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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/GDDK6N4YLOGW7LZ4SZXWJFJA35ADEHNO/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "GDDK6N4YLOGW7LZ4SZXWJFJA35ADEHNO", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/PDY36IHBMBSPOE2YXRYJ2K3KVCZI72J7/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "wao (a) vfr.net", "mailman_id": "9057def1436c407fa55c4988db05914a", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/9057def1436c407fa55c4988db05914a/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Joe Spier", "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-244", "date": "2013-09-01T06:25:00Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/HAMP2DVRLXCLZIC2DLE6OBTWHL7A6CWH/?format=api", "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/DZZM3MX3AJBUFXYAGRDRFT4BFJM5ESDZ/?format=api" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-244\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* AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballots Due By September 15th\n* FUNcube-1 Launch Date Announced\n* A Ham Radio AX.25 Open Source Soundcard Modem\n* Ham Radio Satellites at Tokyo Ham Fair\n* SpaceUp India 2012 Videos Now Posted\n* CAMSAT (AMSAT China) to host \"a big DX party\"\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-244.01\nANS-244 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 244.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nAugust 31, 2013\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-244.01\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballots Due By September 15th\n\n\nA reminder that all members in good standing should have received\ntheir ballots. In order for your ballott to be counted, it will need\nto be RECEIVED at the AMSAT office by September 15th.\n\nThis year we have 8 candidates for 4 voting Board members and 2 non-\nvoting Alternates. Your vote is especially important this year in\nselecting those who will help guide AMSAT-NA. If you have not\nsubmitted your ballot, please review the candidate biography and\nposition statements you received, as well as the Minutes of the Board\nMeeting published in the May/June issue of the AMSAT Journal. Then\nmake your voice heard by voting.\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFUNcube-1 Launch Date Announced\n\n\nAMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL are delighted to be able to announce that they \nhave been\nadvised that the launch date for FUNcube-1 is now expected to be \nNovember 21,\n2013. This date is still subject to final approval by the authorities.\n\nThe FUNcube project started back in 2009 so it is a great relief that we now\nhave a confirmed date for lift off.\n\nFUNcube-1 will lift off from the Yasny launch base located in the Orenburg\nRegion, Russia on a Dnepr Launch Vehicle that will insert multiple \nsatellites\ninto a 600 km sun-synchronous orbit.\n\nFUNcube-1 is a 1U CubeSat that will provide a signal directly from a \nsatellite\nin space to the classroom, and can easily be received by schools and \ncolleges.\nThe target audience is students at both primary and secondary levels. The\ninformation will be displayed in an attractive format and provide \nstimulation\nand encouragement for students to become interested in all STEM (Science\nTechnology Engineering & Maths) subjects in an unique way. In addition the\nspacecraft is also carrying a 435/145 MHz transponder for radio amateurs \nto use\nfor communication using SSB or CW.\n\nThe spacecraft itself has now been completed and the last external panel was\nfinally screwed and glued in place on Friday, August 30 at the facilities of\nISIS BV in Delft. FUNcube-1 will be subjected to some final testing and \nbattery\ncharging on Tuesday when it will also be set into its pre-launch \nconfiguration.\nIt will then be placed into its ISIPOD on Wednesday ready for transport \nto the\nlaunch site.\n\nCommunication subsystem:\n• 400 mW Inverting linear transponder for SSB and CW\n- Uplink 435.150 – 435.130 MHz\n- Downlink 145.950 – 145.970 MHz\n• 400 mW BPSK Telemetry 145.935 MHz\n\nMore information about how to receive the signals from FUNcube-1 will be \nmade\navailable over the forthcoming weeks at the www.funcube.org.uk website.\n\nA recent presentation about the FUNcube project by Graham Shirville \nG3VZV and\nWouter Weggelaar PA3WEG can be viewed online at\nhttp://www.batc.tv/streams/amsat1311 or downloaded from\nhttp://www.batc.tv/vod/Funcube1.flv\n\nFUNcube-1 http://amsat-uk.org/funcube/funcube-cubesat/\n\nFUNcube Yahoo Group http://amsat-uk.org/funcube/yahoo-group/\n\nFUNcube website http://www.funcube.org.uk/\n\nSome of the other satellites that may be on the same Dnepr launch \nvehicle are\nlisted at http://amsat-uk.org/2013/08/22/dnepr-cubesat-launch/\n\nAMSAT-UK on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/AMSAT-UK/208113275898396\nAMSAT-UK on Twitter https://twitter.com/AMSAT_UK\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL, for the above article]\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nA Ham Radio AX.25 Open Source Soundcard Modem\n\n\nAX.25 packet radio is currently the most popular data protocol for use in\nCubeSats.\n\nRadio amateur Alejandro Santos LU4EXT is developing extmodem, an open source\nAPRS compatible AX.25 packet radio modem.\n\nIt is currently capable of both sending and receive packets. The main \nfeature\nof the software is that it is currently running three different \ndemodulators in\nparallel, increasing the quality of reception. The first modem is Thomas \nSailer\nHB9JNX / AE4WA‘s multimon, the other two are described by Sivan Toledo \n4X6IZ in\nan article in the July/August 2012 issue of QEX.\n\nDownload extmodem for Windows from\nhttp://extradio.sourceforge.net/extmodem.html\n\nQEX article – A High-Performance Sound-Card AX.25 Modem\nhttp://www.tau.ac.il/~stoledo/Bib/Pubs/QEX-JulAug-2012.pdf\n\nAPRS destination address for ham radio satellites\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2013/08/23/aprs-destination-address-for-ham-radio-\nsatellites/\n\nLU4EXT on Twitter https://twitter.com/alejolp\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK, for the above article]\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nHam Radio Satellites at Tokyo Ham Fair\n\n\nThe JARL Ham Fair 2013 was held at Tokyo Big Sight, Ariake, Tokyo on \nAugust 24-\n25. JAMSAT and several amateur radio satellite projects were represented.\n\nThe University of Tsukuba CubeSat ITF-1 YUI “Binding” support project was\nthere. The formal name ITF-1 comes from the initial letter of the university\nslogan “Imagine The Future”. The satellite also has a popular name YUI \nwhich\nmeans bond or binding in Japanese, it came from the project’s concept‚\n“Creating the Worldwide Human Community”.\n\nThe ITF-1 satellite beacon on 437.525 MHz will send telemetry by a Morse \nCode\naudio tone on an FM transmitter running 300 milliwats output. It should be\npossible to receive it using simple equipment such as a handheld \ntransceiver or\nscanner.\n\nAccording to the ITF-1 website the “Binding” support project is organized by\nthe student volunteers to support the construction of a consolidated network\nand expand public relation activities with the aim of encouraging many\nreception reports when the satellite is launched. ITF-1 will fly with the\nprimary payload the Global Precipitation Measurement Dual-Frequency\nPrecipitation Radar GPM-DPR satellite in 2014.\n\nThe ARTSAT stand featured the Invader CubeSat which is being developed by\nstudents at Tama Art University. The IARU has coordinated 437.325 MHz and\n437.200 MHz for Invader which aims to have a camera for Earth imaging and a\nDigi-Talker, to transmit voice data using FM. Invader will be on the same\nlaunch as ITF-1.\n\nAlso at the fair was the SPROUT project. This nano-satellite, built by\nstudents from Nihon University, is 20 x 20 x 22 cm with a mass of 6.7 kg. It\nplans to launch with the L-band (1236.5 MHz/1257.5 MHz/1278.5 MHz) Synthetic\nAperture Radar (SAR) satellite ALOS-2 in December, 2013.\n\nSPROUT will have a digi-talker and will transmit, using Slow Scan TV (SSTV)\nand FM packet, pictures of the Earth taken by an on-board camera. It is\nbelieved that radio amateurs will be able to make use of the digipeater and\npossibly even command when pictures are taken.\n\nITF-1 project in Google English http://tinyurl.com/ITF-1-Yui-Binding-Project\nImagine The Future http://amsat-uk.org/2012/01/19/itf1-cubesat-imagine-the-\nfuture/\n\nARTSAT project in Google English http://tinyurl.com/ARTSAT\nA student art satellite http://amsat-uk.org/2012/04/12/invader-cubesat-a-\nstudent-art-satellite/\n\nSPROUT project in Google English http://tinyurl.com/Sprout-Satellite\nSSTV satellite http://amsat-uk.org/2012/08/24/sprout-amateur-radio-sstv-\nsatellite-to-launch-in-2013/\n\nJARL Ham Fair 2013 in Google English http://tinyurl.com/JARL-Ham-Fair-2013\n\nReports on previous JARL Ham Fairs \nhttp://www.jarl.or.jp/English/4_Library/A-4-\n6_ham-fair/ham-fair.htm\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK, for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSpaceUp India 2012 Videos Now Posted\n\n\nFSpace F-1 Amateur Radio CubeSatDhruva Space have released several videos\nrecorded at the SpaceUp India event held in December 2012.