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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/UMDGKBBKSTLV5BR3KPETDVN2FCR4NG7O/",
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    "sender_name": "Lee McLamb",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-256 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2015-09-13T01:23:57Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-256\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* Fox-1D To Share Falcon 9 Launch With Fox-1Cliff\n* Deadline Approaching For AMSAT Symposium Group Rate Rooms\n* On-line Information Sessions Aid ARISS Contact Proposal Preparation\n* V7 - Marshall Islands Satellite Activation\n* Pope's visit- 9-22-27 Special Event Operators needed\n* SAREX Reflector to be Closed 1 November 2015\n* QB50 CubeSats to be deployed from ISS\n* New AO-7 Distance Record\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-256.01\nANS-256 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 256.01\n  From AMSAT HQ Kensington, MD.\nSeptember 13, 2015\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-256.01\n\nFox-1D To Share Falcon 9 Launch With Fox-1Cliff\n\nIn response to a breaking opportunity, AMSAT and Spaceflight, Inc. have\narranged for Fox-1D to accompany Fox-1Cliff on the maiden flight of the\nSHERPA system on a SpaceX Falcon 9. Fox-1C was renamed Fox-1Cliff in \nhonor of\nCliff Buttschardt, K7RR, who was a benefactor and long time supporter \nfor AMSAT\nas well as an adviser/mentor for students building cubesats at Cal Poly.\n\nAs a Fox-1 series, Fox-1D is identical to Fox-1Cliff, but with different\nfrequencies and carrying the University of Iowa HERCI (High Energy Radiation\nCubeSat Instrument) radiation mapping experiment as a hosted payload. Fox-1D\nwill provide additional selectable U/V or L/V repeater capabilities once in\norbit, and will be capable of downlinking Earth images from the Virginia \nTech\ncamera experiment. Launch is currently planned for the first quarter of \n2016.\nAdditional donor support is needed to offset the costs associated with the\nlaunch of Fox-1D in addition to Fox-1Cliff. Please visit www.amsat.org \nto donate\nsupport this launch, and help keep amateur radio in space.\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?p=4478\n\n[ANS thanks Drew, KO4MA, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nDeadline Approaching For AMSAT Symposium Group Rate Rooms\n\nAMSAT office manager Martha reports that she has spoken with the Sales \nManager\nat the Crowne Plaza in Dayton.  As of September 9th there were 19 rooms \nleft on\nFriday, October 16th  and 20 on Saturday, October 17th.\n\nThey cannot extend the cutoff date (Sept 17th at 3:00 PM) so hurry\nand make your reservations.  Time is running out!!!\n\n[ANS thanks Martha for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nOn-line Information Sessions Aid ARISS Contact Proposal Preparation\n\nARISS-US is now accepting proposals from U.S. schools, museums, science\ncenters and community youth organizations to host an Amateur Radio on the\nInternational Space Station, or ARISS, contact between July 1 - Dec. 31,\n2016. Proposals are due Nov. 1, 2015.\n\nInformational sessions about ARISS and to help organizations in preparing\ntheir proposals, the ARISS program coordinator will offer hour-long online\ninformation sessions. These are designed to provide more information\nregarding U.S. ARISS contacts and the proposal process, and offer an\nopportunity to ask questions. While attending an online information session\nis not required, it is strongly encouraged.\n\nInformational sessions will be offered Sept. 17, 2015, at 4 p.m. EDT; Sept.\n22, 2015, at 4 p.m. EDT, and Sept. 30, 2015, at 7 p.m. EDT.\n\nAdvance registration is necessary. Email ARISS ([email protected]) to sign up\nfor an information session.\n\nFor proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal\nguidelines and proposal form, visit\nhttp://www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact.\n\nARISS-US is offered through a partnership between NASA; the American Radio\nRelay League, or ARRL; and the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, or\nAMSAT. ARISS was created and is managed by an international working group,\nincluding several countries in Europe as well as Japan, Russia, Canada, and\nthe USA.\n\n[ANS thanks NASA Education Express Message -- Sept. 10, 2015 for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nV7 - Marshall Islands Satellite Activation\n\nV7, MARSHALL ISLANDS (Update). A group of JA operators will be active\nfrom Majuro Island (OC-029) between September 24-28th. Operators are YL\nMami/JP3AYQ (V73YL) and her husband Sanny/JJ3CIG (V73H), Team Leader\nTakio/JH3QFL (V73A) and Co-Leader Keizo \"Kay\"/JH3AZC (V7EME). Activity\nwill be holiday style on 40-6 meters, satellite, EME, CW, SSB, RTTY and\nJT65A. Radios are a FT857 and FT847. Their antennas will be a homebrew 3\nelement full size beam (3 bands) and a SpiderBeam antenna (5 band). They\nwill also have two Elecraft 500w amp for HF to use and 800w out station\nfor EME. QSL all operators via their home callsigns, by the Bureau or\ndirect (see QRZ.com for addresses).\nADDED NOTES:\n  * YL Mami, JP3AYQ, states (on QRZ.com), that her activity will be holiday\n    style (she likes to scuba dive) on the HF bands using CW (be patient),\n    SSB and the Digital mode (RTTY). Suggested frequencies are the IOTA\n    frequencies, such as 14260, 14040, 21260 and 21040 kHz. QSL via JP3AYQ,\n    direct, by the Bureau or LoTW. Log will be uploaded to LoTW and ClubLog.\n    She does have a Blog page at:      http://jp3ayq.269g.net\n  * Hiro, JJ3CIG/KH0YA, states (on QRZ.com), that he plans to operate on\n    the JT65 mode. QSL via his home callsign, direct or by eQSL.\n  * Kay, JH3AZC/W2AZ, informs OPDX that V73EME will try to operate on 2m\n    EME (JT65B only) and V7A is now preparing to QRV on Satellite(FO29).