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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/TMUDOSEIZRMJ5HJGSSVUWPQQ6A4GCCOT/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "TMUDOSEIZRMJ5HJGSSVUWPQQ6A4GCCOT", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/TMUDOSEIZRMJ5HJGSSVUWPQQ6A4GCCOT/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "morsesat (a) optonline.net", "mailman_id": "72f51eafcada419487d1a984af73dff5", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/72f51eafcada419487d1a984af73dff5/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Dee", "subject": "[amsat-bb] [ans] ANS-067 AMSAT Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2009-03-08T13:44:16Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-067\n\nANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North\nAmerica, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the\nactivities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an\nactive interest in designing, building, launching and communicating\nthrough analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\n\[email protected]\n\n\nIn this edition:\n* 40th AMSAT Anniversary\n* SumbandilaSat launch delayed again\n* AO-27 Satellite Comes Back\n* Satellite Shorts\n* ARISS Status - 8 March 2009\n* AO-51 Schedule adjustment\n* AMSAT/TAPR Banquet\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-067.01\n40th AMSAT Anniversary\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 067.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 8, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-067.01\n\nMarch 3, 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of AMSAT's incorporation.\nAMSAT was incorporated in the District of Columbia on March 3, 1969.\n\nPerry, W3PK who was AMSAT President from 1969 to mid-1980 said, \"We\nfiled the application for incorporation 40 years ago on Feb. 27, 1969.\nA copy of the filing has been saved at:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/AboutAmsat/documents/incorporation.php\n\nYou can see a copy of the Certificate of Incorporation at:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/AboutAmsat/documents/certificate.php\n\nPerry is working with Dick Daniels, W4PUJ to preserve the original\nAMSAT Newsletters, archived in paper format onto electronic media.\nAdditional AMSAT history can be found in the archives of the \"Amateur\nSatellite Report\" Newsletters scanned and converted to PDF by Phil\nKarn, KA9Q. Phil has these issues posted on his website (with AMSAT's\npermission). See: http://www.ka9q.net/newsletters.html\n\nAs the electronic archive project makes progress Perry will issue\na call for one or more volunteers willing to receive scans of\nadditional issues JPEG format via e-mail, perform the OCR work and\nhelp us change them to searchable PDF files.\n\nWatch upcoming issues of The AMSAT Journal for articles of AMSAT's\nroots. AMSAT will also feature 40 years of our accomplishments at\nthe 2009 Dayton Hamvention.\n\n[ANS thanks Perry, W3PK for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-067.02\nSumbandilaSat launch delayed again\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 067.02\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 8, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-067.02\n\nSumbandilaSat launch delayed again\n\nThe launch of SumbandilaSat has been delayed again, this time due to a\ntechnical hiccup at the Russian launch site, Baikonur.\n\nThe Director-General of the Department of Science and Technology, Dr\nPhil Mjwara, told SA AMSAT that the launch agency in Russia had sent a\nmessage that the launch would probably be at some time in May this year.\n\nHe said that as the launch agency had not been specific in their\ncommunication he will not make a public announcement until DST had\nreceived full details about the reasons for the delay and a new\nconfirmed date.\n\nIt is speculated that the delay is caused by problems of delivering one\nof the other payloads on time.\n\nCurrently SumbandilaSat is still safely at the test range near Bredasdorp.\n\n[ANS thanks Trevor, M5AKA, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-067.03\nAO-27 Satellite Comes Back\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 067.03\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 8, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-067.03\n\nAO-27 Satellite Comes Back\n\nIn December, 2008 AO-27 went off the air. The control team members\npursued a strategy to drain the batteries in the hopes of resetting\nthe locked up modem. As of a week ago, the bird has rebooted into\nthe primary bootloader.\n\nDuring February, 2009 the control team has managed to upload the high\nlevel software (EOS) to AO-27 after several attempts. They took a week\nto collect data to check on the battery status and conduct an on-orbit\ncheckout before returning to analogue mode.\n\nAs of March 1, 2009 the AO-27 control team reports that telemetry is\nlooking good. During several passes over the US they turned on the\nAnalogue Repeater. This week the control team will continue the data\ndownload schedule to collect as much whole orbit data to check on the\nhealth of the batteries. So far, it is looking like AO-27 will return\nto normal operations on or around March 7th.\n\nAO-27 Uplink: 145.850 MHz FM\nAO-27 Downlink: 436.795 MHZ FM\nhttp://www.ao27.org\n\n[ANS thanks the AO-27 Control Team for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-067.04\nSatellite Shorts\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 067.04\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 1, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-067.04\n\nAO-7 UHF Beacon Activates RTTY Telemetry\n\nThe AO-7 UHF Beacon at 435.100 MHz has been reported as becoming oper-\national. Satellite telemetry in RTTY format is being copied. The AO-7\n70-cm beacon was monitored with very strong signals during February 28\npasses and also since then. Some reported the beacon initially sounded\nas if it was in a two-state mode that sounded a bit like RTTY in idle.\nSuccessful RTTY decodes have been accomplished using \"reverse, 45, 85\"\nparameters.\n\nAO-7 Command Operator, Mike, N1JEZ says, \"This is a pretty significant\ndevelopment. Every time I've tried to activate the RTTY system, all I\nwould get is a solid carrier then the bird has reset indicating a lack\nof power.\"\n\n[ANS thanks Mike, N1JEZ for the above information]\n\n-----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAdrian, AA5UK, will be operating as ZF2AE from Grand Cayman and\nZF2AE/ZF8 from Little Cayman during his March 25th - April 8th vacation.\nCurrent plans are to operate holiday style on AO-51, SO-50 and FO-29.\nHe plans to activate EK99hi from March 25 – 28th, EK99xp and EK99wp from\nMarch 28th through April 3rd and EK99kh from April 3rd through April\n8th. Most activity will be in the afternoon and evenings.\n\n[ANS thanks Adrian, AA5UK, for the above info]\n\n--------\n\nAMSAT-UK Colloquium Manchester England - First Call for Speakers\n\nThis year AMSAT-UK will be holding their Colloquium from Friday\nJuly 24th to Sunday 26th July at the University of Manchester\nright in the centre of the city and within 200 metres of\nPiccadilly Railway Station.\n\nThe station has direct trains to Manchester Airport and there is\nalso an hourly bus service from the Liverpool John Lennon Airport.\n\nThis 3 day event attracts an International audience of those\ninvolved in building and operating Amateur Radio satellites\nand CubeSats.\n\nDetails of this and previous events can be found at:\n\nhttp://www.uk.amsat.org/colloquium\n\nAMSAT-UK invite speakers, about amateur radio space and associated\nactivities, for this event. They are also invited to submit papers\nfor the \"Proceedings\" document which will be published at the same\ntime but printed papers are not mandatory. We normally prefer\nauthors to present talks themselves rather than having someone else\ngive them in the authors' absence. We also welcome\n\"unpresented\" papers for the Proceedings document.\n\nOffers of talks should be submitted as soon as possible; the final\ndate for full documents to be received is late-June 2009 in order\nthat the \"Proceedings\" document be available to participants.\n\nSubmissions should be sent *ONLY* to G4DPZ via the following routes:\n\ne-mail: david dot johnson at blackpepper dot co dot uk\n\nSnailMail: QTHR from http://www.qrz.com/\n(enter G4DPZ is the callsign box)\n\nAMSAT-UK also invite anyone with requests for Program Topics to\nsubmit them as soon as possible to G4DPZ. Invitations for any\npapers on specific subjects will be included in the future call.\nLikewise if anyone knows of a good speaker, please send contact\nand other information to G4DPZ.