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    "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-363 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-363\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* FUNcube-1: One Month in Space\n* CQ to Realign Publications, Launch New CQ Plus Digital Supplement\n* Updated Dashboard Software now available for FUNcube\n* FUNcube-1 High Resolution Graphs Available\n* Popular Magazine Reports\n* ISS ham video commissioning\n* HamRadioNow: Low Cost Mobile APRS\n* AMSAT-UK Announces Availability of the G0MRF 144 MHz Pre-amp Kit\n* New Ham Radio Educational Video\n* Star Comm Amateur Satellite Group Announces New \"Got Grids? Award\"\n* Changes to FUNcube Data Warehouse Upload\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-363.01\nANS-363 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 363.01\n>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nDATE December 29, 2013\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-363.01\n\n\nFUNcube-1: One Month in Space\n\nThe FUNcube-1 (AO-73) spacecraft has now been in orbit and fully\noperational for one month.\n\nWe are very happy and VERY grateful to all the stations who have\ncommitted their time and effort into regularly receiving the\ntelemetry and uploading it to our Data Warehouse. We really want to\nsay a BIG THANK YOU and please keep it coming.\n\nDave G4DPZ is still busy refining the operation of the Warehouse and\nis promising more features over the next few days/weeks. Further\nupdates to the Dashboard are also expected soon.\n\nIf anyone knows of potential additional stations that could be\nestablished in some of the remoter parts of the globe we would be\ngrateful to have your ideas and introductions. “Simple” stations with\nomnidirectional antennas,  dongles and internet connected laptops\nwould be all that is needed.\n\nWe intend to keep the present operating schedule in place for the\ntime being whilst various on board parameters continue to be\ncharacterized by the team.\n\nThe present low internal temperatures being experienced by the\nspacecraft, at least in the northern hemisphere, are causing some\nfrequency shifting to take place – especially on the uplink\nfrequencies – roll on summer!\n\nWe are not yet 100% certain that Object 2013-066AE is FUNcube-1 but\nit is looking the most likely candidate.\n\nAs the launch was more than 30 days ago, the record for this object\nhas now moved to the\nhttp://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/cubesat.txt\nfile and the object is now referred to as DNEPR OBJECT AE.\n\nThe page has been updated to match.\nhttp://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/latest-two-line-elements/\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and the FUNCube Team for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCQ to Realign Publications, Launch New CQ Plus Digital Supplement\n\nHicksville, NY (December 23, 2013) -- CQ Communications, Inc. today\nannounced plans to realign its roster of publications and to launch\nan exciting new online supplement to its flagship magazine, CQ\nAmateur Radio.\n\n   \"The hobby radio market is changing,\" said CQ Communications\nPresident and Publisher Dick Ross, K2MGA, \"and we are changing what\nwe do and how we do it in order to continue providing leadership to\nall segments of the radio hobby.\" CQ Communications is currently the\nonly publisher in the United States serving the broad radio hobby,\nfrom broadcast band DXing to amateur radio moonbounce and satellite\ncommunications. CQ itself has been amateur radio's leading\nindependent voice for seven decades.\n\n   Effective with the February 2014 issue of CQ, said Ross, content\nfrom the magazine's three sister publications, Popular\nCommunications, CQ VHF and WorldRadio Online, will be incorporated\ninto CQ's digital edition as a supplement to be called \"CQ Plus.\"\nWith this change, hobby radio enthusiasts of all types will be able\nto go to a single source - CQ - for articles on the broader aspects\nof hobby radio, from shortwave listening and scanner monitoring to\npersonal two-way services and Internet radio, as well as amateur\nradio. Richard Fisher, KI6SN, currently Editor of both Popular\nCommunications and WorldRadio Online, will be Editor of CQ Plus.