding released. Downloaded -  http://pan.baidu.com/s/1eQfNsGE

Now we have support for FCDPP, USRP and RTL-SDR. Not hard to edit the GRC flowcharts to support other devices.

It can be burned into a USB stick to boot a computer directly, run from a virtual machine or installed into a hard disk.

User manual also included.

Further LilacSat-2 Details -  http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/

Amateur Radio Society and CB

Spain's national amateur radio society, the URE, has created a 27 MHz CB portal on its website 

The URE say they have created this site as a reference to inform those interested in the world of 27 MHz CB (Citizen Band). They hope to provide interesting information about CB in Spain and if possible in other countries.

Read the URE CB page in Google English - http://tinyurl.com/URE-CB

Unión de Radioaficionados Españoles - http://tinyurl.com/SpainURE