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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/FK6ZN5GFGIC7ZMREVJDBLUKAU3CSENTL/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "FK6ZN5GFGIC7ZMREVJDBLUKAU3CSENTL", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/FK6ZN5GFGIC7ZMREVJDBLUKAU3CSENTL/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-353 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2016-12-18T01:51:52Z", "parent": null, "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/JLQW3OSBSPNUJPADXYOWFWH42XEOHQMG/" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-353\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* Gould Smith, WA4SXM appointed Director-Field Operations\n* AO-73/FUNcube Holiday Transponder Operation\n* HM85 Christmas Weekend Operation\n* 18 Years of SSTV and Human Spaceflight\n* WB8ELK Balloon Completes Second Lap Around the World\n* 18th Annual Long Island Section Convention\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-353.01\nANS-353 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 353.01\n From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE December 18, 2016\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-353.01\n\nGould Smith, WA4SXM appointed Director-Field Operations\n\nAMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW has appointed G. Gould Smith, \nWA4SXM as\nDirector-Field Operations. The public announcement was made during the \nField\nOperations Forum held in conjunction with the 34th AMSAT Space Symposium \nheld on\nboard Carnival Liberty on 12 Nov 2016.\n\nField Operations consists of AMSAT volunteers who serve as Area \nCoordinators in\ntheir local areas. As “Ambassadors of AMSAT”, they give AMSAT \npresentations at\nlocal club meetings or at hamfests, manage an AMSAT table/booth at a \nhamfest, or\nsupport local satellite operations as ‘elmers’ to new satellite operators.\n\nGould previously served as Director-Field Operations from 2004-2008 \nprior to\nbecoming VP-User Services from 2008-2013. Gould is also the author of \nseveral\nbooks published by AMSAT starting in 1990 with “Getting Started With \nAmateur\nSatellites” the current AMSAT publication that carries his name. Due to \nmedical\nissues, Gould was forced to resign from the Board of Directors and as \nVP-User\nServices in 2014 to focus on his medical concerns. Two years later, \nGould’s\nmedical recovery is now such that he’s once again in position to support \nAMSAT.\n\nIn conjunction with this transition, Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK now serves as\n“Lead Area Coordinator”, essentially functioning as Gould’s Executive \nOfficer.\nTogether, Gould and Patrick will work to enhance the Field Organization.\n\n“Having Gould back in an AMSAT leadership role is welcome news” notes AMSAT\nPresident Barry Baines, WD4ASW. “Gould is passionate about amateur \nradio in\nspace and wants to encourage amateurs to become involved with satellite\noperations. The Field Organization will benefit from Gould’s focus on \nproviding\nsupport to our Area Coordinators and developing materials that will \nassist our\nvolunteers to speak on AMSAT’s behalf at club presentations and hamfests.”\n\nInitially, Gould has been spending some time getting back up to speed on \nthe\ncurrent status of the Field Organization and establishing a line of\ncommunication with the Field Ops Team. Gould notes, “As a long time AMSAT\nvolunteer I am excited to be re-engaging with the organization since my \nhealth\nhas improved significantly. The Field Operations position is one that I \nhave\nexperience with and am looking forward to leading with the help of Patrick,\nWD9EWK. I have looked at the current Area Coordinator list and their \nactivities\nand know most of the members. One of the first things I will be doing is \ngetting\nto know the newer coordinators and determining how best we can serve \nAMSAT, it's\nmembers and prospective members. Please let me know of any ideas or \nsuggestions\nto improve he Field Operations team.”\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW, for the above \ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAO-73/FUNcube Holiday Transponder Operation\n\nThe AO-73/FUNcube plan for the Holidays is to switch to continuous \ntransponder\nmode on Wed 22 Dec pm UTC, and revert back to auto transponder switching on\nSunday 8 Jan 2017 ppm UTC.\n\nHave FUN with the transponder.\n\n[ANS thanks Jim, G3WGM, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nHM85 Christmas Weekend Operation\n\nPedro, CU2ZG, reports that Christmas HM58 operation will take place from\nDecember 23rd to December 25th. Pedro will be SSB equipped and plans to\noperate on the following satellites: AO-7, FO-29, SO-50, AO-73, EO-79,\nXW-2A/B/C/D/F, and AO-85.\n\nLogs will be uploaded as CU2ZG.\n\n[ANS thanks Pedro, CU2ZG, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n18 Years of SSTV and Human Spaceflight\n\nDecember 12, 2016, marked the 18th anniversary of the activation of the \nMIR SSTV\nAmateur Radio developed System which was transported and put aboard the \nMIR\nSpace Station. The MIR SSTV System sent pictures over a period of about 2\nyears and 4 months to the delight of Amateur Radio Operators and others\nworldwide. (Mir was deorbited in March, 2001) For those interested in this\nhistorical event and background, the publication Amateur Television \nQuarterly\n(ATVQ), Spring 2015 issue has an article, “How Did the MIR SSTV System \ncome\ninto Existence”? Back issue copies of ATVQ containing this article are\navailable via [email protected]. See also web address: www.ATVQuarterly.com.\n\nA small sampling of perhaps thousands of received pictures may be found \nin web\nsites:\n\nhttp://www.marexmg.org/marexmirweb/fileshtml/galleryimagepage1.htm\n\nhttp://www.qsl.net/dg7ro/afu/mirsstv.htm\n\nBackground information and initial efforts on developing the MIR System and\nearly efforts to provide SSTV for the ISS may be reviewed at:\n\nhttp://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/sponsorspeople.htm\n\nThe ISS is now transmitting a similar series of SSTV Transmissions to \nthat of\nMIR:\n\nhttps://amsat-uk.org/beginners/iss-sstv\n\n[ANS thanks Farrell, W8ZCF, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nWB8ELK Balloon Completes Second Lap Around the World\n\nAfter flying for over 41,000 miles, the WB8ELK HF WSPR Skytracker \nballoon has\ncompleted its second lap after crossing over into Indiana on 12 Dec \n2016. For\nthose of you capable of listening to 20m WSPR mode, it transmits at the \n4-minute\nand 6-minute marks every 10 minutes on 14.09560 MHz USB during daylight \nhours.\n\n[ANS thanks Bill WB8ELK and the BALLOON_SKED group on yahoogroups for \nthe above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n18th Annual Long Island Section Convention\n\nHam Radio University (HRU) is scheduled for January 8th, 2017, there \nwill be 30\nforums with Tom Gallagher, CEO, of ARRL as the keynote speaker.\n\nPeter, W2JV, will be doing a forum at 10 AM on ‘Getting Started with the \nAmateur\nSatellites”, AMSAT will have a table in the club room to answer your \nquestions.\nThere will be demonstrations on the air as time and weather permits, on \nboth the\nFM and linear transponder satellites. Look for W2JV, or others on the air.\n\n[ANS thanks Peter, W2JV, for the above information\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,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }