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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/OKIEJVCLHDUN52LAFPIRU5VMZDB6NKEW/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "OKIEJVCLHDUN52LAFPIRU5VMZDB6NKEW", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/OKIEJVCLHDUN52LAFPIRU5VMZDB6NKEW/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-088 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2015-03-29T04:11:00Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-088\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 FieldOps Team SO-50 Operating Guide is Available\n* AMSAT Hotel Room Reservations for Dayton Hamvention\n* AMSAT at the Dayton Hamvention -- Call for volunteers\n* ARISS School Proposal Window, for US, Remains Open Through April 15\n* Tim Peake and ARISS - GB1SS Listening and Standing By\n* Mark T. Vande Hei, KG5GNP, New Astronaut Ham\n* Satellite operation from Isle of Mull\n* Vote to Name the Next United Launch Alliance Rocket\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-088.01\nANS-088 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 088.01\n From AMSAT HQ Kensington, MD.\nMarch 29, 2015\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-088.01\n\nAMSAT FieldOps Team SO-50 Operating Guide is Available\n\nAMSAT's Director of Field Operations, Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK says the\nFieldOps team is working to make how-to-operate-satellites information\nreadily available on the web. Based on a hamfest handout designed and\nwritten by Patrick, \"Getting Started with the FM Satellites\", is available\nfor download. Patrick shows the basic equipment and techniques to learn\nsuccessful operating on the satellites. This guide also gives specific\ninformation on how to operate via SO-50, the only currently available FM\nsatellite at the moment.\n\nPatrick's guide is posted at:\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org --> Satellite Info --> Station and Operating Hints.\n\nThe direct link is http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=2144 where you'll find the\nlink \"Operating FM Satellites\" (and a link to the Spanish version also).\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT FieldOps Team for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Hotel Room Reservations for Dayton Hamvention\n\n\nOnce again, this year, as in previous years AMSAT has reserved a block of\nrooms for the Dayton Hamvention at the Country Inn & Suites in Fairborn,\nOhio. The cost is $109 per night. The cutoff date for reservations is April\n12.\n\nFirst priority will be given to AMSAT members assisting with the booth\noperations, satellite operating demonstrations, and the AMSAT Forum\npresentations. Call Martha at the AMSAT office at 301-822-4376 to give her\nyour arrival/departure dates and your credit card information.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Martha at the AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAMSAT at the Dayton Hamvention -- Call for volunteers\n\n\nLast year, we had 52 people assist with the AMSAT booth at the Dayton. It\nwas the efforts of those volunteers that made the 2014 Dayton Hamvention a\nsuccess for AMSAT.\n\nThe interaction with AMSAT members, satellite operators, designers, and\nbuilders makes the whole experience a lot of fun.\n\nThe 2015 Hamvention is May 15-17. Would you consider helping AMSAT at\nDayton this year?\n\nWhether you're available for only a couple of hours or if you can spend the\nentire weekend with us, your help would be greatly appreciated.\n\nPlease send an e-mail to Steve, n9ip at amsat.org if you can help.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT's Hamvention Chairman Steve Belter, N9IP for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS School Proposal Window, for US, Remains Open Through April 15\n\nARISS is now accepting proposals for U.S. schools wishing to schedule \ncontacts\nbetween their students and the International Space Station for the next \ncycle.\nDetails on submitting proposals can be found below in the attached ARRL News\nRelease.\n\nMessage to US Educators\n\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station\n\nContact Opportunity\n\nCall for Proposals\nProposal Window February 15 - April 15, 2015\n\nThe Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program\nis seeking formal and informal education institutions and\norganizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur\nRadio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS anticipates\nthat the contact would be held between *January 1, 2016 and June 30,\n2016*. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact\ncontact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS\nis looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of\nparticipants and integrate the contact into a well-developed\neducation plan.