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    "content": "\nAMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-085\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\n**************************************************\n*       Volunteers are needed to help at the AMSAT booth at Dayton.\n* Gould , WA4SXM, is looking for volunteers to help man the\n   AMSAT   booth during\n* the 2012 Hamvention. People are needed all 3 days for 2 hour\n* shifts. Please send the days and times you are available to help\n* as well as how many shifts you are willing to work via e-mail to\n* wa4sxm at amsat.org.\n* Monitor http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/hamvention/2012/Dayton.php\n* for the latest AMSAT at Dayton news and developments .\n************************************************\n\n\nIn this edition:\n* AMSAT-NA BOD Nominations Due\n* ARISS Mentor Introduction at Dayton 2012\n* NASA'S GRAIL MOONKAM RETURNS FIRST STUDENT-SELECTED      LUNAR IMAGES\n* Satellite Operation Planned for UK Olympic Special Event Station\n* Masat-1 Experiment Required Silent Mode for a Short Period of Time\n* HAMSAT VO-52 User Reports Requested\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n* 2012 AMSAT-NA Symposium Update\n* New Feature For SatPC32 Adjusts Doppler From Satellite Point of View\n* ARISS Status Report - 19 March 2012\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-085.01\nANS-085 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 085.01\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 25, 2012\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-085.01\n\n\nAMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nominations\n\nIt is time to submit nominations for the upcoming open seats on the\nAMSAT-NA Board of Directors. A valid nomination requires either one\ncurrent Member Society, or five current individual members in good\nstanding, to nominate an AMSAT-NA member for the position.\n\nThree directors have terms expiring this year: Tom Clark, K3IO; Lou\nMcFadin, W5DID; and Gould Smith, WA4SXM.  The three nominees receiving\nthe highest number of votes will be seated as regular board members with\ntwo year terms.\nThe two nominees receiving the next highest number of votes will be\nseated as alternates for one year.\n\nWritten nominations, consisting of names, calls and individual\nsignatures, should be mailed to: AMSAT-NA, 850 Sligo Ave #600, Silver\nSpring, MD, 20910.\nThey must be received no later than June 15th.  No other action is\nrequired.\n\n\nNominations may also be made by electronic means. These include e-mail,\nFAX, or electronic image of a petition. Electronic petitions should be\nsent to [email protected] or faxed to 301-608-3410, and also must be\nreceived by June 15th. If using any electronic submission, there is a\nsecond, verifying step.\nELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS WITHOUT THIS SECOND, WRITTEN VERIFICATION ARE NOT\nVALID UNDER THE EXISTING AMSAT-NA BYLAWS. A verifying traditional\nwritten petition MUST be received at the AMSAT-NA office at the above\naddress within\n7 days following the close of nominations.\n\n\n[ANS Thanks Alan, WA4SCA for this input]\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n-----\n\nARISS Mentor Introduction at Dayton 2012\n\nAMSAT and ARRL are teaming up during the 2012 Hamvention to recruit new\nARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) mentors. Friday\nand\n\nSaturday (May 18 & 19) at 4pm in the ARRL stage area AMSAT will explain\nthe need for additional ARISS mentors and the requirements and\nresponsibilities needed to help provide a reliable conversation between\nastronauts and selected schools or groups. We encourage anyone\ninterested in helping make future school contacts with the ISS\nsuccessful to please attend.\n\n[ANS Thanks the ARISS Team]\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n--------\n\nNASA'S GRAIL MOONKAM RETURNS FIRST STUDENT-SELECTED LUNAR IMAGES\n\n WASHINGTON -- One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed\nback the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its\nonboard camera. Fourth grade students from the Emily Dickinson\nElementary School in Bozeman, Mont., received the honor of making the\nfirst image selections by winning a nationwide competition to rename\nthe two spacecraft.\n\n The image was taken by the MoonKam, or Moon Knowledge Acquired by\nMiddle school students. Previously named Gravity Recovery And Interior\nLaboratory (GRAIL) A and B, the twin spacecraft are now called Ebb and\nFlow. Both washing-machine-sized orbiters carry a small MoonKAM camera.\n Over 60 student-requested images were taken aboard the Ebb spacecraft\nfrom March 15-17 and downlinked to Earth on March 20.\n\n \"MoonKAM is based on the premise that if your average picture is worth\na thousand words, then a picture from lunar orbit may be worth a\nclassroom full of engineering and science degrees,\" said Maria Zuber,\nGRAIL mission principal investigator from the Massachusetts Institute\nof Technology in Cambridge, Mass. \"Through MoonKAM, we have an\nopportunity to reach out to the next generation of scientists and\nengineers. It is great to see things off to such a positive start.\"\n\n GRAIL is NASA's first planetary mission to carry instruments fully\ndedicated to education and public outreach. Students will select target\nareas on the lunar surface and request images to study from the GRAIL\nMoonKAM Mission Operations Center in San Diego.\n\n The MoonKAM program is led by Sally Ride, America's first woman in\nspace, and her team at Sally Ride Science in collaboration with\nundergraduate students at the University of California in San Diego.\n More than 2,700 schools spanning 52 countries are using the MoonKAM\ncameras.\n\n \"What might seem like just a cool activity for these kids may very well\nhave a profound impact on their futures,\" Ride said. \"The students\nreally are excited about MoonKAM, and that translates into an\nexcitement about science and engineering.\"\n\n Launched in September 2011, Ebb and Flow will answer longstanding\nquestions about the moon and give scientists a better understanding of\nhow Earth and other rocky planets in the solar system formed.\n\n NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., manages the GRAIL\nmission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.\n GRAIL is part of the Discovery Program managed at NASA's Marshall Space\nFlight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in\nDenver built the spacecraft.\n\n To view the student-requested images, visit:\n\n http://images.moonkam.ucsd.edu\n\n For more information about MoonKAM, visit:\n\n https://moonkam.ucsd.edu\n\n For more information about GRAIL, visit:\n\n http://www.nasa.gov/grail\n\n\n[ANS Thanks Michael Williams, K9QHO, for this input]\n\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n------\n\nSatellite Operation Planned for UK Olympic Special Event Station\n\nThis week John Warburton, G4IRN announced The Radio Society of Great\nBritain will activate two special event call-signs to celebrate the\nLondon 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games:\n\n+ 2O12L (Two Oscar One Two Lima) from London, England 2O12W (Two Oscar\n+ One Two Wales) from Barry, Wales.\n\nThe London station, 2012L will be active through the duration of the\nGames, located at the historic Eltham Palace, south-east London on\n160m-2m, all modes. More information on the web site:\nhttp://www.2O12L.com\n\nThe Welsh station 2O12W will also be active on all bands from 160m to\n23cms and all modes including SSTV and satellite from Whitmore Bay,\nBarry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. More information on web site:\nhttp://www.2O12W.com.\n\n2O12L and 2O12W go on the air on 27th July 2012.\n\n[ANS thanks The Radio Society of Great Britain and Southgate News  for\nthe above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMasat-1 Experiment Required Silent Mode for a Short Period of Time\n\nMasat-1 (MO-72) recently has been switched to a 'silent mode' on March\n16, March 21, and March 22 to perform long term, sensitive\nelectromagnetic measurements which require the switching off the\nsatellite's transmitter. In silent mode, all RF transmission from the\nsatellite is turned off, while the satellite receiver makes the required\nmeasurements. After these experiments regular telemetry transmission\nresumed operation.