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    "sender_name": "Joseph Spier",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-003 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2016-01-03T06:32:29Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-003\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* Fox-1Cliff and -1D matching contribution offer\n* iCubeSat 2016, 5th Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop, Oxford, UK -\n   Call for papers and registration\n* Spring 2016 CubeSat Workshop Abstracts Submission Due January 15\n* 2016 NASA Academy\n* 2016 NOAA Undergraduate Scholarships\n* Tim Peake Sandringham School UK Contact\n* AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-003.01\nANS-003 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 003.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE January 3, 2016\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-003.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFox-1Cliff and -1D matching contribution offer\n\n\nI just want to thank everyone for the outstanding response to our year-end\nrequest for support for the Fox-1Cliff and -1D fundraiser. During the \nperiod\nof December 25th to December 31st, a total of $7052.41 was raised online\nthrough the FundRazr app. This includes a pledged $1000 matching donation\nfrom a generous donor/member.\n\n73 weeks ago when we announced the launch opportunity for Fox-1Cliff\n(and later including -1D), we set $25,000 as a goal for online fundraising\nthrough social media and the FundRazr app. This amount covers a \nfractional but\nsignificant portion of the launch expense. (The total cost of \nconstruction and\nlaunch was estimated to be $125,000.) I'm very pleased that as of the 31th\nof December, we have raised $26,458 from over 250 contributors. \nDonations have\nvaried from $3 and up, so everyone may contribute and be recognized.\n\nThere is a continuing need to raise the additional funds necessary to \nlaunch\nFox-1Cliff and Fox-1D in 2016. Just visit\nhttps://fundrazr.com/campaigns/6pz92/ab/561Zd\nand pick your level of support. Donations of $1000 or more will receive a\nplaque with a solar panel protective cover after launch, and $100 qualifies\nfor a Fox challenge coin to be delivered in 6-8 weeks when the next \nshipment\narrives.\n\nPlease see\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?p=4843\nand\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?p=2957\nfor additional information.\n\nThank you for the support,\n\n\n[ANS thanks Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, AMSAT VP Operations for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\niCubeSat 2016, 5th Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop, Oxford, UK -\nCall for papers and registration\n\n\niCubeSat 2016 - 5th Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop\n24-25 May 2016, Oxford, United Kingdom\n\nCall for papers and registration\n\niCubeSat 2016, the 5th Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop, will address\nthe technical challenges, opportunities, and practicalities of\ninterplanetary space exploration with CubeSats. The workshop provides\na unique environment for open wide ranging practical collaboration\nbetween academic researchers, industry professionals, policy makers\nand students developing this new and rapidly growing field.\n\nTechnical Program\n\nTalks and round tables will focus on three themes: technology,\nscience, and open collaboration. The program will also include\nunconference sessions to provide additional opportunities to engage\nwith the interplanetary CubeSat community and potential collaborators.\nTalks and supporting material will be streamed and archived on the\nconference website. A lively social program in and around summertime\nOxford will be arranged for participants and their guests.\n\nAbstract Submission and Dates\n\nTalks on astrodynamics, attitude control and determination systems,\ncitizen science, communications, landers, launch opportunities, open\nsource approaches, outreach, payloads, policy, power systems,\npropulsion, reentry systems, ride-shares, science missions, software,\nstandardization, structures, systems engineering and other related\ntopics are all welcome.\n\n1st June 2015 Registration opens at\nhttp://iCubeSat.org/registration\n1st April 2016 Abstract upload deadline\n15th April 2016 Notification of abstract acceptance\n20th May 2016 Presentation (and optional paper) upload deadline\n\nPlease confirm your interest in presenting or attending as soon as\npossible (to assist us size the venue) by completing the registration\nform at\nhttp://iCubeSat.org/registration\n\nExhibition\n\nCubeSat specialists and other vendors are invited to contact\[email protected] for details of exhibition opportunities.\n\nLocation\n\nThe 5th Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop will be held on or near\nthe University of Oxford campus, Oxford, United Kingdom\non Tuesday, May 24th and Wednesday May 25th, 2016.\n\nOrganizers\n\nThe organizing committee can be contacted at [email protected]\n\nSee you in Oxford!\n\npp iCubeSat 2016 Organising Committee\nwww.iCubeSat.org\n\nDownload the conference poster:\nhttps://icubesat.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/20150606_icubesat2016poster.pdf\n\n\n[ANS thanks the 5th Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop for the above \ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSpring 2016 CubeSat Workshop Abstracts Submission Due January 15\n\n\n13th Annual CubeSat Developer's Workshop\nAbstract Submission Deadline is JANUARY 15, 2016!\nWorkshop Dates: April 20-22, 2016\nSan Luis Obispo, CA, US\n\nPlease keep abstracts under 500 words, the abstracts should indicate the \nideas\naddressed within the presentation or poster, and the objectives of the\npresentation/poster.  Readers should not have to read the full text to\nunderstand the abstract.\n\nMore importantly, any topic is welcome!\n\nSee\nhttp://cubesat.atl.calpoly.edu/index.php/workshops/upcoming-workshops/\n123--workshop-schedule\nor\nhttp://www.cubesat.org/\n\n\n[ANS thanks www.cubesat.org/ for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2016 NASA Academy\n\n\nThe 2016 NASA Academy is being offered at three locations: NASA's Ames\nResearch Center in California, NASA's Glenn Research Center in Ohio, and\nNASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Applications are being\nsolicited for this 10-week summer experience for college students with\nemphasis on immersive and integrated multidisciplinary exposure and\ntraining. Activities include laboratory research, a group project, lectures,\nmeetings with experts and administrators, visits to NASA centers and\nspace-related industries, and technical presentations. Students learn how\nNASA and its centers operate, gain experience in world-class laboratories,\nand participate in leadership development and team-building activities.\n\nApplicants must be U.S. citizens (including citizens of the U.S. territories\nPuerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands and Northern Marianas) majoring in a\nSTEM discipline. The applicants must be undergraduate or graduate students\nenrolled full-time in accredited universities and colleges in the U.S. and\nits territories. Students may apply to any of the NASA Academy opportunities\nby following these steps:\n\n1. Log into the NASA One Stop Shopping Initiative, or OSSI, site at\nhttps://intern.nasa.gov.\n2. Register and set up an account.\n3. Select the \"Search Opportunities\" tab at the top bar.\n4. Select \"NASA Center(s) of Interest\" under \"NASA Center/Facility.\"\n5. Enter \"Academy\" in the \"Keywords\" block at the bottom of the screen.\n6. Click the \"Search\" button at the very bottom of screen; a list of Academy\nOpportunities will then be displayed.\n7. Click on the \"View\" icon in the first column under \"Action\" to read about\nthe Opportunity of interest, followed by comments on additional instructions\nfor completing the application, including two requested essays.\n\nThe deadline for receipt of NASA Academy application(s) and associated\ndocuments is Feb. 16, 2016.\n\nPlease direct questions about NASA Academy to\[email protected].\n\n[ANS thanks the NASA Education Express Message -- Dec. 30, 2015 for the\nabove information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2016 NOAA Undergraduate Scholarships\n\n\nThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is accepting\napplications for its 2016 Educational Partnership Program Undergraduate\nScholarship and 2016 Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship Programs.\n\nThe Educational Partnership Program Undergraduate Scholarship Program\nprovides scholarships for two years of undergraduate study to students\nmajoring in STEM fields that directly support NOAA's mission. Participants\nconduct research at a NOAA facility during two paid summer internships. A\nstipend and housing allowance is provided. Students attending an accredited\nMinority Serving Institution as defined by the U.S. Department of Education\n(Hispanic Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and\nUniversities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Alaskan-Native Serving\nInstitutions, and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions) are eligible to\napply for the program. The institutions must be within the United States or\nU.S. Territories. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and must earn and\nmaintain a minimum 3.2 grade point average on a 4.0 scale.\n\nThe Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship Program provides scholarships for two\nyears of undergraduate study with a paid internship at a NOAA facility\nduring the interim summer session. A stipend and housing allowance is\nprovided. Applicants must be U.S. citizens enrolled full-time at an\naccredited college or university. Applicants also must have and maintain a\ndeclared major in a discipline including, but not limited to, oceanic,\nenvironmental, biological, and atmospheric sciences; mathematics;\nengineering; remote-sensing technology; physical and social sciences\nincluding geography, physics, hydrology, geomatics; or teacher education\nthat supports NOAA's programs and mission. Participants must earn and\nmaintain a minimum 3.0 grade point average on a 4.0 scale.\n\nApplications for both scholarship programs are due Jan. 29, 2016.\n\nFor more information, visit\nhttp://www.oesd.noaa.gov/scholarships/.\n\nPlease direct questions about these scholarship opportunities to\[email protected].\n\n\n[ANS thanks the NASA Education Express Message -- Dec. 30, 2015 for the \nabove\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nTim Peake Sandringham School UK Contact\n\n\nThe first UK Amateur Radio school contact by UK astronaut Tim Peake \nGB1SS from\nthe International Space Station (ISS) will take place on Friday, January 8,\n2016 at 0847 GMT with students at Sandringham School, St. Albans in\nHertfordshire. The school will use the call sign GB1SAN.\n\nThe St. Albans based Verulam Amateur Radio Club (VARC) ran an Amateur Radio\nFoundation License course in December. Three of the candidates were \npupils from\nSandringham School who took the course in preparation for the contact \nwith Tim\nPeake.\n\nARISS UK will provide and set up all necessary radio equipment (for example,\nlow earth orbit satellite tracking antennas and radios) to establishing \na fully\nfunctional, direct radio link with the International Space Station from the\nschool premises. In a ten-minute window when the ISS will be over the UK, an\namateur radio contact will be established with Tim, and students will be \nable\nto ask him questions about his life and work on board the ISS.\n\nTim will use a frequency of 145.800 MHz FM for the contact and his signal\nshould be receivable across the British Isles and Europe.\n\nWhat equipment do you need to hear the ISS?\n\nAlmost any 144 MHz FM transceiver will receive the ISS; you can even use a\ngeneral coverage VHF scanner with an external antenna. As far as the \nantenna is\nconcerned the simpler the better. A ¼ wave ground plane can give good \nresults\nbecause it has a high angle of radiation. Large 2m colinears don’t work \nquite\nas well because the radiation pattern is concentrated at the horizon.\n\nYou can receive the ISS using a 144 MHz hand-held outdoors with its helical\nantenna but a 1/4 wave whip will give far better results.\n\nIn the UK we use narrow 2.5 kHz deviation FM but the ISS transmits on \n145.800\nMHz with the wider 5 kHz deviation used in much of the world. Most rigs \ncan be\nswitched been wide and narrow deviation FM filters so select the wider \nfilter.\nHand-held rigs all seem to have a single wide filter fitted as standard.\n\nThe International Space Station is traveling around the Earth at over 28,000\nkm/h. This high speed makes radio signals appear to shift in frequency, a\nphenomenon called Doppler Shift. When the ISS is approaching your \nlocation the\nsignal may be 3.5 kHz higher in frequency on 145.8035 MHz. During the 10 \nminute\npass the frequency will gradually move lower reaching 145.7965 MHz as \nthe ISS\ngoes out of range. To get maximum signal you ideally need a radio that \ntunes in\n1 kHz or smaller steps to follow the shift but in practice acceptable \nresults\nare obtained with the radio left on 145.800 MHz.\n\n\nISS Amateur Radio Stations\n\nThere are two amateur radio stations available to astronauts on the ISS.\n\nThe Russian Service Module has a dual-band Kenwood TM-D710 transceiver (this\nreplaced the older TM-D700). Four antennas are available, three of which are\nidentical and each can support both transmit and receive operations on 2m,\n70cm, L band and S band. They also support reception for the Russian \nGlisser TV\nsystem, which is used during spacewalks. The fourth antenna is a 2.5 m long\nvertical whip that can be used to support High Frequency (HF) operations\nalthough at the present time there is no amateur HF equipment.\n\nThe ESA Columbus Module has two Ericsson M-PA series FM 5 watt handheld\nradios, one for 145, and the other for 435 MHz, as well as the 2.4 GHz HamTV\nDigital Amateur Television Transmitter. Antennas are available for 145 \nand 435\nMHz for the Ericsson handhelds; additionally, there are 1260 and 2400 MHz\nantennas for the HamTV system.\n\nTim Peake will the using the equipment in the ESA Columbus Module.\n\nThe ISS HamTV will not be available for the Sandringham School contact \nbecause\nthe equipment will be turned off to permit other experiments.\n\nYou’ll be able to listen online to Tim Peake GB1SS on the 145.800 MHz FM\ndownlink by using the SUWS WebSDR radio at\nhttp://websdr.suws.org.uk/\n\nTim Peake ISS School Contacts Announced\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2015/12/15/tim-peake-iss-school-contacts-announced/\n\nSandringham School\nhttp://www.sandringham.herts.sch.uk/\n\nTwitter:\nhttps://twitter.com/SandringhamSch1\n\nVerulam Amateur Radio Club\nhttp://www.verulam-arc.org.uk/\n\nWhat is Amateur Radio?\nhttp://www.essexham.co.uk/what-is-amateur-radio\n\nFind an amateur radio training course near you\nhttps://thersgb.org/services/coursefinder/\n\nARISS\nhttp://www.ariss-eu.org/\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS & AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Events\n\n\nInformation about AMSAT activities at other important events around\nthe country.  Examples of these events are radio club meetings where\nAMSAT Area Coordinators give presentations, demonstrations of working\namateur satellites, and hamfests with an AMSAT presence (a table with\nAMSAT literature and merchandise, sometimes also with presentations,\nforums, and/or demonstrations).\n\n*Saturday, 9 January 2016 – Thunderbird Hamfest 2016 in Phoenix AZ\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 19-20 February 2016 – Yuma Hamfest and 2016 ARRL\nSouthwest Division Convention in Yuma AZ\n\n*Saturday and Sunday, 12-13 March 2016 – ScienceCity science fair, on\nthe University of Arizona campus in Tucson AZ\n\n*Saturday, 19 March 2016 – Scottsdale Amateur Radio Club Spring\nHamfest 2016 in Scottsdale AZ\n\n*Saturday, 26 March 2016 – Tucson Spring Hamfest in Tucson AZ\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\nUpcoming Contacts\n\nFrederick W. Harnett Middle School, Blackstone,  Massachusetts, telebridge\nvia K6DUE\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled  to be NA1SS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI\nContact is a  go for: Tue 2016-01-05 17:42:06 UTC 81 deg\n\nSandringham School, St.  Albans, Hertfordshire, UK, direct via GB1SAN\nThe ISS callsign is presently  scheduled to be GB1SS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake  KG5BVI\nContact is a go for: Fri 2016-01-08 08:47:47 UTC 83 deg.\n\nWatch\nhttp://www.ariss.org/upcoming-contacts.html\nfor information about upcoming contacts as they are scheduled.\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, and Charlie, AJ9N for the above information]\n\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,\nJoe Spier, K6WAO\nk6wao at amsat dot org\n",
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