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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/PTYLMMQUHXVDGJWFW445KEB3CU4NESPA/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "PTYLMMQUHXVDGJWFW445KEB3CU4NESPA", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/PTYLMMQUHXVDGJWFW445KEB3CU4NESPA/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-269 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2016-09-25T03:37:08Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-269\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* Planning Satellite Operations During the 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium\n* Plan Ahead for New Years AMSAT CW Activity Day on the Satellites\n* Chinese Space Station Visible\n* Measuring Sky Angles With Your Hand\n* Falcon 9 Static Fire Anomaly Update\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-269.01\nANS-269 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 269.01\n From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE September 25, 2016\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-269.01\n\n\nPlanning Satellite Operations During the 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium\n\nIf you are attending the 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium at Sea, Carnival\nCruise Line policy allows amateur radio operation as specified in its\ncorporate policy. Please review the FAQs Restricted Items List.\nFor details see:\n\nhttps://help.carnival.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2261\n\nSo if you are planning to attend the Symposium and wish to bring radios\nto operate, please remember that the Carnival Liberty is registered in\nPanama. US licensed amateur operators wishing to operate at sea must\nobtain an International Amateur Radio Permit (IARP) from the ARRL. A good\nrule to apply is a minimum of 30-45 days in advance.\nDetails are available at the following site:\n\nhttp://www.arrl.org/iarp\n\nTo file the permit you will need to provide the following:\n1. Completed and Signed IARP Application Form for US Amateur Radio \nOperators\n2. Photocopy of the applicant's US FCC Amateur license\n3. Photocopy of the applicant's legal photo-ID\n4. A 1.5x1.5 inch color or black/white Passport size photo of the Applicant\n5. Application Fee payable to \"ARRL VEC\" by check, money order, or \ncredit card\n\nSubmit applications and supporting documents to:\nARRL - VEC Department\n225 Main Street\nNewington, CT 06111 USA\n\nQuestions can be directed to:\n(860)594-0300 (weekdays 8AM to 5PM ET)\nor to\[email protected]\n\nOf all the application items, #4 seems to be the most difficult to obtain.\nAMSAT Vice President, Engineering, Jerry Buxton, N0JY provided the \nsuggestion.\n\nDid you know that you can use the U.S Department of State website\nto crop your own photo to use with the application?\nhttps://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/passports/photos/photos.html\nLook on the right side of the page under \"Already Have a Photo?\"\nIt lets you pick a photo you have on your PC, and save it back to your\nPC. You can then print it to send with the application.\n(Of course, you'll have to figure out how to get it 1.5 x 1.5 inches, I\nused Word.)\n\nA reminder that you would need a Reciprocal Permit issued by The \nRepublic of\nMexico to operate in Mexico and operating from Mexican Islands is strictly\ncontrolled.\n\nhttp://www.arrl.org/reciprocal-permit\n\nObtaining can be a time consuming and expensive procedure for the one day\nin port, see\n\nhttp://www.qsl.net/oh2mcn/xe.htm\nhttp://xe-permit.wd9ewk.net/\n\nSee you on-board or on the air!\n\n\n(ANS thanks Joe Spier, K6WAO, AMSAT Vice President, Educational Relations\nfor the above information)\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nPlan Ahead for New Years AMSAT CW Activity Day on the Satellites\n\nThanks to all who participated in AMSAT's Straight Key Night 2016, held in\nmemory of Ben Stevenson, W2BXA. For 25 years, AMSAT has sponsored SKN on\nOSCAR, and it's been my pleasure to conduct this event.\n\n While Morse as a license qualification has gone the way of the spark \ngap, I\nam pleased to see that amateur CW activity is as popular as ever. Straight\nkeys and \"bugs\", however, have found a niche primarily with the boat anchor\ncrowd, and AMSAT's insistence on their use in OSCAR SKN has held down\nparticipation. Similar considerations have led ARRL to broaden its \nannual HF\nevent to include all forms of CW, even computer-generated. The idea is to\nencourage everyone to enjoy CW operation, no matter how they choose to do\nit. We agree 100%.\nSo, in with the new: AMSAT CW Activity Day.\n\nAs with the old SKN, it will be a fun event, not a contest, and will run \nfor\n24 hours on January 1, 2017 (UTC). All forms of CW are welcome. Since it is\nnot a contest, there is no required exchange. A QSO is a QSO. Working the\nsame station on more than one satellite is permitted.\n\nInstead of submitting Best Fist nominations, all participants are asked to\npost their results, including \"Soapbox\" comments, to AMSAT-BB. Please\ninclude the satellites you used, and the number of CW QSOs you had on each.\nWhile it is not necessary to post your full log, you may do so if you wish.\n\nCU on CW!\n\n[ANS thanks Ray Soifer, W2RS, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nChinese Space Station Visible\n\nTwo weeks ago, on Sept. 15th, China launched a new space station to \nEarth orbit:\nTiangong-2. The 10-meter long spacecraft is only a fraction the size of \nthe ISS,\nbut there is room inside for two tiakonauts (Chinese astronauts) and \nplenty of\nscience experiments. And in dark skies, it can be seen with the naked \neye. On\nSept. 20th, Kevin Fetter of Brockville, Ontario, Canada, video-recorded the\nTiangong-2 passing by the bright star Zeta Ophiuchi:\n\n\"At the time the space station was passing the star, its magnitude was \nnear +5,\"\nestimates Fetter.\"It got into the 4th magnitude range just before it \ndisappeared\ninto Earth's shadow. So it is a naked-eye object, albeit barely.\"\n\nTiangong-2 is the second of three prototype space stations China plans \nto launch\nas the country builds toward a Mir-class outpost in the next decade.