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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-060\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* ISS SSTV in a Brazilian School\n* Space Station SSTV and Packet Radio via SUWS WebSDR\n* SSTV From the ISS Completed This Week\n* CubeSats Offered Deep-space Ride on ESA Asteroid Probe\n* Live Broadcast of Space Launch System Booster Test Firing\n* ARISS SSTV Diploma Available\n* AMSAT at the Yuma Hamfest Wrapup Report\n* Central States VHF Society Call for Papers\n* AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-060.01\nANS-060 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 060.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE March 8, 2015\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-060.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nISS SSTV in a Brazilian School\n\n\nOne of the members of the newly formed Brazil's AMSAT-BR group, Paulo,\nPV8DX, demonstrated amateur radio on Monday, February 23, 2015 at the\nGonçalves Dias school when he demonstrated receiving an ISS SSTV picture on\n145.800 MHz FM.\n\nThe ISS pass he received did not produce a strong signal and only part of\nthe picture was captured but as can be seen from the video the students were\nenthusiastic and excited to be receiving a signal from space.\n\nPaulo expressed the hope that the ISS will send images on school days more\noften.\n\nAMSAT-BR\nhttps://sites.google.com/site/amsatbr/\n\nInformation on receiving ISS SSTV\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2015/02/11/more-iss-slow-scan-tv/\n\n\n[ANS thanks Paulo, PV8DX and AMSAT-BR for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSpace Station SSTV and Packet Radio via SUWS WebSDR\n\n\nMartin Ehrenfried G8JNJ reports excellent SSTV and Packet Radio signals from\nthe International Space Station (ISS) using the online SUWS WebSDR.\n\nThe omni-direction helix antennas at the WebSDR were designed with high\nelevation satellites in mind. Conventional antennas concentrate the \nradiation\npattern towards the horizon resulting in weaker signals when a satellite is\nabove 15 degrees elevation. Comparisons with other WebSDRs show the SUWS\nantennas provide a 6 to 10dB better signal to noise ratio on similar passes.\n\nMartin says: “I had been experimenting with single turn ‘twisted halo’ \ndesign,\nand decided to try stacking them to see if I could achieve more gain. \nModelling\nsuggested that a stretched 3 turn helix with a helix circumference of approx\n1/2 wave length and an overall length of 1/2 wave at 70cm, and fed with \na gamma\nmatch at the centre would offer reasonable gain, an omni-directional pattern\nand mixed polarisation.”\n\nYou can use the free online SUWS Web Software Defined Radio from your PC or\nLaptop to receive the ISS and the many amateur radio satellites \ntransmitting in\nthe 144-146 MHz or 435-438 MHz bands. It also provides reception of High\nAltitude Balloons in the 434 MHz band and coverage of the microwave \n10368-10370\nMHz band.\n\nThe SUWS WebSDR is located at Farnham not far from London, 51.3 N 1.15 W,\nlisten to it at\nhttp://websdr.suws.org.uk/\n\nFull details of the antennas are available at\nhttp://g8jnj.webs.com/currentprojects.htm\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSSTV From the ISS Completed This Week\n\n\nFollowing a short delay in amateur radio operations aboard the ISS due to\nschedule changes in EVA activity, the Slow Scan Television transmissions\nwere sent on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, February 22-24. The transmissions\noriginated from the Russian segment of the ISS using a modified Kenwood\nradio and an external antenna on the ISS. The callsign of RS0ISS was used.\n\nSSTV signals received on 145.800 MHz using the PD180 high resolution mode\nfeatured 12 different photos of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Also\nincluded was a photo of a commemorative diploma created by the National\nPolish Amateur Radio Society celebrating the 80th anniversary of Gagarin's\nbirthday.\n\nImages received by radio amateurs world-wide may be viewed on-line at:\nhttp://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/\n\nAMSAT-UK provides a good reference page to prepare amateur radio operators\nto set up their stations for future SSTV events from the ISS:\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2015/02/11/more-iss-slow-scan-tv/\n\nEnthusiastic comments posted on amsat-bb indicated world-wide success:\n\nFer, IW1DTU wrote, \"ISS SSTV, strong signal.\"\n\nRoland, PY4ZBZ wrote, \"Picture received in Brazil 22 feb 2015:\nhttp://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/satelite/Hist33.jpg\n\nKen, GW1FKY commented, \"Received very strong and clear pictures using my\nKenwood THD-7 on a\npass 1416 hrs plus, at my QTH in Wales UK. This was despite very heavy rain\nand severe flooding in the area.