\n\nAMSAT-UK website\nhttp://www.uk.amsat.org/\n\nJoin AMSAT-UK online at https://secure.amsat.org.uk/\n\nColloquium page: http://www.uk.amsat.org/colloquium/\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-067.05\nARISS Status - 2 March 2009\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 067.05\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 1, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-067.05\n\n\n1. Upcoming School Contact\n\nAn Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has\nbeen completed with Padthaway Primary School in Padthaway, SA, Australia\non Tuesday, March 3 at 08:32 UTC via telebridge station W6SRJ in\nCalifornia. To prepare for the contact, children wrote essays on space\nrelated topics. They chose a planet to analyze for feasibility of life,\nlooked at the life of an astronaut (training, diet, etc), researched an\nevent in space history and created a timeline of important events in\nspace history. Media coverage is planned.\n\n2. Upcoming ARISS Simulated Contacts\n\nThree simulated Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)\ncontact has been completed on Wednesday, March 4. These training\nsessions are terrestrial-based amateur radio contacts using\nARISS-equivalent equipment. Audio is expected to be available on IRLP.\nAll times are approximate.\n\n15:15 UTC - Technopolis, Belgium and Andre Kuipers, PI9ISS\n15:30 UTC - Ralph McCall School, Airdrie, Alberta, Canada and Chris\nHadfield, VA3OOG\n15:45 UTC - Ralph McCall School, Airdrie, Alberta, Canada and Cady\nColeman, KC5ZTH\n\n3. Fassett Middle School Contact Successful\n\nFassett Middle School in Oregon, Ohio experienced a successful Amateur\nRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Monday,\nFebruary 23. Mike Fincke, KE5AIT, answered 16 students' questions while\nover 550 people who gathered for the event looked on. The Oregon school\nsuperintendent was also present for the contact. Audio was fed into the\nEchoLink AMSAT (101377) and JK1ZRW (277208) servers. Thirteen\nconnections were made, including 3 link nodes and one repeater, from\nEngland, Germany, Malaysia and the U.S. The Toledo Blade and TV 11\ncovered the news.\n\nTo view the WTOL TV 11 story, \"Can you hear me now? Oregon students call\nouter space,\" see:\nhttp://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=9889811&nav=menu34_2_4\n\nThe Toledo Blade article may be viewed here:\nhttp://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090224/NEWS16/902249997\n\n4. Australian Contact Successful\n\nChatham Public School in Taree, NSW, Australia, took part in an Amateur\nRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Wednesday,\nFebruary 25 via telebridge station K6DUE in Maryland. The event was held\nat the studios of Radio 2RE. Mike Fincke, KE5AIT, answered 13 questions\nposed to him by ten children. John Key, the New Zealand prime minister,\ntied in to the contact and sent greetings to Mike from the Asia/Pacific\nregion. Thirty-eight radio stations belonging to the Super Radio Network\ncovered the event the following morning. The audio was also fed into the\nEchoLink AMSAT and JK1ZRW servers and received 19 connections from\nstations in the USA, New Zealand, Australia, Russia, Belgium and England.\n\n5. Italian School Questions Astronaut\n\nOn Wednesday, February 25, students from 1 Circolo Didattico G. Marconi\nin Casamassima, Italy participated in an Amateur Radio on the\nInternational Space Station (ARISS) contact with Mike Fincke, KE5AIT.\nSeventeen students asked one question each of the astronaut. Special\nguest Princess Elettra Marconi attended the event and spoke briefly with\nMike as approximately 250 students, teachers and others watched. Some\nregional television stations and local newspapers covered the event.\nFor more information, photos and audio, visit the ARISS-Europe Web site:\nhttp://www.ariss-eu.org/2009_02_25.htm\n\n6. New York Contact Successful\n\nStudents attending Hampton Bays Middle School in Hampton Bays, New York\ntook part in an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)\ncontact on Wednesday, February 25. Students created a mockup set of the\nISS from which ten students asked 14 questions of Mike Fincke, KE5AIT.\nThe school's IT department provided live coverage of the contact to all\nthe schools in the district via intranet. Video of the event will be\navailable on the school Web site in the near future.\n\n7. Astronaut Training Status\n\nAn Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) training\nsession was held with Cady Coleman, KC5ZTH, on Wednesday, February 18.\nColeman is a backup crew member for Expedition 20.\n\nOn Tuesday, February 24, two successful simulated ARISS contacts took\nplace. The first was held between students at the European Space\nCenter, Belgium and Frank DeWinne, ON1DWN. The second was held between\nthe Manordale Public School children in Canada and Bob Thirsk, W5/VA3CSA.\n\n8. ARRL Announces Dayton Hamvention Guest Speaker\n\nThe American Radio Relay League (ARRL) ran an article about the upcoming\nARRL National Convention to be held at the Dayton Hamvention in May.\nRichard Garriott, W5KWQ, will attend the event and spend time in the\nARRL EXPO area greeting visitors. He will also speak at the Hamvention\nforum. See:\nhttps://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2009/02/21/10660/?nc=1\n\nThe ARRL Letter also ran the story, \"ARRL National Convention to Feature\nRichard Garriott, W5KWQ.\" See: https://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/09/0227/\n\nARRL's web feature called \"ARRL in Action\" for the month of March\nincludes an entry on Richard's attendance at the ARRL National\nConvention (Dayton Hamvention) May 15-17.\n\nThe ARRL Web site has 100,000 regular readers; the e-newsletter has a\ncirculation of 115,000.\n\n9. Richard Garriott, Keynote Speaker at AMSAT Banquet\n\nThe Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) announced that Richard\nGarriott, W5KWQ, will be the keynote speaker at the AMSAT/TAPR Banquet\nduring Dayton Hamvention 2009. The banquet will be held on May 15.\nRichard will also give a talk at the AMSAT forum on Saturday, May 16.\nSee: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/index.php\n\n10. AMSAT Story on SuitSat Meeting\n\nThe Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) team held a\nSuitSat-2 meeting on Friday - Sunday, February 20 - 22 in Phoenix,\nArizona. The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) posted a story\nsummarizing the meeting. See: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/index.php\n\n11. Amateur Radio Newsline Covers ARISS Contact\n\nOn February 27, the Amateur Radio Newsline Report #1646 covered the\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact with\nSouth Park Elementary Center. The report may be found here:\nhttp://www.arnewsline.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=\n\n[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-067.06\nAO-51 Scehdule Adjustment\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 067.06\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 8, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-067.06\n\nWe've made a few tweaks to the schedule to accommodate the G3VZV cruise,\nat the request some South African operators, and to correct an uplink\nfrequency for the SSTV mode.\n\nThe new schedule, as posted at\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/echo/CTNews.php :\n\nMarch 2009 AO-51 Schedule\n\nAll modes using the 435.150 downlink are subject to interruption for\ntelemetry collection by a command station.\n\nMarch 2nd - March 9th\n\nFM Repeater, V/U\nUplink: 145.920 MHz FM\nDownlink: 435.300 MHz FM\n\nFM Repeater, V(SSB)/U\nUplink: 145.880 MHz SSB\nDownlink: 435.150 MHz FM\n\nMarch 9th - March 16th\n\nUplink: 145.920 MHz FM\nDownlink: 435.300 MHz FM\n\n9k6 BBS, L/U\nUplink: 1268.700 MHz 9k6 FM\nDownlink: 435.150 MHz 9k6 FM\n\nMarch 16th - March 23rd\n\nFM Repeater, V/S\nUplink: 145.880 MHz FM\nDownlink: 2401.200 MHz FM\n\nFM Repeater V/U\nUplink: 145.920 MHz FM\nDownlink: 435.150 MHz FM\n\nMarch 23rd - March 30th\n\nFM Repeater V/U\nUplink: 145.920 MHz FM\nDownlink: 435.300 MHz FM\n\nFM Repeater V/U SSTV\nUplink: 145.860 MHz FM\nDownlink: 435.150 MHz FM\n\n73, Drew KO4MA\nAMSAT-NA VP Operations\n\n[ANS thanks Drew, KO4MA for the above info]\n\n/EX\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-067.07\nAMSAT/TAPR Banquet\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 067.07\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 8, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-067.07\n\nReservations for the AMSAT/TAPR Banquet are now available through the\nAMSAT Store. Richard Garriott, W5KWQ will be the Banquet speaker. He\nwill also give a short talk during the Saturday AMSAT Forum and spend\nsome time at the AMSAT booth. Richard has many interests in additon to\nhis amateur radio work aboard the ISS. Be sure and read his Wikipedia\nbio to learn of his numerous accomplishments.\nInformation about AMSAT Activities during Hamvention 2009 are being\nposted to the AMSAT web site. Use the Dayton Hamvention link on the\nAMSAT front page left hand navigation.\n\n[ANS thanks Gould, WA4SXM, for the above information]\n\n/EX\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the\nPresident's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors\nto AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits.\nApplication forms are available from the AMSAT Office.\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nDee Interdonato, NB2F\nnb2f at amsat dot org\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }