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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/J3RHR5PBBOORBNEOLS2SCN2ENIDU2KSH/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "CAM5+soupUVeBsaC1cTHVQFvZwSSxO392wGXG-qRFdVT6TxVM2w@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "J3RHR5PBBOORBNEOLS2SCN2ENIDU2KSH", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/J3RHR5PBBOORBNEOLS2SCN2ENIDU2KSH/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "mccardelm (a) gmail.com", "mailman_id": "147f14b8d896456cbff7f12049b091a2", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/147f14b8d896456cbff7f12049b091a2/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "E.Mike McCardel", "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-104 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2013-04-14T02:12:23Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-104\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 Nominations Solicited\n* 7330.6 km Contact Made Via FO-29\n* GS3PYE/p Satellite Operation Planned From Inner Herbrides Islands\n* STEREO Space Weather Beacons Now Using AMSAT-DL Turbo Code\n* AMSAT Awards\n* Applications for Teachers Institute, ETP Grants Due in May\n* Ken Pulfer, VE3PU, SK\n* Cubesat Launches This Week\n* April 17 Antares Launch Includes Three PhoneSat Cubesats\n* PhoneSat Tracking Help Requested\n* STRaND-1 signal reports requested\n* Merritt Island High School Mission Selected for NASA Cubesat\n Launch Initiative\n* ARISS News\n* Schedule of AMSAT Activities at Dayton Hamvention\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-104.01\nANS-104 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 104.01\n>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nDATE April 14, 2013\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-104.01\n\n*****************************************************************\n* Volunteers are needed to help at the AMSAT booth at Dayton. *\n* Steve Belter N9IP, is looking for volunteers to help man the *\n* AMSAT booth during the 2013 Hamvention. If you are willing *\n* to help at the Hamvention, please send an e-mail by April 30 *\n* to Steve Belter, [email protected]. *\n* *\n* Monitor the 'AMSAT at Dayton Hamvention 2013' link on the new *\n* AMSAT Web Site http://www.amsat.org for the latest AMSAT at *\n* Dayton news and developments *\n*****************************************************************\n\n\nAMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nominations Solicited\n\nIt is time to submit nominations for the upcoming open seats on the\nAMSAT-NA Board of Directors. A nomination requires either one Member\nSociety or five current individual members in good standing to\nnominate an AMSAT member for the position. Four director's terms\nexpire this year: Barry Baines, WD4ASW, Alan Biddle, WA4SCA, Drew\nGlasbrenner, K04MA, and Tony Monteiro, AA2TX.\n\nIn addition to traditional submission of written nominations, which\nremains unchanged and is the preferred method, nominations may be\nmade by electronic means. These include e-mail, FAX, or electronic\nimage of a petition. Electronic petitions should be sent to\[email protected] or faxed to 301-608-3410. Written nominations,\nconsisting of names, calls and individual signatures should be mailed\nto: AMSAT-NA, 850 Sligo Ave #600, Silver Spring, MD, 20910. No matter\nwhat means is used, petitions MUST arrive no later than June 15th at\nthe AMSAT-NA office. If the nomination is a traditional written\nnomination, no other action is required. If it is other than this,\ni.e. electronic, a verifying traditional written petition MUST be\nreceived at the AMSAT-NA office at the above address within 7 days\nfollowing the close of nominations on June 15th. ELECTRONIC\nSUBMISSIONS WITHOUT THIS SECOND, WRITTEN VERIFICATION ARE NOT VALID\nUNDER THE EXISTING AMSAT-NA BYLAWS.\n\n[ANS thanks Alan, WA4SCA, AMSAT Corporate Secretary for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n7330.6 km Contact Made Via FO-29\n\nOn Monday 8 April 2013 at 1338z, David, EA4SG (grid IN80cp, Spain)\nand Hector, CO6CBF (grid EL92sd, Cuba) completed a SSB contact via\nFO-29, successfully. On the AMSAT-BB Hector reported \"We had just\na 88 seconds window. I was operating portable from on top of a tall\nbuilding as before. Satellites are always fascinating! Thanks very\nmuch to David for this great contact and new grid!\"\n\nBased on QRZ.com, the distance between the two stations is 7330.6 km.\n\n[ANS thanks Hector, CO6CBF for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nGS3PYE/p Satellite Operation Planned From Inner Herbrides Islands\n\nMembers of the Camb-Hams will once again activate the Isle of Mull\n(IOSA NH15, SCOTIA CN10, WLOTA 2485), Inner Hebrides, as GS3PYE/p\nbetween May 10-16. The Camb-Hams have been activating the Scottish\nIsles each year since 2008.\n\nLook for thirteen operators to be active on all bands and many modes\nfrom 160-2 meters as well as 472 kHz. The HF bands will be covered by\nfive simultaneous stations, while 6m, 4m and 2m stations will have a\ngreat take-off towards the UK and Europ from the island's south-east\ncoast in IO76 square.\n\nThey will have an antenna elevation system for 2m EME activity and\nwill also be on many of the VHF/UHF satellite passes. WSPR beacons\nwill be operating on most of the inactive bands to help find the best\npropagation. Contest operations will take place in 70 MHz CW on May\n12th and 432 MHz UKAC on May 14th. The group will be active on the\nmajor social networks before, during and after the trip.\n\nYou can check on progress or interact with the operators via their\nblog at <dx.camb-hams.com> or through Twitter <twitter.com/g3pye>,\nFacebook <facebook.com/CambHams> and YouTube <youtube.com/CambHams>.\nPrevious trips have generated some great audio and video recordings of\nthe GS3PYE/P signal from around the world. Check their previous blogs\nand their YouTube channel and see if you can post a better recording.\n\nPlease E-mail <[email protected]> to arrange skeds on the more\nchallenging bands and modes. VHF and EME skeds will also be made via\nON4KST and N0UK's EME Chat. All links are available via\n<dx.camb-hams.com>.\n\n[ANS thanks Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1107 for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSTEREO Space Weather Beacons Now Using AMSAT-DL Turbo Code\n\nOn 2nd April 2013, the two NASA STEREO space-based observatories\nswitched to Turbo Codes to transmit their real-time space weather data\npermanently. A network of four ground stations, located at the IUZ in\nBochum/Germany, CNES in Toulouse/France, NICT in Koganei/Japan and\namateur radio station DL0SHF in Kiel-Ronne/Germany receives this data,\nand uses turbo-decoding software written by AMSAT-DL.\n\nThe Bochum station is run by AMSAT-DL e.V. and IUZ Bochum Observatory,\nwith the support of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology\nand DLR.\n\nSaid Doug Biesecker, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center:\n\n\"Thanks to the wonderful work of our colleagues running the station in\nBochum and the support of DLR, we can now be sure of receiving\nreal-time data from the NASA/STEREO satellite throughout the life of\nthe mission. The STEREO data has proven to provide significant\nbenefits to space weather forecasting and is used by NOAA on a daily\nbasis to ensure the best possible forecasts. Space weather\nincreasingly threatens the technological infrastructure of our modern\nworld, with demonstrated impacts on global positioning, power grids,\nand high frequency communication systems.\"\n\nThe switch to Turbo Codes has improved reception capabilities of the\nground stations by about 2 dB, which is a very welcome improvement\ngiving the increasing distances - 269 and 286 million kilometers\nrespectively - that need to be covered.\n\nThe original AMSAT-DL posting can be accessed at:\nhttp://tinyurl.com/c6pbz7x\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-DL for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Awards\n\nAwards have been very slow this year. Might be due to the lack of\nsatellites.\n\n+ The following have entered into the Satellite Communicators Club for\n making their first satellite QSO.\n\nChristopher Friesen, VE4CWF\nMichael Haman, KB7SNQ\nRon Rappel, W1RPR\n\n+ The following have earned the AMSAT Communications Achievement\n Award.\n\nGlyn Dodwell, GM4CFS, #554\n\n+ The following have earned the South Africa Satellite Communications\n Achievement Award.\n\nGlyn Dodwell, GM4CFS, #US184\n\n+ The following have earned the AMSAT Century Club Award. This award\n is not that easy to earn.\n\nWyatt Dirks, AC0RA, #42\n\nUntil the amsat.org website is fully restored, you can see all the\nawards at my website. http://http://www.amsatnet.com/\n\n[ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nApplications for Teachers Institute, ETP Grants Due by May 15\n\nAttention, teachers who are thinking about using Amateur Radio and\nwireless technology in their classrooms to help facilitate hands-on\nlearning opportunities. The ARRL’s Education & Technology Program\n(ETP) offers two programs that can help make this happen, but the\napplication deadlines are fast approaching: The deadline for the 2013\nTeachers Institute on Wireless Technology (TI) is May 15, while the\ndeadline for equipment and resource grants was May 1.\n\nTeachers Institute on Wireless Technology\n\nSeats are still available for the two introductory Teachers\nInstitute (TI-1) sessions offered this summer, one at ARRL\nHeadquarters in Newington, Connecticut (July 8-11) and one in\nRocklin, California (July 15-18). These four-day intensive\nprofessional development seminars provide training and resources for\nintroducing basic electronics, the science of radio, space technology\nand satellite communications, weather science, microcontroller\nfundamentals and basic robotics into classroom instruction. The\ncurriculum is designed for motivated teachers who want to learn more\nabout wireless technology and share that knowledge with their\nstudents. Resources, travel, and room and board expenses are provided\nby donations to the Education & Technology Program Fund.\n\nThe ETP is also offering an advanced Teachers Institute (TI-2)\nsession that focuses on the basic electronics behind sensor\ntechnology. Teachers will receive instruction in the use of a\nselection of sensors (such as temperature, pressure, position and\nhumidity), analog-to-digital conversion techniques, the\nmicrocontroller programming involved in accessing the sensors and the\nuse of radio (packet radio-like data links) that connect the sensor\noutputs to the user. Participants will also explore numerous\ndeployment systems that they might use in their classrooms, including\nland and water robots, buoys, balloons and satellites. This four-day\nprofessional development workshop is sponsored by Dayton Amateur\nRadio Association and is held in Dayton, Ohio (July 22-25).\n\nThe deadline for both the TI-1 (Connecticut and California) and TI-2\n(Ohio) sessions is May 15. Apply now!\nhttp://www.arrl.org/teachers-institute-application\n\nEquipment and Resource Grants\n\nETP grants for school radio stations are awarded to schools that\nprovide a plan for using Amateur Radio as part of an enrichment\nprogram and/or as part of in-classroom learning. Find more\ninformation, as well as applications for a School Station Grant or\nfor a Progress Grant, on the ETP Grants web page\nhttp://www.arrl.org/etp-grants.\nThe deadline for applications was May 1.\n\nIf you would like to learn more about how teachers are using Amateur\nRadio to engage students in the classroom, visit ARRL's Classroom\nActivities page.\nhttp://www.arrl.org/classroom-activities\n\n[ANS thanks Debra Johnson, K1DMJ and The ARRL for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nKen Pulfer, VE3PU, SK\n\nAvid ARISS supporter, Ken Pulfer, VE3PU, has become a Silent Key.\n\nThose of you that have been involved with ARISS from the beginning\nknow that Ken was one of the ARISS pioneers. Ken was a member of the\nfirst cadre of ARISS delegates and was integral in leading the\nstartup of ARISS.\n\nKen’s intimate knowledge of the space agencies, resulting from his\nbackground as a Senior Executive in the Canadian Space Agency, was\ncrucial in helping ARISS formulate the strategies needed to garner\nsupport across our international space agency partners. Also, his in-\ndepth understanding of amateur radio policy and connections into the\nITU were important factors in helping the ARISS team prepare\nthemselves to develop and operate the unique, multi-national amateur\nradio platform on ISS that is ARISS. He was a key contributor in\nguiding the ARISS team in frequency coordination, licensing and\ncallsign strategy. He also was integral in developing ARISS’ terms\nof reference, our policy for assigning delegates, and he led the\neffort to nominate and elect our first set of officers. I, for one,\nwill certainly miss Ken’s leadership and guidance. He helped the\nARISS program grow from infancy to the strong, international\nEducational Outreach program that it is now.\n\nI note that even just a few weeks ago Rosalie White, K1STO and I\nsolicited Ken’s guidance on some ITU matters that our ARISS\ninternational team were addressing. In all matters, Ken was a\n“Gentleman’s Gentleman”---the “best of the best. ” His presence and\nsupport will be sorely missed by me. And by all in the ARISS\ncommunity.\n\nOn behalf of the ARISS team, I want to extend our condolences to all\nKen Pulfer’s family and friends. May Ken Rest in Peace.\n\n[ANS thanks Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCubesat Launches This Week\n\nApril 19 BAIKONUR Soyuz-2-1b\n----------------------------\n\nA Soyuz-2-1b from the Baikonur launch facility, in Kazakhstan on\nApril 19, 2013 will include three cubesat missions:\n\n\nSatellite Downlink Mode\n---------- --------------- ------------------\nOSSI-1 145.980/437.525 CW/1200bps\nSOMP 437.485 1200, 9600bps BPSK\nBEESAT-2/3 435.950 4800bps GMSK\nBion-M1 Biological research satellites\nAIST Measurement of the Earth's geomagnetic field\nDove-2 Commercial technology demonstration mission\n\n\nOSSI-1\n------\n145.980 MHz CW, 437.525 MHz 1k2\n\nOSSI-1, the Open Source Satellite Initiative satellite is a cubesat\ndeveloped by Hojun Song DS1SBO. In addition to the radio beacons\nOSSI-1 also carries a 44 watt LED optical beacon to flash Morse Code\nmessages to observers on Earth.\n\nThe development of the satellite has been documented on the Open\nSource Satellite Initiative Blog http://opensat.cc/blog/ and the\nWiki http://opensat.cc/wiki/\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUOL0zSY6cg\n\nSOMP\n----\nDownlink on 437.485 MHz including CW, 1k2 and 9k6 BPSK, AX25 FSK,\nand AO40 standard 400bit/s BPSK\n\nThe Student Oxygen Measurement Project (SOMP) is a cubesat devel-\noped by students of the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany,\norganized in the Students' Research Group for Spacecraft Engineer-\ning in Dresden (STARD). SOMP will be a standard sized single CubeSat\nwith one payload side and five sides with two solar cells each.\n\nhttp://phpweb.tu-dresden.de/stard/SOMP/?lang=en\nhttp://tinyurl.com/SOMP-AMSAT-UK-Posting\n\nBEESAT-2/3 (Berlin Experimental and Educational Satellite)\n435.950 MHz, 4k8 GMSK (both satellites)\n\nBEESAT-2 is a cubesat-sized vehicle carries a technology experiment\nusing gyros and sensors for precise orientation.\n\nBEESat-3 is another cubesat-sized vehicle that will test high-speed\ndata links (up to 1MB/s).\n\nhttp://www.raumfahrttechnik.tu-berlin.de/beesat/\n\nThe above cubesat missions and the scientific/commercial missions\nare also documented on Mineo Wakita's (JE9PEL) web page at:\nhttp://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/ossisomp.htm\n\n\nApril 20 KOUROU Vega Launch\n---------------------------\nEstonia's first CubeSat ESTCube-1, amateur radio callsign ES5E/S,\nis planning to launch from Kourou in the Caribbean at 02:06:31 UT,\nApril 20, 2013 on an ESA VEGA rocket.\n\nBuilt by students at the University of Tartu ESTCube-1 the main\nmission of the satellite is to test electric solar wind sail tech-\nnology, a novel space propulsion technology that could revolution-\nalize transportation within the solar system. It will deploy a 10\nmeter conductive electrodynamic tether and the force interacting\nwith the tether will be measured.\n\nThe IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel have pub-\nlished these frequencies for ESTCube-1:\n\n+ 437.250 MHz - CW beacon, callsign ES5E/S\n+ 437.505 MHz - 9600 bps AX.25 telemetry, callsign ES5E-11\n\nMore information and a video has been posted at:\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/?p=14774\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and Mineo Wakita, JE9PEL for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nApril 17 Antares Launch Includes Three PhoneSat Cubesats\n\nThree PhoneSat cubesats will be aboard the Orbital Sciences\nCorporation Antares(TM) rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility\n(WFF) in eastern Virginia scheduled for April 17 at approximately 5:00\np.m. (EDT).\n\nPhonesat carries an amateur radio payload on 437.425 MHz, was chosen\nas one of the winners in the Aerospace category for the Popular\nScience magazine \"Best of What's New 2012\" awards. The PhoneSat is a\ntechnology demonstration mission consisting of three 1U CubeSats\nintended to prove that a smartphone can be used to perform many of the\nfunctions required of a spacecraft bus.\n\nThe satellite is built around the Nexus smartphone which will be\nrunning the Android operating system and will be enclosed in a\nstandard 1U cubesat structure. The main function of the phone is to\nact as the Onboard Computer, but the mission will also utilize the\nphone's SD card for data storage, 5MP camera for Earth Observation,\nand 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis magnetometer for attitude\ndetermination.\n\nOne of the nanosatellites, powered by the HTC Nexus One smartphone,\nwill send back pictures of Earth. The other two, running on the\nSamsung Nexus S, will have two-way S-band radio allowing them to be\ncontrolled from Earth.\n\nWith a short lifetime of only about one week, the satellites have no\nsolar cells and operate on battery only.\n\nAn article on SpaceRef.com describes the Antares test flight, dubbed\nthe A-ONE mission, as the first of two missions Orbital is scheduled\nto conduct in 2013 under its Commercial Orbital Transportation\nServices (COTS) Space Act Agreement with NASA. Following a successful\nA-ONE launch, Orbital will carry out a full flight demonstration of\nits new Antares/Cygnus cargo delivery system to the International\nSpace Station (ISS) around mid-year. In addition, the company is also\nscheduled to launch the first of eight operational cargo resupply\nmissions to the ISS in 2013 under the Commercial Resupply Services\n(CRS) contract with NASA. All COTS and CRS flights will originate from\nNASA's WFF, which is geographically well suited for ISS missions and\ncan also accommodate launches of scientific, defense and commercial\nsatellites to other orbits. The Antares medium-class launch system\nwill provide a major increase in the payload launch capability that\nOrbital can provide to NASA, the U.S. Air Force and other customers.\n(Reference: http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=40502)\n\nThe Antares launch includes the commercial DOVE-1 satellite, a\ntechnology development experiment. The satellite had requested IARU\ncoordination for a 1 watt transmitter on 145.825 MHz to downlink a\n1200 baud AFSK AX.25 beacon with telemetry and health data. The IARU\nreported in January that DOVE-1 will no longer be using frequencies in\nthe amateur radio bands based on information posted on the IARU\nsatellite coordination web page for this mission. (Reference: ANS-027\n- http://amsat.org/pipermail/ans/2013/000688.html)\n\nSee related news at:\nhttp://tinyurl.com/bvwksba\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/?p=11544 (phonesat)\n\n[ANS thanks SpaceRef, AMSAT-UK, and Oribital Sciences for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nPhoneSat Tracking Help Requested\n\nThe very first PhoneSat’s will be launching aboard the Antares on\nApril 17th at 1700 EDT (launch window to April 19th possibly\nfurther). We have manifested 2x PhoneSat 1.0 and 1x PhoneSat 2.0 Beta\nThe orbit is very low (270km x 300km 51.6deg) and they will only be\nup there for 2 weeks! The phonesat team is looking for as many people\nas possible to help with tracking their satellites. All three\nsatellites will be transmitting on 437.425MHz and TLE’s + more info\ncan be found at www.phonesat.org\n\nYou can report your received telemetry packets on this web page also.\n\n[ANS thanks Samudra N3RDX for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSTRaND-1 signal reports requested\n\nDr Chris Bridges from the Surrey Space Centre has advised that the\namateur radio beacon on their STRaND-1 CubeSat, the first UK CubeSat\nbecame intermittent over the Easter weekend. STRaND-1, was launched\non February 25 at 1231 UT on the PSLV-C20 rocket from the Indian\nSpace Research Organisation (ISRO) Satish Dhawan space centre. Both\nMike Rupprecht DK3WN and Nader Omer ST2NH have reported that no\nsignals have been heard since Sunday.\n\nRadio amateurs are asked to listen for STRaND-1 transmitting a 9k6\nbps AX.25 signal around 437.568 MHz (+/- Doppler) over the next few\ndays. Please report any positive results to\nC.P.Bridges[at]surrey.ac.uk\n\nSTRaND-1\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/satellites/strand-1/\n\nSTRaND-1 telemetry beacon\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/satellites/stran…d-1-telemetry/\n\nSTRaND-1 videos\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/satellites/strand-1/strand-1-videos/\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nMerritt Island High School Mission Selected for NASA Cubesat Launch\nInitiative\n\nInformation Week published news of the Merritt Island High School\nteam who developed StangSat.\n\nThe fourth round of selections in NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative\nalso included a team of high school students at the Merritt Island\nHigh School in Brevard County, Florida. They plan to build a cubesat\ncontaining two accelerometers to measure the amount of vibration in\nthe Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployer, or P-POD case that holds the\ncubesats during launch and then deploys them.\n\nThe high school is partnering with students at California\nPolytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. The Cal-Poly\nCubeSat, dubbed CP9, is actually two cubes that contain\naccelerometers, plus a radio to transmit data back to Earth for the\nhigh school students to analyze. The Merritt Island High School\ncubesat, named StangSat, will stream data to the CP9 in real time\nduring the launch using Wi-Fi.\n\n“We’re going to be demonstrating that wireless transmissions inside\nthe P-POD aren’t going to harm the launch,” said Adam Darley, a\nsenior at Cal-Poly who is serving as the CP9 project manager. “If we\ncan demonstrate that, then it will act as a platform to being able to\nstream information without a radio link.”\n\nThe Merritt Island High School Cubesat team has more information and\nphotos posted on their Facebook page.\n\n[ANS thanks Information News for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\nSuccessful Contacts\n\n+ 820 Chris Hadfield Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron, Milton,\nOntario on 06 April 2013.\n\nA successful ARISS Contact was made with participants at 820 Chris\nHadfield Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron, Milton, Ontario on 06\nApr. The event began at approximately 20:25 UTC. The contact was be a\ntelebridge between NA1SS and LU8YY. The contact was audible over\nportions of South America, and was conducted in English.\n\nThe Royal Canadian Air Cadet program is a national organization\nsponsored by the Canadian Forces and its civilian counterpart, the\nAir Cadet League. The aim of the program is to develop in youth the\nattributes of good citizenship and leadership, promote physical\nfitness and stimulate interest in the air activities of the Canadian\nForces. Cadet membership is open to all boys and girls ages 12-18 and\nis administered by specially trained Canadian Forces reserve members.\nThere is no cost to join and uniforms are provided. 820 Chris\nHadfield Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron is proudly named after\nCommander C Hadfield who was a member at the unit in his youth.\n\n+ Sir George Simpson Jr. High, Albert, AB, Canada on 09 April 2013\n\nA successful ARISS Contact was made with participants at Sir George\nSimpson Jr. High, Albert, AB, Canada on 09 April. The event began at\napproximately 20:00 UTC. The duration of the contact was\napproximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact was a telebridge\nbetween OR4ISS and IK1SLD and was audible over portions of Italy. The\ncontact was conducted in English and French.\n\nSir George Simpson Public School is a junior high located in St.\nAlbert, Alberta. Currently, they have approximately 540 students\nenrolled in a variety of programs.\n\nThe school houses several programs: English, French Immersion,\nAcademic Challenge, Learning Assistance, Opportunity, Knowledge and\nEmployability, and Behaviour Improvement.\n\nWhile learning in their respective programs, all students are\ninvited to rally around their school motto: \"Spirit, Growth, Success\"\nin both thought and action.\n\nSimpson offers many extracurricular activities such as Social\nJustice, Cheerleading, Art Club and their SABLE high altitude balloon\nclub.\n\n+ Innalik School, Inukjuak, Nunavut, Canada on 12 April 2013\n\nA successful ARISS Contact was made with participants at Innalik\nSchool, Inukjuak, Nunavut, Canada on 12 April. The event began at\napproximately 17:30 UTC. The duration of the contact was\napproximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact was a telebridge\nbetween OR4ISS and IK1SLD, and was audible over portions of Italy.\nThe contact is was conducted in English, French, and Inuktitut.\n\nInukjuak is a remote, fly-in Inuit community located on the Hudson\nBay in Northern Quebec. Its population is approximately 1,600. The\nInuit of Inukjuak still partake in many cultural practices, for\nexample; constructing sleds or harpoons, sewing traditional garments,\ntraining dogsled teams, hunting, fishing and berry picking. However,\nthey also have a window into the modern world and are current on\nfashion trends, popular music, and breakout phenomena like \"Gangnam\nStyle\". The primary language in the school and in the village is\nInuktitut; English and French are secondary languages.\n\nARISS Contacts Scheduled for the coming Week\n\n+John McCrae High School, Nepean, Ontario, Canada, telebridge via\nIK1SLD Contact is a go for: Wed 2013-04-17 18:05:02 UTC 28 deg\n\n+Gray Mountain Primary School, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada,\ntelebridge via IK1SLD Contact is a go for: Sat 2013-04-20 18:47:50\nUTC 32 deg\n\nARISS is requesting listener reports for the above contacts. These\ncontacts should be audible over portions of Italy and Europe.\nDue to issues with the Kenwood radio that are not fully understood\nat present, the Ericsson radio is going to be used for these\ncontacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance.\nDue to continuing Space X operations, the above times are subject\nto last minute changes or cancellations.\n\n+Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and\nquestions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites,\nand instructions for any contact that may be streamed live.\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf\n\n[ANS thanks David, AA4KN, Charlie, AJ9N ans ARISS for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSchedule of AMSAT Activities at Dayton Hamvention\n\nAMSAT Hamvention activities and displays are planned to take place\nat the new booth location (444-446 and 433-435) in the Ball Arena,\nand outside in the Satellite Demonstration Area just outside the\nBall Arena entrance.\n\n2013 theme for AMSAT at Dayton is \"AMSAT - A View to the Future.\"\n\nHere are the daily AMSAT activities for on-site and off-site events\nat the 2013 Hamvention!\n\nThursday 16 May 2013\n--------------------\n+ 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM\n AMSAT Booth Setup at Ball Arena (contact Steve Belter, N9IP,\n n9ip at amsat.org if you can help during this time).\n\n+ 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM\n The third Annual AMSAT \"Dinner at Tickets\" party will be held at\n Tickets Pub & Eatery in Fairborn, OH. Check out the 'AMSAT at Day-\n ton Hamvention 2013' link to the page 'AMSAT Dayton Social Events'\n on the new Web Site: http://www.amsat.org.\n\nFriday 17 May 2013\n------------------\n+ 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM at the AMSAT Booth\n AMSAT Booth open for membership renewals, books, new items and\n information.\n\n+ 6:30 PM - 10:30 PM AMSAT/TAPR Banquet at Dayton 2013\n AMSAT/TAPR Banquet on Friday night, May 18 is one of the main AMSAT\n activities during the 2013 Hamvention at Dayton. See the bulletin\n below for details!\n\nSaturday 18 May 2013\n--------------------\n+ 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM at the AMSAT Booth\n AMSAT Booth open for membership renewals, books, new items and\n information.\n\n+ 11:15 AM - 1:30 PM The AMSAT Forum\n Get the latest information about what is going on with AMSAT and\n its projects. The AMSAT Forum will be held in Forum Room 5. See\n the bulletin below for details!\n\nSunday 19 May 2013\n------------------\n+ 9:00 AM - 1:00PM at the AMSAT Booth\n AMSAT Booth open for membership renewals, books, new items and\n information.\n\n+ 1:00PM - 3:00PM at the AMSAT Booth\n Take down and storage of the AMSAT Booth. (contact Steve Belter,\n N9IP, n9ip at amsat.org if you can help during this time).\n\nDemos Daily on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for All Available Passes\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\nAMSAT is encouraging everyone attending the 2013 Dayton Hamvention\nto come by the Satellite Demonstration Area just outside of the Ball\nArea entrance and make a contact using the amateur satellites. There\nwill be AMSAT volunteers to explain how to make the contacts and dur-\ning actual satellite passes will complete as many actual contacts as\npossible. Satellite pass times will be posted in the satellite demon-\nstration area and at the AMSAT booth.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT's 2013 Dayton Committee for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Happy Birthday Peter Brown VK4PJ\n\nAMSAT Life Member Number 1130, Peter Brown, VK4PJ celebrated his 100th\nbirthday April 13. Peter who didn't become a ham until \"later\" in life\nat near age 50, joined AMSAT in 1979. Congratulations, Peter.\n\n+ Congratulations to George Carr, WA5KBH for attaining 531 grids\nconfirmed on his Satellite VUCC Award! VUCC daily updates posted at:\nhttp://www.arrl.org/vucc-standings\n\n+ Interview about Moon-bounce\n\nA video of what appears to be a radio interview about Moon-\nbounce/EME has been posted on YouTube\n\nThe interview is not in English but the moon bounce signals can be\nheard from 4:20 into the video.\n\nWatch Radio amateur EME Moon Bounce - http://tinyurl.com/cu5y8ov\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate Amateur Radio News for the above information]\n\n+ AMSAT YouTube Channel\n\nAMSAT-NA is pleased to announce a dedicated YouTube channel for\nvideos on and about amateur satellite operations. These will include\ndemonstration videos as well as presentations at the AMSAT-NA Dayton\nHamvention Forum and yearly General Membership Meeting and Symposium.\nIt also links to the AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-DL channels for additional\nviews and perspectives. The AMSAT-NA channel may be reached through\nthe www.amsat.org web site, or directly via www.youtube.com/AMSATNA\n\n[ANS thanks Alan, W4SCA, for the above information]\n\n+ Check out page 13 of the May 2013 QST ... there is a nice photo and\nwrite up of Bill Tynan, W3XO, receiving the Barry Goldwater Award from\nthe Radio Club of America.\n\nThe ARRL posted the initial announcement at:\nhttp://tinyurl.com/Bill-Tynan-W3XO (www.arrl.org)\n\nThe AMSAT News Service announcement can be found at:\nhttp://amsat.org/pipermail/ans/2012/000651.html\n\n[ANS thanks JoAnne K9JKM, and the ARRL for the above information]\n\n+ Preparations are underway aboard the ISS for a Russian Segment (RS)\nExtravehicular Activity (EVA) #32 scheduled for April 19. Status\nreports indicate that rechargeable battery packs, helmet lights, the\npistol grip tool are being prepared to support the EVA. These\nactivities usually require the amateur radio equipment to be turned\noff, affecting school contact and the 145.825 MHz packet radio\noperations.\n\n[ANS thanks JoAnne K9JKM 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,\nEMike McCardel, KC8YLD\nkc8yld at amsat dot org\n\n", "attachments": [] }