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A group of Amateur Radio enthusiasts (Radio Hams) in South Bristol, UK (IO81QK). Our Club callsign is GX4WAW, we also operate GB0WZL, GB0SBM, GB0CCC and GB0SDR. For further information please see: www.sbarc.co.uk

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Published: November 20, 2025 19:50

By way of an update, this course will start next week (w/c 24/11/2025). Tuesdays and Wednesdays are the most popular evening and in the event of a tie between Tuesday and Wednesday (or indeed any other day) Tuesday will be the selected course day Still…

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Published: November 17, 2025 22:12

✉️ [SouthBristolARC-Public] South Bristol Amateur Radio Club - Update #ISS #SSTV Series 30 #ISS #SSTV #sbarc-posts https://SouthBristolARC.groups.io/g/Public/topic/116347305

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Published: November 17, 2025 21:20

Update #ISS #SSTV Series 30 Numerous social media reports were quickly received after about 2 hours into the Series 30 that SSTV Transmissions had stopped. ARISS have been investigating this for a couple of days and have been forced to scrub the…

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Published: November 16, 2025 20:11

Thanks to @arissintl.bsky.social for this update Whilst it is not be what we wanted to hear it is not unexpected. As we said in a previous post any problem that stopped #SSTV from the #ISS for this long was unlikely to be solved in the activity period We…

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Published: November 15, 2025 21:15

Are you a UK Amateur Radio Foundation Licence holder? Do you want to upgrade to Intermediate? If so you need to join the SBARC on-line virtual classroom Intermediate course starting w/c 24/11/2025 For more information and joining instructions see:…

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Published: November 15, 2025 19:43

We will keep watching for any updates, but our uninformed opinion is that any problem that keeps #SSTV from the #ISS off the air for this long is probably not going to be resolved before the scheduled activity period expires We hope the technical teams…

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Published: November 8, 2025 17:47

We will be reviewing our pass predictions and updating our News post following this confirmation of further operational parameters Please keep an eye on https://www.sbarc.co.uk/news/iss-sstv-series-30/ in case more information is forthcoming Thank you to…

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Published: November 3, 2025 19:11

Brilliant, thank you @arissintl.bsky.social Another #ISS #SSTV activity period is almost upon us. See https://www.sbarc.co.uk/news/iss-sstv-series-30/ for pass predictions over #IO81QK @bigbernie.bsky.social @kingnerd1963.bsky.social …

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Published: November 3, 2025 19:02

#ISS #SSTV Series 30 You are encouraged to share this post with your friends, acquaintances, colleagues and family by all channels available to you. News posts, such as this, published on the SBARC website are reposted via a number of other channels…

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Published: October 25, 2025 18:49

2025 On-line UK Amateur radio Intermediate Course You are encouraged to share this post with your friends, acquaintances, colleagues and family by all channels available to you. News posts, such as this, published on the SBARC website are reposted via a…

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Published: October 3, 2025 07:06

We have extended our pass prediction table for the #GX4WAW Clubhouse in #IO81qk to reflect this very welcome @arissintl.bsky.social announcement of an extended #ISS #SSTV activity period, the latest educational contacts and the recent orbit reboost …

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Published: October 1, 2025 08:24

We will rerun the pass predictions for the upcoming #SSTV activity scheduled for 03/10/25 - 06/10/25 to see if this reboost of the #ISS has also affected the passes over the #GX4WAW clubhouse in #IO81qk Check our website for updates probably from…

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Published: September 27, 2025 17:14

Today the South Bristol Amateur Radio Club were at the former Midsomer Norton South railway station operating #GB0SDR as part of Railways on the Air marking the 200th anniversary of the first passenger train service We had great fun and members will be…

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Published: September 25, 2025 13:56

Thanks for the update @arissintl.bsky.social We have updated our Pass Predictions for IO81qk on our website to reflect the advised start time and transmission breaks Any further changes will be reflected there as soon as we can …

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Published: September 11, 2025 13:17

Virtual Foundation Course Success SBARC ran another "virtual classroom" Foundation course during July and August 2025, the first results of the remote invigilated exams are in https://www.sbarc.co.uk/news/club-news/virtual-foundation-course-success/

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Published: September 10, 2025 17:47

Ofcom to Authorise Satellite Connectivity for Standard Smartphones On September 9 2025 Ofcom confirmed that it will move ahead with plans to make the UK the first country in Europe to enable standard smartphones to connect to satellites using mobile…

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Published: August 31, 2025 15:02

Two Possible #SSTV Activity Periods From the #ISS are being Scheduled The ARISS team plans two short SSTV activiations in October 2025, each running from Friday to Monday. Participants who receive and submit at least one SSTV image to the gallery can earn…

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Published: August 4, 2025 00:39

VHF Field Day 2025 – Results Published VHF Field Day 2025 took place over the weekend of 5/7 July 2025. The deadline for log submission was 14 July 2025 and the Contest Committee has since been analysing the logs. See how we got on.…

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Published: July 24, 2025 14:55

Oooh! More #ISS #HamRadio excitement Much more specialised than the recent #SSTV activity there will be some people with the capability to receive the test signals and report so if you can please do [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 24, 2025 11:56

We think at least one of our members has a certificate but they're keeping it under their hat having made their last Bluesky post on the subject of the Series 28 #SSTV event from the #ISS For anyone else who took part and uploaded to the…

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Published: July 15, 2025 19:33

Given that this authored or edited by the ARRL Handbook editor, it is probably going to have a USA bias. But it'll probably translate well enough to be of interest [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 14, 2025 20:16

We can confirm that at least one of our members has received #SSTV images from the #ISS this evening (Monday 14 July 2025) in IO81OK Looking forward to more reception this week Thank you @arissintl.bsky.social #STEM #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #HamR…

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Published: July 14, 2025 10:29

48th International Amateur Radio Exhibition Held over 27 - 29 June 2025 at Messe Friedrichshafen under the banner "Remote Radio - Connecting the World" the organisers have released some preliminary figures from the event…

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Published: July 12, 2025 18:28

We caught the start time change in an earlier post and have already updated our IO81QK pass predictions at https://www.sbarc.co.uk/news/ariss-sstv-activity-from-the-iss-14-20-july-2025/ We're trying to work one reception period into our current Foundation…