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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/CEVH6OCXFC7RZIFMDFI3ZHTSBYRUT6MN/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "CADDbS5BuC2SearfK_87n7D98+sHa8ivJLqHHX-WO0cqVku+HPw@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "CEVH6OCXFC7RZIFMDFI3ZHTSBYRUT6MN", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/CEVH6OCXFC7RZIFMDFI3ZHTSBYRUT6MN/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "k0jm.mark (a) gmail.com", "mailman_id": "4fa2bb5eca934ca4b14c4ede20ff0c9a", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/4fa2bb5eca934ca4b14c4ede20ff0c9a/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Mark Johns, K0JM", "subject": "[AMSAT-BB] ANS-332 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for Nov. 28", "date": "2021-11-28T00:26:35Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-332\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information\nservice of AMSAT, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes\nnews related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities\nof a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active\ninterest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog\nand digital Amateur Radio satellites.\n\nThe news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in\nSpace as soon as our volunteers can post it.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to: [email protected]\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:\nhttps://mailman.amsat.org/postorius/lists/ans.amsat.org/\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* The AMSAT Journal, September/October 2021 Now Available\n* AMSAT President's Apogee View Celebrates 2020-2021\n* FUNcube-1 (AO73) Celebrating Eight Years in Orbit!\n* ISS SSTV December 1-2, 2021 on 145.800 MHz FM\n* Dayton Hamvention Expects to be Live Event in 2022\n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nANS-332 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nTo: All RADIO AMATEURS\nFrom: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation\n712 H Street NE, Suite 1653\nWashington, DC 20002\n\nDATE 2021 November 28\n\n\nThe AMSAT Journal, September/October 2021 Now Available\n\nThe September/October 2021 issue of The AMSAT Journal is now available to\nmembers on AMSAT's Member Portal. The AMSAT Journal is a bi-monthly digital\nmagazine for amateur radio in space enthusiasts, published by the Radio\nAmateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT). Each issue is your source for\nhardware and software projects, technical tips, STEM initiatives,\noperational activities, and news from around the world. Inside this issue:\n\n - Apogee View - Robert Bankston, KE4AL\n - The Life and Legacy of Tom Clark, K3IO (SK) - Bob McGwier, N4HY\n - Dr. Thomas A. Clark, K3IO - Remembering a Superstar - Richard M. Hambly,\nW2GPS\n - Remembering Tom Clark - Barry A. Baines, WD4ASW\n - Mourning the Passing of Dr. Thomas A. Clark - Frank Bauer, KA3HDO\n - Full Function Remote Control of a Satellite Base Station - Mark Johns,\nK0JM\n\nMembers can read this issue and all back issues of the AMSAT Journal by\nlogging in at https://launch.amsat.org/The_AMSAT_Journal.\n\nNote yet a member? Start reading the Journal today by joining at\nhttps://launch.amsat.org/Membership.\n\n[ANS thanks Joe Kornowski, KB6IGK, AMSAT Journal Editor-in-Chief.]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAMSAT President's Apogee View Celebrates 2020-2021\n\nRobert Bankston, KE4AL, AMSAT President writes:\n\n\"This issue of The AMSAT Journal marks my first year as AMSAT President, so\nI thought I would take this opportunity to update you on what we've been\nworking on, where we are now, and what we will focus on in the coming year.\n\n\"Our Engineering team has been making significant progress on our GOLF\nprogram, and we hope to see the launch of GOLF-TEE in the latter half of\nnext year. Under the leadership of our Vice-President of Engineering, Jerry\nBuxton, N0JY, our volunteer engineers have worked tirelessly to develop,\nprototype, and test GOLF-TEE's systems. I thank each and every one of them\nfor donating their time and expertise.\n\n\"Not to be outdone, our Educational Relations team completed its beta\ntesting on the CubeSat Simulator and launched the CubeSat Simulator printed\ncircuit board set on the AMSAT Store. Dr. Alan Johnston, KU2Y, and his team\nhave done a phenomenal job. In addition, as announced at this year's\nsymposium, they have not only developed and released the new CubeSatSim\nLite version, but Dr. Johnston and his team have begun to experiment with\nhigh altitude balloon launches to take the CubeSatSim concept to the next\nlevel of educational initiatives.\n\n\"Behind the scenes, we have been busy modernizing back-office tasks,\nfinding ways to more efficiently do business, and ensuring the AMSAT\nmachine runs smoothly. To be honest, running AMSAT without Martha has been\na significant challenge.\n\n\"Our modernization efforts, which really began with the May 2020 launch of\nour online member management system, have been the key to our overall\nsuccess this year. Transforming a 52 year old organization from brick and\nmortar to virtual was no easy task and not without a few hiccups along the\nway, but we are better positioned moving forward. It was a sad day packing\nup the AMSAT office in Kensington, Maryland, in May and putting everything\nin storage. To touch all that history reaffirmed why we do what we do.\n\n\"I look forward to both the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.\nAMSAT is in a very solid position from both a financial and a membership\nperspective. We have a strong fiscal foundation, an excellent governance\nand management team, generous volunteers who freely donate their time and\nexpertise, and a diverse membership base who truly care about keeping\n amateur radio in space.\n\n\"Financially, we are on a solid footing, with over $950,000 in cash and\nliquid investments. Our revenues are down from last year, as is the rest of\nthe U.S. economy; however, we are on track to exceed our profitability\nmargin over last year because of the cost-cutting measure we implemented.\nIn 2020, $0.82 of every dollar went to pay overhead. In 2021, that amount\nwas reduced to $0.56 for every dollar we brought in – a 31% reduction.\nThis means a lot more of your membership dues and revenues we develop from\nother sources are going towards building satellites and expanding our\neducational efforts.\n\n\"AMSAT membership has consistently been over 4,000 the past year, with\n4,045 current members as of this writing. AMSAT's membership is diverse,\nrepresenting 76 countries. While each comes for varied reasons (builders\nand operators, scientists and educators, HEO and LEO), we all come together\nfor a single purpose: to keep amateur radio in space. So, what's next? With\nover 52 years of success, what are we going to do now?\n\n\"We have an ambitious, forward-thinking plan (www.amsat.org/strategicplan/)\nthat's ready to be put into action. Central to this plan are the needs to\nmodernize how we manage projects and explore ways to collaborate with our\ninternational partners, given current ITAR/EAR restrictions.\n\n\"In addition, as an all-volunteer member organization, we need help. While\nwe have a solid core of volunteers now, expanding our programs will require\nadditional human resources and added expertise. I will be addressing this\nin the next issue of The AMSAT Journal, but if you cannot wait, please feel\nfree to contact me directly. We would love to have you join our team.\n\n\"Our greatest threat right now is the ever-tightening regulatory\nenvironment. It is one thing to hope to return to higher orbits and even\nbeyond, but all of this will be for naught if we can't get a satellite\nlicensed in orbit above LEO. Proposed orbital debris mitigation regulations\nwill require orbits above 600 kilometers to have a flight-proven, low-risk\ntransfer orbit, long-term reentry capability, and/or improved\nmove-away-and-stay-away storage options for orbital lifespans more than 25\nyears. However, proving you can get there and operate responsibly will not\nbe enough. Every mission will be closely evaluated to ensure it serves the\ngreater benefit of all, which, at this time, strongly favors commercial,\nscientific and educational interests. Thankfully, our engineers had the\nforesight to develop the GOLF program for this very purpose.\n\n\"While we await the FCC's final ruling, we cannot sit idly by and be\ncontent with mediocrity. Instead, we must continue to push Onward and\nUpward. We should focus our efforts on new communication systems that more\nefficiently allow us to communicate in space and spacecraft which will take\nus towards and beyond the next space horizon. At the same time, we must\nestablish and maintain a path of sustainability that not only introduces\nspace communications using amateur radio to the public but also nurtures\nthem to be the next generation of satellite builders and operators.\n\n\"On a side note, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the 2021\nAMSAT-UK Space Colloquium on October 24th. It was an incredible event, and\nAMSAT-UK did a phenomenal job of hosting the virtual event. In addition to\nthe extraordinary work being done by the Surrey Space Center team on their\nSTAR-XL project, the operators chasing QO-100, and Peter, 2M0SQL's, roving\nefforts in Northern Scotland, we were treated to presentations on IARU\nAmateur Satellite co-ordination by Hans Blondeel Timmerman, PB2T, and an\nAMSAT-DL update, by Peter Guelzow, DB2OS. If you missed the AMSAT-UK\nColloquium, I encourage you to view it on AMSAT-UK's YouTube Channel,\nwww.youtube.com/user/AMSATUK/videos.\n\n\"Let me close with personally thanking all of our members, who generously\ndonated to the AMSAT President's Club this year, and our Vice-President of\nDevelopment, Frank Karnauskas, N1UW, who single-handedly resurrected this\nprogram and managed to raise over $33,000. I look forward to what Frank can\ndo for next year.\"\n\n[ANS thanks Robert Bankston, KE4AL, AMSAT President for the above\ninformation.]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nFUNcube-1 (AO73) Celebrating Eight Years in Orbit!\n\nNovember 21, 2021, marks the eighth birthday of the FUNcube-1 CubeSat.\nRemarkably the tiny spacecraft, launched from Russia on November 21, 2013,\ncontinues to work well having travelled more than a billion kilometers in\nspace.\n\nDuring the past couple of months, the spacecraft's orbits have been running\njust along the edge of the terminator. Initially it had effectively full\nsun with no eclipses but at the beginning of this month it appears that the\nsolar panels were not receiving enough solar radiation to keep the battery\nfully charged.