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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/MY3SMVTS22QJ4PT6PBJVYPFL5HZEQ7RX/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "MY3SMVTS22QJ4PT6PBJVYPFL5HZEQ7RX", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/MY3SMVTS22QJ4PT6PBJVYPFL5HZEQ7RX/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-255 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2016-09-11T02:59:44Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-255\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 onhttp://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* RadFxSat (Fox-1B) launch date is now scheduled for March 16, 2017\n* AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballots Due by September 15th\n* AMSAT Awards Update\n* “Frequency Crunch” is ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference\n Sunday Seminar Topic\n* 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Registration Reminder\n* 5 Teams Share First Round of NASA Cube Quest Challenge Prizes\n* 5 GHz to 10 GHz Lunar Transponder Mission\n* Pratham: IITB Student Satellite\n* Inspiring the next STEM generation\n* ARISS to Host On-line Information Sessions - School Contacts\n* AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-255.01\nANS-255 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 255.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE September 11, 2016\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-255.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nRadFxSat (Fox-1B) launch date is now scheduled for March 16, 2017\n\n\nThe RadFxSat (Fox-1B) launch date has been moved, and is now scheduled\nfor March 16, 2017.\n\nRadFxSat will ride as one of the ELaNa XIV secondary payloads aboard the\nNASA JPSS-1 launch on a ULA Delta II rocket.\n\nThe launch will be at Vandenberg AFB, California. It is one of only two\nremaining Delta II planned to be launched.\n\nThe RadFxSat mission is a partnership with Vanderbilt Institute for\nSpace and Defense Electronics (ISDE) that will study space radiation\neffects on commercial off the shelf memory. The experiments are carried\naboard the AMSAT Fox-1B CubeSat and experiment data will be carried in\nthe subaudible telemetry stream of the Fox-1B FM repeater along with the\nCubeSat telemetry data. The telemetry can be decoded and displayed with\nthe AMSAT FoxTelem software.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Jerry Buxton, N0JY AMSAT Vice President, Engineering\nfor the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballots Due by September 15th\n\n\nBallots have been mailed to AMSAT-NA members in good standing, and\nmust be returned to the AMSAT-NA office by September 15, 2016 in order\nto be counted. Those sent outside North America were sent by air mail.\nIf you have not received your ballot package in a reasonable time for\nyour QTH, please contact the AMSAT-NA office. Your completed ballot\nshould be sent as promptly as possible, and those from outside North\nAmerican preferably by air mail or other expedited means.\n\nThis year there are five candidates:\n\nTom Clark, K3IO\nClayton Coleman, W5PFG\nMark Hammond, N8MH\nBruce Paige, KK5DO\nPaul Stoetzer, N8HM\n\nThe three candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be\nseated as voting Board Members with two year terms. The two candidates\nreceiving the next highest number of votes will be non-voting\nAlternate Board Members with terms of one year. Please vote for no\nmore than three candidates.\n\nPlease take the time to review the candidate statements that accompany\nthe ballot and determine who you wish to see on the Board. Election of\nBoard members is both an obligation as well as an opportunity by our\nmembership to help shape the future direction of AMSAT-NA.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Awards Update\n\n\nCongrats to all who have earned an AMSAT Award since the last posting.\n\nAMSAT Satellite Communicators Award for making their first satellite QSO\nPeter Laws, N5UWY\nJose de Jesus Moura Costa, PS8E\nMac Cody, AE5PH\nBernard Van Haecke, KI6TSF\nBurns Fisher, W2BFJ\n------\n\nAMSAT Communications Achievement Award\nRobert Beatty, WB4SON #569\n------\n\nAMSAT Sexagesimal Award\nFernando Ramirez-Ferrer, NP4JV #173\n------\n\nAMSAT Century Club Award\nKevin Manzer, N4UFO #47\n------\n\nAMSAT Robert W. Barbee Jr., W4AMI Award\nYanko Yankov, NX9G #87 1000+\n------\n\nTo see all the awards visithttp://www.amsat.org or\nhttp://www.amsatnet.com/awards.html\n\n\n[ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director Contests and Awards\nfor the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n“Frequency Crunch” is ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference\nSunday Seminar Topic\n\n\n“Spectrum (It’s the frequency crunch for real)” will be the Sunday Seminar\ntopic at the ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC) September\n16-18\nin St Petersburg, Florida. Michelle Thompson, W5NYV, and Bob McGwier, N4HY,\nwill moderate the tutorial.\n\n“The Amateur Radio spectrum above 450 MHz is facing serious threats. The\ndemand for useful spectrum is large and growing,” an abstract for the\npresentation asserts. “We will explain why this spectrum is in demand\nand what\nyou need to know and do in order to defend it.”\n\nThe presentation will offer a practical understanding of digital\ncommunication, software-defined radio, codecs, protocols, and cognitive\nradio.\nThompson heads the AMSAT Ground Terminal Team, a component of the so-called\n“five and dime (5 GHz and 10 GHz) Phase 4B geosynchronous satellite project.\nMcGwier is chief scientist at the Hume Center for National Security and\nTechnology at Virginia Tech.\n\nThe Saturday night banquet speaker will be ARRL Chief Technology Officer\nBrennan Price, N4QX. His topic will be “New Frontiers in Wireless:\nChallenges\nto and Opportunities for Amateur Radio.”\n\nhttp://www.arrl.org/news/frequency-crunch-is-arrl-tapr-digital-communications-\nconference-sunday-seminar-topic\n\n\n[ANS thanks TAPR and the ARRL for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Registration Reminder\n\n- Booking your Carnival Cruise does not register you for the\nAMSAT Symposium. There is a charge for each Symposium attendee of\n$40. This fee applies to those who will attend the technical\npresentations only and includes a copy of the printed Proceedings.\nAdditional guests are entitled to attend all other events. The\nregistration form is available from the AMSAT office or store website.\nOnline Symposium registration:\n\nhttp://store.amsat.org/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=130\n\n- Ground transportation options have been added to the FAQ\npage on the AMSAT Symposium web page. Carnival offers round-trip\ntransportation from HOU airport to the cruise terminal at\napproximately $74 per person, IAH airport $94 per person. If you are\ntraveling to the Board of Directors meeting, you may still utilize the\nCarnival transportation option for your return to the airport from the\ncruise terminal. However, you will need to obtain other\ntransportation between the airport and the Galveston DoubleTree hotel.\n\nCruise information may be found at:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?page_id=3667\n\n\n[ANS thanks 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Committee for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n5 Teams Share First Round of NASA Cube Quest Challenge Prizes\n\n\nFive teams, ranging from university students to a group of engineers\ndispersed across the country, received $20,000 each from NASA in the first\nmilestone of a competition to develop deep space CubeSat technologies.\n\nThe teams, announced by NASA at a Sept. 9 briefing, had the highest\nscores in the first of four “ground tournaments” that make up the initial phase of the\nagency’s $5 million Cube Quest Challenge. That tournament, held in early\nAugust, featured 13 teams who presented their initial spacecraft designs.\n\n“Cube Quest is an opportunity for non-government CubeSat developers and\nbuilders to compete in lunar orbit and deep space for accomplishments in\ncommunications, navigation and longevity,” said Jim Cockrell of NASA’s Ames\nResearch Center. Cockrell is manager of the competition, part of the\nagency’s Centennial Challenges prize program.\n- See more at:\nhttp://spacenews.com/5-teams-share-first-round-of-nasa-cubesat-\nprizes/#sthash.qbwJKlXB.dpuf\nThe ground tournaments are optional elements of the overall competition,\nintended to guide teams through the development of their spacecraft as they\nmature from initial concepts to flight hardware. Participating teams are\nscored on how well they meet the requirements of each tournament, and the three\nwith the highest cumulative scores will win flights of their spacecraft as\nsecondary payloads on the first Space Launch System mission, Exploration Mission 1\n(EM-1), in 2018.\n\nThe first ground tournament did not involve any hardware, and Cockrell\nlikened it to a mission concept review that takes place early in the development\nof a typical NASA mission. Judges assessed the capabilities of each proposed\nmission and compliance with mission rules and SLS safety requirements.\n\n“It was the first opportunity for teams to present their concepts for\nhow they intend to win the Cube Quest Challenge,” he said. “Ground Tournament 1\ndemonstrates that teams are on a good trajectory for launch on EM-1.”\n\nSome of the winning teams are linked to universities that have\nexperience with CubeSats. A space systems design class at the Massachusetts Institute of\nTechnology started work on the KitCube spacecraft this spring, said Kerri\nCahoy, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics there. KitCube is\ndesigned to go into lunar orbit and demonstrate a laser communications system.\n\nAnother team, Cislunar Explorers, is composed mostly of students at Cornell\nUniversity. “The work represents the culmination of lots of Ph.D.-level\nresearch and some undergraduate research from the last five or six years\nat the university,” said Mason Peck, a Cornell engineering professor who served as\nNASA chief technologist from 2011 to 2013.\n\nPeck said their spacecraft will demonstrate several key technologies,\nincluding a propulsion system that uses solar power to convert water into\nhydrogen and oxygen propellants. “It’s a pathfinder for the sustainable\nexploration and settlement of the solar system,” he said.\n\nOther winning teams have less traditional backgrounds. “There’s 12 of us\nacross the United States” working on Team Miles, said team leader Wes Faler.\nMany of them are located in Tampa, Florida, including Faler, but others are\nbased in California, New York and South Carolina.\n\nFaler said the team takes its name from a line in a Robert Frost poem: “And\nmiles to go before I sleep.” After going into orbit around the Moon, he\nsaid, the spacecraft will perform an extended mission, traveling towards Mars\nto test autonomous navigation technology.\n\nRagnarok Industries of Wilmington, Delaware, was established by a group of\nformer engineering interns at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Their\nsatellite, Heimdallr, is intended to test advanced propulsion and\ncommunications technologies for missions beyond Earth orbit, said\ncompany co- founder Luigi Balarinni.\n\nNovel Engineering of Cocoa Beach, Florida, is working with several other\nlocal companies, including Craig Technologies and Harris Corp., the latter\nproviding a deployable mesh antenna for its CubeSat, named Space Pig. The name, team\nmembers said, came from elementary school students during an outreach event.\n\nThe ultimate goal of the competition is to fly CubeSats into lunar orbit or\ndeep space. A total of $3 million is offered in prizes for the “Lunar Derby”\npart of the competition, for both being able to enter lunar orbit and to\ndemonstrate communications capabilities and longevity. An additional $1.5\nmillion is for a “Deep Space Derby” to achieve communications and longevity\ngoals.\n\nNASA’s Cockrell said the next ground tournament is scheduled for early 2016.\nTeams can participate in that round, which he compared to a preliminary\ndesign review, regardless of their performance, or even participation, in the\nAugust tournament.\n\nTeams that do not participate in the ground tournaments, or who do not\nfinish in the top three in total points, can still pursue the deep space and lunar\nprizes by arranging their own launches. The competition ends, and any prizes\nawarded, one year after the EM-1 launch\n- See more at:\nhttp://spacenews.com/5-teams-share-first-round-of-nasa-cubesat-\nprizes/#sthash.qbwJKlXB.dpuf\n\nAMSAT-NA is partnered with the Ragnarok Industries team. Heimdallr\nsatellite plans to test advanced propulsion and communications technologies\nfor missions beyond Earth. AMSAT radio will be aboard. The AMSAT\nGroundstation initiative will give amateur radio operators to uplink and downlink to the\nlunar satellite.\n\nhttp://spacenews.com/5-teams-share-first-round-of-nasa-cubesat-prizes/\n\n\n[ANS thankswww.spacenews.com for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n5 GHz to 10 GHz Lunar Transponder Mission\n\n\nAMSAT-NA plans 5 GHz to 10 GHz transponders on a spacecraft expected to\nlaunch\nin September 2018 into a Lunar orbit.\n\nHeimdallr is a 3 axis stabilized 6U CubeSat with a mass of approximately\n8 kg. It will have a Cold Gas Thruster for inertia dump and a star tracker for\nnavigation. Deployable, gimbled solar panels will produce up to 100\nwatts of DC power, electric propulsion will be used to achieve lunar orbit.\n\nThere will be a combination of omni and directional patch antennas on\none side of spacecraft.\n\nThe first part of mission is to provide Telemetry, Tracking, and Command\n(TT&C) to obtain lunar orbit. The second part is to perform the data\ndownlink experiment while the final part is to provide a two way regenerative\nrepeater and analog repeater in lunar orbit for lifetime of satellite.\n\nProposing these downlinks:\n• Omni transponder: 10.451 GHz +/- 0.5 MHz\n• Directional transponder: 10.4575 GHz. +/- 3.5 MHz\n• Analog transponder: 10.4665 GHz. +/- 2.0 MHz\n\nFor the first part of the mission (TT&C) using 300 bps BPSK 1/2 rate viterbi\nRanging 1.5 Mbps BPSK DSSS. For the second part of mission 4.5 Mbps QPSK ½\nrate DVB-S2. For the final part of mission 25 kbps BPSK 1/5 rate DVB-S2.\n\nProposing these Uplinks\n• Omni transponder: 5.651 GHz +/- 0.5 MHz\n• Directional transponder: 5.6575 GHz. +/- 3.5 MHz\n• Analog transponder: 5.665 GHz. +/- 2 MHz\n\nA link budget is available at\nhttps://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B3u-mSOWBMISYnZyZGJpeThKeU0&usp=sharing\n\nIt is anticipated that a 1 or 2 metre dish will be required using the AMSAT\ndesigned ground station equipment.\n\nSource IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination Status pages\nhttp://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and the IARU for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nPratham: IITB Student Satellite\n\n\nThe satellite Pratham, built by students at the Indian Institute of\nTechnology Bombay, is expected to launch on the Indian PSLV-C35 mission currently\nplanned for September 26, 2016.\n\nPratham, a 300x300x300mm satellite with a mass of 10 kg, aims to measure\ntotal electron count in a 800 km altitude Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO).\n\nAayush Yadav of the Pratham team writes:\n\nWe, students of IIT Bombay, are glad to inform you that our project,\nPratham, is ready and expected to launch with PSLV-C35 in the last week of\nSeptember. We would be really happy if you all joined us in receiving our satellite’s\nbeacon, details given below:\n\nBeacon:\nMode: CW\nwpm: 35 words\nFrequency: 145.980 MHz\n(The CW beacon will be on through out the orbit and can be received from\nanywhere.)\n\nDownlink:\nMode: FSK\nBaudrate: 1200 bps\nFrequency: 437.455 MHz\n(To be switched on over France and India only)\n\nWe will update the information as soon as TLE’s will be available.\n\nFurther information at\nhttp://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/pratham/\n\nFacebook\nhttps://www.facebook.com/iitb.student.satellite/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and Team Pratham for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nInspiring the next STEM generation\n\n\nThe UK Space Agency’s Astronaut Flight Education Program Support Manager\nSusan Buckle will be giving a presentation at the RSGB Convention on\nSaturday, October 8.\n\nAlong with Ciaran Morgan M0XTD, she will talk about the ten UK ARISS amateur\nradio school contacts with astronaut Tim Peake GB1SS during his Principia\nmission on the International Space Station.\n\nThese contacts have inspired thousands of young people and introduced\nthem to amateur radio in a new and exciting way.\n\nThe full schedule and booking information for the convention are\navailable at\nhttp://rsgb.org/convention Twitter hashtag #RSGBconv2016\n\nAn RSGB video celebrates these historic school contacts and the range of\nlinked activities the schools have enjoyed.\n\nBeginning with the exhilaration of the launch, it follows the\ncompetition for schools to host the ARISS contacts, and showcases the variety of science,\ntechnology, engineering, maths (STEM) and arts activities that helped\npupils to understand more about space and amateur radio.\n\nThe contacts themselves, often led by newly-licensed pupils, were the\nsuccessful culmination of many months of work and anticipation.\n\nARISS Principia\nhttps://principia.ariss.org/\n\nAMSAT-UK Article\nhttps://amsat-uk.org/2016/09/10/inspiring-the-next-stem-generation/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS to Host On-line Information Sessions - School Contacts\n\n\nTo help organizations learn about ARISS radio contacts and the proposal\nprocess, ARISS offers one-hour online information sessions; all questions\nare welcomed. Attending an online session is not required but strongly\nencouraged.\n\nInformational sessions will be offered Sept. 20, 2016, at 4 p.m. EDT and\nSept. 28, 2016, at 7 p.m. EDT.\n\nAdvance registration is necessary. Email ARISS ([email protected]) to sign\nup for an information session.\n\nFor proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal\nguidelines and proposal form, visit:\nhttp://www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact.\n\nARISS Contact Application Window Open Until November 1\n\nARISS-US is now accepting proposals from U.S. schools, museums, science\ncenters and community youth organizations (working individually or together)\nto host an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, or ARISS, radio\ncontact with an orbiting space station crew member between July 1 and\nDec. 31, 2017. Proposals are due Nov. 1, 2016.\n\nARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of parti-\ncipants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan.\nStudents can learn about satellite communications, wireless technology,\nscience research conducted on the space station, what it is like to work\nin space, radio science, and any related STEM subject. Students learn to\nuse amateur radio to talk directly to an astronaut and ask their\nSTEM-related questions. ARISS will help educational organizations locate\namateur radio groups who can assist with equipment for this\nonce-in-a-lifetime opportunity for students. Exact dates for the 10-minute radio contact are\ndetermined by crew scheduling and space station orbits.\n\nARISS-US is offered through a partnership between NASA; the American Radio\nRelay League, or ARRL; and the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, or\nAMSAT.\n\nARISS was created and is managed by an international working group.\n\nPlease email questions about this opportunity to\[email protected].