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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/SLW33CDALNHD2W5OU3PA37GH72SCOVF7/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "SLW33CDALNHD2W5OU3PA37GH72SCOVF7", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/SLW33CDALNHD2W5OU3PA37GH72SCOVF7/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-177 AMSAT Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2011-06-26T01:29:36Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-177\n\nANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America, The\nRadio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the activities of a\nworldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in\ndesigning, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital\nAmateur Radio satellites.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\n\[email protected]\n\nIn this edition:\n* Remember to Send Your AMSAT Field Day Results\n* 13 Colonies Special Event on Satellites Again\n* July 15 Deadline to File ARISS Contact Proposals\n* Istanbul students plan 145/435 MHz satellite\n* New Horizons Mission Presents New Opportunity for Citizen Scientists\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n* ARISS Status - 20 June 2011\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-177.01\nRemember to Send Your AMSAT Field Day Results\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 177.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nJune 26, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-177.01\n\nAMSAT Director of Awards and Contests, Bruce Paige, KK5DO reminds you\nto send in your satellite Field Day results. The Satellite Summary\nSheet (on pages 3-4 of the AMSAT Field Rules) should be used for sub-\nmission of the AMSAT Field Day competition.\n\nThe Rules and the Satellite Summary Sheet can be downloaded from\nlinks at http://www.amsat.org or http://www.amsatnet.com\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/3eztlaf (amsat.org)\nhttp://www.amsatnet.com/2011fd.doc\nhttp://www.amsatnet.com/2011fd.pdf\n\nYour entry must be received by KK5DO (email or postal mail) by 11:59\nP.M. CDT, Monday, July 11, 2011. The preferred method for submitting\nyour log is via e-mail to [email protected] or [email protected].\n\nYou may also use the postal service but give plenty of time for your\nresults to arrive by the submission date. Add photographs or other\ninteresting information that can be used an article for the Journal.\n\nYou will receive an email back (within one or two days) from Bruce\nwhen he receives your email submission. If you do not receive a con-\nfirmation message, try sending it again or send it to his other email\naddress.\n\nIf mailing your submission, the address is:\n\n Bruce Paige, KK5DO\n Director of Awards and Contests\n PO Box 310\n Alief, TX 77411-0310.\n\nCertificates will be awarded to the first-place emergency power/\nportable station at the AMSAT General Meeting and Space Symposium\nin November 2011. Certificates will also be awarded to the second\nand third place portable/emergency operation in addition to the\nfirst-place home station running on emergency power. Stations sub-\nmitting high, award-winning scores will be requested to send in\ndupe sheets for analog contacts and message listings for digital\ndownloads.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT Director of Awards and Contests, Bruce Paige,\n KK5DO for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-177.02\n13 Colonies Special Event on Satellites Again\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 177.02\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nJune 26, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-177.02\n\nDave, KB1PVH/K2H says that the Original 13 Colonies Independence\nWeek Special event begins on July 1 and runs until July 5.\n\nWe will be on the satellites again this year!\n\nMA- KB1PVH/K2H, Dave\nVA- NL7VX/K2B, Steve\nPA- KE3LB/K2M, John\nSC- K4YYL/K2L, Art\nGA- N3TL/K2G, Tim\nNC- W4MPS/K2J, Marc\nNY- WB2OQQ/K2A, Pete\nCT- KA1TCH/K2D, Al\nNH- NE1H/K2K, Bob\nRI- N1MIW/K2C, Larry\nNJ- KB2M/K2I, Jeff (when available)\nDE- KB2M/K2E, Jeff (limited time marine mobile)\nMD- WA3SWJ/K2F, Bruce\n\nPlease limit yourselves to one contact per state, so that others may\nhave a chance.\n\nThe 4th of July, 2011 lands on a Monday, which means that you can\nwork us starting Friday through Tuesday. Due to popular demand, we\nwill run the event all 5 days like in 2010. Times will be: 12:01 AM\nEastern start on July 1st, (That's one minute after midnight, early\nFriday morning, July 1st) to 11:59 PM Eastern ending on July 5th\n(One minute to midnight, late Tuesday night, July 5th).