\n\n    \"Our primary audience is ham radio operators,\" explained Ross,\n\"but very few hams began their radio involvement as amateurs. Most of\nus started out as shortwave listeners, broadcast band DXers, CBers or\nscanning enthusiasts. Many continue to be involved in many different\naspects of the radio hobby in addition to amateur radio.\"\n\n   \"By consolidating four specialized publications into one,\" Ross\ncontinued, \"we will be better able to keep these multidimensional\nreaders informed on all aspects of the radio hobby while\nsimultaneously exposing those who are not hams to all the excitement\nand opportunities that amateur radio has to offer. We see this as a\nwin-win for all of our readers and our advertisers, who will now be\nable to reach a wider and more diverse audience.\"\n\n    The expanded material will be an integral part of the digital\nedition of CQ, and will be included as part of a standard digital\nsubscription. Each month's digital edition will simply continue\nbeyond where the print edition ends, offering supplemental material\non all aspects of hobby radio communication and will include selected\ncolumns carried over from the other magazines. The added digital\ncontent will make full use of the multimedia opportunities presented\nby digital publications.\n\n    Current subscriptions to Popular Communications, CQ VHF and\nWorldRadio Online will be converted to CQ subscriptions - and receive\nCQ Plus at no additional charge! Details will be posted on each\nmagazine website.\n\n     There's no need to wait to see the great variety of articles\nthat will be featured each month in the new CQand CQ Plus. A preview\nof the February issue's Table of Contents is available right now on\nthe CQ website at http://bit.ly/19mzbOK\n\n[ANS thanks Richard A. Ross K2MGA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUpdated Dashboard Software now available for FUNcube\n\nThe FUNcube Team are pleased to announce the latest version of the\nDashboard Software.\n\nVersion 814 can be downloaded from\nhttp://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/funcube-telemetry-dashboard/\n\nWe thank everyone for their interest and reports of the success of\nFUNcube-1 (AO-73) and we look forward to continued operations.\n\nWishing you all a very Happy Christmas\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and the FUNCube Team for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFUNcube-1 High Resolution Graphs Available\n\nThere is now a facility to view the latest FUNcube-1 (AO-73) High\nResolution Data uploaded to the Data Warehouse. The link can be found\nin the Navigation Bar on the warehouse.\n\nFollowing on from this will be making Hi-Res data available to\ndownload via .csv files, in a similar way we do for Whole Orbit Data.\nWatch this space.\n\nDashboard App – Telemetry Decoder\nhttp://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/funcube-telemetry-dashboard/\n\nData Warehouse – Telemetry Archive\nhttps://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/\n\nSatellite Tracking Apps\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/beginners/satellite-tracking/\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and the FUNCube Team for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nPopular Magazine Reports\n\n+ World Radio Online December 2013\n\nTerry Doud's N8KI Amateur Satellites Department article covers\nDigital ATV aboard the ISS, as well as SSTV. Other tidbits include\ngetting off center on the transponder satllites, FUNCube and finding\nyour Satellite MoJo. He ends his article with a thank you to the\n\"tireless editors of the AMSAT News Service\". On behalf of Lee, Joe\nand myself, you are welcome, Terry.\n\n+ CQ December 2013\n\nThis is CQ's Technology Issue edition. VHF Plus Department covers\n\"lunar Dust Experiment Under Way.\" It also reports on Three\nSatellites of Amateur Radio Interest Launche from Vandenberg AFB\nSeptember 29. Other articles of interest are two on Maker's Fairs and\nin their Technology Special \"Inexpensive Four-Wire Measurments for\nthe Radio Amateur by Gary Geissinger WA0SPM/AAR8GI om measuring high\ncurrents and low resistance without a fancy (and expensive)\ninstrument.\n\n+ QST January 2014\n\nRead WRAPS: A Portable Satellite Antanna Rotator System by Mark\nSpencer WA8SME (page 43). Mark presented on WRAPS at the Symposium\nthis past November. See W7LRD's \"Antenna for the Birds on page 20.\nAlso find hints on surface mount soldering (pg 67), using modern SDR\ntools to boost you weak signal work (pg 65).\n\n[ANS thanks the respective Publications for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nISS ham video commissioning\n\nAs announced August 21, 2013 the Ham Video transmitter is onboard\nthe International Space Station and stored in the Columbus module.\n\nSeptember 10, 2013 we informed about the Experiment Sequences Test\n(EST) and the Simulations performed by the European Space Agency in\ncollaboration with ARISS.\n\nSeptember 20, 2013 we announced the Ham Video Launch Campaign and\ndescribed a simple station for Ham Video reception.\n\nThe Commissioning of the Ham Video transmitter needs to cover\ndifferent configurations involving 2 antennas, 4 frequencies and 2\nsymbol rates. As announced earlier, the signals transmitted during\nthe Commissioning steps will be received by the Matera ground\nstation, located in south Italy (see HamTV Bulletin #2).\n\nMoreover, during the Commissioning period, the Ham Video transmitter\nwill transmit permanently for several days (weeks). This will allow\nground stations to test their equipment and to provide useful\ninformation concerning the efficiency of the transmitter.\n\nFor these transmissions, no camera will be used. The so-called\n“blank” transmissions will nevertheless provide a complete DVB-S\nsignal, as described hereafter.\n\nWe hoped that the Commissioning of the Ham Video transmitter would\nbe planned October 2013. It appeared that the “Flight Rules”\nregarding ARISS activities, which cover VHF and UHF transmissions,\nneeded to be updated for S-band. Writing Flight Rules and having them\nverified, accepted and signed by all parties involved is a process\nthat takes time. ARISS matters have low priority among the countless\nactivities that populate the International Space Station. Unforeseen\nevents, such as the recent failing of a cooling system, evidently\ncause further delay.\n\nFinally, the January - February 2014 time frame seems a reasonable\nguess for the Ham Video Commissioning.\n\nHamTV Bulletins are available at www.ariss-eu.org\nSee left side column : HamTV Bulletin 4 (with annexes)\n\n[ANS thanks Gaston Bertels, ON4WF, ARISS-Europe chairman and\nSouthgate ARN for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nHamRadioNow: Low Cost Mobile APRS\n\nEpisode 114 of HamRadioNow covers the Raspberry Pi Applications in\nDigital Communications presentation given at the TAPR-ARRL Digital\nCommunications Conference\n\n>From the ARRL and TAPR 2013 DCC. John Hansen W2FS brings something\ninteresting every year. This year he built an APRS mobile complete\nwith map display for $1. OK, a little more than that. But a lot less\nthan, say, a Kenwood D710 with an AVMap (nice as that would be).\n\nHamRadioNow Episode 114 from the DCC: RazPi + Xastir = APRS Mobile\n\nHam Radio Now http://HamRadioNow.tv/\n\nAPRS http://www.aprs.org/\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate ARN for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-UK Announces Availability of the G0MRF 144 MHz Pre-amp Kit\n\nThe G0MRF 144 MHz filtered pre-amp kitThe kit from AMSAT-UK contains\nall the parts and hardware necessary to build the G0MRF 2m filtered\npreamplifier. With all the nuts and washers and mounting hardware,\nthere are over 60 individual parts to this project.\n\nThe connectors supplied are a high quality PTFE insulated reduced\nflange Ntype for the connection to the antenna and a chassis mounted\nfemale BNC for the RF output to the receiver, this also carries the 5\nV DC input from a FUNcube dongle or the DC supply from an external\nbias tee or radio.\n\nLinks to the Measurement Report and Construction Notes are posted on\nthe AMSAT-UK web:\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/info/g0mrf-144-mhz-pre-amp-kit/\n\nBuy the 144 MHz pre-amp kit from the AMSAT-UK shop at\nhttp://shop.amsat.org.uk/shop/category_11/G0MRF-Filtered-PreAmps.html\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNew Ham Radio Educational Video\n\n(This excellent video covers all aspects of amateur radio and also\nincludes examples of amateur radio in space and ARISS. - Ed.)\n\nAmateurs interested in spreading the good word about their hobby now\nhave a new tool. A video entitled \"Discovering Amateur radio\" has just\nbeen released.