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    "sender_name": "E.Mike McCardel",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-188 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2013-07-07T13:08:47Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-188\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* Last Reminder for AMSAT Field Day Summary results\n* FITSAT-1 (NIWAKA) Decays\n* ISS Ham Radio Slow Scan TV active\n* Sending Your Own Spacecraft to the Moon\n* 2013 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium starts July 19\n* OPS-SAT opportunity for Radio Amateurs\n* Dutch Amateur Radio Satellite User Meeting September 28th 2013\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-188.01\nANS-188 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 188.01\n>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nDATE July 7, 2013\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-188.01\n\n\nLast Reminder for AMSAT Field Day Summary results\n\nJust a quick reminder that you must have your AMSAT Field Day\nresults received by me no later than Monday, July 8, 2013 at 23:59 PM\nCentral Time. If I do not receive them, your group will not be listed\nin the AMSAT Field Day story in the journal and they will be mad at\nyou. We have had 14 submissions so far, last year we had 19. I hope\nwe beat that number.\n\nEven if your group made one contact, turn it in. That shows you\nparticipated in AMSAT Field Day and succeeded in the feat of getting\nthrough the mess to complete your contact. A lot of groups were\nunable to accomplish one.\n\n[ANS thanks Bruce KK5DO, kk5do at arrl dot net, for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFITSAT-1 (NIWAKA) Decays\n\nFITSAT-1 (NIWAKA) decayed on 4th July 2013.\nThe last signal was received by JA0CAW at 03:07(UT).\n\nI appreciate all hams who joined our experiments,\nhelped our operations, and sent me many reports.\n\nI could make many friends in the world and enjoyed\nthrough FITSAT-1. Though FITSAT-1 became a shooting\nstar, I am very happy now.\nThank you very much again all Ham friends.\n\nVery Best 73,\nde Takushi\n--\nTakushi Tanaka, JA6AVG\nFITSAT-project\nFukuoka Institute of Technology\n\n[ANS thanks Takushi Tanaka, JA6AVG for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nISS Ham Radio Slow Scan TV active\n\nThe Slow Scan TV (SSTV) experiment on the International Space\nStation (ISS) was active on July 2-3, on 145.800 MHz FM\n\nThe MAI-75 experiment worked very well producing some stunning images.\n\nAll you need to do to receive the SSTV pictures from the space\nstation is to  connected the audio output of a scanner or amateur\nrig via a simple interface to the soundcard on a Windows PC or an\nApple iOS device, and tune in to 145.800 MHz FM. You can even receive\npictures by holding an iPhone next to the radio's loudspeaker.\n\nOn Windows PC's the free application MMSSTV can be used to decode\nthe signal, on Apple iOS devices you can use the SSTV app. The ISS\nFan Club website will show you when the space station is in range.\n\nMMSSTV\nhttp://hamsoft.ca/pages/mmsstv.php\n\niOS SSTV App\nhttps://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sstv/id387910013\n\nFor more on Slow Scan Television SSTV, see this article SSTV - The\nBasics\nhttp://www.essexham.co.uk/sstv-the-basics\n\nHow to be successful with the ISS Slow Scan Television (SSTV)\nimaging system\nhttp://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/howtoisssstv.html\n\nInformation on the MAI-75 SSTV experiment\nhttp://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/researches/education-26.html\n\nIZ8BLY Vox Recoder, enables you to record the signals from the ISS\non 145.800 MHz while you're away at work\nhttp://antoninoporcino.xoom.it/VoxRecorder/\n\nFor the latest status of amateur radio activity on the ISS and real\ntime tracking see\nhttp://www.issfanclub.com/\n\n[ANS thanks Trevor M5AKA and Southgate ARN for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSending Your Own Spacecraft to the Moon\n\nA new project to give thousands of people the opportunity to design,\nbuild and launch personalised spacecraft and send them to the moon has\nbegun.\n\nNow anyone can become a citizen space explorer and take part in a\nmission to send their own Pocket Spacecraft to the moon. At a cost of\njust GBP 99 (~EUR119/JPY15499/USD159), explorers who back the project\nwill be able to personalise their own spacecraft by adding a picture\nor message direct from their favourite social media or game profile or\ncreate their own unique design. They can do this from their smartphone\nor web browser and will be able to monitor progress throughout their\nmission with their own Pocket Mission Control app. Users will be able\nto track the progress of their spacecraft as it is designed, built in\nthe lab and travels through space. More technical explorers will be\nable to write software and even customise the on-board hardware\nenabling them to conduct their own unique experiments whether mapping\nthe solar wind or playing laser tag - in space!