\n    He states, \"It may be the first time operation for EME from V7 land\n    (also Satellite? not sure).\n\n[ANS thanks Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin #1230 for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nPope's visit- 9-22-27 Special Event Operators needed\n\nPope Francis will be visiting the US from September 22-27, operations\nwill include all bands and modes.  Four unique QSL cards will be\navailable along with a certificate to mark this special and historic\nevent, you can read more about this event on QRZ.com, WM3PEN.\n\nSatellite operators are being sought that might be available on some\npasses throughout the event that are based in NY/NJ, DC/Virginia and\nPhiladelphia.  If you are interested contact Peter, \nW2JV,[email protected]\nfor additional information.\n\nAt this point Paul, N8HM  has signed on as one operator in  DC, the call\nsign will be K3P,  Peter, W2JV, will be one NY operator as K2P, and it \nis hoped\nthat we can add many more operators in the locations mentioned to have \nas many\nvoices in space as we can.\n\n[ANS thanks Peter, W2JV, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSAREX Reflector to be Closed 1 November 2015\n\nAt the request of the ARISS US Team, AMSAT-NA Vice President for Human\nSpaceflight Frank Bauer, KA3HDO has announced that the SAREX reflector will\nbe closed 1 November 2015, and its functions folded into the AMSAT-BB list.\nFrank explained that at one time operations from the Space Shuttle and the\nISS were considered as sufficiently different from other satellite\noperations as to need separate forums for their respective interest\ncommunities.\n\nMore recently, changes in the human spaceflight operations, the new\ngeneration of satellites, and the interests of the general AMSAT community\nhave removed the reasons for this distinction. Frank explained that \"The\nAMSAT membership, in general, has embraced all vehicles with amateur radio\non-board that are operating in space on equal ground. They enjoy the SSTV\nevents on ISS as well as a quick QSO on AO-7\". He went on to note that \"This\npast year my team has noticed that those on AMSAT-BB have missed out on some\nARISS significant events. These include school contacts in their area that\nwere only posted on SAREX.\" Moving all discussions to a common list will\ninsure that ISS announcements as well as operational information will be\navailable in one place.\n\nWhat does this mean to the current subscribers? If you are subscribed to\nboth SAREX and AMSAT-BB, there is no need to take any action. You will cease\nto receive new postings on the SAREX list 1 November 2015. The SAREX\narchives will continue to be available for historical purposes. If you are\nnot subscribed to AMSAT-BB and wish to continue to receive human spaceflight\nannouncements, please go to http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo and\nsubscribe to AMSAT-BB. Your existing SAREX subscription will not be\nautomatically carried over since not everyone will wish to do so.\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nQB50 CubeSats to be deployed from ISS\n\nIt has been announced that the fifty CubeSat QB50 constellation should be\nshipped to the International Space Station (ISS) in July 2016 for subsequent\ndeployment. It had been planned for them to be launched by Alcantara Cyclone\nSpace, a joint venture between the governments of Ukraine and Brazil, \nbut that\noption is not longer available.\n\nThe AlbertaSat website reports on the 9th QB50 Workshop, held September \n8, 2015\nin Liège, Belgium. The CubeSats are now planned to be deployed from the ISS\nusing the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) and the Nanoracks CubeSat \nDeployers.\n\nEight NanoRacks deployers are installed on the Multi-Purpose Experiment \nPlatform\n(MPEP). Each deployer has a capacity of 6U and so can hold up to six 1U, \nthree\n2U or two 3U CubeSats. They are carried by Japanese Experiment Module-Remote\nManipulator System (JEM-RMS).\n\nAlbertaSat provide an update on the QB50 precursor CubeSats P1/P2 which were\nlaunched in 2014. The first payload is working, and while it has been \nresetting,\nno damage appears to have occurred. It is possible that the second \npayload is\ndamaged, but it is still functioning.\n\nRepresentatives from QB50 also took the time to clearly define their \ngoals and\nspecify the details of the project. The project aims to probe probe \nthermosphere\nwith about 40 sensors which study atmospheric science. These sensors \ninclude the\nLangmuir Probes that will be on Ex Alta-1. 40 CubeSats will be fitted \nwith one\nof these sensors. The other 10 CubeSats will have in-orbit demonstrations.\n\nQB50 project https://www.qb50.eu/\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNew AO-7 Distance Record\n\nOn September 5, 2015 Dave Swanson KG5CCI completed a contact with Manuel \nEA5TT\nover a record breaking distance of 7947 km via the OSCAR 7 satellite \noperating\nin mode B (432/145 MHz).\n\nDave, KG5CCI, reports:\n\nOn Saturday, September 5, 2015 at 1812 UTC I made a scheduled contact with\nManuel, EA5TT, using AO-7 Mode B, from the old US Forest Service Fire \nTower on\ntop of ‘Rich Mountain’ here in extreme western Arkansas. My 10 digit grid\nlocator was EM24UQ01MU while Manuel is located in IM99SL48CX, in Valencia,\nSpain. This equates to 7947.381 km which we believe to be a new record \nfor AO-7\nMode B.\n\nI fully plan on writing a more extensive post when I return from the holiday\nweekend, and I will likely make a proper video with commentary and data \nas well.\nI’ve made some really interesting observations when it comes to Satellite\noperating from places with great ‘Height Above Average Terrain’ and look \nforward\nto sharing this analysis with everyone.\n\n[ANS thanks Dave, KG5CCI, for the above information]\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,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n",
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