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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/772LDZG2CZXK3IA5SPX33ODPEOKSWK2V/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "CAHKCqnDmKrU0d6pLJNJ+1n6WBrt_tuCsoYOr4fP5f1955peOaQ@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "772LDZG2CZXK3IA5SPX33ODPEOKSWK2V", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/772LDZG2CZXK3IA5SPX33ODPEOKSWK2V/", "sender": { "address": "mjohns+K0JM (a) luther.edu", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Mark D. Johns", "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-089 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2020-03-29T00:01:00Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-089\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor-\nmation service of AMSAT, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS\npublishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on\nthe activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who\nshare an active interest in designing, building, launching and commun-\nicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites.\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\nYou can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service\nBulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/ans\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* Sean Kutzko, KX9X, Appointed AMSAT Volunteer Coordinator\n* AMSAT Office Closed Until Further Notice\n* First Satellite Contact to be Noted in May QST\n* Amateur Radio Satellite Spreads Fight Coronavirus Message\n* Ham Talk Live! Interviews Frank Bauer, KA3HDO\n* ISS Crew Transition Affected by CoViD-19\n* Upcoming ARISS Contacts\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-089.01\nANS-089 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 089.01\n>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE 2020 Mar 29\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-089.01\n\n\nSean Kutzko, KX9X, Appointed AMSAT Volunteer Coordinator\n\nAMSAT President Clayton Coleman, W5PFG, has announced the appointment\nof Sean Kutzko, KX9X, as Volunteer Coordinator.\n\nFirst licensed in 1982 as KA9NGH, Kutzko served as both ARRL Contest\nBranch Manager (2007-2013) and ARRL Media and Public Relations Mana-\nger (2013-2017). He was the creator and co-administrator of the ARRL\nNational Parks on the Air (NPOTA) program in 2016. An active HF and\nVHF contester, DXer and backpack QRP enthusiast, Kutzko started work-\ning satellites in 2011 and has transmitted from over fifty different\ngrid squares. He has written instructional materials on satellite op-\nerating for the AMSAT website, QST, and blogs regularly on satellite\ntopics for the DX Engineering blog \"On All Bands.\"\n\n\"It's an honor to be able to volunteer for AMSAT,\" Kutzko said. \"When\n[new AMSAT president] Clayton [Coleman, W5PFG] asked if I would help\ncoordinate a team of volunteers, I jumped at the opportunity. AMSAT is\na great organization and helping find good volunteers who are willing\nto help all areas of AMSAT's growth and development is the least I\ncould do for the organization that has given me a lot of enjoyment and\ntechnical skill.\"\n\nOutside of Amateur Radio, Kutzko is a freelance PR/communications\nconsultant and voiceover artist, as well as a baker of artisan breads,\npizza and pastries. He also plays drums in a classic rock/country\nband, Silverweed. He lives in Urbana, Illinois.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT President Clayton Coleman, W5PFG, for the above in-\nformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAMSAT Office Closed Until Further Notice\n\nDue to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's order closing all non-essential\nbusinesses in the State of Maryland in response to the COVID-19 pan-\ndemic, the AMSAT office is closed until further notice, effective to-\nday at 5:00pm EDT.\n\nWhile the office is closed, AMSAT will continue to accept new and\nrenewal memberships. However, membership packets will not be mailed\nuntil the office reopens. T-shirts, hats, and other items stocked in\nthe office will also not be available until the office reopens. Dig-\nital downloadable content, including SatPC32 and MacDoppler will re-\nmain available from the AMSAT store. Antenna, name badge, and awards\norders will be forwarded for processing.\n\nThe March/April issue of The AMSAT Journal will be produced on time.\nHowever, it may only be possible to publish it in digital format. Stay\ntuned for further updates.\n\nAny questions about memberships, orders, or office operations can be\nsent to info at amsat.org. Please note that no mail or phone service\nwill be available until the office reopens. Vendors billing AMSAT for\ngoods or services may email the above address to arrange payment.\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT office for the above information]\n\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n Purchase AMSAT Gear on our Zazzle storefront.\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\n\n\nFirst Satellite Contact to be Noted in May QST\n\nThose who are ARRL members may be interested in the Technical Corres-\npondence article in the forthcoming May 2020 QST, entitled \"The 60th\nAnniversary of the First Satellite Contact.\"\n\nThe contact to which it refers took place on February 6, 1960, six\nmonths before NASA's Project Echo, between W2RS and K3JTE (now W3PK),\nmaking use of a propagation mode first reported by W8JK (SK), which he\ncalled \"the satellite ionization phenomenon.