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    "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-302 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2017-10-29T12:46:19Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-302\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* AMSAT-NA Announces GOLF CubeSat Program\n* AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Elects Joe Spier, K6WAO, President\n* Jordan’s first satellite – JY1-SAT\n* APRS Satellites QIKCOM-1 Deployed\n* FalconSat-3 Video w/ WiSP File Upload/Download\n* Special Membership Offer for RadFxSat Launch\n* Pope Asks Spacemen Life's Big Questions In ISS Live Chat\n* AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Elects Joe Spier, K6WAO, President\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-302.01\nANS-302 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 302.01\n>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nOctober 28, 2017\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-302.01\n\n\n\nAMSAT-NA Announces GOLF CubeSat Program\n\nAt the AMSAT-NA Annual General Meeting in Reno, NV, AMSAT-NA President\nJoe Spier, K6WAO, announced the next phase of AMSAT’s CubeSat program:\nGOLF. GOLF, an acronym for “Greater Orbit, Larger Footprint,” is a\ncrucial step towards fulfilling AMSAT’s strategic goals involving high\naltitude, wide access satellite missions.\n\nAs an initial step in the GOLF program, the AMSAT-NA Board of\nDirectors approved the submission of a NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative\nproposal for the GOLF-T satellite project. The GOLF-T project will\nserve as a rapidly deployable Low Earth Orbit (LEO) testbed for\ntechnologies necessary for a successful CubeSat mission to a wide\nvariety of orbits, including LEO, Medium Earth Orbit (MEO),\nGeosynchronous Orbit (GEO), Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO), or beyond.\n\nAMSAT-NA Vice-President Engineering Jerry Buxton, N0JY, said “The\nGOLF-T project tees off the next phase of our CubeSat program. GOLF-T\nprovides AMSAT hardware and knowledge for Attitude Determination and\nControl (ADAC) capability and the opportunity to develop a 3U\nspaceframe with deployable solar panels that can be used in LEO or HEO\nmissions, two of the major systems required in future GOLF and HEO\nmissions.”\n\nIn addition, GOLF-T provides the opportunity for rapid deployment and\non orbit testing of the AMSAT’s Advanced Satellite Communications and\nExploration of New Technology (ASCENT )program’s technology, including\nradiation tolerant transponder and Integrated Housekeeping Unit (IHU)\ntechnologies that will lead the way for low cost commercial\noff-the-shelf (COTS) systems that can function in the MEO and HEO\nradiation environments. GOLF-T will also provide for the development\nof “Five and Dime” Field-Programmable Gate Array Software Defined\nRadio (FPGA SDR) transponders for use on a variety of missions and\norbits.\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors and our Engineering Team\n for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-NA Board of Directors Elects Joe Spier, K6WAO, President\n\nAt it’s annual meeting, held at the Silver Legacy Resort Hotel in\nReno, NV, the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors elected Joe Spier, K6WAO, of\nReno, NV, President, succeeding Barry Baines, WD4ASW, who has retired\nafter nine years of service as AMSAT’s President. Joe is a Life Member\nof AMSAT-NA and has previously served as Executive Vice President and\nVice-President Educational Relations. He also has Life Memberships in\nthe ARRL, SARA (Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers) and the AFA (Air\nForce Association). He holds an Extra Class license as well as\ncommercial licenses.