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    "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-087 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2016-03-27T05:30:20Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-087\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* EO-79 transponder ACTIVE\n* Digital Communications Conference Call for Papers\n* Call for Papers - CSVHFS 50th Anniversary Conference\n* AMSAT at Scottsdale AZ and Radio Society of Tucson Hamfests\n* Upcoming AMSAT Events\n* Proposal Window for Scheduled US Contacts is Still Open\n* SA AMSAT Gets New Name\n* 40 Students Learn About Amateur Radio and Satellites\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-087.01\nANS-087 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 087.01\n>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nMarch 27, 2016\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-087.01\n\n\nEO-79 transponder ACTIVE\n\nOn the 25th of March 2016, the EO-79 transponder was activated for a\nprolonged period.\n\nThe FUNcube transponder subsystem on QB50p1 (EO-79) had been\nprovided by AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL and is a similar subsystem as on\nFUNcube-1, but without the telemetry downlink circuitry.\n\nThe current software running on EO-79 does experience occasional\nreboots. When these reboots happen, the transponder is automatically\nturned off and will have to be turned back on by a command station.\nThe FUNcube team has selected a few command stations to do so, but be\nadvised the transponder may be off.\n\nTLEs:\nAMSAT keps name: EO-79\nCelestrak keps Name: QB50P1\nCelestrak file: cubesat.txt\nNORAD #    40025\nCOSPAR designator    2014-033-R\n\nFrequencies:\nUplink: 435.035-435.065 MHz LSB\nDownlink: 145.935-145.965 MHz USB\n\nEO-79 has been set to only beacon the normal AX.25 beacon every 30\nseconds instead of 10 seconds. The beacon frequency is 145.815MHz and\nconsists of AX.25 frames on BPSK. more details about the downlink can\nbe found on the ISIS HAM page at http://isispace.nl/HAM/qb50p.html\n\nJust like FUNcube-1, the crystal oscillator circuits exhibit drift\nwith temperature. This means manual tuning will probably work best.\n\nLastly, the commanding team availability will be limited over\nEaster, so please report the transponder being on or off on the\nstatus page of AMSAT: http://www.amsat.org/status/\n\nIt does not appear in the table, but it does in the reporting drop-\ndown.\n\n[ANS thanks Wouter PA3WEG  AMSAT-NL and AMSAT-UK for the above\n information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nDigital Communications Conference Call for Papers\n\nTechnical papers are solicited for presentation at the 35th Annual\nARRL/TAPR<http://www.tapr.org/> Digital Communications Conference\n(DCC) http://www.tapr.org/dcc.html, to be held September 16-18 in St\nPetersburg, Florida. Papers will also be published in the Conference\nProceedings. Authors do not need to attend the conference to have\ntheir papers included in the Proceedings. The submission deadline is\nJuly 31, 2016.\n\nThe ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference is an international\nforum for technically minded radio amateurs to meet and present new\nideas and techniques. Paper/presentation topic areas include -- but\nare not limited to -- software defined radio (SDR), digital voice,\ndigital satellite communication, digital signal processing (DSP), HF\ndigital modes, adapting IEEE 802.11 systems for Amateur Radio, Global\nPositioning System (GPS), Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS),\nLinux in Amateur Radio, AX.25 updates and Internet operability with\nAmateur Radio networks.\n\nSubmit papers to via e-mail<mailto:[email protected]> or via post to\nMaty Weinberg, KB1EIB, ARRL, 225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111. Papers\nwill be published exactly as submitted, and authors will retain all\nrights.\n\n[ANS thanks Steve WBIMY for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCall for Papers - CSVHFS 50th Anniversary Conference\n\nThe Central States VHF Society is soliciting papers, presentations,\nand Poster displays for the 50th Annual CSVHFS Conference to be held\nin Rochester, Minnesota on 28 - 31 July, 2016.  Papers,\npresentations, and Posters on all aspects of weak-signal VHF and\nabove amateur radio are requested.  You do not need to attend the\nconference, nor present your paper, to have it published in the\nProceedings. Posters will be displayed during the two days of the\nConference.\n\nTopics of interest include (but are not limited to):\n\n* Antennas, including Modeling/Design, Arrays, and Control\n* Construction of equipment, such as Transmitters, Receivers, and\n  Transverters\n* RF amplifiers (power amps), including Single-band and Multiband\n  Vacuum Tube and solidstate\n* Pre-amplifiers (low noise)\n* Propagation, including Ducting, Sporadic E, and Meteor Scatter, etc.