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    "subject": "[AMSAT-BB] ANS-310 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for Nov. 6",
    "date": "2022-11-06T00:06:44Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-310\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information\nservice of AMSAT, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes\nnews related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities\nof a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest\nin designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and\ndigital Amateur Radio satellites.\n\nThe news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in\nSpace as soon as our volunteers can post it.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor [at]\namsat.org\n\nYou can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service Bulletins\nvia the ANS List; to join this list see:\nhttps://mailman.amsat.org/postorius/lists/ans.amsat.org/\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* The QO-100 AMSAT-UK/BATC North American Challenge\n* Falconsat-3 Status is altered due to battery issues\n* GreenCube Digipeater Successes Grow\n* VUCC Satellite Standing November 1, 2022\n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for November 3, 2022\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nDATE 2022 November 6\n\nThe QO-100 AMSAT-UK/BATC North American Challenge\n\nAMSAT-UK and the British Amateur Television Club (BATC) announced a new\namateur radio satellite service challenge, The QO-100 AMSAT-UK/BATC North\nAmerican Challenge, during the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium in\nMilton Keynes, U.K. on October 8, 2022. \nThe QO-100 AMSAT-UK/BATC North American Challenge will recognize the first\namateur radio station to successfully achieve a two-way QSO via QO-100\nnarrow band transponder while operating from North America, the first\namateur radio station to achieve 100 QSOs via QO-100 narrow band transponder\nwhile operating from North America, and the first amateur radio station to\nachieve a successful two-way DATV QSO via QO-100 wide band transponder while\noperating from North America.  In addition, subsequent operations from North\nAmerica will also be eligible to apply for a special certificate. \nThe likely operating location from North America would be from St. Johns,\nNewfoundland, maidenhead grid square GN37qm (Lat/Long 47. 5204, -52.6262),\nwhich has a calculated viewing angle of -0.9 degrees elevation.  Being below\nthe horizon, it is expected that tropospheric ducting will be required for\nthe first few miles, as demonstrated by Farid Farhan, YC1HVZ/P, during a\nrecent QO-100 expedition in Indonesia, where he successfully operated\nthrough the QO-100 narrow band transponder from OI42de at -1.2 degrees\nelevation. \nDetail of test being planned, general questions, and claims for trophies and\ncertificates should be submitted to [email protected]. \nEs’hail-2 / AMSAT Phase 4-A / Qatar-OSCAR 100, a joint project by the Qatar\nSatellite Company (Es’hailSat), the Qatar Amateur Radio Society (QARS) and\nAMSAT Deutschland (AMSAT-DL), is the first geostationary amateur radio\ntransponder and links radio amateurs from Brazil to Thailand. \nEs’hail-2/QO-100 carries two “Phase 4” amateur radio transponders operating\nin the 2400 MHz and 10450 MHz bands. A 500 kHz bandwidth linear transponder\nintended for conventional analogue operations and an 8 MHz bandwidth\ntransponder for experimental digital modulation schemes and DVB amateur\ntelevision. \n\nGraham has set up a webpage on the AMSAT-UK website: https://bit.ly/3DR4qTU\n\nThere is also a Youtube video on the AMSAT-UK channel: Direct link is\nhttps://bit.ly/3TUpXkv\n\n[ANS thanks Graham Shirville, G3VZV and Robert Bankston, KE4AL AMSAT\nPresident for the above information]\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nFalconsat-3 Status is altered due to battery issues\n\nMark Hammond writes: \"Telemetry suggests that one cell is very weak,\ntherefore continuous 24/7/365 operations are no longer possible. In support\nof users around the world and the AMSAT PACSAT team (which is currently\nplanning a PACSAT cubesat!), I will plan to try to run Falconsat-3 for about\n24 hours each weekend, with specifics dependent upon the time of day it's\noverhead, work, and recreation!   The orbit precesses about 30 mins every\nday, so the time of day for usable passes cycles. But basically a 24 hour\nuptime every weekend.  