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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/WDFKPNB3HY7GDXKEXVEDFA5OP62TI3JJ/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "WDFKPNB3HY7GDXKEXVEDFA5OP62TI3JJ", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/PDY36IHBMBSPOE2YXRYJ2K3KVCZI72J7/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "wao (a) vfr.net", "mailman_id": "9057def1436c407fa55c4988db05914a", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/9057def1436c407fa55c4988db05914a/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Joe Spier", "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-307", "date": "2013-11-03T07:48:04Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/K2ZM6FWLY7TBCX6PVGD5XYRL2TND6G6R/?format=api", "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/TGDV23F3C7PODZ6VPGFKM2KH4XBM34YD/?format=api" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-307\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* 31st Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting Nov. 1-3, 2013\n* AMSAT Board Elects Senior Officers for 2013-2014\n* New Transpoder Satellites on the Horizon Within the Next 12 Months\n* November Deployment for ISS CubeSats\n* CubeSats Need Coordination Too\n* ARLS001 RS0ISS Active on SSTV from International Space Station\n* AMSAT VP Named to Top University Post\n* Another \"Last Man Standing\" Ham Episode\n* AMSAT Awards Update\n* Three Space Station Crews Get Ready for Relocation, Launch, Landing\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-307.01\nANS-307 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 307.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nNovember 3, 2013\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-307.01\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n31st Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting Nov. 1-3, 2013\n\n\nThe 31st Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting occurred this\nweekend, Nov. 1-3 2013 at the Houston Marriott South at Hobby Airport. \nFurther\ndetails about the Symposium may be found on AMSAT website \n(www.amsat.org), and\nANSAT's Facebook page. The special tour of Johnson Space Center \nscheduled for\nMonday, 4 NOV is booked and reservations are closed.\n\nAttendees from all over ther the world were present, making this year's\nSymposium a truely international event. Global representation from\nSouth Africa, Ireland, Brazil, Britian, Cuba, Canada, United States, and \nthe\nRepublic of Tejas. There were also approximately 18 memebers who joined \nin over\nEcholink for the Annual Meeting.\n\nThe 30th anniversary of amateur radio involvement in human space flight\nand the evolution of amateur radio into a successful program on board the\nInternational Space Station, in which ARISS (Amateur Radio on the ISS) is an\ninternational program that supports educational outreach as well as \nprovides an\nopportunity for informal contacts between astronauts/cosmonauts and amateur\nradio operators around the world panel presentation was hosted by \nAMSAT's Frank\nBauer, KA3HDO and included indepth discussions with retired NASA \nAstronaut's\nOwen Garriott, W5LFL, & William \"Bill\" McArthur, KC5ACR, AMSAT's own Bill\nTynan, W3XO, & Lou McFadin, W5DID, and one of the intial ARISS telebridge\noperators from Santa Rosa, W6SRJ, Tim Bosma, W6MU.\n\nAstronaut Owen Garriott, W5LFL on STS-9 in November 1983 was the first\nastronaut to utilize amateur radio to communicate with personnel on the \nground,\nallowing the general public to speak with US astronauts from space, \noutside the\ncommunication channels of NASA's Mission Control. This developed into 25 \nSAREX\ncontacts from the Space Shuttle and finally into the ARISS program known \ntoday.\n\nA great history was shared from the first amauter radio contact from \nspace to\ncurrent operations from ARISS platforms and how we got from there to now.\n\n\n[ANS thanks E.Mike McCardel, KC8YLD, and Joe Spier, K6WAO for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Board Elects Senior Officers for 2013-2014\n\n\nElection of AMSAT's Senior Officers was one of the first orders of \nbusiness at\nthe AMSAT Board of Directors meeting on October 31 in Houston, Texas.\n\nThe following positions were voted upon and filled:\n\nBarry Baines, WD4ASW President\nDrew Glasbrenner, KO4MA Vice-President Operations\nGould Smith, WA4SXM Vice President User Services\nTony Monteiro, AA2TX Vice-President Engineering\nFrank Bauer, KA3HDO Vice-President Human Spaceflight\nEMike McCardel, KC8YLD Vice-President Educational Relations\nAlan Biddle, WA4SCA Secretary\nKeith Baker, KB1SF/VA3KSF Treasurer\nMartha Saragovitz Manager\n\nThe following Senior Officer positions remained open at this time\nawaiting appointments:\nExecutive Vice President\nVice-President Marketing\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA, for the above announcement]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNew Transpoder Satellites on the Horizon Within the Next 12 Months\n\n\nHere is the latest list of the transponders scheduled for launch in 2014.\n\nFUNcube-1\nAMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL collaboration\n1U cubesat\nImminent launch on Dnepr booster (21NOV2013)\n600-700 km sun-sync orbit\nEducational beacon, 1200 baud BPSK (daytime ops)\n20 khz U/V transponder, 500 mW (nighttime ops)\n\nTriton-1\nISIS-BV (Innovative Solutions In Space BV)\n3U cubesat\nImminent launch on Dnepr booster (21NOV2013)\n600-700 km sun-sync orbit\nAIS (ship location service) radio science experiment\nTwo U/V FM to DSB (“AO-16 mode”) repeaters\n activated after 3 months (possibly both at once\n\nDelfi-N3xt\nTechnical University of Delft\n3U cubesat\nImminent launch on Dnepr booster (21NOV2013)\n600-700 km sun-sync orbit\n40 khz U/V transponder (after experiments completed)\nHigh speed S-band downlink\n\nCubeBug-2\nArgentinian Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, INVAP\nS.E., Satellogic S.A., and Radio Club Bariloche\n2U cubesat\nImminent launch on Dnepr booster (21NOV2013)\n600-700 km sun-sync orbit\nTechnology demonstration mission\nDigipeater and data downloads open after initial experiments\n\nLituanicaSAT-1\nKaunas University of Technology 1U cubesat\nAntares 120/Cygnus NET 11DEC2013\n400 km ISS orbit\nVGA camera, GPS, 9k6 AX25 beacon\nV/U FM repeater, 150 mW\n\nUKube-1 w/ FUNCube-2\nUK Space Agency (amateur payload: AMSAT-UK)\n3U cubesat\n10FEB2014 launch on Soyuz-2\n~600 km orbit\nEducational beacon, 1200 baud BPSK\n20 khz U/V transponder, 500 mW\n\nKiwiSat\nAMSAT-ZL\nMicrosat\nLaunch under negotiation (probably Dnepr)\n30 khz LU/V transponder, 2W\nLU/V FM repeater, 1W\nVHF CW/9k6 data, UHF 9k6 data beacons\n\nLAPAN ORARI\nAMSAT-Indonesia\nMicrosat\nLaunch unclear, maybe PSLV with Astrosat in 2014\n (650km, low inclination)\nU/V FM repeater 5W\n145.825 digipeater\n\nCAMSAT_BUAASat-1\nCAMSAT\n35kg Microsat\nLaunch late 2014 800km sun-sync\nU/V FM repeater 500 mW\nVHF AX25 beacon 500 mW\n\nCAMSAT CAS-2A1 & 2A2\nCAMSAT 25kg Microsats with cross-link capability\n1000km, 99.5 degree sun-sync\nCAS-2A1\nVHF CW, Voice and AX25 beacons\n50 kHz U/V transponder, 500mW\n200kHz L/S transponder, 320mW\nU/V digipeater\nCAS-2A2\nUHF CW and AX25 beacons\nS CW beacon\n10GHz CW beacon\nV/U transponder, 500mW\n\nQB50 precursors(not yet named)\nSSB/CW, FM Voice\nLaunch 1st half 2014 (600km orbit)\n\n\n[ANS thanks Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA for the above announcement]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNovember Deployment for ISS CubeSats\n\n\nFour CubeSats carrying amateur radio payloads are expected to be \ndeployed from\nthe International Space Station (ISS) by the JEM Small Satellite Orbital\nDeployer (J-SSOD) on November 25, 2013.\n\nThe CubeSats are:\n• Pico Dragon developed by the Viet Nam National Satellite Center (VNSC),\nUniversity of Tokyo and IHI aerospace. 437.250 MHz CW beacon and 437.365 MHz\n1200 bps AFSK AX.25 telemetry.\n• ArduSat-1 developed by NanoSatisfi. 437.325 MHz 9k6 MSK CCSDS downlink.\n• ArduSat-X developed by NanoSatisfi. 437.345 MHz 9k6 MSK CCSDS \ndownlink .\n• TechEdSat-3 developed by interns at the NASA Ames Research Center.\n437.465 MHz 1200 bps packet radio beacon transmitting 1 watt to 1/4 wave\nmonopole. It plans to test an Iridium Satphone modem and has a deployment\nmechanism to de-orbit in 10 days.\n\nThey are 1U in size (10x10x10 cm) except for TechEdSat-3 which is 3U \n(30x10x10\ncm).\n\nIEEE – DIY Space Programs http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/satellites/diy-\nspace-programs\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK, for the above announcement]\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCubeSats Need Coordination Too\n\n\nSpace News reminds readers to coordinate and register CubeSat frequencies.\n\nThe SpaceNews Editor writes:\n\nIn the midst of the cubesat revolution that is opening up a whole new \nworld of\nspace applications to people and organizations of ordinary means comes a\nreminder from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which is\nresponsible for regulating and coordinating radiofrequency transmissions \nof all\ntypes: The existing rules requiring ITU member states to register their\nsatellite systems do not discriminate based on size.\n\nThat means, in a nutshell, that cubesats and other nanosatellites, like \ntheir\nlarger operational cousins, must be entered into the ITU-managed database of\nsatellite frequencies and orbital slots. Speaking at the International\nAstronautical Congress in Beijing, officials with the United \nNations-affiliated\nITU noted that cubesats draw on finite spectrum — however marginally — \nand have\nthe potential to interfere with one another and with other systems. These\nofficials urged ITU members to register cubesats and other \nmicrosatellites at\nleast two years before launch.\n\nNot only are cubesats proliferating, their missions are becoming \nincreasingly\ncomplex. Most cubesats today operate in a frequency band set aside for so-\ncalled amateur radio services, which can accommodate low-data-rate\ntransmissions. But as applications become more bandwidth intensive, \noperators\nwill increasingly be forced to seek out spectrum in other bands. Moreover,\nthough cubesats today typically are allocated bandwidth on a secondary-user\nbasis, meaning they have to work around primary users, there is no \nreason such\nmissions could not be granted primary-user status.\n\nFor cubesats operating in the amateur bands, the FCC relies on the\nInternational Amateur Radio Union (IARU) for frequency coordination — \ntypically\nthe operator must submit a coordination letter from the group with its \nlicense\napplication. But the flood of activity threatens to overwhelm the small,\nvolunteer organization: Of the cubesats slated to deploy through the \nremainder\nof the year, 40 are being coordinated by the IARU.\n\nRead the full Space News story at\nhttp://www.spacenews.com/article/opinion/37890editorial-cubesats-need-\ncoordination-too\n\nAMSAT-UK hosts the IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination pages at\nhttp://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru\n\nInformation on frequency coordination can be found at\nhttp://www.iaru.org/satellite.html\n\nITU Radio Regulations http://www.itu.int/pub/R-REG-RR/en\nArticles 9 and 11 cover coordination and notification. Resolution 757, \nis an\neffort to simplify the administrative procedure for small, short life \nprojects,\nand Resolution 646 applies to some amateur-satellite service stations.\n\n[ANS thanks the Spacenews.com and AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARLS001 RS0ISS Active on SSTV from International Space Station\n\nDmitry Pashkov, UB4UAD, reports that the Amateur Radio slow-scan\ntelevision (SSTV) experiment onboard the International Space Station\nhas been active for the past couple of days on 145.800 MHz FM,\nmainly while the ISS is above Moscow. UB4UAD says that on October\n31, RS0ISS should have transmited SSTV images showing images from the life\nand work of the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.\n\nStations can view the SSTV pictures from the ISS by making a simple\naudio connection between the receiver output and the computer\nsoundcard input and using one of the free SSTV programs, such as\nMMSSTV (for Windows systems) or the SSTV app (for Apple iOS\ndevices). Details are on the AMSAT-UK website at,\n\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2011/08/01/1490/\n\nFailing a hard-wired connection, just holding a microphone connected\nto the PC soundcard in front of the receiver's speaker should\nprovide sufficient audio to decode the SSTV signal. SSTV images from\nthe ISS typically are in Martin 1 format.\n\nThe ISS Fan Club website at\n\nhttp://www.issfanclub.com/\n\nindicates when the ISS is within range. The Energia page at\n\nhttp://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/researches/education-26.html\n\nhas more information on the SSTV experiment, which is designated MAI-75.\n\n\n[ANS thanks the ARRL and AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT VP Named to Top University Post\n\nMark Hammond, N8MH, AMSAT's Vice President of Educational Relations,\nhas stepped down from the volunteer position after being named Vice\nPresident of Academic Affairs and Provost of Campbell University in\nBuis Creek, North Carolina. The AMSAT News Service reports that E.\nMichael McCardel, KC8YLD, has been appointed to complete Hammond's\nterm in the AMSAT leadership.\nPosted by CQ Newsroom\n\nhttp://cqnewsroom.blogspot.com/2013/10/amsat-vp-named-to-top-university-\npost.html\n\n[ANS thanks the CQ Newsroom, for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAnother \"Last Man Standing\" Ham Episode\n\n\n\"Last Man Standing\" producer John Amodeo, NN6JA, reports that lead\ncharacter Mike Baxter (Tim Allen) finally gets on the ham bands during\nthe program's Thanksgiving episode, which was shot in mid-October and\nscheduled to air on November 22 on ABC.\n\nAccording to John, Mike heads to his basement ham shack to escape a\nhouse full of guests waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to be served.\n\nThis is the second \"Last Man Standing\" episode to include ham radio as\na story element, and the first in which Allen's character is seen\noperating his ham station.\n\nhttp://cqnewsroom.blogspot.com/2013/10/another-last-man-standing-ham-\nepisode.html\n\n[ANS thanks the CQ Newsroom, for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Awards Update\n\n\nHere is our latest induction into some of the AMSAT awards community.\nThere is a pretty good batch since my last report.\n\nThe following have entered into the Satellite Communicators Club for\nmaking their first satellite QSO.\n\nJim Whitfield, K5JAW\nGiancarlo Guenzi, IZ1JPS\nRoberto Rachelli, IZ1WIX\nBrad Smith, KC9UQR\nPaul Stoetzer, N8HM\n\n\nThe following have earned the AMSAT Communications Achievement Award.\n\nCharles Allen, KM5LY, #556\nBrad Smith, KC9UQR, #557\nDavid Johnson, KC9GHA, #558\nRolf Krogstad, NR0T, #559\nRandy Morden, VE6RGU, #560\nPaul Stoetzer, N8HM, #561\n\n\nThe following have earned the South Africa Satellite Communications\nAchievement Award.\n\nCharles Allen, KM5LY, #US186\nDavid Johnson, KC9GHA, #US187\nRandy Morden, VE6RGU, #US188\nPaul Stoetzer, N8HM, #US189\n\n\n\nTo see all the awards visit http://www.amsat.org or\nhttp://www.amsatnet.com/awards.html\n\n\n[ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO, for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nThree Space Station Crews Get Ready for Relocation, Launch, Landing\n\n\nInternational Space Station crews commuting to and from their orbiting\nlaboratory will be busy this November, and NASA Television will provide live\ncoverage of their launches, landings and relocations.\n\nTraffic starts to pick up Friday, Nov. 1. Expedition 37 Commander Fyodor\nYurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight \nEngineers\nKaren Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency \nwill climb\ninto their Soyuz spacecraft, back out of one Russian Earth-facing \ndocking spot\nand fly a short distance to another one at the end of the station. NASA TV\ncoverage starts at 4 a.m. EDT. The 24-minute maneuver begins with \nundocking at\n4:34 a.m.\n\nThe Soyuz move opens up the Rassvet docking port for another Soyuz\ntransporting Expedition 38/39 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA, \nSoyuz\nCommander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata \nof the\nJapan Aerospace Exploration Agency to the station. Aboard their \nspacecraft is\nthe Olympic torch, which is taking an out-of-this-world route -- as part \nof the\ntorch relay -- to Fisht Stadium in Sochi, Russia. There, the torch will \nbe used\nto light the Olympic flame at the stadium, marking the start of the 2014 \nwinter\ngames.\n\nThe trio is scheduled to launch at 11:14 p.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 6 (10:14\na.m. Kazakh time on Nov. 7) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. \nNASA TV\nlaunch coverage begins at 10:15 p.m. Docking to Rassvet is scheduled at 5:31\na.m. on Nov. 7, with NASA TV coverage beginning at 4:45 a.m. Hatches are\nscheduled to open at 7:40 a.m., with NASA TV coverage starting at 7:15 a.m.\n\nMastracchio, Tyurin and Wakata will join Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano,\nplus Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos and Michael Hopkins \nof NASA.\nTheir arrival will be the first time since May 2009 that nine people have\nserved together aboard the space station without the presence of a space\nshuttle.\n\nOn Sunday, Nov. 10, after Yurchikhin has transferred command of the \nstation to\nKotov, the Soyuz carrying Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano will undock for a\nparachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan at 9:50 p.m. \n(8:50 a.m.\nKazakh time on Nov. 11), wrapping up a 166-day mission. Hatch closure \ncoverage\nbegins at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 10 with a replay of the change of command ceremony.\nUndocking coverage begins at 6 p.m., and deorbit and landing coverage \nbegins at\n8:30 p.m.\n\nSpecial video feeds of pre-launch activities by the crew will resume on\nFriday, Nov. 1, and continue through Wednesday, Nov. 6.\n\nAll the times of International Space Station programming, key Soyuz event\ncoverage and other NASA Television programming can be found at:\n\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/stationnews\n\nFor information about the International Space Station, research and its \ncrews,\nvisit:\n\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/station\n\n\n[ANS thanks NASA, for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2013-10-28 20:00 UTC\n\nQuick list of scheduled contacts and events:\n\nWallingford STEM Academy/Town of Wallingford, Wallingford, CT, direct via\nK1SEZ\nContact is a go for: Thu 2013-10-31 15:45:11 UTC 46 deg\n\nKopernik Observatory & Science Center (KOSC), Vestal, NY, direct via K2ZRO\nContact is a go for: Wed 2013-10-30 16:32:51 UTC 41 deg\n\nWarren County Technical School, Washington, NJ, direct via KC2WT\nContact is a go for: Mon 2013-11-04 14:08:48 UTC 50 deg (***)\n\nCradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City, NY, telebridge via IK1SLD\nContact is a go for: Mon 2013-11-04 14:24:39 UTC 44 deg\n\n\nFor all of you Ice Pilots TV show fans, the first episode of season 5 is\nscheduled to have some of an ARISS contact that occurred a few months back.\nDepending on where you are located, the times and cable TV providers may\nchange.\nHistory Channel is airing the show for the first time Wednesday October 23\nat 22:00 EDT or Thursday October 24 at 02:00 UTC.\nBelow are several on-line links to where you can watch it:\n\nhttp://www.icepilots.com/episodes.php\nhttp://www.icepilots.com/episode5_1.php\n\nIf you are in Australia, apparently the History Channel is available via\nPay-TV.\n\nBelow is word from Canadian ARISS mentor Steve McFarlane VE3TBD about this:\n\nWednesday Oct 23, 2013 – Season Premiere of Reality TV Show Ice Pilots\nwill feature the ARISS program – Amateur Radio on The International Space\nStation.\nI/we do not know the full details of what will be included in this episode\nbut we understand a Radio contact with Chris Hadfield will be shown that\ninvolves the Canadian mentors that undertake and support these events all\nacross Canada.\nThis team, are made up of Teacher Lori McFarlane, technical coordination\nClaude Lacasse and program mentor Steve McFarlane VE3TBD all located in\nOttawa but were on site during this contact from Hay river. Remotely \nlocated\nbut very much a part of this event include Teacher Mentor Brian Jackson\nVE6JBJ in Calgary and fellow Canadian mentor Wayne Harasimovitch VE1WPH \nlocated\nin Halifax.\n\nAs mentioned, exact content of the show is not known but we do know a\nproduction team from Omni productions recorded the entire presentation and\nevent at the Hay River Public School near Yellowknife. As well, Omni\nproductions did receive the entire video from the ISS showing Chris \nHadfield an\nswering questions during the same event. Other video including setup,\nmeeting the show “stars” etc., was recorded but again, we are not \ncertain of\nthe inclusions on the show.\n\nAll audio during the event was made available and Omni productions have a\ncopy of that – this includes the Telebridge track.\n\nAll we can hope is that ARISS is well represented and the program receives\nsome well-deserved recognition. I was alerted that this is a reality TV\nshow and almost anything can be broadcast. We are at the mercy of the\nproducers and editors of the show – as they indicated to us – this is about\nBuffalo Airlines. My final comment to the producer, this show and the space\nprogram are linked in ways that are sometimes difficult to understand \nbut it is\nclear that early aviation pioneers from all over the world, which Buffalo\nepitomizes, led to what we know today as the Space Program – ARISS is about\nmaking our youth believe anything is possible so when they say this is\nabout Buffalo Airlines what they are really saying, this is about how we\nstarted our journey to the stars.\n\nHistory Channel is showing for the first time Wednesday October 23 at\n22:00hrs. This is the 5th season of ice pilots and I understand some of \nyou may\nonly be on season 4 at this point. Within a few days, it might be\navailable elsewhere.\n\n\nARISS is requesting listener reports for the above contacts. Due to\nissues with the Kenwood radio that are not fully understood at present, the\nEricsson radio is going to be used for these contacts. ARISS thanks \neveryone\nin advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to\[email protected] or [email protected].\n\n\nLooking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS?\nIf interested, then please review the document provided by Gaston Bertels\nON4WF, the ARISS-Europe Chairman.\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/HamTV.pdf\n\n\nThe webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date\nwebpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are \nadditional\nARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know.\n\nNote, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own\norbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed\ntime.\nAll dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8061 date and\ntime format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS\nThe complete schedule page has been updated as of 2013-10-28 20:00 UTC.\n\nHere you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and\nquestions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and\ninstructions for any contact that may be streamed live.\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf\n\n\nTotal number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 865.\nEach school counts as 1 event.\nTotal number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 844.\nEach contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot.\nTotal number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46.\n\nA complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the\nfile.\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf\n\nPlease feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed.\n\n\nUS Hams, don’t forget that there is a new process for US school proposals.\nFor US schools to have an ARISS contact, they must fill out a proposal,\nsubmit it to NASA, and see if they are approved or not. Once a school is\napproved and put on the list, an ARISS mentor will be assigned to \nassist the\nschool.\n\nNASA will have two open windows a year for schools to submit a proposal.\nThe window for contacts during the second half of 2012 has already closed.\nLook for the window for first half 2013 contacts later this year. You\nmust go through NASA to get the proposal material. Contact Teaching From\nSpace, a NASA Education office, at [email protected] or by \ncalling\nthem at (281) 244-2320.\n\nThe following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact:\nArkansas, Delaware, Kansas, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, \nVermont,\nWest Virginia, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands,\nand the Virgin Islands.\n\n\nIN LIGHT OF SOME COMMENTS THAT HAVE APPEARED RECENTLY ON THE VARIOUS\nBULLETIN\nBOARDS; THE COMMENTS BELOW STILL HOLD TRUE:\n\nQSL information may be found at:\nhttp://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html\nhttp://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's\n\nISS callsigns: DPØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS\n\n\nThe successful school list has been updated as of 2013-10-27 06:00 UTC.\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf\n\nFrequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing\nDoppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction\n.rtf\n\nListing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC.\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf\n\nCheck out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts\n\nARISS School Contacts\nhttps://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415\n\nSuccessful ARISS contacts\nhttps://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?OBJID=412218000000023448\nAdditional Zoho links may be found at\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf\n\nExp. 36/37 on orbit\nFyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI\nKaren L. Nyberg\nLuca Parmitano KF5KDP\n\nExp. 37/38 now on orbit\nOleg Kotov\nSergey Ryazansky\nMichael S. Hopkins KF5LJG\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatelite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSoutheastern VHF Society WAEM Award\n\nThe Southeastern VHF Society has an award for working all of the EM grids\n\nhttp://www.svhfs.org/awards.html\n\nscroll down to the bottom for the satellite award, and get active on the \nbirds.\n\n(ANS thanks Damon, WA4HFN, em55 for the above information)\n\n\nESA Mars Express Video\n\nEnjoy a virtual fly-over of Mars from the highest volcano to the deepest\ncanyon on Mars in this great new compilation video from images taken by \nESA's\nMars Express. The data shown in the video was gathered from the nearly \n12,500\norbits by the Mars Express spacecraft since its arrival at the Red Planet in\nlate 2003, and used to create digital topographic models of almost the \nentire\nsurface of the planet:\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ESA-Mars-Flyover\n\n\n[ANS thanks Universetoday.com for the above information]\n\n\nUT1FG Found on AO-7 Mode B\n\nFrank Griffin, K4FEG reports he made a contact with Yuri, UT1FG/MM via\nAO7 mode B on the 2117 UTC pass on October 29. Yuri was in grid FG40.\n\nFrank wrote, \"We had about a 60 second footprint into EM55aj to him in\nFG40hb, a distance of over 7500km. As the satellite rose over\nEM55aj84ta, I heard Yuri calling CQ at 145.9579Mhz, he called only\nonce and I called back once and we made a successful contact,\naccording to SatPC32 we had 1.2 degrees shared between us on the\nsatellite\".\n\nYuri is reported to be traveling North after two more stops in Chile.\nHe has not had access to Wifi, so there has been very little email\ncontact with him so far on this trip.\n\n[ANS thanks Frank Griffin, K4FEG for the above information]\n\n\nUT1FG/MM Sailing North From Chile\n\nYuri, UT1FG/MM is reported to be heading north which will increase \nopportunity\nto make a contact with him. Frank, K4FEG and Rick, WA4NVM contacted Yuri \nwhen\nhe was sailing in Grid FG43 during a 2 minute pass on AO7 Mode B at 1034 \nUTC.\nHis next port will be Punta Patache, Chile in Grid FG49. UT1FG can be \ntracked\non the web at marinetraffic.com. Use either the ship name(SILVER), port name\n(Coquimbo) or the ship's call(5BNC3). When he is getting prepared to \nleave port\nthe ship's information will change to show his next destination.\n\n[ANS thanks Frank, K4FEG for the above information]\n\n\nPirate Slow Scan TV 255.550MHZ\n\nWhile dialing around in the millsat band I noticed what sounded like\nslow scan tv on 255.550MHZ. It looks like the Brazilian satellite pirates\nare experimenting with that mode. If anyone has decoding software it would\nbe interesting to see what they are sending.\n______________________________________________________________\nHearSat mailing list\nHome: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hearsat\nHelp: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm\nPost: mailto:[email protected]\n\nThis list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net\nPlease help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html\n\n[ANS thanks Dave Marthouse & E.Mike McCardel,KC8YLD for the above \nannouncement]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n\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,\nJoe Spier, K6WAO\nk6wao at amsat dot org\n", "attachments": [] }