\n* Test Equipment, including Homebrew, Using, and making measurements\n* Regulatory topics\n* Operating, including Contesting, Roving, and DXpeditions\n* EME\n* Digital Signal Processing (DSP)\n* Software-defined Radio (SDR)\n* Digitial Modes, such as WSJT, JT65, etc.\n\nGenerally, topics not related to weak signal VHF, such as FM\nRepeaters and packet radio, are not accepted for presentation or\npublication. However, there are always exceptions.\n\nPlease contact either the Technical Program Chairman, or the\nProceedings Chairman, at the the e-mail addresses below.\n\nDEADLINES FOR SUBMISSIONS:\nFor the Proceedings: SUNDAY, 22 MAY 2016\nFor Presentations to be delivered at the conference: TUESDAY, 5 JULY\n2016 For Posters to be displayed at the conference: THURSDAY, 29\nJULY 2016.\n\nFurther information is available at the CSVHFS web site\n(www.csvhfs.org),\n\"The 2016 Conference,\"\n\"Guidance for Proceedings Authors,\"\n\"Guidance for Presenters,\"\n\"Guidance for Table-top/Poster Displays.\"\n\nCONTACTS:\n(Note: (replace '(at)' with the @-sign to use the e-mail addresses)\nTechnical Program Chairman: Barry Malowanchuk, ve4ma (at) shaw.ca\nProceedings Chairman: Glen Overby, kc0iyt (at) arrl.net\n\n[ANS thanks Donn Baker, WA2VOI for the above information]\n\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT at Scottsdale AZ and Radio Society of Tucson Hamfests\n\nPatrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) staffed a table at the Scottsdale\nAmateur Radio Club's \"Springfest\" hamfest, held in a church parking\nlot Saturday, 19 March). This hamfest is one of the 3 major hamfests\nfor the Phoenix area in the non-summer season, and the good weather\nhelped to bring the crowds out. Lots of buyers and sellers, and lots\nof interest in AMSAT and amateur satellites.\n\nWith the launches of AO-85 and the 9 Chinese amateur satellites in\nthe past 6 months, many hams are taking a closer look at this part of\nthe hobby. For some, the recent launches and projects currently in\nthe pipeline are bringing some back to the satellites. Along with\ntalking about satellites, many copies of AMSAT's \"Getting Started\nwith Amateur Satellites\" flew off my AMSAT table. Demonstrations 6am\n(1300 UTC) and 11am (1800 UTC), had nice crowds.\n\nPatrick reports \"It was nice to have AO-85 available during the\nmorning, as SO-50 was not passing by during the morning. I also had 4\nother satellites that were used for demonstrations - AO-73, XW-2A, XW-\n2C, and XW-2F. The three XW-2 satellites were passing by in the first\ncouple of hours, and AO-73 and AO-85 came by later in the morning.\nFor all of these passes, I used my SDRplay SDR receiver for the\ndownlinks, connected to an 8-inch Windows10 tablet and HDSDR software\nrunning on the tablet.\n\nAs I have seen at other recent events, using an SDR receiver makes\nfor more conversations - and not just in the context of working\nsatellites. With all of these satellites employing a 70cm uplink and\n2m downlink, I didn't have to worry so much about the sunlight making\nthe tablet's LCD panel unreadable. Once I set my downlink frequency\non the tablet, and for AO-85 activate AFC in HDSDR to track the\ndownlink, I only had to worry about using the wheel on a Bluetooth\nmouse for fine-tuning. Despite some QRM in the area of the hamfest\nsite, northeast of a nearby airport, the SDRplay did a decent job\nhearing all of these downlinks. For AO-73 and AO-85, I was able to\nplay back the RF recordings I made with HDSDR later at home, so I\ncould upload telemetry to each satellite's telemetry server from\nthose passes. By the way, HDSDR's recordings do a much better job\npicking up AO-73 telemetry than I ever saw when I used the FUNcube\nDashboard to directly receive the telemetry and then upload the data\nto the FUNcube data warehouse server. Same thing for copying AO-85\ntelemetry - HDSDR's RF recordings do better for capturing the data\nthan I saw when using the FoxTelem software to directly control my\nFUNcube Dongle Pro+.\"\n\nFor those who worked WD9EWK during those demonstrations, Patrick\nthanks you! The demonstrations make a positive impression on this\npart of the hobby for the crowds. His mockup of the AO-85 satellite -\na 4-inch cube of wood, with two whips representing the antennas\ncoming out of two sides, also helped to reinforce that small\nsatellites can do more than \"beep\" in orbit. AO-73 and AO-85, in\nparticular, are great examples of what we can do with small\nsatellites. Patrick's contacts from these demonstartions were\nuploaded to his log to Logbook of the World. He will be happy to send\nQSL cards to anyone who would like one for QSOs during the hamfest\n(just e-mail Patrick with the QSO details - no need to send him a\ncard or self-addressed stamped envelope).\n\nPatrick will have an AMSAT table at the Radio Society of Tucson's\nannual hamfest on Saturday morning, 26 March 2016. The hamfest will\nbe at the Target store on Old Spanish Trail, near the intersection of\n22nd Street and Harrison, in Tucson AZ. The hamfest is scheduled to\nrun from 6am to 11am (1300 to 1800 UTC). More information about the\nhamfest is available at the club's web site at:\nhttp://www.k7rst.org/\n\nAfterwards he plans on making a long drive east to a point along I-\n10 on the DM52xf/DM62af grid boundary, west of Deming in New Mexico.\nHe hopes to work a few passes from there in the mid- to late-\nafternoon, and possibly into the evening. If he is not at the grid\nboundary in time for FO-29 and/or AO-7 passes, he may stop to work\nthose passes wherever he might be - likely somewhere in grid DM52, in\neither Arizona or New Mexico. He definitely plans on being at this\ngrid boundary in time for SO-50 passes starting just after 2200 UTC\nSaturday afternoon. Weather and law enforcement permitting (this area\nis near the USA/Mexico border), He may try to stick around into the\nearly evening before making the 300-mile/500km drive home from that\narea.\n\nWhile on the road, his location should be visible via APRS. There is\ngood APRS coverage in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New\nMexico. He will use WD9EWK-9 as his call sign for APRS, which should\nshow up online at (among other sites):\nhttp://aprs.fi/WD9EWK-9\n\nHe will use my @WD9EWK Twitter feed to post updates during the\nafternoon and early. For those who don't use Twitter he can be\nfollowed using a web browser:\nhttp://twitter.com/WD9EWK\n\nContacts will be uploaded to his log to Logbook of the World, and\nwill ensure QSOs from the grid boundary carry both grids. If you\nwould like a QSL card for a QSO with WD9EWK, please e-mail Patrick\ndirectly with the QSO details. If you're in the log, he will be happy\nto mail you a card without you having to send him a QSL card or SASE.\n\n[ANS thanks Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK for the above information]\n\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUpcoming AMSAT Events\n\nAMSAT Events\n\nInformation about AMSAT activities at other important events around\nthe country. Examples of these events are radio club meetings where\nAMSAT Area Coordinators give presentations, demonstrations of working\namateur satellites, and hamfests with an AMSAT presence (a table with\nAMSAT literature and merchandise, sometimes also with presentations,\nforums, and/or demonstrations).\n\n+ Saturday, 26 March 2016 – Tucson Spring Hamfest in Tucson AZ\n\n+ Friday through Sunday, 29 April-1 May 2016, ARRL Nevada State\n  Convention in Las Vegas NV\n\n+ Saturday, 7 May 2016 – Cochise Amateur Radio Association Hamfest in\n  Sierra Vista AZ\n\n+ Saturday, 14 May 2016 – Matanuska Amateur Radio Association Hamfest\n  in Wasilla AK\n\n+ Friday through Sunday, 20, 21, 22 May 2016 - AMSAT at Dayton\n  Hamvention. There will be the usual activities including a booth in\n  the Ball Arena, demonstrations from an area outside the Ball Arena,\n  and a forum on Saturday (21 May).  We will also have a number of\n  both formal and informal social activities including the popular\n  get-together at Tickets Thursday evening, and the TAPR/AMSAT banquet\n  Friday night at the Kohler Presidential Banquet Center.\n\n+ Saturday, 4 June 2016 – White Mountain Hamfest in Show Low AZ\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nProposal Window for Scheduled US Contacts is Still Open\n\nMessage to US Educators\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station\nContact Opportunity\n\nCall for Proposals\nProposal Window February 15 – April 15, 2016\n\nThe Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program\nis seeking formal and informal education institutions and\norganizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur\nRadio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS anticipates\nthat the contact would be held between January 1, 2017 and June 30,\n2017. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact\ndates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is\nlooking for organizations that will draw large numbers of\nparticipants and integrate the contact into a well-developed\neducation plan.\n\nThe deadline to submit a proposal is April 15, 2016. Proposal\ninformation and documents can be found at\nwww.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact.\n\nThe Opportunity\nCrew members aboard the International Space Station will participate\nin scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are\napproximately 10 minutes in length and allow students and educators\nto interact with the astronauts through a question-and-answer\nsession.\n\nAn ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via\nAmateur Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space\nstation and classrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford\neducation audiences the opportunity to learn firsthand from\nastronauts what it is like to live and work in space and to learn\nabout space research conducted on the ISS. Students also will have an\nopportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless\ntechnology, and radio science. Because of the nature of human\nspaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the\nISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate\nchanges in contact dates and times.\n\nAmateur Radio organizations around the world, NASA, and space\nagencies in Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe sponsor this educational\nopportunity by providing the equipment and operational support to\nenable direct communication between crew on the ISS and students\naround the world via Amateur Radio. In the US, the program is managed\nby AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation) and ARRL (American\nRadio Relay League) in partnership with NASA.\n\nMore Information\nInterested parties can find more information about the program at\nwww.ariss.org and www.arrl.org/ARISS.\n\nFor proposal information and more details such as expectations,\nproposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of\nInformation Sessions go to\nhttp://www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact.\n\nPlease direct any questions to [email protected].\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSA AMSAT Gets New Name\n\nSA AMSAT has changed the SA in  its name around and will now be\nknown as  AMSAT SA.  The amateur radio satellite group made the\ndecision to line up its name with the organisation's web address. It\nwas confusing having the name and web address different. It now also\nfollows the international trend of other AMSAT organisations. AMSAT\nSA has also been registered as a non-profit company and is in the\nprocess of applying for tax exemption status with SARS.\nMembership conditions of the organisation remain the same. To get\nmore information visit the www.amsatsa.org.za or down load a free\ncopy of the March 2016 Ezine available from Monday 28 March 2016\n\n[ANS thanks the South African Radio League (SARL) News for Sunday 27\nMarch 2016 for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n40 Students Learn About Amateur Radio and Satellites\n\nOn Wednesday last week 40 leaners from schools around Pretoria\nattended a morning workshop about amateur radio and satellites. The\nworkshop was part of the Innovation Hub holiday programme during\nwhich grade 10 and 11 leaners are exposed to various work and science\nsituations. AMSAT SA was invited to talk about space related\nactivities. The workshop was presented by Nico van Rensburg ZS6QL and\nHans van de Groenendaal ZS6AKV. The workshop started with a talk\nabout amateur radio illustrated by short video clips. During\npractical demonstrations the learners were shown how a transponder\nworks, how satellites orbit around the world and how antennas are\nused to track satellites including using smartphone applications.\n\n[ANS thanks the South African Radio League (SARL) News for Sunday 27\nMarch 2016 for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Booker T. Washington Senior\nHigh, Miami, Florida, USA and Astronaut Timothy Peake KG5BVI using\nCallsign NA1SS. The contact began 2016-03-14 15:48 UTC and lasted\nabout nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via W4SVI.\nARISS Mentors were Steve W1HQL and Ryan W4NTR.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Walter Jackson Elementary,\nDecatur, Alabama, USA and Astronaut Timothy Peake KG5BVI using\nCallsign NA1SS. The contact began 2016-03-18 13:53 UTC and lasted\nabout nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via N8DEU.\nARISS Mentor was John K4SQC\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule\n\nHirano Junior High School, Kobe, Japan, direct via  8N370H\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS\nThe scheduled  astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN\nContact is a go for: Mon 2016-03-28 11:07:49 UTC 56 deg\n\nNational Soaring Museum, Elmira, New York, telebridge via IK1SLD\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI\nContact is a go  for: Fri 2016-04-01 18:34:03 UTC\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\nInternational Space Station Panoramic Tour\n\nThis 360° panorama allows you to explore the International Space\nStation’s third module, Zvezda. Launched on 12 July 2000, the Russian\nmodule supplies life support for the Station and crewquarters. All\nfive of Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicles docked with the module.\nThe images to create this view were taken by ESA astronaut Samantha\nCristoforetti during her Futura mission in 2015; the cosmonaut in the\npicture is Gennady Padalka.\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS087-Zvezda\n\n[ANS thanks the European Space Agency for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n/EX\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,\nEMike McCardel, AA8EM (former KC8YLD)\nkc8yld at amsat dot org\n",
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