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    "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-251 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-251\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* Mail your AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballots TODAY\n* US Space Fence Shut Down\n* Say HI to Juno\n* Space Station Slow Scan TV Active\n* FUNcube-1 is in its Pod\n* 2013 AMSAT Symposium Tours Announced\n* CEPT Considers Use of 5830-5850 MHz Satellite Band\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-251.01\nANS-251 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 251.01\n>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nDATE September 8, 2013\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-251.01\n\n\nMail your AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballots TODAY\n\nA reminder that, if you haven't done so already, mail your Board of\nDirector Ballots ASAP. All members in good standing should have\nreceived their ballots. In order for your ballott to be counted, it\nwill need to be RECEIVED at the AMSAT office by September 15th.\n\nThis year we have 8 candidates for 4 voting Board members and 2 non-\nvoting Alternates. Your vote is especially important this year in\nselecting those who will help guide AMSAT-NA. If you have not\nsubmitted your ballot, please review the candidate biography and\nposition statements you received, as well as the Minutes of the Board\nMeeting published in the May/June issue of the AMSAT Journal. Then\nmake your voice heard by voting.\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUS Space Fence Shut Down\n\nIt is reported on SatWatch that the 216 MHz US Space Fence, used to\ndetect orbital objects, was turned off on September 1, 2013 at 0000\nUT.\n\nThe Air Force Space Surveillance System (AFSSS), known as the Space\nFence, is a U.S. government multistatic radar system built to detect\norbital objects passing over the United States. There are three\ntransmitter sites operating on 216.983, 216.97 and 216.99 MHz and six\nreceiving stations.\n\nAccording to Wiki the system is understood to be capable of\ndetecting a 10 cm object at an altitude of 30,000 km and makes 5\nmillion satellite observations each month.\n\nEarly in August Space News reported that: Gen. William Shelton,\ncommander of Air Force Space Command, “has directed that the Air\nForce Space Surveillance System be closed and all sites vacated”\neffective Oct. 1, the memo said.\n\nIt seems appear the closure may have occurred earlier than initially\nreported.\n\nThe reason for the shutdown has been reported as being because\nFederal Government expenditure is exceeding budget resulting in\nautomatic budget cuts known as sequestration, however, a Space Review\narticle suggests another reason\nhttp://www.thespacereview.com/article/2357/1\n\nAir Force Space Command (AFSPC) officials say they have devised\nmodified operating modes for the Perimeter Acquisition Radar\nCharacterization System at Cavalier Air Force Station, N.D., and for\nthe space surveillance radar at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., which\nallows the discontinuation of AFSSS operations while still\nmaintaining solid space situational awareness.\n\nAir Force Space Surveillance System\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Space_Surveillance_System\n\nAir Force Space Command to discontinue space surveillance system\nhttp://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/466832/air-\nforce-space-command-to-discontinue-space-surveillance-system.aspx\n\nSpace News, August 6, 2013\nhttp://www.spacenews.com/article/military-space/36655shelton-orders-\nshutdown-of-space-fence\n\nSatWatch http://www.satwatch.org/\n\nHigh Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) shuts down\nhttp://www.southgatearc.org/news/july2013/haarp_facility_shuts_down.h\ntm\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSay HI to Juno\n\nNASA’s Juno mission is inviting amateur radio operators around the\nworld to transmit a coordinated message on the 28 MHz band to the\nJuno spacecraft.\n\nNASA’s Juno spacecraft will fly past Earth on October 9, 2013 to\nreceive a gravity assist from our planet, putting it on course for\nJupiter.\n\nTo celebrate this event, the Juno mission is inviting amateur radio\noperators around the world to say “HI” to Juno in a coordinated Morse\nCode message. Juno’s radio and plasma wave experiment, called Waves,\nshould be able to detect the message if enough people participate.\n\nJuno will have a better chance of detecting the signal from many\noperators if the signal is spread out across the spectrum. The Juno\nWaves instrument is a broadband receiver, and the detector being used\nfor this event has a band width of 1 MHz. It is better for detection\nof the signal to have a broadband signal coming in.\n\nFor this experiment, the Juno team would like to ask those\nparticipating to spread out in frequency across the 10 meter band.\nThey have supplied a table of suggested frequencies between 28 and 29\nMHz, based on the last letter of your call. When the HFR receiver is\ntuned to 28MHz, the center frequency is 28.5 MHz. A 50 kHz high pass\nfilter limits low frequencies hitting the detector, so the frequency\ntable excludes 28.5 MHz ±50 kHz. The natural signals the team expect\nto measure at Jupiter will consist of a large number of discrete\ntones, so spreading the signals out in this manner is a good\napproximation to the signals Juno is expected to detect. But at\nJupiter, they don’t expect to be able to decode CW in the telemetry!\n\nThe 28 MHz band was chosen for this experiment for several reasons.\nThe Waves instrument is sensitive to radio signals in all amateur\nbands below 40 MHz, but experience with the University of Iowa\ninstruments on the Galileo and Cassini earth flybys shows significant\nshielding by the ionosphere at lower frequencies. As sad as it\nsounds, the team hope for lousy band conditions on October 9, so an\nappreciable fraction of the radiated energy escapes the ionosphere\ninto space, and is not refracted back down to the ground somewhere\nelse on the planet.\n\nJuno’s antenna consists of a pair of tapered 2.8 meter long titanium\ntubes, deployed from the bottom deck of the spacecraft under the +X\nsolar array and magnetometer boom. A high impedance radiation\nresistant preamp sits at the base of the antenna and buffers the\nsignals from 50 Hz to 45 MHz. The elements are deployed with an\nopening angle of about 120 degrees. Ten meters is above the resonant\nfrequency of the antenna and NEC analysis indicates a lobe generally\nalong the spin axis of the spacecraft. This will be good for\ndetection on the inbound part of closest approach to Earth.\n\nThe Waves instrument uses four receivers to cover the frequency\nrange of 50 Hz to 41 MHz. Signals up to 3 MHz are bandpass filtered,\nsampled by A/D converters and FFT processed into spectra using a\ncustom FFT processor developed by The University of Iowa under a\ngrant from the Iowa Space Grant Consortium.\n\nThe Juno team point out that All transmissions must follow local and\nnational regulations.\n\nPlease join in, and help spread the word to fellow amateur radio\nenthusiasts!\n\nNASA – Say “HI” to Juno!\nhttp://www.jpl.nasa.gov/hijuno/\nSee How do I participate ? for the frequency list.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-BB and Glenn AA5PK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSpace Station Slow Scan TV Active\n\nDmitry Pashkov UB4UAD has posted two images that he received on\n145.800 MHz FM from the International Space Station (ISS) on\nWednesday, September 4, 2013.\n\nAll you need to do to receive the SSTV pictures from the space\nstation is to  connected the audio output of a scanner or amateur rig\nvia a simple interface to the soundcard on a Windows PC or an Apple\niOS device, and tune in to 145.800 MHz FM. You can even receive\npictures by holding an iPhone next to the radio’s loudspeaker.\n\nThe ISS puts out a strong signal on 145.800 MHz FM and a 2m handheld\nwith a 1/4 wave antenna will be enough to receive it. The FM\ntransmission uses 5 kHz deviation which is standard in much of the\nworld.\n\nMany FM rigs in the UK can be switched been wide and narrow\ndeviation FM filters so select the wider deviation. Handhelds all\nseem to have a single wide filter fitted as standard.\nOn Windows PC’s the free application MMSSTV can be used to decode\nthe signal, on Apple iOS devices you can use the SSTV app. The ISS\nFan Club website will show you when the space station is in range.\n\nFor more on Slow Scan Television SSTV, see this article SSTV – The\nBasics.\n\nHow to be successful with the ISS Slow Scan Television (SSTV)\nimaging system\nhttp://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/howtoisssstv.html\n\nInformation on the MAI-75 SSTV experiment\nhttp://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/researches/education-26.html\n\nIZ8BLY Vox Recoder, enables you to record the signals from the ISS\non 145.800 MHz while you’re away at work\nhttp://antoninoporcino.xoom.it/VoxRecorder/\n\nFor the latest status of amateur radio activity on the ISS and real\ntime tracking see http://www.issfanclub.com/\n\nARISS Slow Scan TV (SSTV) Blog and Gallery\nhttp://ariss-sstv.blogspot.co.uk/\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFUNcube-1 is in its Pod\n\nThe AMSAT FUNcube team are delighted to be able to announce that the\nFUNcube-1 CubeSat has now completed all its final testing and been\nplaced into its launch POD.\n\nZACUBE-1 prior to being shipped to the Netherlands - Image credit CPUT\nZACUBE-1 prior to being shipped to the Netherlands – Image credit CPUT\nThis work was completed during a three day programme at the premises\nof ISIS BV in Delft in the Netherlands and was finished, on time,\nlate Wednesday afternoon on September 4, 2013.\n\nFUNcube-1 is actually the middle 1U CubeSat of three sharing a 3U\nISIPOD.  It is sharing the ISIPOD with ZACUBE-1 from South Africa\nand HiNCube from Norway.\n\nZACube-1, in addition to carrying VHF and UHF communications\nequipment also has a 20 metre beacon which will operate on 14.099 MHz\nThis ISIPOD, with the spacecraft inside, will be transported to\nRussia, early next month, for launch and will eventually be attached\ndirectly to the launch vehicle.\n\nFUNcube-1 carries a U/V linear transponder and the educational\ntelemetry beacon using 1k2 BPSK for school outreach purposes.\n\nThe current launch info has lift off scheduled for November 21st at\n07:11:29 UT\n\nFull initial orbit details and TLE’s, together with decoding\nsoftware will be made available over the next few weeks.\n\nFUNcube-1 communication subsystem:\n• 400 mW Inverting linear transponder for SSB and CW\n- Uplink      435.150 – 435.130 MHz\n- Downlink  145.950 – 145.970 MHz\n• 400 mW BPSK Telemetry  145.935 MHz\n\nZACUBE-1 http://tinyurl.com/ANS-251-ZACUBE-1\n\nHiNCube http://www.hincube.com/\n\nA recent presentation about the FUNcube project by Graham Shirville\nG3VZV and Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG can be viewed online at\nhttp://www.batc.tv/streams/amsat1311 or downloaded from\nhttp://www.batc.tv/vod/Funcube1.flv\n\nA PDF of the slides from that presentation is here\nFUNcube_Colloquium2013a\n\nFUNcube information sheets:\n•  FUNcube_Project Information_aug2013\n•  FUNcube_Educational_Outreach aug2013\n\nFUNcube-1 http://amsat-uk.org/funcube/funcube-cubesat/\n\nFUNcube Yahoo Group http://amsat-uk.org/funcube/yahoo-group/\n\nFUNcube website http://www.funcube.org.uk/\n\nSome of the other satellites that may be on the same Dnepr launch\nvehicle are listed at\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2013/08/22/dnepr-cubesat-launch/\n\nAMSAT-UK on Facebook\nhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/AMSAT-UK/208113275898396\nAMSAT-UK on Twitter\nhttps://twitter.com/AMSAT_UK\n\nJoin AMSAT-UK\nhttp://shop.amsat.org.uk/shop/category_9/Join-Amsat-UK.html\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2013 AMSAT Symposium Tours Announced\n\nAMSAT has arranged for two special tours as part of this year's\nSymposium.\n\nBattleship USS Texas BB-35\n\nOn Sunday there will be a tour of the Battleship Texas BB-35, the\nonly surviving US Navy warship that served in both World Wars.  It is\ncurrently opened to the public while undergoing extensive restoration\nto ready her for the 100th anniversary of her commissioning in 2014.\nA special tour has been arranged for AMSAT Symposium participants.\nTransportation will depart the Marriott at 1030, and the formal tour\nwill be completed at 1400. Transportation will be available directly\nto Houston Hobby airport from the ship.  There will be an optional\nlunch at a popular local restaurant followed by a return to the\nMarriott at 1600.  Cost per person, not including the optional lunch,\nwill be $20.\n\nJohnson Space Center and W5RRR JSC ARC\n\nOn Monday there will be a tour of the NASA Johnson Space Center.\nThe tour will include the Sonny Carter Neutral Buoyancy Lab and the\nBuilding 9 Training facility containing high fidelity full scale\nmockups of the International Space Station modules as well as the\nSoyuz spacecraft.  The ISS tour will include special emphasis on the\namateur radio stations on the ISS. The tour will also include the\nBuilding 30 historic mission control room as well as the current\nInternational Space Station control room, and s a visit to the JSC\nARC station W5RRR. Transportation will depart the Marriott at 0800.\nOn the return trip transportation will stop at Houston Hobby airport\nat 1415 before returning to the hotel. Cost per person will be $30.\n\nDetails, registration and up to date information may be found on\nWWW.AMSAT.ORG\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCEPT Considers Use of 5830-5850 MHz Satellite Band\n\nThe CEPT SE24 Short Range Devices meeting M72 took place in Vienna\non August 26-27, 2013.\n\nThe meeting discussed the use of the frequency bands 5350-5470 MHz\nand 5725-5925 MHz ('WAS/RLAN extension bands') for wireless access\nsystems including radio local area networks (WAS/RLANs).\n\nAny use of Amateur Satellite Service downlink band of 5830-5850 MHz\nfor this purpose would inevitably raise the noise floor making the\nweak satellite signals even harder to receive.\n\nLinks to the CEPT documents are posted on the AMSAT-UK web page:\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS-251-CEPT\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Mill Springs Academy,\nAlpharetta, GA, USA and Astronaut Christopher J. Cassidy, KF5KDR,\nusing callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2013-09-04 14:15 UTC and\nlasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via\nKK4OVR.The ARISS Mentor for the contact was K4SQC.\n\nMill Springs Academy is an accredited independent school with a\ncollege-prep program dedicated to the academic, physical and social\ngrowth of students who have not realized their full potential in a\ntraditional classroom setting. Since 1981 we have been supporting\nstudent learning by raising expectations and developing self-\nmotivation, while providing skills and values for life.\n\nThe population consists of average to above average, students in\ngrades 1-12, with learning disabilities and/or Attention Deficit\nDisorder. Small classes and an individualized curriculum help them to\ncapitalize on their strengths while learning coping strategies. Mill\nSprings offers a broad range of fine arts options, a variety of\ncompetitive sports, and an extended day program. In the summer\nmonths, summer school, summer camp and sport workshops are offered.\n\nOur 85-acre campus is nestled in the beautiful rolling hills and\npasture land of Alpharetta. We can be found on Twitter\n(@millspringsacad), Facebook and Pinterest or on our website:\nwww.millsprings.org Our school motto is Success In School. Success In\nLife.\n\nJoining in this ARISS Radio Contact were students and faculty from\nthe Brandon Hall School. Brandon Hall is located in Dunwoody, another\nnorthern suburb of Atlanta. Brandon Hall's mission as a coeducational\nboarding and day school is to provide a challenging college\npreparatory experience immersed in technology. Also joining us were\nstudents from Crabapple Crossing Elementary, a nearby public school.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Duluth Children's Museum,\nDuluth, MN, USA and Astronaut [ISSOP, CALLSIGN] using callsign NA1SS.\nThe contact began 2013-09-07 15:03 UTC and lasted about nine and a\nhalf minutes. Contact was direct via W0GKP.\n\nThe Duluth Children's Museum is a place where children begin their\nlifelong exploration of an ever-expanding world. The mission of the\nDuluth Children's Museum is to spark children's curiosity. One of the\nfirst children's museums in the country, the Duluth Children's Museum\nopened in 1930 as a resource for teachers, schoolchildren and\nfamilies to learn more about their world neighbors. The Duluth\nChildren's Museum serves more than 80,000 children, caregivers and\neducators annually through its exhibition and education programs. The\nmuseum's primary constituency is children age three to eight and\ntheir families. The extended constituency is children birth to three\nand children eight to twelve and family members.\n\nUpcoming ARISS contacts\n\n+ S.A.M.T. (Scuola Arti Mestieri Trevano), Canobbio, Switzerland,\ndirect via HB9OK Contact is a go for: Mon 2013-09-09 07:17:03 UTC\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N, David, AA4KN for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Clayton Started It!\n\nClayton W5PFG started it - on the AMSAT-BB. Poetry, Haiku actually,\nlamenting there not being HEOs. It seems this meme may have a life of\nits own. Catch the fun and submit your own verse - Haiku or not on\nthe AMSAT-BB. So far this editor's favorite is by Doug Phelps' K9DLP\n\nAM-SAT volunteers\nWorking to keep us in space\nThank you, job well done\n\n(Source: AMSAT-BB)\n\n+ Move away from the center of the passband\n\nDrew KO4MA suggests moving away from the center of the passband\nwhile working the linear birds. Previous to SatPC32 being the\nubiquitous way to operate the transponders, people tended to spread\nout much more on the linear sats. CW was generally in the lower third\nto maybe middle, and voice was often spread out over much more of the\npassband. Now...I love Sat PC32, and I like full Doppler tuning, but\njust because the program defaults to the middle of the passband\ndoesn't mean everyone should operate within 10 KHz of there.\n\nSee http://tinyurl.com/ANS-251-LinearOps\n\nSpread out and use the VFO! There's no reason to pile up like\nsardines in the middle. Maybe even (GASP) edit the doppler.sqf file\nto put you elsewhere in the passband to fine tune things at the start\nof the pass? Got a schedule, or operating from a rare grid? Let\neveryone know where to look (i.e. 25 khz up from the middle) and save\nyourself and others some QRM?\n\nErich, DK1TB, offers this tip, if you want SatPC32 to start off the\ncenter of the passband of an SSB/CW satellite do the following: Run\nthe program choose  that satellite. Tune the radio to the start\nfrequency you want - say 8 kHz above the center of the passband. Then\nclick menu CAT > Change/Store Data File > RX/TX Freq. Data. From the\nnext program start the program will start at the new downlink and\nuplink frequencies.\n\n(Source: AMSAT-BB)\n\n+ It seems we are having problems with the mailing of the\nJuly/August Journal.\n\nIt is indeed unfortunate to have the commendable efforts of the\nvolunteer contributors and editorial staff to the AMSAT Journal be\nundone by problems at a PAID contractor.\n\nIf you have not received your 2013 July/August AMSAT Journal via the\npostal mail please let the AMSAT office know via e-mail at\[email protected].\n\nSource: Joanne K9JKM\n\n+ Wouter, PA3WEG, has kindly created a unique video that shows the\ncorrect process for inserting three 1U CubeSats into their 3U ISIPOD.\nThis is now available here:\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3xT3SDlFUOg\n\nSource: Graham Shirbille via AMSAT-BB\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, KC8YLD\nkc8yld at amsat dot org\n\n",
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