There's a pass around 1222UTC today 29 Oct 202, and\nI'll turn it ON with battery management OFF, hoping for about 24 hours of\noperations.   This will continue as long as we reasonably can.  Reentry is\nestimated to be in April 2022.   \nMy best advice is to follow me on Twitter!  It's easy to post when I turn it\nON/OFF, so lately that's been my preferred method of sharing the\ninformation. \nAlso, please update your keps at least once per week, maybe more often.  It\nappears to change enough to warrant this for people using tracking/high gain\ndirectional antennas.   Here is the TLE source I'm using now:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/daily.all\nHope this schedule works for users and the PACSAT team!  Scheduled\noperations seem lke the most beneficial plan for now.\"  \n\n[ANS thanks Mark L. Hammond [N8MH], AMSAT Director and Assistant VP -\nOperations for the above information.]\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n            The 2022 AMSAT President's Club coins have arrived! \n\t\t  To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its launch on \n\t\t\t\tOctober 15, 1972, this year's coin features \n\t\t\t\t\t\tan image of AMSAT-OSCAR 6. \n\t\t  Join the AMSAT President's Club today and help \n\t\t\t\t\t\tKeep Amateur Radio in Space!\n\n\t\t  https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nGreenCube Digipeater Successes Grow\n\nDoug Papay, K8DP, and Scott Chapman, K4KDR were the first to make a complete\ncontact through the GreenCube digipeater. Doug has be journalling the\ngrowing list of stations that have sucessfully digipeated a packet through\nthe Sapienza Space Systems and Space Surveillance Laboratory\n(S5Lab)/AMSAT-IT 3U research satellite. \n\nDoug posts on Twitter that Steve Greene, KS1G, has also completed a contact.\nDrew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, Yoshihisa Hattori, JO1LVZ, Juan Antonio Fernandez\nMontana, EA4CYQ, Nader Omer, ST2NH, Jose Elias Diaz Rodriguez, EB1AO, Davis\nRomero, EA4SG, and Jean Marc Momple, 3B8DU (added by editor) all were\nsuccessfully digipeated by the MEO satellite. Congratulations to all and all\nthat follow! More completed contacts will no doubt be reported soon.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT Doug Papay, K8DP for the above information.]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n     Need new satellite antennas? Purchase Arrows, Alaskan Arrows,\n    and M2 LEO-Packs from the AMSAT Store. When you purchase through\n           AMSAT, a portion of the proceeds goes towards\n                  Keeping Amateur Radio in Space.\n           https://amsat.org/product-category/hardware/\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nVUCC Satellite Standing November 01, 2022\n\nVUCC Satellite Award/Endorsement Change Summary for October 02, 2022 to\nNovember 01, 2022.\n------------------------------------------------------------\nXE2AT                 946     1075\nWD9EWK (DM43)         706      710\nWA4HFN                631      636\nEA2AA                 594      611\nF4BKV                 500      600\nKQ4DO                 533      555\nK5IX                  501      525\nHP2VX                 464      476\nPV8DX                 428      439\nKG0D                  New      415\nN8MR                  320      377\nN8URE (FM19)          364      375\nN5EKO                 281      344\nAB0XE                 225      250\nK3HPA                 225      250\nJK2XXK                200      233\nWD9EWK (DM41)         207      225\nKO9A                  100      222\nKP3V                  139      202\nWA8ZID                176      202\nOE7BJT                150      200\nIK7FMQ                156      190\nKB3IAI                151      175\nW8EH                  101      168\nHC2FG                 150      154\nNK0S                  130      150\nWD9EWK (DM62)         108      130\nAD2DD                 New      125\nK2MJP                 101      125\nAA9VI                 100      122\nKF2T                  100      111\nOZ9AAR                New      100\n------------------------------------------------------------\nCongratulations to the new VUCC holders.\nOZ9AAR is first VUCC  Satellite holder from Denmark and 1st from JO45\n\n73 Jon N7AZ\n\n[ANS thanks Jon Goering, N7AZ, AMSAT VUCC Manager for the above\ninformation.]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n    Want to fly the colors on your own grid expedition?\n            Get your AMSAT car flag and other neat stuff\n                    from our Zazzle store!