MKARS Projects

MKARS has a number of club projects, some of which take place during shack nights and club workshops and others which are done jointly or individually by members.

The two most famous projects are the 80m QRP MKARS80 (pronounced "em cars 80") transceiver which bares the clubs name and the more advanced Pic-A-Star HF transciever which has been shown to compete, and in many cases better, considerably more expensive commercial transceivers.

MKARS80 Details of the MKARS80 80M SSB transceiver Pic-A-Star Details of the Pic-A-Star HF transceiver

Below are some examples of a completed MKARS80 (M0TIF)
and a completed Pic-A-Star (M1EPM)

WRTC 2018 teams produce amazing contact totals despite poor conditions

A crack team of contesters from Lithuania has won the gold medal in World Radiosport Team Championship 2018 (WRTC 2018), held over the weekend in Germany

SOTABEAMS adds 'Summer Holiday Mode' to their WSPRlite system

SOTABEAMS has issued a major firmware upgrade for their WSPRlite antenna testing system. Since its release a little under two years ago the WSPRlite system has become a popular way for DXers to compare antenna systems

NanoRacks completes external Cygnus deployment

On Tuesday evening, NanoRacks successfully deployed six CubeSats from the Company's CubeSat deployer mounted on the outside of the Cygnus spacecraft. This brings the overall count to 223 small satellites deployed into low-Earth orbit