\n\nThe deadline to submit a proposal is April 15, 2015.\nProposal information and documents can be found at\nwww.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact.\n\nThe Opportunity\n\nCrew members aboard the International Space Station will participate\nin scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are\napproximately 10 minutes in length and allow students and educators\nto interact with the astronauts through a question-and-answer session.\n\nAn ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via\nAmateur Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space\nstation and classrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford\neducation audiences the opportunity to learn firsthand from\nastronauts what it is like to live and work in space and to learn\nabout space research conducted on the ISS. Students also will have an\nopportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless\ntechnology, and radio science. Because of the nature of human\nspaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the\nISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate\nchanges in contact dates and times.\n\nAmateur Radio organizations around the world, NASA, and space\nagencies in Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe sponsor this educational\nopportunity by providing the equipment and operational support to\nenable direct communication between crew on the ISS and students\naround the world via Amateur Radio. In the US, the program is managed\nby AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation) and ARRL (American\nRadio Relay League) in partnership with NASA.\n\nMore Information\n\nInterested parties can find more information about the program at\nwww.ariss.org and www.arrl.org/ARISS.\n\nFor proposal information and more details such as expectations,\nproposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of\nInformation Sessions go to www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact.\n\nPlease direct any questions to ariss at arrl dot org.\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nTim Peake and ARISS - GB1SS Listening and Standing By\n\nThe UK Space Agency has launched a new programme, targeted at students, \nfor the\nTim Peake “Principia” mission to the ISS later this year. This is the \nresult of\nnearly a nearly a years’ worth of effort, working with the UKSA to find \na way to\nbring space to the students and enthuse the next generation of scientists,\nengineers technicians and mathematicians.\n\nThe programme is a joint effort between ARISS, UKSA, RSGB, ESERO in the \nUK and\nESA to raise awareness in Space, Amateur Radio and STEM subjects in general.\n\nThe basis behind the programme is that schools/educational \nestablishments offer\na two day Space STEM event where space can be explored within the \nconfines of\nthe UK National Curriculum. Schools/establishments that are successful in\napplying for such a two day event will then also take part in an ARISS \nscheduled\ncontact with Tim on the ISS as he orbits above the UK.\n\nMany different aspects of Amateur Radio are being promoted from amateur \nradio in\ngeneral to the amateur satellite service, data from orbiting spacecraft \n(FUNcube\nand with luck the first of the Fox satellites) to the latest equipment \non the\nISS, the HAMVideo system assuming all goes to plan with the upcoming \ntesting.\nARISS UK mentors will assist the schools, provide all the necessary RF \nequipment\nand will, with our colleagues in the BATC, live web stream the contacts.\n\nWe are also promoting this as an opportunity for a suitably licensed \nstudent to\nbe in charge of the transmitter for the actual contact itself and to \nhost the\ncall to the ISS. Our national society, the Radio Society of Great \nBritain, will\nbe working with the selected schools and interested students to ensure \nthat the\nstudents that wish to obtain their own license can do so.\n\nTim will be making use of the GB1SS call sign that has been granted by \nOfcom,\nthe spectrum regulator in the UK.\n\nTim Peake recently also recorded a short video and you can see this at\nhttp://www.amsat-uk.org/ along with the contents of the UKSA press \nrelease. Tim\nis extremely enthusiastic and is looking forward to using the amateur radio\nequipment whilst he is on orbit.\n\nThe Tim Peake ESERO resource page is at http://www.esero.org.uk/timpeake\n\nThe announcements with the guide, application form, press releases and a\ndownloadable copy of the video are at http://tinyurl.com/ariss-timpeake\n\nThe RSGB announcement is at\nhttp://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/headlines/2015/03/20/g3rjv-wins-\nprestigious-technical-award/\n\n[ANS thanks Ciaran, M0XTD, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nMark T. Vande Hei, KG5GNP, New Astronaut Ham\n\nMark T. Vande Hei attended license classes on March 11 and 12 and\npassed the Technician exam on March 13. His callsign, KG5GNP, appeared\nin the FCC database on March 24.