\n\nMO-72 Call sign: HA5MASAT\nTX frequency: 437.345 MHz\nModulation: CW (120 char/min.), 2-GFSK (625 and 1250 bit/s) TX power:\n100 and 400 mW\n\nSoundcard software to capture and decode the GFSK telemetry can be\ndownloaded from: http://cubesat.bme.hu/en/radioamatoroknek/\nThe latest keplerian elements are also available on this site.\n\n[ANS thanks the Masat-1 Team and AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHAMSAT VO-52 User Reports Requested\n\nAMSAT-India Secretary Nitin, VU3TYG says the user feedback form (in Word\nformat) requested by VO-52 controllers has been posted on the web for\ndownload from:\nhttp://www.amsatindia.org/reports/VO-52-Feedback.doc\n\nHAMSAT VO-52 controllers at ISRO thanked amateur radio operators for the\nreports received after VO-52 was reactived with the Dutch Trans- ponder.\nThey are in the process of documenting anomaly analysis and Transponder\n2 Switch ON' report containing the feedback from users.\n\nReports are requested to be sent in the Word format as attachments to\ne-mail sent to: [email protected] and copied to [email protected].\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-India Secretary Nitin, VU3TYG and Mani, VU2WMY at\nIndia ISRO Satellite Centre for the above information]\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ AMSAT to facilitate student satellite contacts\n\nAMSAT is encouraging all students attending the 2012 Dayton Hamvention\nto come by the Satellite Demonstration Area just outside of the Ball\nArea entrance and make a contact using the amateur satellites. There\nwill be AMSAT volunteers there to explain how to make the contacts and\nduring actual\n\nsatellite passes will try to get as many students as possible to\ncomplete actual contacts. There are lists of satellite pass times in the\nsatellite demonstration area and at the AMSAT booth (BA444-BA449).\n\n[ANS Thanks Gould, WA4SXM, For the above.]\n\n+ NASA released a new narrated animation depicting the planned 2014\n  launch of the Orion spacecraft on the Exploration Flight Test-1\n  (EFT-1) mission to a 3600 mile altitude orbit:\n  http://tinyurl.com/OrionOrbitTest (YouTube)\n  Full article at: http://tinyurl.com/OrionArticle (UniverseToday)\n\n+ Paul, 2E1EUB says his next mobile satellite operations as 2M1EUB\n  from his van will be starting March 24 for 7 days from the east\n  coast of Scotland. Main operations are planned for AO-7 Mode A/B\n  and other satellites as available. Paul will post his latest infor-\n  mation on amsat-bb and also on the lookup at QRZ.com for 2M1EUB.\n\n+ The Project Blue Horizon 6 high-altitude transatlantic balloon\n  flight took off on Friday, March 23 at 2300 EST (0300 Saturday UT)\n  from Owego, NY transmitting on 7.1023 and 10.1466 MHz CW with the\n  N2XE call sign and 144.390 MHz FM APRS using the KD2AUD call sign.\n  Please send reports via e-mail to [email protected] or manually\n  enter received data points at http://www.projectbluehorizon.com/\n  More information is available on their web page.\n\n+ Congratulations to Rick Walter, WB3CSY, for earning VUCC Satellite\n  certificate #228 with 165 confirmed grids. Rick wrote, \"I would\n  like to thank the many satellite operators who continually take\n  time to stop during their travels and give us rare grids. It would\n  be much more difficult to obtain this prestigious award without\n  their help.\"\n\n+ The next Hudson Valley Satcom Net is Thursday March 29, 8:00PM EDT\n  (UTC-4) on the 146.97 MHz Mt. Beacon ARC Repeater and also on the\n  N2EYH-L Echolink Node. More information at: http://www.hvsatcom.org\n  and http://www.wr2abb.org/ (Stu, WA2BSS)\n\n+ Watch the BBC video of UKube-1, planned to launch in 2013:\n  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-17439236\n  UKube-1 will carry a set of AMSAT-UK FUNcube boards that will pro-\n  vide a 435/145 MHz linear transponder for SSB/CW amateur radio com-\n  munications. See also: http://www.uk.amsat.org/5933\n\n+ John, K8YSE reported that Yuri, UT1FG/MM, who has been so active\n  on the birds may be off the air for a short time. He is navigating\n  the St. Lawrence Seaway and has been too busy to operate on the\n  satellites. There are many inspection requirements for a ship com-\n  ing into the Great Lakes and his duties are such that he does not\n  have much free time. He will be in Montreal shortly. All of his\n  equipment is working fine. Yuri will be operating as time permits.\n\n+ The Winter 2012 TAPR Packet Status Register Journal now available\n  for download: http://www.tapr.org/psr/psr117.pdf. You can download\n  previous editions from http://www.tapr.org/psr.html. This quarterly\n  Journal is full of Technical, Non-Technical and User Digital infor-\n  mation and articles.\n\n+ Watch a video of time lapse images from the ISS showing how stars\n  appear from space: http://vimeo.com/ajrclips/starsfromspace. A\n  jaw dropping flight of the ISS over the aurora can be viewed at:\n  http://tinyurl.com/AuroraGreatLakes\n\n+USAF and Lockheed have Satellite Problems Too:\n\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/delicate-rescue-saves-stranded-1-7b-us-satellite-1\n44826517.html\n\nAt least their problems had a happy ending.\n\n+New Echolink Net.  Saturday evenings at 8pm Eastern.  The NET is titled\n\"SATCHAT\" by initiator.  Check in at the AMSAT Conf. Echolink slot and\nJoin the conversations about satellites.  Ask questions and hear what\nother people in the country are Doing for satellite activity.  It is\nhosted by:  Vince Waelti, K9TSU Stop by and add your experiences to the\ngroup.\n\n[ANS thanks everyone for the above information]\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n----\n\nSymposium 2012 Monday Trip to the Kennedy Space Center\n\nThose attending the 2012 AMSAT Symposium and interested in a Monday Trip\n(Oct  29) to the Kennedy Space Center please contact Martha via email:\nmartha at amsat.org.\n\nThe trip will include a round trip bus from the hotel and entrance to\nthe Space Center. The cost will be about $100. This is a wonderful\nexperience for those that haven't been and for those that have been\nmultiple times. We need to get an idea of how many will participate to\nselect the correct bus.\n\n[ANS Thanks Gould for this Symposium Update.]\n\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n-----\n\nNew Feature For SatPC32 Adjusts Doppler From Satellite Point of View\n\nErich, DK1TB has added a new feature into SatPC32 V12.8b which will\nallow adjustment for doppler shift between two separate stations so each\nwill appear to be on the same frequency. From a ground station point of\nview each station will see a different doppler shift unless they are\nlocated physically near each other. What is desired is that both\nstations will appear on the same frequency from the satellite receiver's\npoint of view.\n\nThe whole idea of doppler correction is to be at a constant frequency\nwithin the satellite receiver passband. To do that you have to adjust\nyour uplink frequency constantly. And you have to adjust your down- link\nfrequency to continue to hear yourself or someone else using full\ndoppler correction.\n\nErich has now added the option of seeing the frequency you are on at the\nsatellite receiver. This is a common frame of reference so if you tell\nsomeone you'll be on 435.845 at the satellite, they can be on that same\nfrequency even though your terrestrial dial frequencies will be much\ndifferent. Just adjust your receiver or use the up/down buttons in\nSatPC32 to set your frequency shown in the \"Sat\" window.\nThat frequency will remain constant as your uplink and downlink are\ncontrolled by SatPC32.\n\nStaying at a constant frequency at the satellite allows many stations to\nshare the bird without drifting into each other. And being able to know\nexactly where you are in the passband without doing the calcula- tion in\nyour head gives you more time to concentrate on making a suc- cessful\nQSO.\n\nThis feature is implemented by loading a patch file for SatPC32, V12.8b\nwhich can be found in the \"downloads\" link at:\nhttp://www.dk1tb.de - Scroll down to Section 7, Patches.\n\nErich, DK1TB donates the proceeds from the sale of SatPC32 to AMSAT.\nWhen you purchase this software you are helping AMSAT.\n\nYou can download the software from the SatPC32 website at:\nhttp://www.dk1tb.de/ A CD-ROM with the software is available from the\nAMSAT Store: http://www.amsat-na.com/store/item.php?id=100017\nTo activate the downloaded version of the program, you can purchase a\nregistration code via the AMSAT online store or by calling the AMSAT\noffice. See: http://www.amsat-na.com/store/item.php?id=100020\n\n\n[ANS thanks John Papay, K8YSE for the above information]\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n---\n\n(ARISS) Status Report March 19, 2012\n\n1. Upcoming School Contacts\n\nCentre de Formation de la Base Aérienne de Payerne, Switzerland has been\nscheduled for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station\n(ARISS) contact was successful on Wednesday, March 21 at 08:39 UTC. The\ncontact was held in the museum \"Clin d'Ailes\", located on the Payerne\nSwiss Airforce Base that has on display military aeronautics exhibits\nfrom the second half of the 20th century. Mr. Claude Nicollier, HB9CN,\nwho is the first Swiss astronaut and president of the Museum Foundation,\nplans to attend the event. The Clin d'Ailes Swiss Air Force Museum Ham\nRadio Club, holding callsigns HB4FR and HB9SPACE, set up its radio for\nthe contact. Students plan to launch a stratospheric balloon equipped\nwith video and photo cameras and sensors and beacons two weeks prior to\nthe event.  After the ARISS contact, they will present the videos,\nphotos and the analysis of the recorded sensor data.\n\nSalem Elementary School in Apex, North conducted an ARISS contact on\nWednesday, March 21 at 14:09 UTC via station VK5ZAI in Australia. This\ncontact is part of a comprehensive education plan which will pique\nstudents' interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).\n\n2. Liberty Junior High Radios Don Pettit on ISS\n\nStudents attending Liberty Junior High School in Burbank, Illinois\nexperienced a very successful Amateur Radio on the International Space\nStation (ARISS) contact on Wednesday, March 14.  Over 800 students,\nteachers and guests were present as students put their questions to\nastronaut Don Pettit, KD5MDT on ISS. The ARISS contact highlighted the\nschool's comprehensive education plan covering Science, Technology,\nEngineering and Math (STEM) subject matter. Other activities students\nparticipated in included investigating thermal properties of different\nmaterials, building models of the ISS and exploring the cast distances\nof space and the effect of distance and radio waves.\n\n3. Belgium Contact Successful\n\nAn Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact was\nheld on Friday, March 16 between Middenschool de Regenboog Bree in Bree,\nBelgium and on-orbit astronaut André Kuipers, PI9ISS.  A newly licensed\n14 year girl operated the radio during the event while students had all\n15 of their prepared questions answered. The contact was carried out as\npart of a curriculum covering the micro-gravity environment, history of\nmanned spaceflight, commercial spaceflight and the construction of the\nISS.\n\n4. Leone Acciaiuoli Students Question ISS Astronaut\n\nOn Sunday, March 18, Dan Burbank, KC5ZSX fielded ten questions from\nyouth attending the Istituto Tecnologico Statale Trasporti e Logistica\n\"Leone Acciaiuoli\" in Ortona, Italy via an ARISS contact. Approximately\n200 people were in attendance, including representatives from two\ntelevision stations. AMSAT-Italia also provided coverage, streaming\nvideo on the Internet. The contact complemented science courses taught\nat the school such as Navigation, Astronomy, Mathematics, Physics and\nSatellite Communications and was a featured activity during the\nInternational Day of Planetaria.\n\n5. ARISS-U.S. Schools Selected\n\nThe NASA Teaching From Space office received 27 U.S. proposals for ARISS\ncontacts that will be scheduled during the second half of this year. The\nU.S. Selection Committee reviewed the proposals and selected 18 schools\nfor these contacts. The schools will be notified of their status early\nthis week.\n\n [ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]\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 donors\nto AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional\nbenefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office.\n\nPrimary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at\none-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,\nDee Interdonato, NB2F\nnb2f at amsat dot org\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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