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08/08/2016 | New SO-50 Distance Record Set in Youth DX Adventure Contact
When Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK, in Phoenix, Arizona, worked Faith Hannah Lea, AE4FH — on Saba and operating as PJ6Y — the contact broke the distance record on the SO-50 (SaudiSat) satellite.
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04/30/2015 | AMSAT to Roll Out Updated Edition of Getting Started with Amateur Satellites
The 2015 edition of Getting Started with Amateur Satellites by Gould Smith, WA4SXM, will be available from AMSAT at Dayton Hamvention.
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11/10/2014 | AMSAT Celebrates 40 Years in Space for AO-7
AMSAT Celebrates 40 Years in Space for AO-7.
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07/01/2014 | NASA Astronaut’s ISS Field Day Operation Puts Smiles on Several Faces
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, KF5LKT, got on the air from NA1SS on the ISS for Field Day.
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06/29/2013 | Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK, Named AMSAT’s Director of Field Operations
WD9EWK will manage AMSAT's network of area coordinators
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12/03/2008 | ARISS to Celebrate 25 Years of Amateur Radio in Space with Special Events
Twenty-five years ago this week, Owen Garriott, W5LFL, made history by being the first Amateur Radio operator to talk to hams from space. His historic flight on STS-9 on board the Space Shuttle Columbia was launched on November 28 and landed on D
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