\n\nGreg, KO6TH wrote, \"I've never received a clearer SSTV picture from\nanywhere, let alone outer space! Using a Yaesu FT-847 and MMSSTV software\nrunning under Wine on my OpenSuSE Linux box.\"\n\nSteve, AI9IN wrote, \"Just got a nice download of picture 12/12 Series 1 from\nISS. Have a 5/8 wave vertical on the roof going to an old Yaesu 2 m\nmulti-mode used MMSSTV. My first SSTV from the ISS!\"\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCubeSats Offered Deep-Space Ride on ESA Asteroid Probe\n\n\nThink of it as the ultimate hitchhiking opportunity: ESA is offering \nCubeSats\na ride to a pair of asteroids in deep space. CubeSats are among the smallest\ntypes of satellites: formed in standard cubic units of 10 cm per side, they\nprovide affordable access to space for small companies, research \ninstitutes and\nuniversities. One-, two- or three-unit CubeSats are already being flown.\n\nTeams of researchers and companies from any ESA Member State are free to\ncompete. The selected CubeSats will become Europe's first to travel beyond\nEarth orbit once the Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) is launched in \nOctober 2020.\n\n\"AIM has room for a total of six CubeSat units,\" explains Ian Carnelli,\nmanaging the mission for ESA. \"So potentially that might mean six \ndifferent one-\nunit CubeSats could fly, but in practice it might turn out that two \nthree-unit\nCubeSats will be needed to produce meaningful scientific return.\n\n\"We're looking for innovative ideas for CubeSat-hosted sensors that will \nboost\nand complement AIM's own scientific return.\n\n\"We also intend to use these CubeSats, together with AIM itself and its\nasteroid lander, to test out intersatellite communications networking.\n\n\"ESA's SysNova initiative will be applied to survey a comparatively large\nnumber of alternative solutions, this competition framework giving \nindustry and\nuniversities the opportunity to work together on developing their scientific\ninvestigations in a field that is the technological cutting edge.\"\n\nBeginning its preliminary Phase-A/B design work next month, ESA's AIM\nspacecraft will be humanity's first mission to a binary system - the paired\nDidymos asteroids, which come a comparatively close 11 million km to \nEarth in\n2022. The 800 m-diameter main body is orbited by a 170 m moon.\n\nAIM will perform high-resolution visual, thermal and radar mapping of the\nmoon. It will also put down a lander - ESA's first touchdown on a small body\nsince Rosetta's Philae landed on a comet last November.\n\nAIM also represents ESA's contribution to a larger international effort, the\nAsteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission.\n\nThe NASA-led Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) probe will impact the\nsmaller body, while AIM will perform detailed before-and-after mapping,\nincluding pinpointing any shift in the asteroid's orbit.\n\n\"While it will return invaluable science,\" adds Ian, \"AIM is conceived as a\ntechnology demonstration mission, testing out various technologies and\ntechniques needed for deep space expeditions in future.\n\n\"These include two-way high-bandwidth optical communications - with data \nbeing\nreturned via laser beam to ESA's station in Tenerife - as well as\nintersatellite links in deep space and low-gravity lander operations.\n\n\"Once demonstrated, these capabilities will be available to future \ndeep-space\nendeavours, such as Lagrange-point observatories returning large amounts of\ndata and sample return missions to Phobos - and ultimately Mars - as well as\ncrewed missions far beyond Earth orbit.\"\n\nThe chance to put forward CubeSats is being organised as a SysNova\ncompetition, an initiative by ESA's General Studies Programme - which is\nrunning the AIM project - to compare innovative solutions to space mission\nchallenges.\n\nInterested teams can get more information from the published announcement of\nopportunity. As a next step, qualified teams can submit initial 'challenge\nresponses' describing their proposed mission concepts and how they \naddress the\ndefined technical challenges associated with operating such small spacecraft\nclose to an asteroid.\n\nThe winning submissions will then be funded by ESA for further study \nover the\nnext seven months, following up with a final review at ESA's ESTEC technical\ncentre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The victors will then work with ESA to\nelaborate their designs, including sessions at ESTEC's Concurrent Design\nFacility.\n\nhttp://www.spacedaily.com/reports/CubeSats_offered_deep_space_ride_on_ESA_\nasteroid_probe_999.html\n\n\n[ANS thanks the Staff Writers at Spacedaily.com for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nLive Broadcast of Space Launch System Booster Test Firing\n\n\nDid you know that NASA is building the largest solid propellant rocket\nbooster in the world? NASA will test this booster, designated Qualification\nMotor-1, or QM-1, on March 11, 2015, at the Orbital ATK test facility in\nPromontory, Utah. The test is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. EDT.\n\nQM-1 is a five-segment solid propellant booster that will help power the\nSpace Launch System. The two-minute, full-duration static test is a huge\nmilestone for the SLS Program and will qualify the booster design for\nhigh-temperature conditions. This type of test typically comes only after\nmultiple years of development and signifies major progress being made on the\nrocket. Once this test and a second, low-temperature test planned for early\n2016 are complete, the hardware is qualified and ready for the first flight\nof SLS.\n\nNASA's Space Launch System will be used to help send humans to deep space\ndestinations like an asteroid and Mars. SLS is an advanced, heavy-lift\nlaunch vehicle that will provide an entirely new capability for science and\nhuman exploration beyond Earth's orbit. The SLS will give the nation a means\nto reach beyond our current limits and open new doors of discovery from the\nunique vantage point of space.\n\nThe test will be streamed at\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html\nand broadcast on NASA TV.\nPlease make plans to watch with your students and colleagues.\n\nTo learn more about the Space Launch System, visit\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/\n\n\n[ANS thanks the NASA Education Express Message -- Feb. 26, 2015 for the\nabove information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS SSTV Diploma Available\n\n\nRadio amateurs from Poland created a diploma commemorating the SSTV activity\nfrom the International Space Station on the occasion of the 80th \nanniversary of\nJuri Gagarin's birthday. This homage to the first man in space coincides \nwith\nthe 85th anniversary of the Polish Amateur Radio Union (PZK), established\nFebruary 24th, 1930. A photo of the diploma is included in the series of\npictures transmitted from the International Space Station.\n\nIf you wish to receive a printed version of the individual commemorative\ndiploma with your name, surname and call sign, we cordially invite you \nto share\nyour images received from the ISS. For this purpose please upload received\nimages to the website\n\nhttp://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php\n\nand e-mail a report to the coordinator (address e-mail is below) with your\nworking conditions, equipment and antennas, used for reception of the \nsignals\nfrom, the ISS. Please mention your first and last names, your call sign and\nyour locator. Some published photos will possibly be used in the future \nfor an\neducational purpose.  If you publish pictures on the page above you \nagree with\nthis.\n\n From Polish stations we expect a complete audio record (containing the SSTV\nsignal and the background noise as well) of the whole ISS pass over the\nstation. It would be great to receive a similar report from all \nparticipants,\nbut this is not required. However, if you decide to share audio, please \nput a\ntime stamp at the end of the recording, with a precision up to 1 second, \ne g\n23:51:54 UTC.\n\nReports are to be sent to [email protected]. As subject please\nmention SSTV3ISS [YOUR CALLSIGN] [LOCATOR].\n\nIf you capture and post the picture of the Polish diploma, you can ask for a\nspecial QSL card commemorating the 85th anniversary of PZK. For this \npurpose,\nplease send a separate request to [email protected]. As subject\nplease mention QSL1RS0ISS [YOUR CALLSIGN].\n\nQSL cards and certificates will be sent via QSL bureau. If you wish to \nreceive\nthem via traditional mail or if you are not served by a QSL bureau, \nplease send\nan empty self-addressed envelope and two IRC (international reply \ncoupons) to:\n\nZespol Szkol Technicznych\nARISS\nul. Poznanska 43\n63-400 Ostrow Wielkopolski\nPoland\n\nWe are looking forward to your reports and requests until March 4th at 23:59\nUTC.\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, and Jurek Jakubowski, SP7CBG, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT at the Yuma Hamfest Wrapup Report\n\n\nAMSAT Vice President for Field Operations, Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK,\nwrites a little about the two-day Yuma Hamfest that he attended\nwith an AMSAT booth. \"This hamfest has become (I think) the largest\nin Arizona, and I heard that over 1000 hams attended. It draws hams\nfrom all over Arizona, California, Nevada, and the \"snowbirds\" from\nother parts of the US and Canada. And a few hams came up from\nnorthern Mexico to join in the fun.\n\nThere was steady traffic past the AMSAT booth on both days. I had\nRick, K7TEJ helping me for much of the weekend, and his help was\nappreciated very much. He left his homebrew dual-band Yagi (2\nelements on 2m, 5 on 70cm) on a telescope mount and tripod at\nthe AMSAT booth during the two days, along with my Elk 2m/70cm\nlog periodic.  Between the two of us, we had demonstrations on two\nAO-73 passes, two SO-50 passes, and one pass each on 3 other\nsatellites (AO-7, FO-29, NO-44), with a total of 34 QSOs. Lots of\nflyers and the Getting Started with Amateur Satellites books were\nflying off the table, and we had good crowds for the demonstrations\noutside the main building on the Yuma County Fairgrounds. I posted\npictures from the hamfest over the two days on my @WD9EWK\nTwitter feed. You are welcome to look through my feed and see those\nphotos and other comments at:\n\nhttp://twitter.com/WD9EWK\n\nif you are not a Twitter user.\n\nThe SO-50 passes, as expected, were the busiest of the passes worked\nfrom Yuma. Much of the time, those passes were great illustrations of\nwhat can be heard on an FM satellite. Even some of the not-so-good\noperating examples made for excellent teaching moments.\n\nI don't have any videos of the demonstrations this year, but have some\nvideos of the aircraft flying into or out of Marine Corps Air Station Yuma,\nthe airfield across the street from the hamfest site (the runways at that\nairfield are shared with Yuma International Airport, with both civilian and\nmilitary aircraft coming and going throughout the day). Those videos,\nand others I have uploaded over the years, can be viewed at:\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/va7ewk\n\nThanks to everyone who worked WD9EWK during the hamfest. And a\nspecial thank-you for those who were standing by to work me, as I tried\nto complete QSOs with other stations that may have been closer to their\nLOS times than you. I have uploaded those QSOs to Logbook of the\nWorld. Please e-mail me directly (with QSO details) if you'd like to\nreceive a WD9EWK QSL card to confirm those QSOs. You don't have\nto send me a card or SASE first. The hamfest was in grid DM22.\n\n73!\"\n\n\n[ANS thanks Patrick, WD9EWK/VA7EWK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCentral States VHF Society Call for Papers\n\n\nThe Central States VHF Society is calling for the submission of papers,\npresentations and posters for the upcoming 49th Annual Central States VHF\nSociety Conference slated for July 23rd through the 26th in Denver,\nColorado.\n\nSuggested topics include but are not limited to antennas, propagation,\nsatellites, test equipment, digital modes, contesting and the like. Non-weak\nsignal topics, such as FM, Repeaters, packet radio and other utility\ncommunications modes are generally not considered acceptable, however, there\nare always exceptions. Please contact the Proceedings Chair John Maxwell if\nyou have any questions about the suitability of a topic. His e-mail is\[email protected] .\n\nRegistration is online now at\nwww.csvhfs.org.\n\n\n[ANS thanks the Central States VHF Society for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Events\n\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, 7 March 2015 – Irving Amateur Radio Club Hamfest in\nIrving TX (west of Dallas)\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 13-14 March 2015 – Green Country Hamfest in\nClaremore OK (northeast of Tulsa)\n\n*Saturday, 14 March 2015 – Science City 2015/Tucson Festival of Books\nin Tucson AZ (on the University of Arizona Main Mall)\n\n* Saturday, 14 March 2015 0900 – 1630 – 2015 Palm Springs Hamfest at the \nPalm\nSprings Pavilion\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 20-21 March 2015 – Acadiana Hamfest in Rayne LA\n(west of Lafayette)\n\n*Saturday, 21 March 2015 – Weatherford Hamfest in Weatherford TX (west\nof Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex)\n\n*Saturday, 21 March 2015 – Scottsdale Amateur Radio Club Hamfest in\nScottsdale AZ (northeast of Phoenix, near AZ-101/Princess Drive)\n\n*Saturday, 28 March 2015 – Greater Houston Hamfest and 2015 ARRL Texas\nState Convention in Rosenberg TX (southwest of Houston)\n\n*Saturday, 28 March 2015 – Tucson Spring Hamfest in Tucson AZ (22nd\nStreet, east of Columbus Blvd.)\n\n*Friday, 3 April 2015 – presentation for the Associated Radio Amateurs\nof Long Beach in Signal Hill CA (Signal Hill Community Center)\n\n*Friday, 17 April 2015 – presentation for the Oro Valley Amateur Radio\nClub in Tucson AZ\n\n*Friday through Sunday, 1-3 May 2015 – ARRL Nevada State Convention in\nReno NV (Boomtown Casino Hotel)\n\n*Saturday, 2 May 2015 – Cochise Amateur Radio Association Hamfest in\nSierra Vista AZ\n\n*Thursday, 14 May 2015 – presentation for the Escondido Amateur Radio\nSociety in Escondido CA\n\n*Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 15-17 2015, Dayton Hamvention in\nDayton OH (Hara Arena)\n\n*Saturday, 6 June 2015 – White Mountain Hamfest in Show Low AZ\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 12-13 June 2015 – HAM-COM in Irving TX (west of\nDallas)\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 7-8 August 2015 – Austin Summerfest in Austin TX\n\n*Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 16-18 2015, AMSAT Symposium in\nDayton OH (Dayton Crown Plaza)\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\n* About Gagarin from space event school in Saint Petersburg, Russia, direct\nvia RA1AJN\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be  RSØISS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Anton Shkaplerov\nContact was  successful 2015-02-26 12:27 UTC\n\n* Riversink Elementary School,  Crawfordville, FL, direct via K4WAK\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled  to be NA1SS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Samantha Cristoforetti IZØUDF\nContact was successful: Thu 2015-02-26  15:15:56 UTC 77 deg\n\nA report entiled \"Thanks\" was posted on the AMSAT-BB\n\"Just wanting to give a big 'Thank You' to this group....\nI was approached by a local elementary school to host an ARISS Contact \nabout\n16 months ago.\nFor more than a year I have been pestering many of you (mostly off the\nreflector) for information to get a good grip on this facet of the hobby.\nYesterday I (with the assistance of a few from my radio club) conducted \na great\ncontact.\nAs grateful as I am to the folks in the club for helping with the \ncontact, many\nof you here deserve just as much recognition.\nThank You!\n..... Many of you dealt with '20 questions' about the smallest of details\nsometimes, and those little things made for a great one. As a result I \nhave a\ngrandson that's 'on top of the world' and several club members with \npermanent\nsmiles..... And a very happy school full of kids & staff.\n\nThank You!\n\nDoug\nK4GKJ\"\n\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule\n\n* Direct contacts with students at G. Salvemini – G. La Pira, Montemurlo,\nItaly, direct via  IQ5VR and at  “Dante Alighieri” 1st Grade Secondary \n(Middle)\nSchool, Casale  Monferrato, Italy, direct via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is\npresently scheduled  to be IRØISS with astronaut is Samantha Cristoforetti\nIZØUDF are scheduled for Sat 2015-03-07 10:51:41 UTC 30  deg.\n\n\nG. Salvemini – G. La Pira\n“Salvemini – La Pira” is a secondary middle schoo located in Montemurlo,\nprovince of Prato, in the Tuscany region. The school has 21 classes with \npupils\nages 11 to 14 with a total of 520 pupils. The name of the school derives \nfrom\nthe fusion of the two schools of the commune. This is the only secondary \nmiddle\nschool in the area.\n\n   “Dante Alighieri”\nThe \"Dante Alighieri\" School is situated outside the town center of Casale\nMonferrato, near the ancient Cittadella, province of Alessandria, in the\nPiedmont region. It is a modern construction, developed on two main \nbuildings:\none for the school's didactical and administrative activities, one for the\nsport activities (gym and pool). It is surrounded by a wide playground, \nwith a\nlittle plantation of poplars, planted by the pupils of the school. There \nare 12\nclassrooms (4 on the main floor and 8 on the first floor) and several labs,\nincluding a Science Lab, Informatics Lab, Techno Lab, Art Lab, Maths \nLab, and a\nLanguages Lab, and a colorful  and expansive library. There also a lot of\nafternoon activities, such as Latin courses, languages courses and sport\ntournaments (soccer, basket, volleyball). The Dante Secondary I grade School\nhas a current roll of 230 students and a teaching staff of 29. In the \nlast few\nyears the school has been enhanced by the richness of its diverse student\npopulation..\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nS-band Moonbounce Update\n\nThe frequency and schedule has changed slightly..\nAs before, we're going to aim at Tycho from DSS-24 (34m antenna)\nWe'll radiate at 2115 MHz (not 2401 MHz).. from 0630UTC to 0900 UTC\n\nFor the first hour (until 0730UTC) we'll just have a CW carrier, should\nbe easy to see.\n\nFor the next hour, we'll be transmitting a JPL ranging code with the\nchip rate at 2115/2048 MHz (a bit more than 1 MHz)..\nSee the 810-005 handbook for details\nhttp://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsndocs/810-005/214/214-1.pdf\n\nYou can probably see not only the carrier but the +/-1 MHz ranging tones\n(and probably at +/-2 MHz, too), and also the PN sequence if you've got\nenough SNR (or post process.. the code period is about 1 second.. it's\nabout a million chips long)\n\nThen, at 0830UTC we'll stop using the PN ranging, and go to Doppler\ncompensating the uplink so that the received signal at JPL will have\nzero Doppler.\n\nThis is all \"we hope\".. it's experimental and a sort of procedural shake\nout as well as giving me a chance to test my ground copy of a Software\nDefined Radio that is flying on ISS.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Jim Lux, W6RMK 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,\nJoe Spier, K6WAO\nk6wao at amsat dot org\n",
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