\n\nAmong the presentations are those from\n• F1 CubeSat from Vietnam, Thu Trong Vu XV9AA\n• Hackerspace Global Grid, Uni Stuttgart\n• Amateur Radio,Suri VU2MY\n\nOther presentations from the event can be seen at\nhttp://www.youtube.com/user/DhruvaSpace\n\nSpaceUp India 2013 takes place December 6-7 in Manit, Bhopal\nhttp://spaceupindia.org/\n\nFacebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/SpaceUp-India/479467792071870\n\nSpaceUp http://spaceup.org/\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK, for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCAMSAT (AMSAT China) to host \"a big DX party\"\n\n\nThe \"425 DX NEWS\" reports that CAMSAT (AMSAT China) will\nhold \"a big DX party\" from the outskirts of the city of Dunhuang in\nnorthwestern China (Zone 23, WW Loc. NM79aw) between October 19-28th.\nAlan, BA1DU, and a very large group of operators coming from all over\nthe country will be active with four well equipped stations: one for 2\nand 6 meters, one for 70 centimeters and two for 160-10 meters.\nMeteor Scatter and EME activity will be emphasized (this will include\nparticipation in the ARRL EME Contest), as well activity on the low\nbands. Special callsign BJ9TA will be used for operating above 50 MHz\nand on the low bands, while BY9GA/9 will be used for the other bands\nand for participation in the CQ WW SSB Contest. QSL via BA1DU.\n\n\n[ANS thanks the August 26, 2013 Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No.1125 for the above\nlink]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\nAn International Space Station school contact has been planned with\nparticipants at Amicale Space Camp organized by Sterrenlab for children \nof the\nEuropean Patent Office/NL, Leiden, The Netherlands (Summer Space Camp,\nNoordwijk, Netherlandson 30 Aug. The event is scheduled to begin at\napproximately 12:11 UTC.\n\nThe duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The\ncontact will be direct between OR4ISS and PA3GUO. The contact should be \naudible\nover Italy. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz\ndownlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.\n\nSterrenlab is a small company in the field of science communication and\neducation, specialized in the organization of international science and \nspace\ncamps for children and teenagers.\n\nThe European Patent Office is a European organization with several sites in\nEurope.\n\nParticipants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:\n\n\n\n1. Where do you come from?\n\n2. Do you think aliens exist?\n\n3. Can you see the Netherlands from the Space Station? And your house?\n\n4. Do you have animals on board the International Space Station?\n\n5. Are you homesick?\n\n6. Do you have children?\n\n7. Did you participate to survival camps during your astronaut training?\n\n8. Would you prefer going to the Moon, to Mars or to an asteroid?\n\n9. What languages do you speak?\n\n10. What was your favorite subject at school?\n\n11. Do you think the space agencies will soon detect an exoplanet with \nalien\n\n forms of life?\n\n12. Do you have chocolate on the Space Station?\n\n13. Did you have many friends when you were a child?\n\n14. How is called the rocket you flew with?\n\n15. Do you ever have issues with your crew mates?\n\n16. If you would meet an alien, what would you tell him?\n\n17. When are you coming back to Earth?\n\n18. What's your favorite sport?\n\n\n\n\nAn International Space Station school contact has been planned with\nparticipants at Gwalior Glory High School, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, \nIndia on 31\nAug. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 11:22 UTC. The \nduration\nof the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact \nwill be a\ntelebridge between IR0ISS and IK1SLD. The contact should be audible over \nItaly\nand adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the \n145.80\nMHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.\n\nGwalior Glory High School was established in Gwalior in the year 1991.\nAffiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, it \nhas been\nrunning successfully over the years and has grown since inception from \nprimary\nto a full fledged senior secondary school. Its unique curriculum, zest, zeal\nand an onward driving force have made it possible to attain the highest \nlevels\nof excellence.\n\nSprawled over a lush green area of 24 Bighas, the school is imaginatively\ndesigned and aesthetically constructed. The school campus is complete in\nitself, being well equipped with ultra modern facilities to cater to the\nholistic development of the child.\n\nThe school encompasses a wide area in serving the academic and co curricular\ninterests of boys and girls from Playgroup to Class Twelve in an amiable,\nconducive environment, providing opportunities to develop them into moral,\nconfident, capable and responsible citizens having courage and positive\nattitude to take up any challenge.\n\nParticipants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:\n\n1. How do astronauts breathe?\n\n2. Is ISS like a house?\n\n3. How do astronauts bathe?\n\n4. Can you see cyclones or pollution there?\n\n5. Do you see sunrise or sunset there?\n\n6. Can you see a shooting star?\n\n7. What does it feel like to be in outer space?\n\n8. How long does your oxygen supply last during an eva?\n\n9. Do you feel homesick?\n\n10. How do you cope up with zero gravity?\n\n11. What do you do when you get sick in space?\n\n12. How do you go for a shave or a haircut?\n\n13. What is the cuisine of food that you eat in space?\n\n14. How doe it feel like to blast off in space?\n\n15. What do you do for recreation?\n\n16. Is the space Scary?\n\n17. Have you kept a souvenir?\n\n18. How many hours of training you have done at Zero gravity on earth \nbefore\n\n getting in to the space?\n\n19. It is _________ time in India what is the time there?\n\n20. If you could bring only one luxury to space with you what would it be?\n\n21. Can you see the solar and lunar eclipse there?\n\n22. What sounds do you hear in your surroundings?\n\n\n\n\nPLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES:\n\n\n\n Sign up for the SAREX maillist at\n\n http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex\n\n\n\n Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the\n\n International Space Station (ARISS).\n\n\n\n To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status\n\n\n\n\n\nNext planned event(s):\n\n\n\n 1. Mill Springs Academy, Alpharetta, GA, direct via KK4OVR\n\n Wed, 04Sept2013, 14:15 UTC\n\n\n\n 2. Duluth Children's Museum, Duluth, MN, direct via W2GKP\n\n Sat, 07Sept2013, 15:03 UTC\n\n\n\n\nARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the\nparticipating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, \nJAXA, and\nCSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.\n\n\n\nARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of\nAmateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the \nInternational\nSpace Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how \nAmateur\nRadio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science,\ntechnology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is \navailable\non the website http://www.ariss.org/ (graciously hosted by the Radio \nAmateurs\nof Canada).\n\n\n[ANS thanks David, AA4KN for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatelite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nWork All Ron, N8RO\n\nLook for Ron, N8RO who is enjoying a long road trip that\nbegan on Friday Aug 30th. Ron is heading north through OK,\nKS, NE, SD, ND and SK. He will then head east on the Trans\nCanadian Highway to MB, ON, QC, NB and NS. From NS he will\ngo to ME and MA and then work his way home to TX. While the\ntrip is primarily a vacation, he will attempt to make satel-\nlite contacts, hopefully two a day, one morning and one\nevening, on SO-50 and FO-29 along the way. (Ron, N8RO on\nthe Starcomm-bb)\n\n[ANS thanks Ron, N8RO for the above information]\n\nRussian Spacewalk Installs Commercial Camera Mounts\n\nUrtheCast Corp. is pleased to announce that Roscosmos has successfully\ninstalled the Bi-axial Pointing Platform (BPP) on the Russian module\nof the International Space Station (ISS). The BPP is the structure to\nwhich the UrtheCast cameras will be attached.\n\nThe BPP was attached to the Zvezda module on the Russian segment of\nthe ISS on Aug. 22, 2013 during spacewalk #35, conducted by Russian\ncosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Aleksandr Misurkin. The two UrtheCast\ncameras, one medium-resolution and one high-resolution, are scheduled\nto be launched to the ISS and installed in late 2013.\n\n\"We are thrilled with the successful installation of the BPP,\"\nPresident & COO Wade Larson stated. \"Spacewalks are inherently risky,\nso having the mechanism that our cameras will be attached to\nsuccessfully installed is a significant milestone.\"\n\nThis news story also has photos which can be viewed on-line at:\nhttp://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=41428\n\n[ANS thanks SpaceRef.com for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n\n\n\n/EX\n\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,\nJoe Spier, K6WAO\nk6wao at amsat dot org\n", "attachments": [] }