\nTiangong-2's predecessor, Tiangong-1, is still in orbit and expected to \nburn up\nin Earth's atmosphere sometime in 2017.\n\nNext month, China will launch a crew of two to inhabit the new space \nstation for\napproximately 30 days. While on board, they will test Tiangong-2's life \nsupport\nsystem, and possibly conduct experiments in brain-machine interfacing, \natomic\nclock navigation, and quantum communications.\n\nReady to see for yourself? Tiangong-2 flyby predictions are available from\nHeavens Above. \"Use the Satellite Database and search for object '41765' \nlabeled\n'OBJECT A,'\" advises Fetter. \"That's how to find it.\"\n\n[ANS thanks Spaceweather.com for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nMeasuring Sky Angles With Your Hand\n\nHave you ever worked portable and wondered just how close you were \nholding your\nantenna in reference to the necessary altitude and azimuth to be on \ntarget with\nyour satellite?\n\nYou can use your hands to measure degrees of the sky. There is a method \ncommon\nin astronomy for measuring sky angles. Here’s how they describe it on \nOne Minute\nAstronomer:\n\n\"Your hands and fingers are a remarkably accurate (and convenient) \nmeasuring\ntool. When you hold your hand at arm’s length, you can estimate angles like\nthis:\n\n Stretch your thumb and little finger as far from each other as you \ncan. The\n span from tip to tip is about 25 degrees\n Do the same with your index finger and little finger. The span is \n15 degrees\n Clench your fist at arms length, and hold it with the back of your \nhand\n facing you. The width is 10 degrees\n Hold your three middle fingers together; they span about 5 degrees\n The width of your little finger at arm’s length is 1 degree.\"\n\nhttp://oneminuteastronomer.com/860/measuring-sky/\n\nSee also\nhttp://makezine.com/2016/09/16/measuring-tip-ruler/\n\n[ANS thanks oneminuteastronomer.com and make zone.com for the above\ninformation.]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFalcon 9 Static Fire Anomaly Update\n\nThree weeks ago, SpaceX experienced an anomaly at our Launch Complex 40 \n(LC-40)\nat Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. This resulted in the loss of one of \nour\nFalcon 9 rockets and its payload.\n\nThe Accident Investigation Team (AIT), composed of SpaceX, the FAA, \nNASA, the\nU.S. Air Force, and industry experts, are currently scouring through\napproximately 3,000 channels of engineering data along with video, audio \nand\nimagery. The timeline of the event is extremely short – from first signs \nof an\nanomaly to loss of data is about 93 milliseconds or less than 1/10th of a\nsecond. The majority of debris from the incident has been recovered,\nphotographed, labeled and catalogued, and is now in a hangar for \ninspection and\nuse during the investigation.\n\nAt this stage of the investigation, preliminary review of the data and \ndebris\nsuggests that a large breach in the cryogenic helium system of the \nsecond stage\nliquid oxygen tank took place. All plausible causes are being tracked in an\nextensive fault tree and carefully investigated. Through the fault tree \nand data\nreview process, we have exonerated any connection with last year’s CRS-7 \nmishap.\n\nThe teams have continued inspections of LC-40 and the surrounding \nfacilities.\nWhile substantial areas of the pad systems were affected, the Falcon \nSupport\nBuilding adjacent to the pad was unaffected, and per standard procedure was\nunoccupied at the time of the anomaly. The new liquid oxygen farm – e.g. \nthe\ntanks and plumbing that hold our super-chilled liquid oxygen – was \nunaffected\nand remains in good working order. The RP-1 (kerosene) fuel farm was also\nlargely unaffected. The pad’s control systems are also in relatively good\ncondition.\n\nSpaceX’s other facilities, from the Payload Processing Facility at the \nCape, to\nthe pad and hangar at LC-39A, are located several miles from LC-40 and were\nunaffected as well. Work continues at Pad 39A in preparation for \nbringing it\nonline in November. The teams have been in contact with Cape Canaveral and\nKennedy Space Center partners and neighbors and have found no evidence \nof debris\nleaving the immediate area of LC-40.\n\nAt SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, CA, manufacturing and production is\ncontinuing in a methodical manner, with teams continuing to build engines,\ntanks, and other systems as they are exonerated from the investigation. \nSpaceX\nwill work to resume our manifest as quickly as responsible once the \ncause of the\nanomaly has been identified by the Accident Investigation Team. Pending the\nresults of the investigation, return to flight is anticipated as early \nas the\nNovember timeframe.\n\n[ANS thanks SpaceX for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Bruce Paige, KK5DO, reported that Randy, WI7P (ex N7SFI) has been\nuploading many of his old logs to LoTW. As a result, if you are a LoTW user\nyou might find credit for many of his grid operations. Randy was one of the\nfirst ones to work satellites from a grid other than his home grid with \nmore\nthan 100 grids. One time he was maritime mobile, kayaking on a river. He\nalso operated from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Park City Utah.\n\n+ Damon, WA4FHN, and the Starcommgroup satellite operators club \ncongratulate\nFernando Ramirez-Ferrer, NP4JV for earning the Got Grids Award #17. Please\ngo to http://www.starcommgroup.org for more about the Starcommgroup's free\nawards to satellite operators\n\n+ The KO4BB manual repository includes a fairly large list of downloadable\ntest equipment and ham radio manuals. See:\nhttp://www.ko4bb.com/getsimple/index.php?id=manuals\n\n+ Ckayton Coleman, W5PFG, will operate from the Blackstone River Valley \nNational\nHistorical Park (NPOTA HP49) on Monday, September 26 in grid FN42.\n All times given are in UTC\n SO-50 20:36 - 20:48\n XW-2F 21:46 - 21:53\n XW-2C 21:53 - 21:59\n SO-50 22:19 - 22:28 (possibly)\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,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }