{"id":242537,"date":"2016-08-18T14:01:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=30556"},"modified":"2016-08-18T14:01:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:01:56","slug":"satellite-operation-during-illw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242537","title":{"rendered":"Satellite operation during ILLW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-29962 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/getting-started-with-amateur-satellites-2016-front-cover.png?w=593\" alt=\"Getting Started with Amateur Satellites 2016 Front Cover\"   \/>Ken Eaton GW1FKY<\/strong> reports the Barry Amateur Radio Society will be active on the amateur radio satellites during <a href=\"http:\/\/illw.net\/\" >International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend<\/a> August 20-21.<\/p>\n<p>The Barry Amateur Radio Society will be operating from a twin pair of lighthouses located at Nash Point situated on the coast of the Bristol Channel &#8211; South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>We will be active from approx. 0700-1600 GMT.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to operating on the HF and VHF bands I also plan to set up my portable satellite equipment for operation and contacts during suitable passes.<\/p>\n<p>Callsign\/Lighthouse as follows:<\/p>\n<p>GC4BRC &#8211; Lighthouse (High) Ref: UK0071<br \/>\nGC4BRS &#8211; Lighthouse (Low)\u00a0 Ref: UK0072<\/p>\n<p>Locator Ref: IO81FJ<br \/>\nQSL Manager: MW0DHF (Philip King)<\/p>\n<p>International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend &#8211; ILLW <a href=\"http:\/\/illw.net\/\" >http:\/\/illw.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The book \u2013 <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/06\/27\/getting-started-with-amateur-satellites-2016\/\" >Getting Started with Amateur Satellites<\/a><\/em><\/strong> \u2013 is now available from the AMSAT-UK shop at <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.amsat-uk.org\/\" >http:\/\/shop.amsat-uk.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A popular antenna for satellite working is the Elk 2m\/70cms Log Periodic available in the AMSAT-UK shop at <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.amsat-uk.org\/ELK_2m70cms_Log_Periodic_Antenna\/p3815740_15628555.aspx\" >http:\/\/shop.amsat-uk.org\/ELK_2m70cms_Log_Periodic_Antenna\/p3815740_15628555.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&#038;blog=41081109&#038;%23038;post=30556&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Eaton GW1FKY reports the Barry Amateur Radio Society will be active on the amateur radio satellites during International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend August 20-21. The Barry Amateur Radio Society will be operating from a twin pair of lighthouses located at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/08\/18\/satellite-operation-during-illw\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&amp;blog=41081109&amp;post=30556&amp;subd=ukamsat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-AMSAT"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242673,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242537\/revisions\/242673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}