\n\nFUNcube-1 was transmitting continuous high-power telemetry and was\ntherefore consuming maximum power. The FUNcube Dashboard showed the rapid\ndecline in the bus voltage from an already below normal 8.0V down to 7.8V.\nThe spacecraft was switched to safe mode on the afternoon of November 18,\n2021. This reduced to total power consumption by almost 50% and the\nspacecraft is again in a happy power positive situation.\n\nAlthough safe mode provides less than 20mW of downlink RF, it is remarkable\nhow many stations are still receiving and decoding the 1k2 BPSK telemetry.\nThis is a good point at which to say a massive thank you to the many\nstations around the world who, even after eight years, are continuing to\nsubmit their data to the FUNcube Data Warehouse. It really is valuable to\nthe team and has really helped us to understand what is going on up there.\n\nThe team will continue to monitor the telemetry over the next few weeks and\nplan to return FUNcube-1 to nominal autonomous operation, with the\ntransponder on when the spacecraft is in eclipse, as soon as possible.\n\nInterestingly, it appears that the satellite will not be having any more\nfull sunlight periods for the foreseeable future. However, those that we\nhave experienced have provided some good data on how hot a 1U CubeSat can\nbecome in such circumstances!\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information.]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n Join the 2021 President's Club!\n Score your 2\" 4-Color Accent Commemorative Coin.\n This gold finished coin comes with\nFull Color Certificate and Embroidered \"Remove Before Flight\" Key Tag\n Donate today at\n https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/\n You won't want to miss it!\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nISS SSTV December 1-2, 2021 on 145.800 MHz FM\n\nRussian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are planning to\ntransmit Slow Scan TV images on 145.800 MHz FM using the SSTV mode PD-120.\n\nThe transmissions are part of the Moscow Aviation Institute SSTV experiment\n(MAI-75) and will be made from the amateur radio station RS0ISS in the\nRussian ISS Service module (Zvezda) using a Kenwood TM-D710 transceiver.\n\n - December 1, 2021 (Wednesday) from 12:10 GMT until 19:10 GMT*\n - December 2, 2021 (Thursday) from 11:40 GMT until 17:20 GMT*\n\nDates and times subject to change.\n\nThe signal should be receivable on a handheld with a 1/4 wave whip. If your\nrig has selectable FM filters try the wider filter for 25 kHz channel\nspacing.\n\nYou can get predictions for the ISS pass times at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/track/\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information.]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nDayton Hamvention Expects to be Live Event in 2022\n\nDayton Hamvention organizers are planning to mount the first in-person show\nin 2022, following 2 years of COVID-related cancellations. The event is set\nfor May 20 – 22 at the Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center in\nXenia, Ohio. Last January, Hamvention organizers from the sponsoring Dayton\nAmateur Radio Association (DARA) announced they were calling off the 2021\nevent after considerable planning was already under way. The Hamvention\nExecutive Committee cited lagging COVID-19 vaccine distribution in the US\nand the emergence of a more communicable form of the virus.\n\nSouthgate Amateur Radio News quotes Hamvention General Chairman Rick\nAllnutt, WS8G, as saying that Hamvention committees have been meeting, and\nvolunteers are committed to making up for the time lost to pandemic\ncancellations.\" The Hamvention website is already accepting bookings from\nvendors and inside exhibitors, and individual visitors can already buy\ntickets, which Allnutt said, \"are all printed and ready to go.\"\n\nNominations for the 2022 Hamvention Awards opened on November 1. Hamvention\nseeks 'the best of the best\" nominees for its Technical Achievement,\nSpecial Achievement, Amateur of the Year, and Club of the Year awards.\nNominations close on February 15, 2022. Submit nomination forms via email\nor USPS to Hamvention Awards Committee, Box 964, Dayton, OH 45401-0964\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate Amateur Radio News for the above information.]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nAMSAT's GOLF Program is about getting back to higher orbits, and it all\nbegins with GOLF-TEE – a technology demonstrator for deployable solar\npanels, propulsion, and attitude control, now manifested for launch on\nNASA's ELaNa 46 mission. Come along for the ride. The journey will be\nworth it!\n\n https://tinyurl.com/ANS-GOLF\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nARISS NEWS\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.\n\nUpcoming Contacts\n\n+ Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD.\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS0˜ISS.\nThe downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz.\nThe scheduled crewmember is Anton Shkaplerov.\nContact is go for Monday, November 11, 2021 at 08:20 UTC.\n\n+ Colegio Pumahue Temuco, Temuco, Chile, direct via CE6TC.\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS.\nThe downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz.\nThe scheduled crewmember is Raja Chari KI5LIU.\nContact is go for: Monday, November 2021 at 13:53:37 UTC.\n\n+ Berufliche Schule Direktorat 1 Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany, telebridge\nvia IK1SLD.\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS.\nThe downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 437.525 MHz.\nThe scheduled crewmember is Matthias Maurer KI5KFH.\nContact is go for: Thursday, December 2, at 13:38:56 UTC.\n\n+ Wolfgang-Kubelka-Realschule (WKR), Schondorf am Ammersee, Germany,\ntelebridge via VK4KHZ.\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS.\nThe downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 437.525 MHz.\nThe scheduled crewmember is Matthias Maurer KI5KFH.\nContact is go for: Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 14:16:35 UTC.\n\n+ Hino Elementary School & Canna Project-Canna School Contact Team, Suzaka,\nJapan, direct via 8NØCAN.\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS.\nThe downlink frequency is presently scheduled to be 145.800 MHz.\nThe scheduled crewmember is Kayla Barron KI5LAL.\nContact is go for: Friday, December 3, 2021 at 10:02:22 UTC.\n\nPlease note, two of the contacts are using the UHF public downlink\nfrequency.\n\nThe latest information on the operation mode can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html\n\nThe latest list of frequencies in use can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors\nfor the above information]\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\nUpcoming Satellite Operations\n\nFN51: November 27-28, 2021\nKC1MEB on Cape Cod, MA. No schedule as of this time.\n\nEM86, November 20-30, 2021\nWY7AA: DM RJ for a sched.\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT rover page manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n\nARRL National 2022 Convention & Orlando Hamcation\nFebruary 11-13, 2021\nCentral Florida Fairgrounds and Expo Park, Orlando, Florida\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT Events page manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Congratulations to Chris Polena, AA8CH, in EN62vp48, and Jose Rodriguez,\nEB1AO, in IN52pe28, for setting the new AO-27 distance record of 6,125 km\non November 20, 2021 at 21:30 UTC! Distance records may be seen at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/satellite-distance-records/.\n[ANS thanks Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, AMSAT Executive VP, for the above\ninformation.]\n\n+ Satellite trackers have been working overtime to figure out just how much\ndangerous debris Russia created when it destroyed one of its own satellites\nearly Monday - and the picture they've painted looks bleak. Computer\nvisualizations of the debris cloud can be viewed at https://bit.ly/3FNuFZU.\n[ANS thanks The Verge for the above information.]\n\n+ CaribouLite is an affordable, open-source, dual-channel software-defined\nradio (SDR) platform”and an SDR-focused FPGA development framework\"\nimplemented as a Raspberry Pi (RPi) HAT. CaribouLite turns a Raspberry Pi\nsingle-board computer (SBC) into a self-contained, dual-channel radio Tx/Rx\nthat spans a wide tunable frequency spectrum up to 6 GHz. The full version\ncomes with two TX/RX half-duplex channels, with channel one covering 30 MHz\nto 6 GHz, and channel two covering sub 1 GHz only. Both channels use a\n13-bit ADC, capable of a bandwidth of up to 2.5 MHz maximum. The unit is\ncapable of up to 14 dBm of transmit power. More information at\nhttps://tinyurl.com/ANS-332-CaribouLite.\n[ANS thanks RTL-SDR.com for the above information.]\n\n+ GNU Radio Conference 2021 was a great success, with around 100 in-person\nattendees and over 1000 remote attendees!\nTalks were split between in-person and remote (pre-recorded). All talks are\nnow available to watch on YouTube. A playlist that includes all videos can\nbe seen at https://tinyurl.com/ANS-332-GRCON.\n[ANS thanks gnuradio.org for the above information.]\n\n+ Russia's Prichal docking module linked up with the International Space\nStation Friday, November 26, 2021 adding the final planned piece of the\nRussian segment of the outpost to provide a new connection for future crew\nand cargo ships. The spherical, ball-shaped docking node launched Wednesday\non top of a Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in\nKazakhstan. More information at https://tinyurl.com/ANS-332-PRICHAL.\n[ANS thanks spaceflightnow.com for the above information.]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\nJoin AMSAT today at https://launch.amsat.org/\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership to:\n\n* Societies (a recognized group, clubs or organization).\n* Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at\none-half the standard yearly rate.\n* Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status\nshall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary\nyears in this status.\n* Memberships are available for annual and lifetime terms.\n\nContact info [at] amsat.org for additional membership information.\n\n73 and remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space!\n\nThis week's ANS Editor, Frank Karnauskas, N1UW\nn1uw at amsat dot org\n\n\n", "attachments": [ { "email": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/CEVH6OCXFC7RZIFMDFI3ZHTSBYRUT6MN/?format=api", "counter": 2, "name": "attachment.html", "content_type": "text/html", "encoding": "utf-8", "size": 23387, "download": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/CEVH6OCXFC7RZIFMDFI3ZHTSBYRUT6MN/attachment/2/attachment.html" } ] }