\n\nHope everyone get a Clean Sweep\n\nFind more information on-line at:\nhttp://www.13colonies.info/\n\n\n[ANS thanks Dave, KB1PVH/K2H for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-177.03\nJuly 15 Deadline to File ARISS Contact Proposals\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 177.03\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nJune 26, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-177.03\n\nNASA is seeking U.S. formal and informal education institutions\nand organizations, individually or working together, to host an\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station, or ARISS, con-\ntact between the dates of Jan. 15 and July 15, 2012.\n\nTo maximize these radio contact opportunities, NASA is looking\nfor organizations that will draw large numbers of participants\nand integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan.\nThe deadline to submit a proposal is July 15, 2011.\n\nDuring the first six months of 2012, crew members aboard the\nInternational Space Station will participate in amateur radio con-\ntacts.\n\nARISS contacts afford education audiences the opportunity to learn\nfirsthand from astronauts what it is like to live and work in space.\nDue to the nature of human spaceflight, organizations must demon-\nstrate the flexibility to accommodate changes in contact dates and\ntimes.\n\nInterested parties should contact Teaching From Space to obtain infor-\nmation related to expectations, content, format, audience, proposal\nguidelines and forms by sending an e-mail to [email protected]\nor by calling 281-244-2320.\n\nThe NASA Teaching From Space web page can be found at:\nhttp://tinyurl.com/6fc2lzn (nasa.gov)\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS and NASA for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-177.04\nIstanbul students plan 145/435 MHz satellite\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 177.04\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nJune 26, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-177.04\n\nStudents at Istanbul Technical University are working on a 3U\nCubeSat that will carry a linear transponder for SSB/CW amateur\nradio communications.\n\nTURKSAT-3USAT will carry a 50kHz bandwidth 145/435 (V/U) linear\ntransponder, beacon and telemetry downlink. It is hoped to have\nan early 2012 launch into a Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) at around\n680km.\n\nIstanbul Technical University's first Communication Satellite\nhttp://tinyurl.com/6hyxh7h\n\nIstanbul Technical University TURKSAT-3USAT\nhttp://tinyurl.com/5vhdnzm\n\nTURKSAT-3USAT on the IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination pages\nhttp://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/formal_detail.php?serialnum=213\n\n[ANS thanks the Southgate ARC news site and Istanbul Technical\n University for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-177.05\nNew Horizons Mission Presents New Opportunity for Citizen Scientists\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 177.05\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nJune 26, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-177.05\n\nThe Zooniverse is home to the internet's largest, most popular\nand most successful citizen science projects. You can find all\nthe details of their projects at http://www.zooniverse.org/\n\nZooniverse has added a project where Citizen Scientists help choose\nan additional destination or two for a spacecraft heading to the outer\nsolar system. Ice Hunters will allow the public to help discover a\npotential new, icy follow-on destination for NASA's New Horizons space-\ncraft, which is currently en route to make the first flyby of the Pluto\nsystem. After it zooms past Pluto, the spacecraft will have the capabil-\nity to explore other Kuiper Belt Objects. The destination has yet to be\nchosen. That's where you can help.\n\nWith Ice Hunters, the public can help scientists search through deep\ntelescopic images for currently unknown objects in the Kuiper Belt.\nWhat's cool is that you'll be searching for Kuiper Belt Objects and\npotential dwarf planets in much the same way that Clyde Tombaugh found\nPluto: comparing images of the same region of the Kuiper Belt and look-\ning for objects that move or vary in brightness.