\"\n\nThe May 2020 QST article describes what we did and what has been learn-\ned since then about the ionosphere and how W8JK's mechanism works.\n\nFor further reading about the contact, see the article in Proceedings\nof the Institute of Radio Engineers, September 1961. For more about\nthe satellite ionization phenomenon, see the chapter by W8JK in S.F.\nSinger, ed., Interactions of Space Vehicles With an Ionized Atmosphere,\nPergamon Press, 1965.\n\nThe May issue of QST is expected to be published in mid-April.\n\n[ANS thanks Ray Soifer, W2RS, for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAmateur Radio Satellite Spreads Fight Coronavirus Message\n\nIndonesia’s national amateur radio society ORARI reports the ham radio\nsatellite LAPAN-A2 (IO-86) is being used to send a Fight Coronavirus\nmessage using APRS.\n\nA translation of the ORARI post says:\nThe satellite spreads the text message “Stay Healthy, Stay at Home\n#LawanCorona”.\n\nThis was conveyed by Researcher of the Center for Satellite Technology,\nSonny Dwi Harsono when contacted, Friday, March 20, 2020.\n\nSonny explained, this action was a form of support for government pol-\nicies on social distancing. The policy encourages all of us to reduce\nactivities outside the home and interactions with others. “So this mes-\nsage was sent by the LAPAN A2 satellite via the APRS (Automatic Packet\nReporting System) beacon which was transmitted throughout Indonesia.\nAPRS is a text based communication system for short messages such as\nSMS on mobile phones. But this APRS message can only be received\nthrough HT (Handie Talkie) which has the recipient of the APRS mess-\nage,” he said.\n\nSonny explained, messages that have been disseminated can be received\nby anyone by setting the HT radio frequency to 145.825 MHz. To date\ncorona’s message has been received by dozens of members of the Indo-\nnesian Radio Amateur Organization (ORARI) spread throughout Indonesia.\n\nThe dissemination of the message was carried out starting March 20.\nFor the time being the message dissemination was carried out on the\nAPRS mission only. But it will try to spread the message one time at a\nLAPAN-A2 / LAPAN-ORARI track every 100 minutes. “Later if possible, we\ntry to distribute 24 hours nonstop every 100 minutes under certain con-\nditions. Currently we are discussing the technicalities. The messages\nfrom the government can also be disseminated via the LAPAN-A2 satel-\nlite,\" he concluded.\n\nSource ORARI https://tinyurl.com/IndonesiaORARI\n\nFollow LAPAN-A2 https://twitter.com/lapansat\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\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\n\nHam Talk Live! Interviews Frank Bauer, KA3HDO\n\nHam Talk Live! host Neal Rapp, WB9VPG recently interviewed Frank Bauer,\nKA3HDO, for an informative look at recent events in the ARISS program.\nBauer, who is AMSAT Vice President, Human Spaceflight and ARISS Inter-\nnational Chair was interviewed on Thursday, March 26, 2020.\n\nIn the interview Bauer covers ARISS' four-year effort to update the\nISS Amateur Radio station with its next generation radio system, the\nInteroperable Radio System (IORS). The IORS consists of a specially\nmodified JVC-Kenwood TM-D710 transceiver and the AMSAT-NA developed\nmulti-voltage power supply.\n\nThe complete interview can be heard at\nhttps://tinyurl.com/ANS-089-Bauer\n\n[ANS thanks Neil Rapp, WB9VPG for the above information.]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nISS Crew Transition Affected by CoViD-19\n\nThe International Space Station Expedition 62 crew, consisting of NASA\nFlight Engineer Jessica Meir, Flight Engineer Andrew Morgan, KI5AAA,\nand Commander Oleg Skripochka, RA0LDJ, are readying their Soyuz MS-15\ncrew ship for departure on April 17. Meanwhile, the crew that will re-\nplace them is nearing its launch scheduled for April 9 aboard the Soyuz\nMS-16 crew ship. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, KF5KDR, and Roscosmos\ncosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner arrived this week at the\nBaikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final training. The Expedition\n63 trio is due to live aboard the station for 195 days with Cassidy as\ncommander.\n(ANS thanks spaceref.com for the above information)\n\nNASA astronaut Chris Cassidy’s family will be watching remotely from\nhalfway around the world when he blasts off April 9 from Kazakhstan to\nbegin a six-month expedition on the International Space Station. That’s\nbecause travel restrictions and stringent social distancing guidelines\ninstituted to slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic will\nlimit the ability for family members to travel to the Baikonur Cosmo-\ndrome for the launch. Launch day at Baikonur is usually a festive af-\nfair. “But it’ll be completely quiet,” Cassidy said in a satellite in-\nterview from Star City, Russia. “There won’t be anybody there.\"\n(ANS thanks spaceflightnow.com for the above information)\n\nNASA already has a long-held strategy in place for preventing astro-\nnauts from carrying any nasty bugs with them to space. All astronauts\ngoing to orbit must go through a two-week period of quarantine called\n“health stabilization,” according to NASA. That way, the agency can\nmake sure the crew is not incubating any illnesses before launch. How-\never, NASA said it “will continue to evaluate and augment this plan,\nin coordination with its international and commercial partners” if\nneeded.\n\nIn the meantime, Russia’s state space corporation, Roscosmos, has de-\ncided to shut down all media activity surrounding the Soyuz launch,\nbarring journalists from covering the mission in person. Russia will\nstill live stream the launch, and NASA typically airs all of its crew-\ned launches on its own online TV channel.\n\nThe return of the Expedition 62 crew in mid-April would typically in-\nvolve large numbers of recovery personnel. SpaceX will be ready to send\nits first crew of NASA astronauts to the International Space Station\naboard its Crew Dragon capsule sometime in May. NASA has not provided\nany details if those operations would change in light of the pandemic.\n(ANS thanks theverge.com for the above information)\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contacts\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\nAmur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via RKØJ\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Oleg Skripochka\nPossible contact on Tuesday 2020-03-31 08:50 UTC\n\nARISS is very aware of the impact that COVID-19 is having on schools\nand the public in general. As such, we may have last minute cancella-\ntions or postponements of school contacts. As always, ARISS will try\nto provide everyone with near-real-time updates at the ARISS webpage:\nhttps://www.ariss.org/\n\nThe contact scheduled for Wednesday 2020-03-25 with SPDW Voortrekker\nMovement, Oranjeville, South Africa, direct via ZS9SPD was postponed\ndue to COVID-19 concerns.\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team men-\ntors for the above information]\n\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\n\nUpcoming Satellite Operations\n\nRiver Bend Wireless Rove\n(EN22, EN33, EN34, EN42, EN43, EN44) April 2-4, 2020\nMitch Ahrenstorff, AD0HJ, is looking to add six more grids to his ro-\nver basket just before the April 4 AMSAT presentation/demonstration\nat the River Bend Wireless and Mechanical Society in Faribault, Minn.\nMitch will be activating the EN43/EN44 grid line on April 2nd, the\nEN32/EN42 grid line on April 3rd, and the EN33/EN34 grid line on April\n4th, 2020. Watch Mitch’s Twitter feed as the dates approach for a de-\ntailed schedule. https://twitter.com/AD0HJ\n\n>From the Mountains to the Bay\n(CM88,89,98,99 DM09,19,29 DN00,01,02,10,11,20,21) April 12-21, 2020\nR.J. Bragg, WY7AA, is hitting the asphalt again, roving from Wyoming\nto Vacaville, Calif. He’s attending a class from April 15-19, so most\nof the roving will be outside of this time. Grids to be covered in-\nclude: CM88,89,98,99 DM09,19,29 DN00,01,02,10,11,20,21. Specific pass\ndetails will be posted on WY7AA QRZ page and Twitter\n(https://twitter.com/WY7AA) as the trip approaches.\n\nPlease submit any additions or corrections to ke4al (at) amsat.org\n\n[ANS thanks Robert Bankston, KE4AL, AMSAT VP-User Services for the\nabove information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Nothing to do while quarantined by Covid-19? How about making a paper\n model of the satellite, DIWATA-1, the first satellite designed and\n built in the Philippines: https://tinyurl.com/ujukexd\n (ANS thanks JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM, for the above information)\n\n+ There has been lengthy discussion this week on the AMSAT email bul-\n letin board, amsat-bb, about inconsiderate operators on FM satel-\n lites. A document by Sean Kutzko, KX9X, published back in 2017, is\n still an excellent guide to best practices on these birds. See it at\n https://tinyurl.com/ybw5e2ng\n (ANS thanks Mark Johns, K0JM, for the above information)\n\n+ The coronavirus has had effects on many space activities this week:\n Virgin Orbit is reassessing schedules, Blue Origin in hard-hit Seat-\n tle is mostly working online, Arianespace suspended launches from\n French Guiana and Russia recalled and quarantined its personnel, ESA\n mission control is working from home, and some spaceports are closed\n worldwide.\n (ANS thanks orbitalindex.com for the above information)\n\n+ One thing astronauts have to be good at: living in confined spaces\n for long periods of time. Find yourself in a similar scenario? NASA\n astronaut Anne McClain recently posted a lengthy Twitter thread with\n pro-tips for getting through your time at home. It begins at:\n https://tinyurl.com/tqh3hke\n (ANS thanks orbitalindex.com for the above information)\n\n+ At least on the ISS astronauts don't have the added task of caring\n for and educating kids. If your current confinement capsul is equip-\n ped with youngsters in grades K-4, there are resources for you at:\n https://www.nasa.gov/stem-at-home-for-students-k-4.html\n (ANS thanks NASA for the above information)\n\n+ The Folding@home project is a distributed computing project that is\n currently running calculations to analyze protein structures on the\n COVID-19 project. Donate your spare computer time to help this project\n and consider joining AMSAT's team (#67910). More information at\n https://foldingathome.org/covid19/. AMSAT's team standings can be\n found at https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/69710\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 and Remember to help keep amateur radio in space,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\n\nK0JM at amsat dot org\n", "attachments": [] }