\n        25% of the purchase price of each product goes\n            towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space\n              https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nARISS NEWS\n\nAmateurs and others around the world may listen in on contacts between\namateurs operating in schools and allowing students to interact with\nastronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. The\ndownlink frequency on which to listen is 145.800 MHz worldwide.\n\nUral State University, Yekaterinburg, Russia, direct via TBD. The ISS\ncallsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS. The downlink frequency is\npresently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz. The scheduled crewmember is TBD.\nContact is go for Sun 2022-11-20 TBD UTC\n\nThe crossband repeater continues to be active.  If any crewmember is so\ninclined, all they have to do is pick up the microphone, raise the volume\nup, and talk on the crossband repeater.  So give a listen, you just never\nknow. \n\nThe latest information on the operation mode can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html\n\nThe latest list of frequencies in use can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors\nand NASA News for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n    AMSAT, along with our ARISS partners, is developing an Amateur\n    Radio package, including two-way communication capability, to\n            be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit.\n\n   Support AMSAT's projects today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nUpcoming Satellite Operations\n\nQuick Hits:\n\nKX9X Will be in EM47 with Ward N0AX the weekend of November 19 for the @arrl\nPhone Sweeptakes. I’ll take some satellite gear and do a few passes. Sats\naren’t the priority this trip but will hand out the grid.\n\nMajor Roves:\n\nSnow-bird rove from 11-02-2022 thru 11-22-2022-ish. Check Twitter for\nupdates.\n\nIn travel order: OR grids: CN82 and DN02\n\nNV grids: DN01, DN10, DN21, DN20, DM29 & 19, DM28 & 18, DM27, DM26.\n\nAZ grids: DM36, DM46, DM45, DM35, DM44, DM34, DM33, DM32.\n\nEmail (QRZ) with desired grid in subj. line for updates. Wayne – W7WGC\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT rover page manager and AMSAT for the\nabove information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for November 3, 2022\n\nNone announced this week.\n\n[ANS thanks Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n\nAMSAT Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating through\namateur satellites, and host information tables at club meetings, hamfests,\nconventions, maker faires, and other events.\n\nNone presently scheduled.\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT Events Page Manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ NASA’s MOXIE experiment on Perseverance has now generated ISRU oxygen\nsuccessfully during many different times of the Martian day and year\n(paper), producing about 6g of oxygen per hour (similar to the production\nrate of a medium-sized tree). NASA life support design requirements specify\n35 g of oxygen per hour for astronauts. [ANS thanks The Orbital Index for\nthe above information.]\n\n+ Under layers of dust, NASA’s Mars InSight lander is fading, but the first\nand only seismometer on Mars had one parting gift for humanity: on May 4th,\na magnitude 4.7 marsquake, one of the largest detected on the red planet.\nRelated: In Issue 189 we talked about InSight’s detection of meteor impacts\non Mars—now we have another one, a magnitude 4 marsquake last December turns\nout to have been due to a significant impact, now spotted by MRO, which\n“excavated boulder-size chunks of ice buried closer to the Martian equator\nthan ever found before.” [ANS thanks The Orbital Index for the above\ninformation.]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nJoin AMSAT today at https://launch.amsat.org/\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership to:\n\n* Societies (a recognized group, clubs or organization).\n* Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at\none-half the standard yearly rate.\n* Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall\nbe eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in\nthis status.\n* Memberships are available for annual and lifetime terms.\n\nContact info [at] amsat.org for additional membership information.\n\n73 and remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space!\n\nThis week's ANS Editor, Jack Spitznagel, KD4IZ\nkd4iz at arrl dot org\n\n\n\n",
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