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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/RNON2WIALMES45N4WCYYX27XJYWQPHEH/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "RNON2WIALMES45N4WCYYX27XJYWQPHEH", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/RNON2WIALMES45N4WCYYX27XJYWQPHEH/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-265 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2014-09-21T07:33:01Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-264\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* Deadline Extension for AMSAT Symposium Papers\n* AMSAT Space Symposium in Baltimore Gearing Up with Exciting New Speakers\n* Results of 2014 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Election\n* Contract to Build Es’hailSat Includes AMSAT-DL Phase 4 Transponders\n* SpinSat Launching on Falcon 9\n* ESTCube-1 Solar Sail Experiment\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-264.01\nANS-264 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 264.01\n From AMSAT HQ Kensington, MD.\nSeptember 21, 2014\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-264.01\n\nDeadline Extension for AMSAT Symposium Papers\n\nThe submission deadline for papers to be included in the conference \nproceedings\nhas been extended to September 30. We welcome papers and presentations \non any\nsubject of interest to the amateur satellite community. Please send \nproposals to\nDan Schultz, [email protected]\n\nDetails for submission may be found at http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=1568.\n\n[ANS thanks Dan, N8FGV, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Space Symposium in Baltimore Gearing Up with Exciting New Speakers\n\nPlans for the 2014 AMSAT Space Symposium in Baltimore Oct 10-12 are in high\ngear, with the announcement of exciting speakers, space auction plans \nand papers\nand presentation submittals underway. This year’s space symposium will, in\npart, celebrate AMSAT’s 45th anniversary.\n\nThere is still time to register, so please go to www.amsat.org and sign up.\n\nHighlights of this year’s symposium include:\n\nKeynote Speaker: Jan King, W3GEY, founding member of AMSAT and former \nmember of\nthe Board of Directors & V.P. of Engineering\n\nThe AMSAT Space Symposium’s Keynote Speaker with be Jan King, W3GEY, \nfounding\nmember of AMSAT and former member of the Board of Directors & V.P. of\nEngineering. Jan’s keynote speech, entitled “Never, Never, Never Give \nUp!” will\nbe presented during the Symposium banquet on Saturday October 11. As a \nteaser\nfor his speech, Jan shared the following with our symposium team:\n\n\" So very much has changed in 45 years! For starters, our hobby of 1968 has\nbecome an industry for one. Launch vehicles can't be had for the price of a\nNASA Administrator’s letter anymore. Launch costs are $100K per kilogram \nnow.\nITAR? Not worth discussing. So, what do we do? Is it time to say, \"We had a\nreally good run at this\" and let it go? We showed some people who cared and\nwanted to listen that you can do a lot with a little. Should we call it \nquits\nand give it up? There are those who ask me questions that start with, \n\"Back in\nyour day….?\" It is particularly those people, I'd like to show…that we \nreally\nare made of the right stuff. We still have things we know that Government\nExperts and wide-eyed university graduate students don't. Silicon Valley is\nnow filled with satellite experts who aren't. The average university \ngraduating\nelectrical engineer still can't make a 2 meter pre-amp with a 1 dB noise \nfigure\n- and wouldn't know how to start. Unless, of course, they figured it out \nfrom\nthe Internet. Ah yes, the Internet! Another small change since 1968. We'll\ntalk about it in October. Hope to see you in Baltimore. W3GEY.\"\n\n\nSpecial Guest Presentation: Tuskegee Airman Col. Charles E. McGee\n\nThe AMSAT symposium committee has confirmed that one of the original \nTuskegee\nAirman, Col. Charles E. McGee, will be attending our conference on Friday\nOctober 10th. Col. McGee will give a special presentation at our \nsymposium on\nhis experiences as a Tuskegee Airman and as an Army Air Corps and Air Force\nPilot. A short question and answer period will follow.\n\nBorn on December 7, 1919, McGee rose to the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy\nScouts and, shortly after WWII broke out, joined the Army. He became a \npilot in\nwhat was dubbed the Tuskegee Experiment, the first squadron of African \nAmerican\npilots, also known as the “Red Tails” from their red markings on the \ntails of\ntheir aircraft. Col McGee and his Tuskegee colleagues fought two \nwars—World War\nII and the war on segregation. This required them to develop an \nunprecedented\nlevel of discipline, excellence and fortitude to achieve success.