\n\nYou can read all the details on-line at: http://www.icehunters.org/\n\n[ANS thanks UniverseToday.com, Zooniverse, and Ice Hunters for the\n above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-177.06\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 177.06\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nJune 26, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-177.06\n\n+ iPhone and iPad users may be interested in the free ESA App to\n access top news stories, videos, images, facts and figures, ESA's\n Twitter feeds, Flickr and Facebook links and other information in\n a convenient mobile package. This is now available free of charge\n for iPhone and iPad directly from the App Store at Apple.\n\n+ AMSAT-SM has a new website and is active on Facebook and Twitter.\n Please visit the new AMSAT-SM (Sweden) website at:\n http://www.amsat.se\n AMSAT-SM on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/amsat_sm\n AMSAT-SM on Facebook:\n http://www.facebook.com/pages/AMSAT-SM/196154360421894\n (Lars SM0TGU)\n\n+ UniverseToday.com posted a video from Phil Plait's Discovery\n Channel series \"Bad Universe\" showing the ways the world will end:\n http://www.universetoday.com/86680/video-ways-the-world-will-end/\n\n+ A time lapsed video from the Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific\n Visualization Studio, uses data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter\n and compresses one month into 12 seconds and one year into 2.5 minutes.\n You'll see how the Moon \"wobbles\" in its orbit, the changes in libra-\n tion, and axis tilt, the Moon's phases. Watch it at:\n http://www.universetoday.com/86613/one-year-of-the-moon-in-2-5-minutes/\n\n+ Jim List, G3WGM, Hon Sec AMSAT-UK reminds attendees to the AMSAT-UK\n Colloquium, Holiday Inn, Guildford, UK 29-30 July that the hotel is\n getting quite booked up already for the Saturday night. To avoid\n disappointment, we strongly urge you to book your place asap. Speak to\n Rachael Cross on +44 (0) 1483 784418. More details, incl prices, at\n http://www.uk.amsat.org/colloquium-2011\n\n+ Congratulations to Jim, KE4KOL, for achieving Satellite VUCC #207!\n\n+ Congratulations also to Rodney, KC0ZHF for achieving his WAS Satellite\n Award!\n\n[ANS thanks everyone for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-177.07\nARISS Status - 20 June 2011\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 177.07\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nJune 26, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-177.07\n\n1. Germany Contact to be Rescheduled\n\nThe ARISS contact that was scheduled with \nHochtaunusschule in Oberursel, Hessen,\nGermany on Tuesday, June 14 was not successful. The ARISS team is trying to\ndetermine what happened and hopes to reschedule the contact sometime in the\nfuture.\n\n\n2. Astronaut Training Status\n\nAstronaut Mike Hopkins (Expedition 37) passed his amateur radio Technician exam\non Thursday, June 9. He was issued the call sign KF5LJG.\n\nOn Monday, June 13, several astronaut candidates \npassed their Technician License\nexams and were issued the following call signs:\nTakuya Onishi, KF5LKS\nGregory Wiseman, KF5LKT\nJeremy Hansen, KF5LKU\nIn addition, Kjell Lindgren, KO5MOS upgraded from \nTechnician to General. Another\nround of tests for the latest class of astronauts may be conducted in the near\nfuture.\n\nA successful ARISS simulated contact was held between Kevin Ford, KF5GPP and\nyouth from John McCrae Secondary High School, \nOttawa, Canada on Monday, June 13.\nThe training session was a terrestrial-based amateur radio contact using ARISS\nequivalent equipment and helped to prepare Ford for participation in ARISS\ncontacts when he flies with Expedition 33 in September 2012.\n\nDon Pettit, KD5MDT and André Kuipers, PI9ISS are scheduled for an ARISS\npreflight session on June 22. The two astronauts are part of Expedition 30\nwhich will launch in November 2011.\n\n\n3. Debrief Session Held with Expedition 26/27 Crew Members\n\nOn Wednesday, June 15 ARISS members participated in an ISS Ham debrief session\nwith Expedition 26/27 crew members Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli. The\nastronauts provided good feedback on the ARISS program.\n\n[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's\nClub. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project\nFunds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms are\navailable from the AMSAT Office.\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }