AMSAT’s 50th Anniversary

2019 marks AMSAT’s 50th Anniversary of Keeping Amateur Radio in Space.

To help celebrate, we are sponsoring the AMSAT 50th Anniversary Awards Program.

Awards include

• 50th Anniversary AMSAT OSCAR Satellite Communications Achievement Award

• 50th Anniversary AMSAT Satellite Friends of 50 Award

• AMSAT on HF 50th Anniversary Award

More Details - https://www.amsat.org/amsat-50th-anniversary-awards-program/

Worked All Postcodes - New App

The Worked All Postcodes app and site are now all functional and ready for use

Worked All Postcodes Award Details

The Challenge - Work as many postcodes as possible using a maximum of 10 watts RF output

Mode

• 70MHz (4 metres)

• 144MHz (2 Metres)

• 430MHz (70 cms)

• 1296MHz (23 cms)

You may use the apps at any time any mode but all contacts must be simplex and not via repeaters or gateways!

How to achieve the Worked All Postcodes Award

Simple awards will be given for working postcodes as follows

• 30 plus Postcodes - Bronze

• 70 plus Postcodes - Silver

• 120 plus Postcodes - Gold

Logging will be first two characters of a post code with a few exceptions such as Channel Islands and BT postcode

Worked All Postcodes Apps are available on Google Play for Android, App store for Iphone/Ipad.

Worked All Postcodes - http://www.amateur-radio.co.uk

Neil G0WPO - SOTA Mountain Goat

Neil Griffiths G0WPO, from Rochdale in Lancashire, has attained SOTA (Summits on the Air) Mountain Goat status for reaching 1000 activator points.

Neil first became aware of SOTA when hiking over Moel y Gamelin GW/NW-042 in North Wales, and bumping into activation in progress. His first activation was on Cyrn-y-Brain GW/NW-043 in 2015, and Mountain Goat was achieved in the Lake District, on Stony Cove Pike G/LD-018.

Like with many people, SOTA has inspired Neil to brush up on the CW and use that mode in his future activation’s.

SOTA Awards Programme - http://www.sota.org.uk