\n\nImmediate Past President Barry Baines, WD4ASW, said “It has been an\nhonor to serve as President for the past nine years and as a board\nmember since 1999. I’m confident that the successes of the past nine\nyears while serving as President will lead to new opportunities in\nAMSAT’s future as Joe assumes the helm working with the new Senior\nLeadership Team. I’m also thrilled that Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, and\nClayton Coleman, W5PFG, are new voting members on the Board, including\nthe assumption of my former slot. I’m excited that the new Board\ncombined with the new Senior Leadership Team will bring insight,\nenthusiasm, energy and commitment to move AMSAT forward.”\n\nOther officers elected by the Board were:\n\n* Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, of Washington, DC, as Executive Vice President\n* Jerry Buxton, N0JY, of Granbury, TX, as Vice-President Engineering\n* Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, of New Port Richey, FL, as\n   Vice-President Operations\n* Clayton Coleman, W5PFG, of Granbury, TX, as Secretary\n* Keith Baker, KB1SF/VA3KSF, of Corunna, ON, as Treasurer\n* Martha Saragovitz of Silver Spring, MD, as Manager\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nJordan’s first satellite – JY1-SAT\n\nDuring the final satellite integration training for Jordan’s first\nsatellite, JY1-SAT, the team was supported for the final stages of\nintegration by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein bin\nAbdullah II.\n\nThe spacecraft has been given to students of the Masar Initiative at\nthe Jordan University of Science and Technology as part of the JY1-\nSAT mission support and training program under the Crown Prince\nFoundation given by ISIS – Innovative Solutions In Space and AMSAT-UK\nand AMSAT Netherlands.\n\nThe JY1-SAT mission was proposed by Jordanian students who\nparticipated in the first batch of the cooperation program with NASA,\nafter which the interns had suggested the design and launch of the\nfirst Jordanian satellite CubeSat.\n\nTo build up the capability to design and develop such a first\nmission, the Crown Prince Foundation signed a support agreement with\nISIS – Innovative Solutions In Space and the AMSAT Radio Amateur\nSocieties of the UK and the Netherlands, for hardware and training\nsupport, building on ISIS’ and AMSAT’s experience with FUNcube radio\namateur transponder missions.\n\nAs a special development for the JY1-SAT mission, AMSAT has expanded\nthe capabilities of the FUNcube transponder to be able to transmit\nstored images reflecting the Jordanian culture and its historical\nheritage, along with a voice message recorded by the Crown Prince to\nbe transmitted in space to receivers around the world.\n\nThe launch of the JY1-SAT, scheduled during the first half of next\nyear, is in memory of His Majesty the late King Hussein, the first\nfounder of the HAM Radio in Jordan and holder of call sign JY1.\n\nJY1-SAT will have a linear, inverting, transponder downlinking\nbetween 145.855 & 145.875 MHz with the uplink between 435.100 &\n435.120 MHz. The telemetry downlink will be on 145.840 MHz and be\nFUNcube compatible. A new Dashboard will be made available before the\nlaunch of JY1-SAT.\n\nThe Jordan Times – Crown Prince puts final touch on mini satellite\nproject http://tinyurl.com/ANS302-JY1-Sat\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAPRS Satellites QIKCOM-1 Deployed\n\nQIKCOM-1 was deployed from the ISS Friday at 0915 UTC attached to\nthe SIMPL spacecraft.  It is an APRS digipeater just like the ISS.\nWhereas it also supports the same ARISS alias as the ISS digipeater,\nplease use the ALIAS of APRSAT on your uplinks instead of ARISS so\nthat you only hit QIKCOM-1 for these first few passes with your test\nuplinks (once a minute)..  Or you can be specific via QIKCOM-1\ncallsign.  At 4 Watts, it will be 10 dB stronger than PSAT(84) and\nabout the same power level as ISS and should be easy to receive on\nthe 145.825 downlink.\n\nWe ask all potential IGates to check your ground stations and make\nsure they are ready to IGate packets during those initial orbits from\nall over the globe.  If you do not have an IGate, just capture\npackets and email them to  qikcom1 at gmail.com until we see that\neverything is making it to the APRS-IS.\n\nThe downlink should be available on the original\nhttp://pcsat.findu.com and also on\nhttp://59.167.159.165/satreporter/index2.html\n\nBeing released from ISS, QIKCOM-1 will of course have the same\nElements and tracking info as ISS until they begin to separate.  This\nmeans passes over the USA every 90 minutes beginning at 0630 EDT in\nthe Southeast and ending after 1440 PDT in Southern California.\n\nWeb page:  http://aprs.org/qikcom-1.html\n\nAs usual, QIKCOM-1 is not intended for UNATTENDED BEACONS.  It is\ndesigned for Live Operations and experiments only.\n\nFor the initial passes, do not attempt 2-way contacts.  Just set\nyour STATUS text to indicate your TX power and antenna type and\ntransmit at 1m intervals ATTENDED  as described on the web page\nduring these first few orbits. So we can get sttistices on uplink\nquality.\n\n[ANS thanks Bob, WB4APR for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFalconSat-3 Video w/ WiSP File Upload/Download\n\nIf anyone would like to see how the WiSP software handles uploading &\ndownloading files to FalconSat-3, I made a video of the highest\nelevation\npass tonight:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/9spO1e8NVj0\n\n... I don't understand it all yet, but am seeing some uploads &\ndownloads.\nI keep UISS open and ready in case anyone is active w/ APRS packets,\nbut on this pass I didn't transmit from UISS to give the MSPE program\nfrom WiSP maximum time to work.\n\nThere's a little explanation in the notes below the video on YouTube\nif you click \"SHOW MORE\" on that page.\n\nDrew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, has scanned and posted the chapter on WISP\nfrom Gould Smith's 2005 Digital Satellite & Telemetry Guide to the\nFalconSAT-3 page on amsat.org. He hopes it is helpful to everyone\ndiving back into this excellent program from the past.\n\nIt can be found near the bottom of the page at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/falconsat-3/\n\n[ANS thanks Scott, K4KDR and Drew KO4MA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSpecial Membership Offer for RadFxSat Launch\n\nAs part of the preparations for the launch of RadFxSat on November\n10th, AMSAT is making our “Getting Started With Amateur Satellites”\nbook available for a limited time as a download with any paid new or\nrenewal membership purchased via the AMSAT Store. This offer is only\navailable with purchases completed online, and for only a limited\ntime. A perennial favorite, Getting Started is updated every year with\nthe latest amateur satellite information, and is the premier primer of\nsatellite operation. The 182 page book is presented in PDF format, in\nfull color, and covers all aspects of making your first contacts on a\nham radio satellite.\n\nPlease take advantage of this offer today by visiting the AMSAT store\nat https://www.amsat.org/shop/ and selecting any membership option.\nWhile there, check out our other items, including the M2 LEOpack\nantenna system, Arrow antennas, AMSAT shirts, and other swag.\n\nThank you, and see you soon on RadFxSat!\n\n[ANS thanks Paul N8HM for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nPope Asks Spacemen Life's Big Questions In ISS Live Chat\n\nPope Francis chatted with six astronauts at the International Space\nStation (ISS) on Thursday, kicking off the rare interview with a\nphilosophical question on \"man's place in the universe\".\n\nItalian Paolo Nespoli, 60, admitted that despite the bird's eye view\nof Earth he too remained \"perplexed\", while American Mark Vande Hei\nsaid seeing the planet from space made them \"realise how fragile we\nare\".\n\nThe Argentine pontiff sat at a Vatican desk, facing a wide-screen\ntelevision on which the astronauts from America, Russia and Italy\ncould be seen floating together in their blue suits.\n\n\"Good afternoon... or good evening. I imagine time passes\ndifferently at the space station, right?\" the pope quipped.\n\n\"Astronomy makes us think about the universe's boundless horizons,\nand prompts questions such as 'where do we come from, where are we\ngoing?'\" he mused.\n\nA 30-second delay in the satellite feed gave Nespoli, Vande Hei,\nAmericans Randolph (Randy) Bresnik and Joseph Acaba, and Russians\nSergej Nikolaevic Rjazanskij and Alexandr Misirkin time to weigh up\nlife's biggest questions.\n\n\"Our aim here is to spread knowledge, (but) the more we learn, the\nmore we realise we do not know,\" admitted Nespoli, who is on his\nthird trip into space.\n\n\"I would like people like you, theologians, philosophers, poets,\nwriters, to come to space to explore what it means to be a human in\nspace,\" he said, as Francis nodded and smiled.\n\nUS mission commander Bresnik told the Argentine that from the\nvisible thinness of the planet's atmosphere shows how fragile life is\non earth.\n\n- 'Future of humanity' -\n\nBut the pope had not finished: what, he wanted to know, was their\nopinion of love as a force that moves the universe? What was their\nsource of joy up in the space station, and how did a life without\ngravity change their view of the world?\n\nThe crew took it in turns to get their philosophical caps on, and\nnot even a technical hitch which temporarily interrupted the\ninterview, or the lack of a Russian translator, could throw the space\ntravellers off course.\n\n\"I get the most joy by looking outside every day and seeing God's\ncreation, maybe a little bit from his perspective,\" Bresnick said.\n\nFar from wars, famines, pollution or human folly, he said \"the\nfuture of humanity looks better from up here\".\n\nBresnik, 50, a former Marine Corps aviator who goes by the nickname\n\"Komrade\", made his fifth career excursion outside the space station\nthis month to carry out crucial repairs to the ISS's robotic arm with\nNASA colleague Acaba.\n\nAcaba, 50, the first person of Puerto Rican heritage to become an\nastronaut, cheerfully said hello to the pope in Spanish before\ntackling the question on how the men deal with 'up' and 'down' losing\ntheir meaning in space.\n\nFrancis is not the only Roman Catholic leader to have put in a call\nto the star-covered heavens.\n\nThe first pope to get on the line to space was Benedict XVI in 2011,\nwho rang the ISS -- which has been continuously occupied since 2000 --\nwhen Nespoli was once again among the crew.\n\n[ANS thanks Ella IDE via Space Daily for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Istituto Scolastico\n  Comprensivo “Nardi”, Porto San Giorgio, Italyand Astronaut Paolo\n  Nespoli IZØJPA using Callsign IRØISS. The contact began 2017-10-21\n  09:31 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was\n  Direct/Telebridge via I6KZR and IQ5VR.HamTV was active.\n  ARISS Mentor was Francesco IKØWGF.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between I.C. Michelangelo\n  Buonarroti, Marina di Carrara, Italyand Astronaut Paolo Nespoli\n  IZØJPA using Callsign IRØISS. The contact began 2017-10-21 09:31 UTC\n  and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was\n  Direct/Telebridge via I6KZR and IQ5VR. HamTV was active.\n  ARISS Mentor was Francesco IKØWGF.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Istituto Comprensivo “Tauro\n  Viterbo”, Castellana Grotte (Ba), Italy and Astronaut Paolo Nespoli\n  IZØJPA using Callsign IRØISS. The contact began 2017-10-21 14:23 UTC\n  and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was Direct via\n  IZ7RTN. HamTVC was active.\n  ARISS Mentor was Francesco IKØWGF.\n  Event location: Cittadella Mediterranea della Scienza, Bari, Italy\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between “A.Gramsci-N.Pende”,\n  Noicattaro, Italy and Astronaut Paolo Nespoli IZØJPA using Callsign\n  IRØISS. The contact began 2017-10-21 14:23 UTC and lasted about nine\n  and a half minutes. Contact was Direct via IZ7RTN.\n  ARISS Mentor was Francesco IKØWGF. HamTVC was active.\n  Event location: Cittadella Mediterranea della Scienza, Bari, Italy\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Chiddix Junior High School,\n  Normal, IL, USA and Astronaut Joe Acaba KE5DAR using Callsign NA1SS.\n  The contact began 2017-10-23 15:31 UTC and lasted about nine and a\n  half minutes. Contact was Direct via W9AML\n  ARISS Mentor was Joe K6WAO.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Beaconsfield State School,\n  Mackay, Queensland, Australia and Astronaut Paolo Nespoli IZØJPA\n  using Callsign IRØISS. The contact began 2017-10-26 08:23 UTC and\n  lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was Telebridge via\n  IK1SLD\n  ARISS Mentor was Shane VK4KHZ.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Colegiul National Calistrat\n  Hogas Piatra Neamt, Piatra Neamt, Romania and Astronaut Joe Acaba\n  KE5DAR using Callsign OR4ISS. The contact began 2017-10-26 09:55 UTC\n  and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was Telebridge via\n  EI1ISS.\n  ARISS Mentor was Armand SP3QFE.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Glanmire Community College,\n  Cork, Ireland and Astronaut Joe Acaba KE5DAR using Callsign OR4ISS.\n  The contact began 2017-10-26 09:55 UTC and lasted about nine and a\n  half minutes. Contact was Direct via EI1ISS.\n  ARISS Mentor was Seamus EI8BP.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico\n  “Enzo Ferrari”, Borgo A Mozzano, Italy and Astronaut Paolo Nespoli\n  IZØJPA using Callsign IRØISS. The contact began 2017-10-28 08:13:31\n  UTC. Contact was Direct via IQ5LU and IQ1SM.\n  ARISS Mentor was Francesco IKØWGF.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Liceo Statale “G. D.\n  Cassini”, Sanremo, Italy and Astronaut Paolo Nespoli IZØJPA using\n  Callsign IRØISS. The contact began 2017-10-28 08:13:31 UTC. Contact\n  was Direct via IQ5LU and IQ1SM.\n  ARISS Mentor was Gianpietro IZ2GOJ.\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule\n\n+ Primaria e  Secondaria di primo grado Istituto comprensivo Via XVI\n  settembre, Civitavecchia,  Italy direct via IKØWGF\n  The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be IRØISS\n  The scheduled astronaut is Paolo Nespoli IZØJPA\n  Contact is a go for: Mon  2017-10-30 11:20:34 UTC\n  Watch for HamTV to be operative.\n\n+ Asociación Civil  Instituto Maria Montessori, San Cristóbel,\n  Venezuela, direct via YY2CMR\n  The  ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS\n  The scheduled astronaut is  Joe Acaba KE5DAR\n  Contact is a go for: Tue 2017-10-31 18:23:28 UTC\n\n+ Liceo Scientifico ‘Francesco Cecioni”, Livorno, Italy and Liceo\n  Artistico Melotti, Lomazzo, Italy, direct via IQ5LI.\n  The ISS callsign is  presently scheduled to be IRØISS\n  The scheduled astronaut is Paolo Nespoli IZØJPA\n  Contact is a go for: Fri 2017-11-03 09:27:26 UTC\n  Watch for HamTV to be operative.\n\n+ Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “Leonardo Da Vinci”,  Lanusei,\n  Italy, direct via ISØBWM\n  The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to  be OR4ISS\n  The scheduled astronaut is Paolo Nespoli IZØJPA\n  Contact is a go  for: Sat 2017-11-04 10:12:16 UTC\n  Watch for HamTV to be operative.\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above\n information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Daylight saving time 2017 in the United Kingdom ends at 02:00 on\n  Sunday, 29 October\n\n  [ANS thanks Southgate ARN for the above information.]\n\n+ Curious about when Daylight Savings time begins and ends around\n  the world?  Thank goodness for UTC.\n  Visit https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/2017.html\n\n  [ANS thanks EMike AA8EM for the above information]\n\n+ RUSSIAN WAR GAMES SPARK 'BLUE AURORAS'\n  Around the Arctic Circle, people see green auroras almost every\n  night. It's nothing to write home about. Blue auroras, on the other\n  hand, are very unusual.\n\n  Photos and more information are highlighted on\n  Spaceweather.com.\n\n  [ANS thanks Spaceweather.com via Southgate ARN for the above\n   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,\nEMike McCardel, AA8EM\naa8em at amsat dot org\n",
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