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    "sender_name": "Joe Spier",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-141 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2017-05-21T02:02:24Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-141\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 Forum Streamed Live at Hamvention 2017\n* AMSAT-NA to Assume Control of FalconSat-3 Soon\n* CQ Hall of Fame List - ARISS and AMSAT\n* AMSAT-DL Announces Launch Date for Es’hail-2 With the P4-A GEO\n   Rideshare\n* AMSAT-SA Space Symposium 27 May\n* Work the AMSAT Hamvention Demo Station!\n* QB50 ISS CubeSat Deployments May 23-25\n* AMSAT Events\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-141.01\nANS-141 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 141.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE May 21, 2017\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-141.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Forum Streamed Live at Hamvention 2017\n\n\nThe DARA/Hamvention went totally digital and Live Streamed the\nAMSAT Forum. A copy of the forum may be viewed here:\n\nhttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/k8ud-coy-ameritech-net\n\n  Search either DARALIVE or AMSAT.\n\n\"AMSAT Status Report\" Barry Baines, WD4ASW, AMSAT-NA President,\nhighlighted recent activities within AMSAT and discussed some of the\nchallenges, accomplishments, projects, and late breaking news.\n\n\"AMSAT Engineering Program\" Jerry Buxton, N0JY, AMSAT-NA Vice\nPresident Engineering , spoke about the exciting new engineering\ndevelopments that the ASCENT Program is working on as well as the latest\nupdates on the Fox-1 project CubeSats.\n\n\"AMSAT Satellite Operations\" Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, AMSAT-NA Vice\nPresident Operations , surveyed the current operational amateur satellites,\nas well as what's planned for launch in the next year.\n\n\"NxtGen Crystal Radio” Joe Spier, K6WAO, AMSAT-NA Vice President\nEducational Relations , discussed the development of the NxtGen Crystal\nRadio, an educational ground station for classrooms to be used to teach\nScience, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).\n\n\"ARISS Report 2017\" Tim Bosma, W6MU, standing in for Frank Bauer,\nKA3HDO, AMSAT-NA Vice President for Human Spaceflight, discussed\nthe 20th Anniversary of ARISS, ARISS engineering developments &\noperation on the International Space Station.\n\nFrank Bauer, KA3HDO, AMSAT-NA Vice President for Human Spaceflight\nhas been awarded Amateur of the Year.\n\n\n[ANS thanks 2017 AMSAT Hamvention Team for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-NA to Assume Control of FalconSat-3 Soon\n\n\nUS Air Force Academy satellite was launched in 2007 on Atlas 5 to\n560 km, 35.4 degrees orbit, and now is at 468-481km orbit, which is\nseveral years before decay.\nThe Satellite operates as an amateur V/u store and forward Pacsat at\n9k6 (or faster) and will sustain 1w operation.\nThe AMSAT command team is preparing to assume control once the\nfinal agreements are completed. FalconSat-3 is in a low inclination orbit\npresenting opportunities for equatorial and tropical stations.\nMore details soon.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, AMSAT-NA Vice-President,\nOperations for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCQ Hall of Fame List - ARISS and AMSAT\n\n\nCQ NEWS RELEASE (Announcing: 2017 Inductees, CQ Amateur Radio\nHall of Fame) (Xenia, Ohio - May 19, 2017) - The CQ Amateur Radio\nHall of Fame has 18 new members for 2017, CQ magazine announced\ntoday. This brings to 310 the total number of members inducted since\nthe hall's establishment in 2001.\n\nThe CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame honors those individuals, whether\nlicensed hams or not, who have made significant contributions to\namateur radio; and those amateurs who have made significant\ncontributions either to amateur radio, to their professional careers or\nto some other aspect of life on our planet.\n\nThe 2017 inductees (listed alphabetically) are:\n\n* King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, HS1A (SK)\n* John Brosnahan, W0UN (SK) - President of Alpha Power,\nNOAA physicist and instrumental in design and construction of the\nHAARP facility in Alaska.