\n\nVande Hei was selected in June 2009 as a member of the 20th NASA\nastronaut class. He completed astronaut candidate training in June\n2011 and is now qualified for future flight assignment. From June 2012\nto May 2013, he served as the Astronaut Office's Director of\nOperations in Russia. He currently works in the Astronaut Office's\nCAPCOM Branch.\n\nHe reported to the Johnson Space Center in July 2006 to serve as a\nCapsule Communicator (CAPCOM) in the Mission Control Center, Houston.\nHe served as an International Space Station CAPCOM for Expeditions 15\nto 20 and STS-122, 123, 124, 126 and 127.\n\nVande Hei was a member of the 18th NASA Extreme Environment Mission\nOperations (NEEMO) expedition that spent nine days living and\nconducting research 62 feet below the surface in Florida International\nUniversity's Aquarius Reef Base undersea research habitat off the\ncoast of Key Largo, Fla. They investigated tools, techniques and\ntechnologies that will benefit spacefarers aboard future International\nSpace Station and long-duration exploration missions.\n\n\"NEEMO 18 was a fantastic opportunity for me to participate in the\ndevelopment of technologies and techniques for future exploration,\"\nsaid Vande Hei. \"That by itself would have been plenty, but on top of\nthat I got to experience life in an environment that most of us don't\nget to experience as well as enjoy the company of some fantastic\nteammates, both on the crew and in the ground control and support\nteam.\"\n\n[ANS thanks Kenneth N5VHO , ARISS and NASA for the above information.]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite operation from Isle of Mull\n\nTen members of the Camb-Hams are returning to Grasspoint IO76EJ on Mull \n(IOTA\nEU-008) from May 15-21, 2015 as GS3PYE/P.\n\nThey will be QRV with multiple stations on HF on 3.5-28MHz SSB, CW, RTTY \nand PSK\nwith dipoles and verticals and up to 400W if necessary.\n\nVHF activity will be on 50MHz, 70MHz and 144MHz, all bands QRO with sizeable\nantennas.\n\nVHF will be mainly QRV using JT6m or ISCAT on 50MHz, FSK441 on 70MHz and \nFSK441\nand JT65b (for EME) on 144MHz, but SSB and CW is also possible, \nespecially in\nany sporadic E propagation openings. Other modes by agreement.\n\nSatellite operations on 2m & 70cm will use an Icom IC-910 and X-Quad \nantennas\nmounted on a fully automatic AZ/EL tracking system. If internet connectivity\nallows, the VHF operators will monitor ON4KST Chat for terrestrial \nactivity and\nN0UK JT65 chat for EME. You can submit your VHF sked requests online here:\nhttp://tiny.cc/gs3pyesked\n\nThe team will be QRV in the 80m CW CC event on the 21st and in the 144MHz\ncontest on the 16th and 17th. They may do very short side trips to Iona \nand the\nTreshnish Islands and will announce these nearer the time on the website.\n\nPlease QSL only via OQRS on ClubLog for direct or bureau cards. Do not \nsend any\ncards direct or via the bureau.\n\nFor the latest info see\nhttp://dx.camb-hams.com/\nhttp://twitter.com/g3pye\nhttp://facebook.com/CambHams\nhttp://youtube.com/CambHams\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nVote to Name the Next United Launch Alliance Rocket\n\nUnited Launch Alliance (ULA), is asking America to help name its next\nrocket, calling on citizens to play a role in the future of space launch by\nvoting for the name of the new rocket that will be responsible for the\nmajority of the nation's future space launches.\n\nFor the next two weeks, the public can vote for its favorite rocket name -\nEagle, Freedom, GalaxyOne, Vulcan or Zeus - with the results being \nannounced on\nApril 13 along with the design and components of ULA's innovative, next-\ngeneration rocket. The top three names were selected from more than 400 \nnames\nsubmitted by ULA's 3,400 employees and space enthusiasts earlier this \nyear. ULA\nemployees - rocket scientists, engineers and patriots - will design and \nbuild\nthis rocket with the first flight expected in 2019.\n\nIn order to vote for America's next rocket, voters can visit the website\nfrom March 23 to April 6:\nhttp://bit.ly/rocketvote.\n\nVoters can also text 22333 to submit a vote for their favorite name. The\nfollowing key can be used to text a vote:\n. ULA1 for \"Eagle\"\n. ULA2 for \"Freedom\"\n. ULA3 for \"GalaxyOne\"\n. ULA4 for \"Vulcan\"\n. ULA5 for \"Zeus\"\n(Text and data rates may apply.)\n\n[ANS thanks the United Launch Alliance for the above information]\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,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }