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    "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-238 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2018-08-26T17:51:56Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-238.01\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 dot 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* AMSAT 2018 Symposium Second Call for Papers\n* Reports Indicate ARISS Packet Module Operational Again\n* AMSAT Board of Director Elections Corrected Ballots Due\n   September 15, 2018\n* JAMSAT NEXUS CubeSat Scheduled to Launch\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SUN @ AMSAT $ANS-238.01\nANS-238.01 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 238.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nAugust 26, 2018\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-238.01\n\nAMSAT 2018 Symposium Second Call for Papers\n\nAMSAT has issued the second call for papers for the 2018 AMSAT-NA\nAnnual Meeting and Space Symposium to be held at the US Space and\nRocket Center in Huntsville, AL on the weekend of November 2-4.\nProposals for papers, symposium presentations, and poster\npresentations are invited on any topic of interest to the amateur\nsatellite community. Prospects should send a tentative title of their\npresentation as soon as possible. The final copy must be submitted\nby October 15th for inclusion in the printed proceedings. Abstracts\nand papers should be sent to Dan Schultz at n8fgv at amsat.org\n\n[ANS thanks Dan Schultz, N8FGV for the above information.]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nReports Indicate ARISS Packet Module Operational Again\nAfter engaging several sources, it appears ISS packet is currently\nworking again at 145.825 MHz. No replacement gear has been\ndelivered to the ISS yet, so we are still working with the current\nequipment. We may still experience off times until the current\nequipment is replaced. A replacement module is expected to fly to\nthe International Space Station on a Progress 71 resupply mission in\nNovember.\n\nARISS will continue to update you as reports are received.\n\n[ANS thanks Dave Jordan, AA4KN, ARISS for the above information.]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAMSAT Board of Director Elections Corrected Ballots Due\nSeptember 15, 2018\n\nCorrected ballots were mailed and members should have received them.\nThe new ballots, labeled \"CORRECTED BALLOT 7/20/2018\" are  printed\non yellow-colored cardstock.\n\nUsing the Yellow Ballots, please vote for no more than three of the\n2018 candidates:\n\nTom Clark, K3IO\nMark Hammond, N8MH\nScott Harvey, KA7FVV\nBruce Paige, KK5DO\nPeter Portanova, W2JV\n\nCandidate biographies can be viewed at:\nhttps://www.amsat.org/bios2018/\n\nThe Directors positions will go to the three candidates receiving\nthe highest number of votes. In addition, there will be two alternate\nmembers chosen, based on the next highest number of votes received.\n\nBallots must be received at the AMSAT office by September 15, 2018\nin order to be counted. Those sent outside North America were sent\nvia air mail. If you have not received your ballot package in a\nreasonable time for your location, please contact the AMSAT office.\nCompleted ballots should be returned as promptly as possible, and\nthose from outside North America preferably by air mail.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information.]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nJAMSAT NEXUS CubeSat Scheduled to Launch\n\nThe Japan AMSAT Association (JAMSAT) and students at the Nippon\nUniversity are jointly developing a CubeSat called NEXUS which will have\na 145 to 435 MHz (Mode-J) transponder and a 38 kbps data downlink.\n\nNippon University students have previously developed the SEEDS and\nSPROUT satellites. NEXUS is an achronym of “Next Education X (cross)\nUnique Satellite”, it will be 1U CubeSat with a mass of between 1 and\n1.5 kg.\n\nThe NEXUS team hope to:\n+ Provide amateur radio communications via the 145/435 MHz\ntransponder and SSTV\n+ Download pictures from the 640×480 pixel camera\n+ Operate the data downlink at 38400 bps QPSK\n+ Compare the performance of the data downlink when using AFSK,\nGMSK and QPSK modes\n\nA launch opportunity has been identified by the end of this year or early\nnext year by Epsilon rocket.\n\nNEXUS website in Google English\nhttp://tinyurl.com/NEXUS-Satellite\n\nNEXUS Blog\nhttp://tinyurl.com/NEXUS-Sat-Blog\n\nJAMSAT in Google English\nhttp://tinyurl.com/JAMSAT\n\n[ANS thanks JAMSAT and AMSAT-UK for the above information.]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nUpcoming Satellite Operations as of 8/24/2018\n\n+ Svalbard (JQ78tf) – August 20-23 and 27-30, 2018\n\nRaffaello, OH8FKS, will be operating from Svalbard August 20-23 and\n27-30, using the callsign JW/OH8FKS/P.  He will be active in the evening\nstarting from approximately 1900z on FM and SSB satellites. Raffaello\nis operating 1/2 duplex, using an FT-817 and Arrow II.  Look for him on\nM satellites AO-91/AO-92/AO-85/SO-50 and SSB FO-29/AO-7/XW-n.  On\nSSB satellites, Raffaello will be operating on a fixed uplink frequency\n10 KHz above center.  QSL information available on QRZ.\nGeneva Switzerland – August 20-29, 2018\n\n\n+ Brennan, N4QX, will be visiting Geneva Switzerland August 19-29,\noperating under the call HB9/N4QX.  This will be a holiday style, FM\nonly trip.  Specific pass and grid activations will be posted on his\nTwitter page, publicly viewable at\nhttps://twitter.com/BrennanTPrice\n\n\n+ North Edwards, CA (DM15) – August 25-31, 2018\n\nDavid, AD7DB, will be in DM15 Saturday, August 25th.  This will be an\nFM only activation. Planned passes are : AO85 1758z; AO92 1835z;\nAO91 1923z; AO85 1939z.  Contacts will be logged to LOTW, or card\nQSL with your’s and SASE.  Keep an eye on David’s Twitter page for\nupdates, publicly viewable at\nhttps://twitter.com/ad7db\n\n\n+ Lawrence, KS (EM28, EM29) – August 26-28, 2018\n\nGreg, N4KGL, will be in activating the EM28/EM29 gridline, while in\nLawrence Kansas. More specific plans are forthcoming.\n\n\n+ Kansas QSO Party (DM97) – August 26\n\nRon will be participating in the Kansas QSO Party from DM97.\nUpdates will be posted on Twitter, publicly viewable at\nhttps://twitter.com/ad0dx\n\n\n+ Eastern Sierra (DM07, DM08) – August 27, August 31, and\nSeptember 1, 2018\n\nI will be in the Eastern Sierra next week working from DM-07. I plan\nto work AO-85, AO-91 & AO-92 passes on 8/27 at 11:55 10:59 &\n13:12 PDT respectively. I also plan to work the same satellites from\nthe DM-07/08 line on 8/31 at 10:39, 13:25 and 10:50 respectively.\nThen again on Saturday 9/1 from the same location for the late\nmorning/afternoon passes. However, if the fish are biting, I will most\nlikely be holding my fishing pole instead of my antenna pole!\nHope to catch some of you on the birds. -73, Bob, N6REK\n\n\n+ DM56, DM57, DM58, DM59 – September 1-3, 2018\n\nRon, AD0DX, is heading out again.  This time, he will be operating in\nDM56, DM57, DM58, and DM59.  Updates will be posted on Twitter,\npublicly viewable at\nhttps://twitter.com/ad0dx\n\nPlease submit any additions or corrections to ke4al (at) yahoo.com\nUpdated August 24, 2018\n\n[ANS thanks Robert, KE4AL for the above information.]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nARISS News\n\n+ Shri Timli Vidyapeet, Devikhet, India, telebridge via ON4ISS\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Ricky Arnold KE5DAU\nContact is a go for: Mon 2018-08-27 08:06:33 UTC 88 deg via ON4ISS\n\n+ Kopernik Observatory & Science Center, Vestal, NY, direct via K2ZRO\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Serena Aunon-Chancellor KG5TMT\nContact is a go for: Tue 2018-08-28 16:41:36 UTC 88 deg\n\n+ Integrierte Gesamtschule Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Osterholz – Scharmbeck,\nGermany and Gymnasium Soltau, Soltau, Germany, direct via DN3HB and\nDN5ABG\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be DPØISS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Alexander Gerst KF5ONO\nContact is a go for: Sat 2018-09-01 08:36:33 UTC 32 deg\n\n[ANS thanks Charles Sufana, AJ9N for the above information.]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ There will be an AMSAT village at EMFcamp. The Electromagnetic\nField event takes place at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire\nAug 31-Sept 2. Electromagnetic Field (EMF) is a non-profit UK\ncamping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in\nmaking things: hackers, geeks, scientists, engineers, artists, and\ncrafters.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information.]\n\n+ The FCC has issued call sign WJ2XLT to LeoLabs for satellite and\nspace debris tracking from Menlo Park CA at 2.9-3 GHz with a\ntransmission power of 2,500,000 W. The licensee requested that\ndetails be withheld from the public for 10 years.\n\n[ANS thanks Experimental Radio Service for the above information.]\n\n+ Chinese state missile maker CASIC and its commercial space\nsubsidiary Expace is preparing to launch its Kuaizhou-1A (Y8) solid\nrocket before the end of September, carrying the Centispace-1-1S\ntest satellite into 700 km SSO.\n\nThis mission will be additional to the approximately 35 being\nplanned by main space contractor CASC for 2018.This means that\ntogether with CASC, emerging players like Expace, Landspace and\npotentially OneSpace, there could be around 40 Chinese launches\nin 2018.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and Andrew Jones for the above information.]\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,\nFor EMike, AA8EM\nThis week's Contributing ANS Editor,\nJoe Spier, K6WAO\nk6wao at amsat dot org\n\n",
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