\n\nPocket Spacecraft are disks with flexible electronics, smaller than a\nCD and as thin as a piece of paper, that will be loaded into an\nInterplanetary CubeSat mothership to hitch a ride into space on a\ncommercial rocket. The mothership will then set off to the moon and\nwhen it arrives many months later, the fleet of Pocket Spacecraft will\nbe photographed as they are released to land on the moon to complete\ntheir mission.\n\nAnyone can take part in the mission via the crowd-funding site\nKickstarter (search for ‘Pocket Spacecraft‘ or visit\nPocketSpacecraft.com ). Since launch in 2009, Kickstarter has raised\nmore than $500 million for various projects from over 3 million\nindividuals. Pocket Spacecraft only needs support from 2000 or more\npeople to allow the mission to go ahead.\n\nThe global team of scientists, engineers and designers behind Pocket\nSpacecraft have already created two dozen open space projects for the\nmission since 2009, supported by more than a hundred volunteers from\ntwenty countries (and counting) led by co-ordinators in Europe\n(Bristol, UK) and America (Pasadena, CA, USA).\n\nMichael Johnson, founder of Pocket Spacecraft, co-created the first\nspace mission funded on KickStarter (KickSat - due to be launched by\nNASA later this year), and influential workshops such as the\nInterplanetary CubeSat Workshop at MIT, and the Keck Institute for\nSpace Studies Small Satellites: A Revolution in Space Science workshop\nat Caltech.\n\n“By backing this mission people will revolutionise space exploration\nand space science” enthuses Michael. “By democratising interplanetary\nspace exploration we will create a generation of young explorers who\ncan use the same affordable methods to explore Mars, Venus and beyond.\nWe’re building tools so that one day every child will be able to send\ntheir own spacecraft on a robotic field trip in space”.\n\nThe campaign will run for 60 days and end on August 26, 2013. Detailed\ninformation regarding the campaign is available on the KickStarter\nwebsite:\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/q8nbj6j\n\nMEDIA RELATIONS:  [email protected]  | PHONE +44 117 230 2060\n/ +1 626 768 2050\n\nHelen White (Media Relations)\[email protected]\n\nMichael Johnson (Founder)\[email protected]\n\nSeth Jackson (Partnership enquiries)\[email protected]\n\n[ANS thanks Helen White for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2013 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium starts July 19\n\nThe 2013 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium will start late\nafternoon on Friday, July 19 and will run through until the afternoon\non Sunday, July 21 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, UK.\n\nIt will be preceded by a \"Hands-on\" CubeSat Workshop.\nThis free workshop will take place at the nearby University of\nSurrey on Friday, July 19 and this will be followed, at the hotel, by\nthe usual\nColloquium \"Beginners Session\" in the late afternoon.\n\n\nThe Holiday Inn, Guildford\nIt is anticipated that both the FUNcube-1 and FUNcube-2 missions\nwill be launched later this year and the FUNcube team will be on hand\nto talk about the missions and the planned educational outreach.\n\nA full demonstration of the Engineering Model, which has been\nperforming\nflawlessly for almost a year, will also be provided.\n\nFurther details and booking information at\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2013/\n\n[ANS thanks Trevor, M5AKA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nOPS-SAT opportunity for Radio Amateurs\n\nThe ESA OPS-SAT CubeSat provides a rare opportunity for testing new\namateur radio software for use on a CubeSat actually in space.\n\nThe 3U CubeSat has deployable solar arrays and plans to launch in\n2016 into a Low Earth Orbit (LEO).\n\nAlthough the formal closing dates for expressions of interest from\npotential experimenters for this project has now closed, contact has\nbeen made with Dave Evans at ESA-ESOC who has confirmed that they\nwould be very interested to receive proposals from an AMSAT team to\ndevelop a novel use of this spacecraft for amateur radio purposes.\n\nIn addition to an X Band downlink and S Band uplinks and downlinks,\nthe spacecraft will carry a simplex transceiver operating with\n4k8/9k6 telemetry using GMSK on the 435 MHz band.\n\nIt s understood that experimenters will have access to an onboard\nprocessor running Linux/Java at 500 to 800 MHz.\n\nThe project is open to teams led by a group from any ESA member\ncountry (this includes Canada) and initial info is shown here\nalthough the detailed design is being rapidly iterated..\n\nIt is emphasised that this is a very open project which will require\nlots of interaction between the contributing groups.\n\nBright ideas are needed from our software experts and If there is\nsufficient interest it may be possible to host a Skype conference\nabout this opportunity during the AMSAT-UK International Space\nColloquium over the weekend of July 20-21.\n\nIt is not proposed that this should be an AMSAT-UK led project, but\nGraham Shirville G3VZV is happy to provide some initial coordination!\n\nOPS-SAT Evolving Software Technology for Spacecraft Operations\nhttp://tinyurl.com/nrlzsbg\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate ARN for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nDutch Amateur Radio Satellite User Meeting September 28th 2013\n\nOn September 28th, 2013 there will be an amateur radio meeting (in\nDutch: \"Interessedag Amateursatellieten\") held for everyone who is\ninterested in amateur radio satellites. It will be held in Paasloo,\nin the Northern part of The Netherlands. We are very pleased to join\nthis day with the annual VHF day held by the Dutch amateur radio\nsociety VERON.\n\nThere will be a series of presentations concerning amateur radio\nsatellites. Amongst others, the following topics will be included: a\nportable radio setup, the support radio amateurs provide give to the\nscientific community, beginners sessions, and last but not least, the\nlatest news about two new satellites to be launched soon: the FUNcube-\n1 and the Delfi-N3xT satellites (by their project representatives)!\nBesides these presentations, it is of course a great opportunity to\nmeet other amateurs who are interested in satellites, and make plans\nfor future meetings!\n\nWhile the main language will be Dutch (including the presentations),\nnon-Dutch guests are of course welcome to join as well. If you need\nassistance with signing up, do not hesitate to ask either PA1IVO or\nPA3GUO (both callsign AT amsat.org) for help.\n\nThe latest information about this event can be found on this webpage:\nhttp://ivok.home.xs4all.nl/other/SatDay2013.html\n(Dutch language with a summary in English)\n\nIvo Klinkert, PA1IVO and Henk Hamoen, PA3GUO\nDutch Amateur Radio Satellite User Meeting 2013\n\n[ANS thanks Henk PA3GUO for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\nSuccessful ARISS Contacts\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Ruder Boskovic Technical\nSchool, Zagreb, Croatia and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP using\ncallsign OR4ISS. The contact began 17:31 UTC 2013-06-26 and lasted\nabout nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via 9A1A.\n\nRuder Boskovic Technical School in Zagreb is a secondary school with\nmore than a sixty year tradition. Even since it was founded in 1948,\nit has been one of the highest rated schools in northwestern part of\nCroatia,on the present county of Grad Zagreb.  It was named in honour\nto famous Croatian 18th century mathematician, astronomer, physicist,\nphilosopher and theologian Ruder Boskovic who was born in Dubrovnik.\nThere are 44 classes divided in 4 grades and 4 school educational\nprograms : IT technician, electronics technician, mechatronics\ntechnician and optician.  There are approximately 1.100 students aged\n15 to 19, and more then 110 professors.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Scuola Secondaria 1° grado\n\"Arturo Toscanini\", Capiago Intimiano, Italy and Astronaut Luca\nParmitano, KF5KDP using callsign IRØISS. The contact began 11:50:23\nUTC 2013-06-29 and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was\nboth dirct and telebridged because of the mountainous terrain around\nwith the contact, starting with IK1SLD, then proceeding to IZ2WLC and\nfinished back with IK1SLD. This school contact was in made in\nconjunction with the one from Scuola Media Massimiliano Kolbe.\n\nScuola Secondaria 1° grado \"Arturo Toscanini\", Capiago Intimiano,\nItaly The school is located in Capiago Intimiano, a small town in the\nnorth part of Italy, 7 km far from Como. Como and the surrounding\narea can be clearly seen from space due to the unique shape of Lario\nlake (like a Y upside down). It takes the name from  \"Arturo\nToscanini\", a famous musician and conductor lived across the end of\n19th century and early 20th. There are 10 classes and the students\nare from 11 years old to 14.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Scuola Media Massimiliano\nKolbe, Vercurago, Lecco, Italy and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP\nusing callsign OR4ISS. The contact began 11:50:23 UTC 2013-06-29 and\nlasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was both dirct and\ntelebridged because of the mountainous terrain around with the\ncontact, starting with IK1SLD, then proceeding to IZ2WLC and finished\nback with IK1SLD. This school contact was in made in conjunction with\nthe one from Scuola Secondaria 1° grado \"Arturo Toscanini\"\n\nScuola Media Massimiliano Kolbe, Vercurago, Lecco, Italy is a Local\nsecondary school with students aged from 10 to 14. It's located in a\nbuilding, built in 1950 by the government, originally used as a\nsanatorium converted into school in late 1970. Vercurago is a small\ntown not far from Lecco, built on the shores of Garlate's lake (as it\ncomes out of Lario lake and become Adda river).\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Association Intercultura\nOnlus, Frascati, Italy, and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP using\ncallsign NA1SS. The contact began 17:02:30 UTC 2013-07-06 and lasted\nabout nine and a half minutes. Contact was telebridged via W6SRJ.\n\nIntercultura is the Italian representative of AFS Intercultural\nPrograms (New York), an international, no profit, voluntary based\norganization that provides intercultural learning opportunities and\ncultural exchange programs throughout more than 60 different\ncountries in the world, involving every year 13,000 students and an\nequivalent number of families and schools. In Italy, Intercultura is\na no profit organization (ONLUS) recognized by the Italian\ngovernment, under the patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.\nThe professional staff of Intercultura is made by 40 people who work\nin the headquarters of Colle Val d’Elsa (Siena) or in the PR offices\nbased in Milan and Rome. The 4,000 affiliated volunteers are\norganized in 140 local chapters and offer they voluntary work to\npromote international school based exchange programs.\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contacts\t\n\n+ Scout Canada Jamboree, Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Canada, telebridge via\n  VK5ZAI\n  Contact is a go for: Mon 2013-07-08 16:31:11 UTC 36 deg\n\n+ Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu’, Rome, State of Vatican City,\n  direct via HV2VO\n  Contact is a go for: Wed 2013-07-10 12:36:28 UTC 66  deg\n\nARISS is requesting listener reports for the above  contacts.  Due\nto issues with the Kenwood radio that are not fully  understood at\npresent, the Ericsson radio is going to be used for these  contacts.\nARISS thanks everyone in advance for their  assistance.\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie, AJ9N for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ 432 and Above EME Newsletter\n\n  The July issue of the free amateur radio 432 MHz and Above EME\n  Newsletter is now available\n\n  The newsletter can be downloaded in Word or PDF formats  from\n  http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/em70cm.html\n\n  Previous newsletters are at\n  http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/em70cm_arc.html\n\n  [ANS thanks Southgate ARN for the above information]\n\n+ G4HYG RELEASES NEW APRS MESSENGER ANDROID APP\n\n  Chris Moulding, G4HYG, says that he has just released a new APRS app\n  for Android phones and tablets.  This so that radio amateurs can\n  send APRS position beacons and messages from an Android equipped\n  phone or tablet over a 3G or Wi-Fi link to the APRS-IS internet\n  system. It can also link by Bluetooth to the new Bluetooth version\n  of the APRS TNC Digi Tracker.\n\n  G4HYG notes that there is a small charge for the app to help pay for\n  the development tool licensing fee.  More information on the web at\n  tinyurl.com/aprs-android-app.  (G4HYG)\n\n  [ANS thanks Amateur Radio Newsline™ for the above information]\n\n+ Google Project Loon Interference Concerns\n\n  It has been reported that concerns have been raised with Google\n  about the interference their 2400 MHz and 5800 MHz Project Loon\n  balloons could cause, see\n\n  http://tinyurl.com/m23fjqp\n\n  [ANS thanks Trevor M5AKA and AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n+ This Week in Space History\n\n  July 7\n  1998 First Satellite Launched from Submarine\n  2003 Mars Rover Opportunity Launched\n\n  June 8\n  1994 STS-65 Columbia Launched\n  2011 STS-135 Atlantis Launched - Final Shuttle Mission\n\n  June 9\n  1945 White Sands Missle Range opened\n  1979 Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter\n\n  June 10\n  1962 Telstar Launched allowing transatlantic TV Transmission\n  1992 Biotto spave craft flies past Comet Grigg-Skjellerup\n\n  June 11\n  1962 NASA picks lunar orbit rendezvous method for lunar landings\n  1979 Skylab Re-enters Atmosphere\n\n  June 12\n  2000 Zvezda Service Module Launched to ISS\n  2001 STS-104 Atlantis Launched\n\n  June 13\n  1995 STS 70 Discovery Launched\n\n  [ANS thanks The Planetary Society 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, KC8YLD\nkc8yld at amsat dot org\n\n",
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