\n\n\n[ANS thanks NASA Education Express Message -- Sept. 8, 2016 for the above\ninformation]\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 and Sunday, 10-11 September 2016 Boxboro Hamfest in Boxborough,\nMA (ARRL New England Division Convention)\n\n*Friday, 23 September 2016 – presentation at Jet Propulsion Laboratory\nAmateur Radio Club in Pasadena CA\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 21-22 October 2016 – CopaFest 2016, south of\nMaricopa AZ\n\n*Saturday, 12 November 2016 – Oro Valley Amateur Radio Club Hamfest in\nMarana AZ\n\n*Saturday, 3 December 2016 – Superstition Superfest in Mesa AZ\n\n*Saturday, 14 January 2017 – Thunderbird Hamfest 2017 in Phoenix AZ\n\n*Saturday, 4 February 2017 – Palm Springs Hamfest in Palm Springs CA\n\n*Friday-Sunday, 10-12 February 2017 Orlando HamCation in Orlando, FL\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 17-18 February 2017 – Yuma Hamfest in Yuma AZ\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\nSuccessful Contacts\n\n* Lawrence Public Library, Lawrence KS, direct via KCØNFL\nThe ISS callsign was NA1SS\nThe scheduled astronaut was Takuya Onishi KF5LKS\nContact was Successful: Sat 2016-09-10 17:03:42 UTC\n\n13 Questions Asked/Answered\n300 People at the library, 91 watched the livestream online\nThe event was covered by local Channel 6 News, KUJH (KU's tv channel),\nGirl Scouts (for their blog), and The Lawrence Journal World.\n\n\n\n* Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Astoria OR,\nwas direct via KF7TCG now telebridge via W6SRJ\nThe ISS callsign was NA1SS\nThe scheduled astronaut was Kate Rubins KG5FYJ\nContact was Successful: Sat 2016-09-10 17:03:19 UTC via W6SRJ\n\n17 of 20 questions Asked/Answered.\nApproximately 50 in audience.\n\nUpcoming Contacts\n\n* C.E.PR. Almadén, Jaén, Spain, direct via EA7URJ or TBD\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Kate Rubins KG5FYJ\nContact is a go for: Thu 2016-09-15 08:14:19 UTC\n\n\nWatch\nhttp://www.ariss.org/upcoming-contacts.html\nfor information about upcoming contacts as they are scheduled.\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Dave, AA4KN, and Charlie, AJ9N for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nK6R Coundtdown\n\nOn September 16th, Wyatt, AC0RA, and myself will be getting on the boat in\nVentura, CA with our destination set on CM93. We've been training all\nsummer, finalizing equipment, setting skeds, and generally getting all the\nloose ends tied up, and we look to be ready to go.\n\nWe have posted our Final pass schedule on the K6R QRZ page at\nhttps://www.qrz.com/lookup/K6R\n- so feel free to find a pass that is to your liking. We have tried hard to\ninclude everyone in our distance range on at least 1 or 2 passes. Of course\nall passes are dependent on weather, schedule, and other factors - and\nthere's\na very good chance we'll show up on passes that AREN'T on our list as\nwell..\nfind a window, and see if we're around.\n\nWe're also happy to announce that Jimmy, KK6FAH will be serving as our\npilot relay station for the expedition. He's a fellow AMSAT operator, and\nhas a QTH right in Ventura, and we should be in local repeater range of\neach other while we're on the Island. We have agreed to meet up each\nevening and report our logs to him, and he will then pass our report on to\nthe BB. Please do not email him with questions about busted calls or the\nlike, he's simply going to be passing on our reports. He's also been\nawesome in helping us with some local arrangements, and we appreciate his\nassistance with this project greatly.\n\nI'd also like to make a brief request for folks to use some good\nsituational awareness while we're out there. We know this is a rare grid\nand there's tons of interest, but remember that the birds and pass time are\na scarce resource. We're hoping with lots of scheduled passes there should\nbe more than enough air time to get everyone worked that wants it, but use\nsome common sense. If you have linear capability, find us on one of those\nbirds, and leave SO-50 for the FM only operators. If you're on the West\ncoast and can work us on a higher pass where the east coast doesn't have a\nfootprint, consider delaying to give them a chance. If you can handle\ntaking a night off from using SO-50 as your ragchew repeater in the sky,\nthat'd be great too... and please try to keep the dupes to a minimum - you\nnever know when someone is just sliding into the footprint and only has 30\nseconds to make that precious QSO. Thanks in advance.\n\nFinally, we're planning to do a very informal round table on 20 meters\nSaturday night at 8:00 PDT. Clayton, W5PFG has agreed to find us a\nfrequency (probably the upper portion of 20m) and send out a tweet on where\nwe will be. We'd love to have you stop by on HF and chat about Satellite\nstuff, the expedition, or \"Am I in the log?\" that night.\n\nIt's expedition go time. Hope to catch everyone from CM93!\n\n[ANS thanks Dave, KG5CCI for the above information]\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\n", "attachments": [] }