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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/2ZL6VLLRDHABZWX2Q3J75P6XOP5FCSQV/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "2ZL6VLLRDHABZWX2Q3J75P6XOP5FCSQV", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/2ZL6VLLRDHABZWX2Q3J75P6XOP5FCSQV/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-130 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2015-05-10T02:58:52Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-130\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor-\nmation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite\nCorporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space\nincluding reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur\nRadio operators who share an active interest in designing, building,\nlaunching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio\nsatellites.\n\nThe news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur\nRadio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\nans-editor at amsat.org.\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* Deadline for 2015 TAPR/AMSAT Banquet ticket is Tuesday, May 12th at \n1800 EDT\n* AMSAT at Dayton Hamvention 2015\n* Work Fox-1A at Dayton\n* Top 10 Reasons to Come to Dayton\n* 7th European CubeSat Symposium\n* ISS Ham Video transmitter now transmitting\n* NASA Hosts Media Call on Draft Solicitation for New Class of Launch \nServices\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-130.01\nANS-130 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 130.01\n From AMSAT HQ Kensington, MD.\nMay 10, 2015\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-130.01\n\nDeadline for 2015 TAPR/AMSAT Banquet ticket is Tuesday, May 12th at 1800 EDT\n\nThe speaker at the 2015 TAPR/AMSAT Banquet will be Michael Ossmann, \nAD0NR, on\n\"Adventures of a Hacker Turned Ham.\" Tickets ($35 each) MUST be \npurchased online\nin advance at the AMSAT Store no later than 1800 EDT (2300 UTC) Tuesday, May\n12th. Tickets will not be sold at the Hamvention or at the door.\n\nTickets purchased online may be collected at the AMSAT booth (433-435, \n444-446).\nMore information may be found at http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=190.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Alan, WA4SCA, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT at Dayton Hamvention 2015\n\nThe AMSAT theme for this year is \"Year of The Fox\", as we expect to launch\nboth Fox-1A and Fox-1C in 2015 and we're announcing the plans for Fox-1D and\nFox-1E.\n\nThe AMSAT booth is in the same location inside the Ball Arena as last year,\nin booths 433-435 and 444-446. The Tracking Software Demos (433) and\nEngineering & Education (434-435) are across the aisle from the Beginner's\nCorner (444) and Membership, Books & Shirts (445-446). The closest entrance\nto the AMSAT booth is the Ball Arena entrance (Door 1) at the southeast\ncorner of the building. The satellite QSO demonstrations will be outside\nacross from the entrance to the Ball Arena.\n\nAMSAT Forum\n-----------\nThe AMSAT forum will be Saturday morning from 11:15 a.m. through 1:30 p.m.\nin Forum Room 5, close to the AMSAT booth. See the commercial vendor layout\nmap in the Hamvention program or the Hamvention website for the location of\nForum Room 5 (same as the last few years).\n\nThe following speakers will be presenting at the AMSAT Forum:\n\n+ Moderator: Alan Biddle, WA4SCA\n\n+ \"AMSAT Status Report.\" Barry Baines, WD4ASW, AMSAT-NA President,\n will highlight recent activities within AMSAT and discuss some\n of the challenges, accomplishments, and exciting projects of the\n organization.\n\n+ \"ARISS Report 2015\" Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, AMSAT-NA Vice President\n for Human Spaceflight, will discuss ARISS development & operations\n on the International Space Station.\n\n+ \"AMSAT-NA Fox Satellite Program.\" Jerry Buxton, N0JY, AMSAT-NA\n Engineering Vice President, will discuss the upcoming launches\n of four Fox spacecraft and exciting new engineering developments.\n\n+ \"AMSAT Satellite Operations.\" Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, AMSAT-NA\n Operations Vice President, will discuss current satellites, as\n well as those planned for launch in the next year.\n\n+ \"AMSAT's Skunk Works.\" Tom Clark, K3IO, AMSAT-NA President\n Emeritus, will discuss some innovative R&D items for future\n spacecraft.\n\n+ \"Amateur Satellites, Education, and You!\" EMike McCardel, KC8YLD,\n AMSAT-NA Educational Relations Vice President, will discuss the\n resources and equipment which supports the educational goals of\n AMSAT-NA.\n\nOn-the-air Satellite Demonstrations\n-----------------------------------\n\nKeith Pugh, W5IU and other volunteers will be conducting satellite\ndemonstrations during the Hamvention. They will be demonstrating satellite\noperation using a manual station to work all the currently available FM\nsatellites and SSB satellites. Hamvention has provided us a nice fenced area\nright outside the Ball Arena entrance in which to do our satellite\ndemonstrations. A schedule of satellite passes for the Hamvention will be\navailable in the Beginner's Corner and in the demonstration area.\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Dayton Hamvention Posse for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nWork Fox-1A at Dayton\n\nBring your HT to Dayton Hamvention, you can work each other on the Fox-1\nengineering unit repeater at the AMSAT Engineering Booth!\n\nUplink: 435.180 MHz FM, CTCSS 67.0 Hz\nDownlink: 145.980 MHz FM ± Doppler (which should be minimal)\n\n[ANS thanks Jerry Buxton, N0JY, AMSAT VP Engineering, for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nTop 10 Reasons to Come to Dayton\n\n10. Rub shoulders with 25,000 of your best friends at the largest hamfest\nin the United States, including nearly all of the AMSAT Directors and\nsenior officers.\n\n9. Find out how to organize a contact with the astronauts on the\nInternational Space Station for your local school or youth group from our\nEducation and ARISS experts.\n\n8. Pickup the latest AMSAT golf shirts, T-shirts, and hats. Get your copy\nof the updated \"Amateur Satellite Frequency Guide\" (laminated frequency\nchart) and Gould Smith's just revised \"Getting Started with Amateur\nSatellites\" (book). We'll also have assembled wide-band preamps that are\ngreat for portable operation.\n\n7. See the latest equipment from Icom, Yaesu, Kenwood, Flex, Alinco, M2,\nArrow, and many other manufacturers of amateur radio equipment and\naccessories. Take advantage of discounted pricing you won't find anywhere\nelse.\n\n6. See demonstrations of SatPC32 and MacDoppler satellite tracking\nsoftware, and get your operational questions answered. Meet Don Agro,\nauthor of MacDoppler (Friday & Saturday, 2-3 p.m.). See a demonstration\nof the LVB Tracker, a computer interface to the Yaesu azimuth-elevation\nrotors. Talk with Mike Young, who has built more LVB Trackers than anyone\nelse. Assembled LVB Trackers will be available.\n\n5. Hear the latest on the *five* Fox satellites, the geosynchronous\nrideshare opportunity, the International Space Station, other current and\nfuture satellites, Education news, and an AMSAT update at the AMSAT Forum\nSaturday, from 11:15 to 1:30.\n\n4. Get one-on-one guidance on setting up your satellite station and making\ncontacts at our \"Beginner's Corner\". Witness live demonstrations of\ncontacts through satellites AO-7, FO-29, SO-50, AO-73, and the Fox-1C\nengineering model using handheld antennas.\n\n3. Bring your dual-band HT and listen (on 2m FM) to the Fox-1A engineering\nmodel, and transmit through the model on 70cm. Meet and interact with\nsome of the Engineering Team members working on the Fox-1 satellites.\n\n2. Get satellite station and operating tips from some of the best\nsatellite operators in the country, including John Papay K8YSE (1,405\ngrids confirmed), Doug Papay KD8CAO (1,045 grids), Drew Glasbrenner KO4MA\n(1,036 grids), Paul Stoetzer (444 grids), and Keith Pugh W5IU (ARISS\nMentor).\n\n1. Receive special premiums when you join or renew your AMSAT membership\nat Dayton, including an updated \"Amateur Satellite Frequency Guide\"\n(laminated frequency chart), an AMSAT pen/stylus, and special pricing on\nthe SatPC32 satellite tracking software.\n\n[ANS thanks Steve, N9IP, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n7th European CubeSat Symposium\n\n7th European CubeSat Symposium that will take place at Liège (Belgium) \non 9-11\nSeptember 2015. The Symposium is co-organized by the von Karman \nInstitute and\nthe University of Liege (Space Structures and Systems Laboratory). As in the\nprevious years, the Symposium is open to all CubeSat community around \nthe World.\n\nFor more information and deadlines, please visit the symposium website\nwww.cubesatsymposium.eu\n\nPlease remember to submit your abstract before the 15th June 2015.\nIf you are a student, please apply for the sponsorship before that date.\n\nThe Symposium will be followed by a short course in astrodynamics \norganized by\nthe University of Liège (more information at this link).\n\n[ANS thanks Dr. Masutti for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nISS Ham Video transmitter now transmitting\n\nFriday May 1st, 2015 the Ham Video transmitter on board the Columbus\nmodule of the International Space Station was powered on and started\ntransmitting in \"Blank Transmission\" (BT) mode.\n\nIn this mode, the transmitter is operated without camera. The digital\nTV signal is fully formatted, but the content of the video is black\nand the content of the audio is at zero level. From a technical\nperspective, the BT signal is all that is needed for testing and fine\ntuning ground stations.\n\nThe European network of chained ground stations is presently nearly\ncomplete. Six ground stations span the continent in \"X\" formation.\nFor each ascending pass over Europe, four stations provide about ten\nminutes of solid copy and the same is true for descending passes:\n\n- Ascending passes: Lisbon (Portugal ==> Poitiers (France) ==>\n Casale Monferrato (North Italy ==> Kolo (Poland)\n- Descending passes : Cork (Ireland) ==> Poitiers (France) ==>\n Casale Monferrato (North Italy ==> Matera (South Italy.\n\nThe chained ground stations are streaming the digital video to the\nBATC server (British Amateur Television Club). BATC set up a\nmultiviewer page, accessible at:\n\nhttp://www.batc.tv/iss/\n\nThe page shows all six streams from the chained ground stations. Each\nview can be maximized to full screen and the audio of each stream can\nbe set to level or muted.\n\nPresently, active stations stream technical data provided by the\nsoftware developed by Jean Pierre Courjaud F6DZP. Several data are\nmost interesting to observe:\n- the \"constellations\", which visualize the QPSK (quaternary PSK)\n modulated signal\n- the digital Signal/Noise ratio = MER (dB) (Modulation Error Ratio)\n- the control LEDs that change from red to green on decoding the\n digital signal.\n\nThe Ham Video transmitter frequency is 2395MHz and the symbol rate is \n2.0Ms/sec.\nMore information is available at:\n\nhttp://www.ariss-eu.org/columbus.htm\n\nThe Ham Video transmitter will stay on as long as on board operations\npermit. When the ground stations will be operating reliably, the Ham\nVideo transmitter will be used to enhance ARISS school contacts.\nUplink will remain VHF audio only. This operational mode is dubbed\nARISS Ham TV.\n\n[ANS thanks Gaston, ON4WF, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNASA Hosts Media Call on Draft Solicitation for New Class of Launch Services\n\nNASA's Launch Services Program has issued a draft Request for Proposal \n(RFP) for\na new Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS), which would be commercial launch\nservices for small satellites and experiments on science missions using a\nsmaller than currently available class of rockets.\nNASA Logo\n\nNASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, May 11 to \ndiscuss\nthis strategic initiative, the RFP and the expectation for this class of \nlaunch\nservices.\n\nAt present, launch opportunities for small satellites -- often called \nCubeSats\nor nanosatellites -- and small science missions are mostly limited to \nride-share\ntype arrangements, flying only when space is available on NASA and other\nlaunches. The Launch Services Program seeks to develop alternatives to this\napproach and help foster other launch services dedicated to transporting \nsmaller\npayloads into orbit. The services acquired through such a contract will\nconstitute the smallest class of launch services used by NASA.\n\nParticipants in the media briefing are:\n\n Mark Wiese, chief, Flight Projects Branch, Launch Services Program \nBusiness\n Office, NASA's Kennedy Space Center\n Garrett Skrobot, mission manager, Educational Launch of Nanosatellites\n (ELaNa), Launch Services Program, NASA's Kennedy Space Center\n\nThis solicitation, and resulting contract or contracts, is intended to\ndemonstrate a dedicated launch capability for smaller payloads that NASA\nanticipates it will require on a recurring basis for future science and \nCubeSat\nmissions. CubeSats already are used in markets, such as imagery \ncollection and\nanalysis. In the future, CubeSat capabilities will include abilities, \nsuch as\nship and aircraft tracking, improved weather prediction, and broader \nInternet\ncoverage.\n\nNASA intends to award one or more firm fixed-price VCLS contracts to \naccommodate\n132 pounds (60 kilograms) of CubeSats a single launch or two launches \ncarrying\n66 pounds (30 kilograms) each. The launch provider will determine the launch\nlocation and date, but the launch must occur by April 15, 2018.\n\nTo listen to the media teleconference, call 321-867-1220, 321-867-1240 or\n321-867-1260 or listen online at:\n\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio\n\nMedia may participate in the briefing by calling the Kennedy Space \nCenter news\ncenter at 321-867-2468 within 15 minutes prior to the start of Monday's\nteleconference to obtain a passcode for voice access.\n\nThe draft RFP is open for written questions and comments from industry \nentities\nuntil Wednesday, May 20. The final RFP, if issued, is anticipated to be \nreleased\nin June. The draft RFP may be accessed at:\n\nhttp://go.nasa.gov/1KMTeDR\n\nFor more information about NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative, visit:\n\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/home/CubeSats_initiative.html\n\nNASA's Launch Services Program is focused on assuring the availability \nof long-\nterm launch services for NASA while also promoting the continued \nevolution of\nthe U.S. commercial space launch market. The capability anticipated to \nmeet the\nrequirement for a smaller launch vehicle represents an emerging category of\nlaunch services.\n\nFor more information about NASA's Launch Services Program, visit:\n\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/index.html\n\n[ANS thanks NASA for the above information]\n\n\n/EX\n\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the\nPresident's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining\ndonors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi-\ntional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT\nOffice.\n\nPrimary and secondary school students are eligible for membership\nat one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students\nenrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu-\ndent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status.\nContact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership\ninformation.\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n", "attachments": [] }