\n\nWritten and narrated by David Anderson, K1AN, the production describes\nan extraordinary technology that in just 100 years has transformed our\nlives in, as Anderson says, \"the most amazing ways.\"\n\nAvailable in a condensed version as well as a half hour program, the\nwell-paced video can be viewed on line or used in group presentations.\nThe producers say it was created for anyone who wishes to encourage\nyouths and adults to discover amateur radio.\n\nThe production is one of many educational programs administered under\nthe auspices of\nUNESCO, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural\nOrganization through partnership with the World Genesis Foundation.\n\"Discovering Amateur Radio\" is on the project website at\nwww.radioqrv.com.\n\n[ANS thanks Amateur Radio Newsline for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nStar Comm Amateur Satellite Group Announces New \"Got Grids? Award\"\n\nEffective January 1, 2014 your CW/SSB amateur satellite contacts\ncan be used to earn the new Got Grids? award. To qualify you must\nlog one contact in each of the 10 grid fields of the lower 48\nUnited States: CN, CM, DN, DM, DL, EN, EM, EL, FN, FM. Only two-way\ncontacts completed via a linear transponder satellite can be used\nfor this award. This award will be effective January 1, 2014, all\ncontacts must be made on or after this date.\n\nSend your log to Rick Tillman, WA4NVM or Damon Runion, WA4HFN for\nchecking, along with your call, name, and current mailing address\nto either: [email protected] or [email protected]. This award is\nsponsored by the Star Comm Satellite Group so do not send your logs\nto AMSAT.\n\nAn example of the award certificate is available on-line at:\nhttp://www.starcommgroup.org, then check the awards tab.\n\nThis award is free. If you would like to make a donations to the\nAMSAT satellite program please send it to:\nAMSAT, 850 Sligo Ave. Suite 600, Silver Spring. MD. 20910.\n\n[ANS thanks Damon Runion, WA4HFN for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nChanges to FUNcube Data Warehouse Upload\n\nWe are extremely grateful to all the groups and individuals who have\nuploaded FUNcube-1 (AO-73) data to the warehouse and the totals on\nthe upload ranking page are quite amazing.\n\nSince launch we have been monitoring the service which receives,\nprocesses and stores that data and now are about to make some changes\nto it to improve it performance and reliability.\n\nThe first change is to introduce an acceptance time window for\npackets uploaded from the Dashboard. This restricts packets to those\nwhose sequence numbers are within +/- 48 hours of the latest sequence\nnumber stored in the Data Warehouse. We are doing this for two\nreasons:\n\nWe have received erroneous packets whose sequence numbers are\nsignificantly different to the latest value. To reduce the chance of\ndouble scoring of points when we release stored data back to the user\ncommunity\n\nThe second change, which will not affect normal operation but will\nimprove scoring:\n\nWe currently process packets immediately they arrive at the server.\nUnder load, this can cause us to lose a few packet scores because of\ncontention in the database. To alleviate this problem, we are going\nto change the processing slightly to process packets through a\nbuffer. This buffer will be processed every 5 seconds, so there will\nbe a slight delay before packets are acknowledged on the ranking.\n\n73 Dave, G4DPZ\n\nDashboard App – Telemetry Decoder http://funcube.org.uk/working-\ndocuments/funcube-telemetry-dashboard/\n\n[ANS thanks Dave, G4DPZ, AMSAT-UK, and the FUNCube Team for the\nabove information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Scouting Burgemeester\nWelschen Meerhove, Eindhoven, The Netherlands and Astronaut Koichi\nWakata KC5ZTA using callsign OR4ISS. The contact began 2013-12-28\n13:08:43 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was\ndirect via PE6SBW. ARISS Mentor was PE1KEH.\n\nScouting Meerhoven was set up in 2003. Their first official turnout\nwas 10 years ago during the JOTA JOTI. During the last 10 years they\nhave had several activities which were connected with transmitting\n(each year during the JOTA JOTI) and also with technic, air and space\ntravel, as their scouts cabin is near Eindhoven airport.