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    "sender_name": "Lee McLamb",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-151  AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2015-05-31T01:48:06Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-151\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* 2015 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nomination Deadline Approaching\n* Nick Lance, KC5KBO, SK\n* Update - VP2MKV Satellite Operation June 11-20\n* Planetary Society's LighSail Satellite Stops Transmitting\n* 29 MHz – the forgotten frequency for amateur radio satellites\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-151.01\nANS-151 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 151.01\n  From AMSAT HQ Kensington, MD.\nMay 31, 2015\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-151.01\n\n2015 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nomination Deadline Approaching\n\nIt is time to submit nominations for the upcoming AMSAT-NA Board of\nDirectors election. Four director's terms expire this year: Barry Baines,\nWD4ASW, Alan Biddle, WA4SCA, Mark Hammond, N8MH, and Jerry Buxton, N0JY. In\naddition, up to two Alternates may be elected for one year terms.\n\nA valid nomination requires either one Member Society or five current \nindividual\nmembers in good standing to nominate an AMSAT-NA member for Director. \nWritten\nnominations, consisting of the nominee's name and call, and the nominating\nindividual's names, calls and individual signatures should be mailed\nto: AMSAT-NA, 10605 Concord St, #304 Kensington, MD 20895-2526. In \naddition to\ntraditional submissions of written nominations, which is the preferred \nmethod,\nthe intent to nominate someone may be made by electronic means. These \ninclude e-\nmail, Fax, or electronic image of a petition. Electronic petitions should be\nsent to [email protected] or Faxed to (301) 822-4371. No matter what means is\nused, petitions MUST arrive no later than June 15th at the AMSAT-NA \noffice. If\nthe nomination is a traditional written nomination, no other action is \nrequired.\nIf it is other than this, i.e. electronic, a verifying traditional written\npetition MUST be received at the AMSAT-NA office at the above address \nwithin 7\ndays following the close of nominations on June 15th.\n\nELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS WITHOUT THIS SECOND, WRITTEN VERIFICATION ARE NOT \nVALID\nUNDER THE EXISTING AMSAT-NA BYLAWS.\n\n[ANS thanks Alan, WA4SCA, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNick Lance, KC5KBO, SK\n\nOn  behalf of the ARISS-International team, it is with great sadness that\nwe announce the passing of long-time ARISS team member Nick Lance, KC5KBO,\nSK.  Nick passed away on May 24 from an aneurism of the aorta.\nNick was  a smart, caring, considerate and helpful person that loved the\namateur radio  hobby.   As the primary amateur radio license trainer for the\nISS  astronauts, Nick played an integral role in encouraging and training\ncountless  astronauts (US, Canada, Japan and Europe) to pursue their amateur\nradio license  and become active on ARISS.  He inspired and trained \ndozens of\nNASA's  aerospace education specialists (who talk to schoolteachers\nnationwide) to get  their ham tickets. He also taught a \"Hamster\" course to\nmiddle schoolers, inspiring them to pursue careers in technology through \nAmateur\nRadio and ARISS  activities.\n\nPersonally, I enjoyed working with Nick both as a NASA  engineer and an\namateur radio operator.  I will miss his quick wit and  sense of \nhumor.   Nick\nwill be deeply missed by many.\n\nA Celebration of Life for Nick Lance will be held Sunday, June 14, 2015,\n2 p.m. at the Gilruth Center. A map to the public entrance of the Gilruth\nRecreation Center, Building 207\nhttp://ewh.ieee.org/r5/galveston_bay/events/GilruthCenterMapandDirections.pdf\n\nA flag will be flown over Mission Control and presented to Renee and the \nfamily.\n\nOur deepest  sympathy goes out to all that knew Nick, especially Renee, his\nwife, and all his  family members.\n\nFrank H. Bauer, KA3HDO\nARISS International  Chairman\n\n[ANS thanks Frank, KA3HDO, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUpdate - VP2MKV Satellite Operation June 11-20\n\nOperators Barry/N0KV, Ken/W0ETT, Greg/W0ZA and Jim/WD0E will be active as\nVP2MKV from Gingerbread Hill, St. Peters (grid square FK86), between June\n10-18th. Activity will be on 80-2 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. They will\nalso participate in the ARRL VHF Contest and some satellite operations\n(FO-29 only on selected passes). The two primary radios will be Elecraft\nK3's with 500 watt amplifiers. Antennas include a Mosley Classic 33 on\n10/15/20, a folding hexbeam by Folding Antennas (Germany) on 20-10 meters,\nverticals on 30 and 40 meters, a dipole on 75-80 meters, and an M2 5 element\n6 meter beam. They will run 500 watts on 6m SSB/CW and FSK441. A 6 meter\nbeacon is planned and will be on 50.102 MHz when the station is not manned,\nand the receiver will be active between beacon transmissions to listen for\ncalls. The primary callsign for the operation will be VP2MKV, and VP2MTT\nwill probably be used on 6 meters. Near 24 hour operation is planned.\n\nTentative satellite pass plan for VP2MKV operation: They will attempt to be\non the first two FO-29 ascending node passes June 11th through 20th. If time\nallows they may be on the third ascending node those days. Those passes\nhappen in late morning to mid afternoon Montserrat time. On those passes\nthey will look first for South America when the satellite is south of them,\nthen North America, then Europe during the short mutual window. If there are\n2 meter or 6 meter terrestrial openings during the VHF contest June 13th and\n14th, they will not be on satellite at those times.\n\nLogs will be uploaded to LoTW soon after the group returns to the US. Paper\nQSLs via N0KV, direct or via the bureau. US addressees send SASE; addressees\noutside the US send SASE plus 2 USDs for return postage. Use of ClubLog has\nnot been finalized at this time. Additional information will be posted under\nVP2MKV on QRZ.com.\n\n[ANS thanks Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1215 for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nPlanetary Society's LighSail Satellite Stops Transmitting\n\nExcerpt from the Planetary Society's page http://planet.ly/0gVop\nAs of late Friday afternoon, LightSail was continuing to operate \nnormally. The\nspacecraft’s ground stations at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Georgia \nTech were\nreceiving data on each pass. Power and temperature readings were trending\nstably, and the spacecraft was in good health.\n\nBut inside the spacecraft’s Linux-based flight software, a problem was \nbrewing.\nEvery 15 seconds, LightSail transmits a telemetry beacon packet. The \nsoftware\ncontrolling the main system board writes corresponding information to a file\ncalled beacon.csv. If you’re not familiar with CSV files, you can think \nof them\nas simplified spreadsheets-in fact, most can be opened with Microsoft Excel.\n\nAs more beacons are transmitted, the file grows in size. When it reaches 32\nmegabytes-roughly the size of ten compressed music files-it can crash \nthe flight\nsystem. The manufacturer of the avionics board corrected this glitch in \nlater\nsoftware revisions. But alas, LightSail’s software version doesn’t \ninclude the\nupdate.\n\nLate Friday, the LightSail team received a heads-up warning them of the\nvulnerability. A fix was quickly devised to prevent the spacecraft from\ncrashing, and it was scheduled to be uploaded during the next ground station\npass. But before that happened, LightSail’s automated chirps fell \nsilent. The\ntelemetry data is sent on a downlink of 437.435 MHz, AX.25, 9600 bps \nFSK. The\nlast data packet received from the spacecraft was May 22 at 21:31 UTC \n(5:31 p.m.\nEDT).\n\nA LightSail map tracking application is at\nhttp://sail.planetary.org/missioncontrol/\n\n[ANS thanks JoAnne, K9JKM, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n29 MHz – the forgotten frequency for amateur radio satellites\n\nHans van de Groenendaaal ZS6AKV writes in the EngineerIT magazine about the\npotential for 29 MHz as a satellite uplink band.\n\nUniversities and other scientific research institutions are using \nportions of\nthe amateur spectrum for their CubeSat’s which has caused the 145 and \n435 MHz\namateur-satellite band segments to be very crowded, leading to an increasing\nnumber of satellite builders to explore alternatives.\n\nFor many, such as those requiring single-channel bandwidth greater than\napproximately 12.5 kHz, the best answer will be found in the microwave \nbands.\nHowever, for those who can use it, the International Amateur Radio Union \n(IARU)\nsatellite frequency coordination process has now opened another \nalternative: 29\nMHz uplinks.\n\nRead the EngineerIT article at\nhttp://www.ee.co.za/article/29-mhz-forgotten-frequency-amateur-radio-\nsatellites.html\n\nIARU Satellite Frequency Coordination http://www.iaru.org/satellite.html\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\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",
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