\n* Garrett Brown, W3AFF - Inventor of the Steadicam, which earned\n  him both Oscar and Emmy awards for filmmaking technology\n* Britton Chance, W2IBK (SK) - Pioneer in magnetic imaging; MIT\nprofessor, team leader in MIT Radiation Lab developing WWII radar;\n* John Crockett, W3KH - Repeater coordination pioneer; developed\nSoutheastern Repeater Assn (SERA) Universal Coordination System;\nmanaged SCHEART system of linked repeaters in hospitals; VP\nEngineering for SC Educational TV network\n* Julius T. Freeman, KB2OFY (SK) - Tuskegee Airman and Congressional\nGold Medal recipient; frequent speaker at schools and civic organizations\n* Limor Fried, AC2SN - Founder of Adafruit Industries, major supplier\nof open-source electronics to the Maker community; honored by\nPresident Obama in 2016 as a \"Champion of Change\" and by the Internet\nof Things Institute as one of the 25 most influential women in the\nIoT industry\n* Robin Haighton, VE3FRH (SK) - Founding member of Amateur Radio on\nthe International Space Station (ARISS), former president of AMSAT-NA\n* David Honess, M6DNT - Developed AstroPi project, which sent two\nRaspberry Pi computers to the International Space Station as plat-\nforms for students on Earth to write and run their own computer\ncode in space; honored for this work with the Sir Arthur Clarke\nAward, presented by the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation and the British\nInterplanetary Society\n* Pete Kemp, KZ1Z (SK) - Author and educator, directly responsible\nfor licensing over 700 new hams\n* Kristen McIntyre, K6WX - Apple software engineer and inventor (her\nname is on 22 granted or pending patents), promoter of STEM (science,\ntechnology, engineering and math) subjects for girls through various\ntalks and YouTube presentations\n* Pat McPherson, WW9E (SK) - Founder and longtime coordinator of\nSATERN (Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network)\n* Andy Nguyen, VK3YT - Pico-ballooner, pioneered round-the-world\nmicroballoon flights carrying amateur radio\n* Tim Peake, KG5BVI - UK astronaut very active in ARISS program during\ntime on International Space Station; coordinated ISS end of the\nAstroPi project (see David Honess, above)\n* Mike Santana, WB6TEB (SK) - Two-way radio engineer, designed Clegg\nFM-76 220-MHz transceiver and President line of CB rigs, favorites\nfor conversion to 10 meters\n* Allan Steinfeld, W2TN, ex-KL7HIR (SK) - Longtime Race Director of\nthe New York City Marathon, considered one of the fathers of the\nmodern running movement\n* Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR - Pioneer of software defined radio (SDR)\nand founder of FlexRadio\n\n   Two new members each are also being inducted into the CQ DX and Contest\nHalls of Fame at the respective Dayton DX and Contest dinners. Their names\nwill be announced separately.\n\n\n\n\n[ANS thanks CQ Hall of Fame for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-DL Announces Launch Date for Es’hail-2 With the P4-A GEO Rideshare\n\n\nAccording to the Es'hailSat corporate website, the launch of P4-A /\nEs'hail-2 is now scheduled for 2018.\n\nFurther information will be announced when available. Meanwhile\nAMSAT-DL is preparation the ground-station equipment which will\nbe installed at the Es'hailSat Satellite Control Center in Qatar, at QARS\nHQ in Doha and at AMSAT-DL HQ in Bochum.\n\nEs’hail-2 details are published on their web page:\nhttps://eshailsat.qa/en/satellites/index/#tab-16\n\nEs’hail-2 will also provide the first Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation\n(AMSAT) geostationary communication capability that connects users\nacross the visible globe in one single hop and in real-time.\n\nIt will allow also the AMSAT community to validate and demonstrate\ntheir DVB standard.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-DL and Es’hail-2 for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-SA Space Symposium 27 May\n\n\nThe AMSAT-SA Space symposium on 27 May 2017 promises to be one of the most\nexciting events on this year's calendar. Learn how you can operate on the\nnew geostationary satellite to be launched later this year giving South\nAfricans 24-hour communication with a simple put together ground station.\nHannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, has done the work and will share it with you. Denel\nSpaceteq will share details about their work on the EO-Sat1 satellite being\nbuilt for SANSA to become part of the African earth observation satellite\nnetwork. Anton Janovsky will show you and demonstrate how to build a SDR\nwith a Raspberry Pi. Find out how the Kletskous project has progressed\nincluding a demonstration of the transponder and other sub-systems plus many\nmore interesting discussions and demonstrations.