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    "sender_name": "Gould Smith",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  ANS-311 Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2010-11-11T18:55:52Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-311\n\nANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America, The\nRadio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the activities of a\nworldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in\ndesigning, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital\nAmateur Radio satellites.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\n\[email protected]\n\nIn this edition:\n* November AO-51 Schedule\n* Hudson Valley SatCom Net\n* November 15 Deadline for NASA CubeSat Initiative Proposal\n* AMSAT-UK FUNcube Frequencies Now Confirmed\n* FO-29 Status Update\n* OSCAR-11 REPORT   31 October 2010\n* ARISS Status - 1 November 2010\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-311.01\nNovember AO-51 Schedule\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 311.01\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nNovember 7, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-311.01\n\nAMSAT-NA VP Operations, Drew KO4MA published the November schedule\nfor AO-51. Drew wrote, \"This month we are catching up on several\nrequests for L, S and even 38k4 BBS time. In January AO-51 leaves\ncontinuous illumination for many years and many of these modes may\nnot be possible due to power budget and battery condition. However,\nif we find these modes under used this month, we may modify the sched-\nule as we go.\n\nOctober 31 (late UTC)\nFM Repeater, L/SU\nUplink: 1268.705 MHz FM (no PL tone)\nDownlinks: 2401.200 MHz FM and 435.300 MHz FM (at low power!)\n\nNovember 4 (late UTC)\nFM Repeater, V/U\nUplink: 145.920 MHz FM (no PL tone)\nDownlink: 435.300 MHz FM\n\n9k6 Baud PBBS Operations, L/U\nUplink: 1268.705 MHz FM at 9600 baud\nDownlink: 435.150 MHz FM at 9600 baud\n\nNovember 14 (late UTC)\n38k4 Baud PBBS Operations, L/U\nUplink: 1268.705 MHz FM at 9600 baud\nDownlink: 435.150 MHz FM at 38,400 baud\n\nNovember 18 (late UTC)\nFM Repeater, L/SU\nUplink: 1268.705 MHz FM (no PL tone)\nDownlinks: 2401.200 MHz FM and 435.300 MHz FM (at low power!)\n\nNovember 21 (late UTC)\nFM Repeater, V/U\nUplink: 145.920 MHz FM (no PL tone)\nDownlink: 435.300 MHz FM\n\n9k6 Baud PBBS Operations, L/U\nUplink: 1268.705 MHz FM at 9600 baud\nDownlink: 435.150 MHz FM at 9600 baud\n\nSO-67 is active over North and South America this month, according\nto the schedule at http://www.amsatsa.org.za/ . V/U users of AO-51\nare encouraged to try SO-67 while AO-51 is in mode L/US.\n\nRead the latest AO-51 Control Team News on the AMSAT web at:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/echo/CTNews.php\n\n[ANS thanks Drew, KO4MA for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-311.02\nHudson Valley SatCom Net\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 311.02\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nNovember 7, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-311.02\n\nThe next Hudson Valley Sat com Net will be Thursday Noveber 11 on\nthe Mt. Beacon ARC 146.970 MH repeater and on EchoLink via the\nN2EYH-L node. Net starts at 8PM EST (UTC - 5). More information\nis available at http://www.hvsatcom.org and [email protected].\n\n[ANS thanks Stu, WA2BSS for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-311.03\nNovember 15 Deadline for NASA CubeSat Initiative Proposal\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 311.03\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nNovember 7, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-311.03\n\nNASA made the first open announcement to create an agency-prioritized\nlist of available CubeSat auxiliary payloads in April 2010. Additional\nCubeSat launch capacity is still available in 2011 and 2012, so NASA\nreleased a second announcement of CubeSat integration and launch oppor-\ntunities. CubeSat mission proposers must still be educational institu-\ntions and contribute to NASA strategic goals and outcomes.\n\nInvestigations proposed for this pilot project must address an aspect\nof science, exploration, technology development, education or opera-\ntions encompassed by NASA's strategic goals and outcomes as identified\nin the NASA Strategic Plan and/or NASA's Education Strategic Coordina-\ntion Framework.\n\nCollaborators may be required to provide partial reimbursement of\napproximately $30,000 per CubeSat. NASA will not provide funding to\nsupport CubeSat activity or development. Selection does not guarantee\nan availability of a launch opportunity.\n\nThe complete CubeSat Launch Initiative Announcement can be viewed\non-line at NASA.gov at http://tinyurl.com/2b97n6r.\n\n[ANS thanks NASA for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-311.04\nAMSAT-UK FUNcube Frequencies Now Confirmed\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 311.04\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nNovember 7, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-311.04\n\nTrevor, M5AKA reported the IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency\nCoordination panel has announced coordinated frequencies for\nthe AMSAT-UK FUNcube 1U CubeSat.\n\nThe frequencies are:\n\nInverting linear transponder:\nUplink 435.080 - 435.060 MHz Downlink 145.960 - 145.980 MHz\n\nBeacon 145.955 MHz CW and 1200 bps BPSK\n\nFUNcube website\nhttp://www.FUNcube.org.uk/\n\nFUNcube SDR Dongle\nhttp://www.FUNcubeDongle.com/\n\nFUNcube Yahoo Group\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube/\n\n[ANS thanks Trevor, M5AKA and AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-311.05\nFO-29 Status Update\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 311.05\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nNovember 7, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-311.05\n\nYutaka Murata, JA1COU reported news from the Japan Amateur Radio\nLeague (JARL) FO-29 command team testing this past weekend when\ncontinuous commands were transmitted to the satellite when it was\nin range of Japan.\n\nThe current hypothesis of the recent shutdown of the satellite is\nthat the temperature aboard FO-29 is too high to allow continuous\noperations and to accept commands or any other satellite operations.\n\nEclipse of FO-29 is:\nNovember  1   0% (full illumination)\nNovember 20  14%\nNovember 30  17%\n\nIt is expected that the temperature aboard FO-29 will drop as the length of\neclipse increases. FO-29 is designed to work over a wide temperature range.\nBecause of degradation over time in orbit it is possible that some components\nmay have lower performance. The JARL Command Team hopes that FO-29 will accept\ncommands and resume operation when the temperature cools down during increased\neclipse.\n\n[ANS thanks Yutaka Murata, JA1COU for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-311.06\nOSCAR-11 REPORT   31 October 2010\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 311.06\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nNovember 7, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-311.06\n\nThis report covers the period from 30 September to 31 October\n2010. During this time the satellite has been heard from 09 to\n19 October and from 30 October. At the time of writing it is\ntransmitting and is expected to continue until 09 November.\n\nExcellent signals have been reported from stations located\naround the world, and good copy obtained from decoded telemetry\nframes.\n\nThe satellite is now transmitting during eclipses, although\nsignals are weaker at those times. This indicates that there is\nstill some capacity remaining in the battery.\n\nThe on-board clock is now very stable.  It gained only ten\nseconds in 33 days. This is comparable with its accuracy when the\nsatellite was fully operational, when it gained approximately one\nminute per year. However, there is still an accumulated loss of\n309 days, which has occurred during eclipses of the last few\nyears.\n\nOperation during eclipses and stability of the on-board clock\nsuggest that some part of the system may have recently failed\n'open circuit' thus reducing the overall power drain of the\nsystem, and allowing more power to be available during eclipses.\nThere was an unexplained current drain observed when analogue\ntelemetry was last transmitted. This fault might have cleared.\n\nThe Beacon frequencies are -\n\n   VHF 145.826 MHz.  AFSK FM  ASCII Telemetry\n\nUHF 435.025 MHz.  OFF\n\nS-band 2401.5 MHz. OFF\n\nReception reports have been received from Jeff N3QO, Rod CX2ABP\nand Ian KI4HLV/6Y5 (G4JMM) . Many thanks for those and to\neveryone who posted reports on the satellite status website. This\nis a very convenient and easy to use facility, which shows the\ncurrent status of all the amateur satellites. Strongly\nrecommended for future reports! Reports around the expected times\nof switch-on and switch-off are of special interest. The URL is\nhttp://oscar.dcarr.org/index.php\n\nOSCAR-11 transmits on 145.826 MHz., set receiver to NBFM. The\nsatellite has a characteristic sound, rather like raspy slow\nmorse code, sending \"di di dah dah dah dah dah dah dah\" sent over\na period of five seconds. If you are receiving a very weak\nsignal, switch the receiver to CW or SSB. You should hear several\nsidebands around the carrier frequency and should be able to hear\nthe characteristic 'morse code like' sound on at least one\nsideband.\n\nPlease note that you need a clean noise-free signal to decode\nthe signals, and your receiver must be set to NBFM mode, for a\ndecoder to work.\n\nIf you need to know what OSCAR-11 sounds like, there is an audio\nclip on my website www.g3cwv.co.uk/ which may be useful for\nidentification and as a test signal for decoding.\n\nThe current status of the satellite, is that all the analogue\ntelemetry channels, 0 to 59 are zero, ie they have failed. The\nstatus channels 60 to 67 are still working. The real time clock\nis showing a large accumulated error, but is now incrementing\naccurately to within a few seconds per month. The day of the\nmonth has a bit stuck at 'one' so the day of the month may show\nan error of +40 days for some dates. The time display has\nswitched into 12 hour mode. Unfortunately, there is no AM/PM\nindicator, since the time display format was designed for 24 hour\nmode.\n\nThe spacecraft computer and active attitude control system have\nswitched OFF, ie. the satellite' attitude is controlled only by\nthe passive gravity boom gradient, and the satellite is free to\nspin at any speed.\n\nThe watchdog timer operates on a 20 day cycle. The ON/OFF times\nhave tended to be very consistent. The average of many\nobservations have shown this to be 20.7 days, ie. 10.3 day s ON\nfollowed by 10.4 days OFF.\n\nListeners to OSCAR-11 may be interested in visiting my website.\nIf you need to know what OSCAR-11 should sound like, there is a\nshort audio clip for you to hear. The last telemetry received\nfrom the satellite is available for download. The website\ncontains an archive of news & telemetry data which is updated\nfrom time to time. It also contains details about using a\nsound card or hardware demodulators for data capture.  There is\nsoftware for capturing data, and decoding ASCII telemetry.  The\nURL is www.g3cwv.co.uk .\n\nIf you place this bulletin on a terrestrial packet network,\nplease use the bulletin identifier $BID:U2RPT150.CWV, to prevent\nduplication.\n\n73 Clive G3CWV   [email protected] (please replace xxxxx by g3cwv)\n\n[ANS thanks Clive, G3CWV, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-311.07\nARISS Status - 1 November 2010\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 311.07\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nNovember 7, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-311.07\n\n1. Successful ARISS Contact with Funakata Elementary\n\nOn Friday, October 29, an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station\n(ARISS) contact was held between students from Funakata Elementary School in\nNagoya, Aichi, Japan and astronaut Shannon Walker, KD5DXB on the International\nSpace Station (ISS). The youth were able to get in 16 questions before the ISS\nwent over the horizon. Approximately seventy students, guests and media were\npresent.\n\n\n2. Astronaut Training Status\n\nAstronauts Joe Acaba, KE5DAR and Aki Hoshide, KE5DNI participated in simulated\nARISS school contacts with students attending Ralph McCall School in Airdrie,\nAlberta, Canada on Tuesday, October 26. The training sessions were\nterrestrial-based amateur radio contacts using ARISS equivalent equipment.\n\nAcaba, who is slated to fly with Expedition 31, also had an ARISS refresher\ncourse on Wednesday, October 27 for his upcoming mission in 2012.\n\n[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's\nClub. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project\nFunds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms are\navailable from the AMSAT Office.\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n",
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