\n\nIn World War II McGee flew numerous aircraft, including the famous P-51 \nMustang\nas part of the 332 Fighter Group, one of three groups designated as the “Red\nTails.” He provided fighter escort for the B-24 Liberator and B-17 Flying\nFortress bombers over Germany, Austrian and the Balkans. He holds a US Air\nForce record of 409 fighter combat missions flown in World War II, Korea and\nVietnam. Col. McGee received numerous awards for his service, including the\nLegion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star Medal, and Air \nMedal\nwith 25 oak leaf clusters, amongst others. In 2007 Col McGee and the \nsurviving\nTuskegee Airmen were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President \nGeorge W.\nBush.\n\nCol. McGee’s presentations are an inspiration to all. He demonstrates, \nthrough\nhis life lessons, the need to persevere despite all obstacles and to do your\nbest in all endeavors. Do not miss out on this opportunity to meet this\nremarkable living legend.\n\n\nFriday Night Reception and Space Auction\n\nThis year’s reception, to be held from 7-9 pm on Friday October 10, will \ninclude\na space auction. All proceeds from the auction will support AMSAT’s two \nmajor\ninitiatives—the development and launch of the FOX satellite series and \nthe ARISS\nprogram. We have received some very exciting items for the auction. And \nwe are\nasking for your help in donating specialty items for auction (minimum value\n$100) that will attract symposium attendee’s attention and get them \nbidding up\nthe item price. If you have any items that are ham related (no boat anchors\nplease), items of historical value, space related and/or autographed \nitems we\nwould love to get your donations. Think out of the box on this—what exciting\nthings would you like to see in this auction? If you have something to \ndonate\nto the Symposium auction, please send an e-mail to Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, \nwho will\nwork with you on getting your item or items into the auction. Frank’s e-mail\naddress is ka3hdo at verizon.net\n\n\nSunday Tours\n\nSymposium participants can choose one of the following informal tours:\nBaltimore Inner Harbor Tour (including the Aquarium), the B&O Railroad \nMuseum,\nEdgar Allen Poe House or the National Electronics Museum. The National\nElectronics Museum is opening its doors exclusively for AMSAT on Sunday \nfrom 1-\n3 pm. If you are interested in this tour, please contact Dan Schultz by \ne-mail\n([email protected]) so we can get a headcount.\n\n\nMonday Udvar Hazy National Air and Space Museum Tour\n\nThere is still room on the bus for the tour of the Udvar Hazy center \nplanned for\nMonday October 13. Go to the AMSAT web site for tour details and signup.\n\n\nSunday ARISS Operations Team Meeting\n\nAnyone interested in volunteering to support the ARISS program is invited to\nattend the ARISS Operations team meeting from 9-noon Sunday October 12. \nWe will\nhave a number of the ARISS-US team leaders and mentors on-hand to \ndiscuss the\nprogram and get you involved. We will also be discussing improvements, \nchanges\nand strategies to enhance ARISS operations.\n\nANS thanks the Symposium Committee for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nResults of 2014 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Election\n\nAs a result of the 2014 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Election the following\nmembers were elected to serve for two years: Tom Clark, K3IO; JoAnne \nMaenpaa,\nK9JKM; and Lou McFadin, W5DID. Jerry Buxton, N0JY will serve the \nremaining year\nof SK Tony Monteiro, AA2TX’s term. The First Alternate is Drew Glasbrenner,\nKO4MA, and the Second Alternate is Frank Griffin, K4FEG. The results of the\nvoting with 635 ballots cast are as follows:\n\nTom Clark, K3IO 457\nJoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM 439\nLou McFadin, W5DID 421\nJerry Buxton, N0JY 268\nDrew Glasbrenner, KO4MA 261\nFrank Griffin, K4FEG 232\nSteve Coy, K8UD 178\nBryan Klofas, KF6ZEO 132\n\n[ANS thanks Martha for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nContract to Build Es’hailSat Includes AMSAT-DL Phase 4 Transponders\n\nGunter Krebs reports on his Space Pages on the web that Es'hailSat has\nsigned a contract with MELCO to build the Es'hail-2 geostationary comsat.\nEs'hail 2 is a planned communication satellite operated by Es’hailSat, the\nQatar Satellite Company. It will also feature an radio amateur payload.\n\nThe new satellite will be positioned at the 26° East hotspot position for TV\nbroadcasting and significantly adds to the company’s ability to provide high\nquality, premium DTH television content across the Middle East and North\nAfrica. It will feature Ku-band and Ka-band transponders to provide TV\ndistribution and government services to strategic stakeholders and\ncommercial customers who value broadcasting and communications independence,\ninterference resilience, quality of service and wide geographical coverage.\nEs’hail 2 is expected to be launched at the end of 2016.\n\nIn September 2014, a contract with MELCO was signed to build the satellite\nbased on the DS-2000 bus.\n\nEs'hail 2 will also provide the first Amateur Radio geostationary\ncommunication capability linking Brazil and India. It will carry two \"Phase\n4\" Amateur Radio transponders. The payload will consist of a 250 kHz linear\ntransponder intended for conventional analogue operations in addition to\nanother transponder which will have an 8 MHz bandwidth. The latter\ntransponder is intended for experimental digital modulation schemes and DVB\namateur television. The uplinks will be in the 2.400-2.450 GHz and the\ndownlinks in the 10.450-10.500 GHz amateur satellite service allocations.\nBoth transponders will have broad beam antennas to provide full coverage\nover about third of the earth’s surface. The Qatar Amateur Radio Society and\nQatar Satellite Company are cooperating on the amateur radio project.\nAMSAT-DL is providing technical support to the project.\n\nThis story is posted at:\nhttp://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/eshail-2.htm\n\n[ANS thanks Gunter's Space Pages for the above information]\n\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSpinSat Launched on Falcon 9\n\nOn Sunday, September 21 at 0552:03 UTC SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 from \nFlorida\ncarrying the satellite SpinSat with its amateur radio payload to the\nInternational Space Station (ISS).\n\nOn arrival at the ISS it will be put into storage until deployment, \nlater in the\nFall, from the airlock of the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM).\n\nDeveloped by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) SpinSat is a 56 cm sphere\nweighing 57 kg that has 12 Electronically-controlled Solid Propellant (ESP)\nthrusters spread in pairs throughout the surface of the satellite. They \nwill be\nfired in pairs to spin the spacecraft. With just primary batteries and \nonly 4.8\ngrams of fuel this phase may last between three to six months.\n\nThe spacecraft will be used to calibrate the space surveillance network. \nLasers\nwill be fired at SpinSat from the ground, the light reflected back will be\nmeasured to determine where in time and space the satellite is passing \noverhead.\nSpinSat will also model the density of the atmosphere.\n\nSpinSat carries a 2 watt RF output 9600 bps AX.25 packet radio store and \nforward\nsystem on 437.230 MHz.\n\nAdditional details about SpinSat are available at the following websites\nhttp://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/news-releases/2014/with-spinsat-mission-nrl-will-\nspin-small-satellite-in-space-with-new-thruster-technology\n\nNASA – SpinSat\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/1019.html\n\n[ANS thanks Trevor, M5AKA, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nESTCube-1 Solar Sail Experiment\n\nAfter more than a year of preparations on Tuesday, September 16, 2014, \nthe team\nstarted to deploy the electric solar sail tether on-board ESTCube-1.\n\nThe process of burning the tether end-mass and spool locks and reeling \nout the\nfirst few centimeters of tether will start during the 09.06 – 09.19Z \npass over\nEstonia. This is a high pass and should be visible over most of the Europe.\n\nDuring the locks release process and after reeling the tether out some\ncentimeters, images will be taken.\n\nIf everything is OK with the tether, additional unreeling will take place in\ncoming days.\n\nIf you are interested in receiving ESTCube-1 during those exciting \npasses, the\nUZ7HO 9600 bps packet softmodem and an Online Telemetry Decoder by Mike\nRupprecht DK3WN can be used. But basically any 9600 bps G3RUH TNC or \ndecoder can\nbe used to receive ESTCube-1.\n\nESTCube-1 Online Telemetry Decoder by Mike Rupprecht DK3WN\nhttp://www.dk3wn.info/files/estcube_online.zip\n\nWe are looking forward to receiving your reports on the address es5e AT \nestcube\nDOT eu, and we would really appreciate if you would also send received \ndata in\nlive, using Mike’s decoder.\n\n\nYou can also connect with ESTCube-1 time via Facebook\nhttps://www.facebook.com/estcube\n\n[ANS thanks Tõnis, ES5TF, 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", "attachments": [] }