\n\nThere are awesome attendance prizes to be won including two Pi Top laptops,\n2 Raspberry Pi starter kits and 2 Raspberry Pi dummy kits, a MFJ artificial\nground and a MFJ world receiver. Full program and registration details are\navailable on www.amsatsa.org.za or request details by sending an e-mail to\[email protected]\n\n\n[ANS thanks the SARL weekly news in English for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nWork the AMSAT Hamvention Demo Station!\n\n\nAs previously announced, AMSAT will have it's traditional presence at\nHamvention this year, including a satellite demo station. This year,\nthe demo station will operate under the AMSAT club callsign W3ZM/8.\n\nWe intend to be on all passes of voice satellites between 12:00 UTC\nand 21:00 UTC on Friday, May 19th and Saturday, May 20th and between\n12:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC on Sunday, May 21st. We may also try the NO-84\nand ISS packet digipeaters using a Kenwood TH-D7A(G) HT. The callsign\nfor packet will be just W3ZM. Please call us using APRS messages on\npacket. Hamvention is located in the six digit gridsquare is EM89aq.\n\nAs a reward for working the AMSAT demo station during the first\nHamvention at the Greene County Fairgrounds in Xenia, Ohio,\nindividuals working us will receive a digital certificate upon\nrequest. Please email [email protected] with your QSO details to receive\na certificate.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, AMSAT-NA Secretary\nfor the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nQB50 ISS CubeSat Deployments May 23-25\n\n\nThe second phase of QB50 CubeSats should be deployed from the\nInternational Space Station over three days from May 23-25, 2017.\n\nBuilt by university students and research organisations from 23 c\nountries around the world, the QB50 constellation aims to study the\nlower thermosphere 200-380 km above the Earth.\n\n11 QB50 CubeSats were deployed in the first phase and a further 17\nwill be deployed in the second phase. The beacons should be\nactivated about 30 minutes after deployment.\n\nThe QB50 CubeSats have downlinks between 435.7 and 438 MHz and\nreports from radio amateurs are most welcome. Beacon data received\ncan be uploaded to a dedicated QB50 webpage at\nhttps://upload.qb50.eu/\n\nLilacSat-2 (ON02CN), which deploys at 0815 GMT on Tuesday, May 23,\nis carrying a FM to Codec2-BPSK Digital Voice transponder, an APRS\ndigipeater and camera. Further information at\nhttps://amsat-uk.org/2017/05/19/lilacsat-1-cubesat-iss/\n\nTwo of the ISS QB50 CubeSats deployed in the first phase, ON01FR\n437.020 MHz and ON05FR 436.880 MHz, carry V/U FM transponders.\nThe uplink frequency for both is 145.860 MHz with 210.7 Hz CTCSS, see\nhttp://site.amsat-f.org/2017/05/12/qb50-document-de-description-des-\ntelemesures-des-satellites-on01fr-on05fr/\n\nList of QB50 CubeSats with Beacon format and frequency information\nhttps://upload.qb50.eu/listCubeSat/\n\nKeplerian Two Line Elements (TLEs) ‘Keps’ for new satellites launched\nin past 30 days\nhttp://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt\n\nQB50 project\nhttps://www.qb50.eu/\nTwitter:\nhttps://twitter.com/QB50Mission\n\nOn the deployment days radio amateurs and QB50 teams will be on the\n#CubeSat IRC channel. Join the deployment chat at\nhttp://irc.lc/freenode/cubesat\n\nDon’t have a suitable 435-438 MHz receiver? Try listening online with the\nSUWS WebSDR located near London\nhttp://websdr.suws.org.uk/\n\nOn June 19, 2014 two precursor QB50 CubeSats were launched, QB50p1 and\nQB50p2, which carried amateur radio transponders\nhttps://amsat-uk.org/2014/06/19/successful-launch-of-amateur-radio-satellite-payloads/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\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*21 May 2017, HamVention in the Greene County Fairgrounds and\nExpo Center, Dayton, Ohio\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 9-10 June 2017, HAM-COM in Irving TX\n\n*Saturday, 10 June 2017 – Prescott Hamfest in Prescott AZ\n\n*Tuesday, 20 June 2017 – presentation for Superstition Amateur Radio Club\nin Mesa AZ\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA 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 at Hamvention 2017,\nJoe Spier, K6WAO\nk6wao at amsat dot org\n",
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