DSLWP Satellite Amateur Radio System

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Radio amateurs at the Harbin Institute of Technology (BY2HIT) are working on two micro satellites that are expected to be launched into a Lunar orbit in 2018

DSLWP is a lunar formation flying mission for low frequency (1-30 MHz) radio astronomy, amateur radio and education, consists of two microsatellites. As a part of the Change 4 mission, the satellites will be launched into a lunar elliptical orbit in 2018.

The amateur radio station on board DSLWP-A1 will provide telecommand uplink and telemetry / digital image downlink. An open telecommand is also designed to allow amateurs to send commands to take and download an image.

The satellites have a volume of about 50x50x40 cm3 and a mass of about 45 kg. Planning DSLWP-A1 downlinks on 435.425 MHz and 436.425 MHz and DSLWP-A2 downlinks on 435.400 MHz and 436.400 MHz.

A JT65B beacon is planned.

Pixie Challenge

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Banbury Amateur Radio Society started their 'Pixie Challenge' on Wednesday, 12th July 2017.

The challenge is for members to build a working Pixie design CW transceiver and make a QSO with another PIxie in 4 hours, spread over two club nights.
 
Winners will receive a new soldering station.

Banbury Amateur Radio Society - http://www.banburyares.co.uk
 
Other amateurs are invited to listen out for the group, as one transceiver will be connected to the club's G5RV antenna - http://www.kb6nu.com/vk3ye-shows-how-to-make-the-pixie-less-appalling/ 

ARRL Seeks Vintage DXpedition Logs for Archive

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ARRL is seeking donations from prominent DXpeditions that took place predominantly in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, for inclusion in The DX Log Archive Endowed by KAN MIZOGUCHI (JA1BK)
 
The DX Log Archive program was created, thanks to an endowment established by Kan Mizoguchi, JA1BK, to obtain, preserve, and utilise paper logs from rare and significant DXpeditions.
 
The archive can include pre-1950 paper logs as well as those from rare operations, and logs kept by longtime residents of very rare entities. All logbooks received to date have been inventoried and are housed at ARRL Headquarters.
 
ARRL Field Services Manager Dave Patton, NN1N, said the archive contains logs "from 3D2 through HZ3 -- nothing after the Hs. That's just the way it has worked out."
 
Contact the program administrator with information about any logs that are available or known to be available, and ARRL will make a determination on their suitability for the
archive.

DXpedition Logs for Archive - http://www.arrl.org/dx-log-archive