\n\nNow, 10 years on, they celebrate our Jubilee. One of their Lustrum\nactivities is the JOTA JOTI, by which they use FM frequency. For a\nwhole weekend the scouting room was transformed to a real radio\nstation. The broadcasts’ are made by their youth and staff members.\n\nIn the framework of the Jubilee they made a request to NASA, to have\nradio contact with one of the astronauts from the ISS. They are very\nsupportive of space travel and during the preparation period they\nengaged in a couple of activities to get ready for a contact with\nISS.\n\nThe Friday evening group (cubs and scouts) visited an observatory,\nmade rockets from lemonade bottles and fired them off. The room of\nthe beavers was transformed to a cosmos with rockets and planets. The\nscouts made these themselves. The Saturday group (cubs and scouts)\nbuilt an ISS station. During the past weeks their activities were all\nin the light of space travel. The groups goal was that the children\nwill make their acquaintance with the JOTA JOTI (transmission) as\nwell as space travel.\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule\n\nRitsumeikan Moriyama Junior High School, Moriyama, Japan, direct via\n8N3RM Contact is a go for: Sun 2013-12-29 09:30:37 UTC\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+ ARISS has rolled out their new web presence...\nhttp://www.ariss.org/\n(Source Debra Johnson, K1DMJ, ARRL Education Services Manager)\n\n+ EA, SPAIN (Satellites). Mark, N8MH, will be active as EA4/N8MH\nfrom Madrid (WW Loc. IN80) between December 24th and January 2nd,\nwhile on a family holiday. It is possible that he will be active on\nFO-29, VO-52, AO-73, SO-50, and AO-7 (?) satellites. He states,\"\nThis is a very low priority part of the trip, and I can't predict\nwhen I'll be able to get on the air (limitations of being in the city\nwith poor view to sky, etc.). But I am going to try at least a few\npasses one way or another! .... My station will be very simple--FT-\n817, Elk antenna, and a hand mic. Working half-duplex on the SSB\nbirds will be very challenging for me! I am spoiled by fully\nautomated station operations.\"\n(Source Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1142)\n\n+ Ham Radio Industry Changes\n\n - DaySaver Power Systems is in merger with Elk Antennas. Elk will\ncontinue to offer DaySaver Power Systems products. The merger enables\nElk to expand its products for emergency communications and remote or\nportable operating.\n\n - DX Engineering is now the sole distributir of Hi-Z Antenna\nProducts.\n\n - Small Wonder Labs, a QRP kit-maker has ceased operation.\n(Source CQ magazine December 2013)\n\n+Request for Announcements and Articles\n\nAre you putting on a Demo, Representating AMSAT at a Hamfest or\nConvention, Reaching out to Schools, Scouts Youth Groups, Putting on\na satellite related Special Events Station, Supporting a Kid's Day\nEvent? PLEASE, LET US KNOW.\n\nANS will be glad to promote your efforts in advance and to report\nyour successes after the fact. To meet our publication deadline, in a\ntimely fashion, please forward your announcements at least 10 days in\nadvance of your event. Typically before the Thursday before the\nSunday we\npublish - the week before your event.\n\nForward your announcement and reports to\nans-editor at amsat dot org\n(Source, The ANS Editors)\n\n+ AMSAT Coordinator for Georgia, John Kludt, K4SQC, will be\nrepresenting AMSAT at TechFest in Lawrenceville GA on Saturday,\nJanuary 11, 2014. Make sure you stop by, or even better, contact\nJohn and offer to lend a hand.\n(Source John K4SQC)\n\n+ SkySat-1 satellite sends first HD video\n\nSkybox Imaging was founded in 2009 by radio amateur Julian Mann\nKI6OSO along with Ching-Yu Hu, Dan Berkenstock and John Fenwick.\n\nMany of the Skybox Imaging executives worked on CubeSat projects\nwhile students at Stanford University under Professor Bob Twiggs\nKE6QMD.\n\nSkySat-1, the first in a planned constellation of 24\nmicrosatellites, was launched on a Dnepr from Dombarovsky near Yasny\non November 21, 2013. It is believed to be the smallest satellite\never flown that is capable of capturing imagery at better than 1\nmeter resolution and the 1080p HD camera can capture up to 90 second\nvideo clips at 30 frames per second.\nSee a preview at http://www.firstimagery.skybox.com/\n\nSkybox Imaging http://www.skyboximaging.com/\n(Source AMSAT-UK)\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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