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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/2E5F47OJN5UCC27WDARQFXQ4GQTCYI4B/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "2E5F47OJN5UCC27WDARQFXQ4GQTCYI4B", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/2E5F47OJN5UCC27WDARQFXQ4GQTCYI4B/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[ans] ANS-204 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2017-07-23T02:25:23Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-204\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* VE9 on Satellite\n* Her Majesty's Royal Mint Special Event on Satellites\n* V47JA St. Kitts on SO-50\n* AMSAT 2017 Symposium Call for Papers\n* IARU Aligns Satellite Coordination Guidelines with ITU WRC-15 Decisions\n* Have you seen the Mayak satellite?\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-204.01\nANS-155 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 204.01\n From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE July 23, 2017\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-204.01\n\nVE9 on Satellite\n\nCANADA, VE. Mike, KI1U will be QRV as KI1U/VE9 from Grand Manan\nIsland, IOTA NA-014, from July 23 to 30. Activity will be on 40 to\n10 meters using CW and various digital modes, including possibly the\nnew mode FT8, as well as possible activity on the FM satellites.\nQSL to home call.\n\n[ANS thanks the ARRL DX Bulletin 29 - ARLD029 for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nHer Majesty's Royal Mint Special Event on Satellites\n\nMembers of the Barry Amateur Radio Society will be operating from 'Her\nMajesty's Royal Mint' at Llantrisant, South Wales, UK, call sign - GB4RME\n(Royal Mint Experience) between July 30th and August 5, 2017\n\nLocator: IO81HN WAB:ST08\n\nThe hours of operation on a daily basis have been limited, but we expect to\nbe operational between 0800 - 1730 hrs GMT.\n\nIt does restrict operation for satellite operations and passes in addition\nof course AO-73 operates in data mode Monday to Friday when illuminated\n(Auto mode). However on the first Sunday of the event (30th) and the last\nday (Saturday 5th August) the transponder mode should be available if\ncommanded.\n\nThe general other activities of the event will be on the HF bands using\nCW, SSB, DATA RTTY and JT65.\n\nThis event will also include an exhibition and demonstrations of \"Amateur\nRadio\". How key events, especially using satellites and the ISS, are key\nplayers in the role of education and \"STEM\"\n\nNote also this event also co-incident with the event taking place for \"YOTA\n2917\" (GB17YOTA) and should be significant as a prime contact for\nyoungsters participating from world wide.\n\nThis special event station is a world first, operating from within a Mint,\nand a Royal one at that.\n\nDetails about the mint can be viewed at:\nhttp://www.royalmint.com/en/the-royal-mint-experience\n\nQSL via GW0ANA, direct, by the Bureau, LoTW and ClubLog.\nThere will be a Web page set up for the operation on QRZ.com.\n\n[ANS thanks Ken, GW1FY, and Southgate for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nV47JA St. Kitts on SO-50\n\nJohn, V47JA/W5JON, has been operating on SO-50 from St. Kitts with some\nsuccess. The problem for him is that there is terrain in the way from\nabout 320 degrees, north to east. So he is limited to what he can work\nfrom his house there.\n\nJohn is putting together what he will need to operate portable from the top\nof the hill where he will be able to see down to the horizon to the north.\nOnce he has everything together he will be able to work down low and work\nmore stations in the US. He is using an Arrow antenna and two FM mobile\nunits. He is not a new comeer to the birds but hasn't operated since the\nHEO's went away years ago.\n\nHe will be on St. Kitts for a few weeks and he hopes to work everyone that\nneeds it. SO-50 only. He will QSL via LOTW but might wait until he\nreturns to Texas to get everyone uploaded.\n\n[ANS thanks John, K8YSE, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT 2017 Symposium Call for Papers\n\nThis is the first call for papers for the 2017 AMSAT Annual Meeting and\nSpace Symposium to be held on the weekend of October 27, 28, 29, 2017 at\nthe Silver Legacy Resort, Reno, Nevada. Proposals for papers, symposium\npresentations and poster presentations are invited on any topic of interest\nto the amateur satellite community. We request a tentative title of your\npresentation as soon as possible, with final copy to be submitted by\nOctober 6 for inclusion in the printed proceedings. Abstracts and papers\nshould be sent to Dan Schultz N8FGV at n8fgv at amsat.org\n\n[ANS thanks Dan, N8FGV, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nIARU Aligns Satellite Coordination Guidelines with ITU WRC-15 Decisions\n\nAs the global federation of national associations of radio amateurs in more\nthan 150 countries, the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) for many\nyears has provided frequency coordination services for amateur satellites\nfree of charge. Often these satellites are constructed by students at\nuniversities and other institutions as a part of their educational\nexperience. In general, they have been licensed to operate in the amateur-\nsatellite service, which is defined by the Radio Regulations of the\nInternational Telecommunication Union (ITU) as having the “…purpose of\nself-training, intercommunication and technical investigations carried out\nby amateurs, that is, by duly authorized persons interested in radio\ntechnique solely with a personal aim and without pecuniary interest.”\n\nSome administrations have issued experimental licenses for such satellites\noperating in amateur-satellite frequency bands. The IARU has coordinated\nthese satellites as well, to reduce the possibility of harmful interference\nthat might result from uncoordinated operation. Since 1 July 2014 it has\nnot been possible to coordinate experimental satellites in the 144-146 MHz\nband because of the high probability of harmful interference in this\nheavily used band.\n\nEducational satellite projects have grown in popularity as launch\nopportunities have increased. In 2012 the ITU World Radiocommunication\nConference took note of the proliferation of what in Resolution 757\n(WRC-12) it called “nanosatellites and picosatellites” and invited WRC-18\n(now scheduled for 2019) to consider steps to facilitate their deployment\nand operation. Two Reports, ITU-R SA.2312 (09/2014) and ITU-R SA.2348\n(05/2015), are instructive regarding the characteristics, definitions,\nspectrum requirements, and notification procedures of and for such\nsatellites, which generally must use spectrum below 1 GHz for operational\nreasons.\n\nAt the following WRC in 2015, in place of Resolution 757 the Member States\nof the ITU adopted Resolution 659 (WRC-15) in which it was noted that the\nuse of 144-146 MHz and 435-438 MHz by non-amateur satellites is not in\naccordance with the definition of the amateur-satellite service in the\nRadio Regulations. Resolution 659 cites the two reports mentioned above and\nmakes it clear that the spectrum needs of what are now called “non-\ngeostationary satellites with short duration missions” should be met either\nwithin the service in which the space station is operating or within the\nspace operation service. Further, if new or upgraded allocations to the\nspace operation service are required, studies should be limited to the\nfrequency ranges 150.05-174 MHz and 400.15-420 MHz.\n\nAccordingly, effective 1 August 2017 the IARU will be following revised\nguidelines for satellite frequency coordination.\n\nThe strong preference is for all satellites using spectrum allocated to the\namateur and amateur-satellite services to operate under amateur licenses\nand within the definition of the amateur-satellite service and the service-\nspecific Article 25 of the Radio Regulations. The IARU believes the\ndefinition is sufficiently broad to encompass nearly all educational\nsatellite projects that include giving students hands-on experience with\nradiocommunication and are conducted under an amateur license.\n\nThe IARU will only coordinate a non-amateur satellite if an administration\ndirects in writing that it be operated in an amateur-satellite band under\nan experimental or other non-amateur\nlicense.\n\nSatellites with combined amateur and non-amateur missions will continue to\nbe coordinated.\n\n[ANS thanks the IARU for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHave you seen the Mayak satellite?\n\nBy Deborah Byrd, EarthSky News in HUMAN WORLD | SPACE | July 18, 2017\nhttp://earthsky.org/space/mayak-bright-russian-satellite-july-august-2017\n\nOn July 14, an amateur group in Russia launched a small satellite\ncalled Mayak. They said it would become the “brightest shooting star”\nin the sky. Why’d they do it? Here’s how to look for it.\n\nA team of young Russians – led by Moscow State Mechanical Engineering\nUniversity (MAMI) – managed to raise more than $30,000 on Russian\ncrowdfunding website Boomstarter, in order to launch their own small\nsatellite. The satellite is called Mayak, which means beacon in English.\n\nIt’s a cubesat, roughly the size of a loaf of bread. And it’s up there.\nMayak went into space on July 14, 2017, as part of a secondary payload,\nlaunched on a Soyuz 2.1v vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.\n\nIt’ll be orbiting Earth, about 370 miles (600 km) high, for the coming\nmonth. It’s supposed to be very, very bright, so bright that it would,\nsupposedly, ruin night skies and threaten astronomy.\n\nSatellite tracking websites like Heavens Above are already trying to\nfollow it, hoping to offer information on Mayak’s passes over various\nparts of the world. Heavens Above commented: \"A new small satellite\nhas just been launched which will deploy a large reflector once in\norbit and has the potential to be very bright. We now have a\nprovisional orbit from Space-Track which you can use to generate\npredictions. Please note that the magnitude estimates are possibly\nvery inaccurate until actual observations are reported.\"\n\nHeavens-Above.com now has pass predictions up for the new Russian\nreflector sat \"Mayak,\" listing it as NORAD ID 2017-042F/42830.\nhttp://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=42830\n\nPlus Mayak has its own app, available to those who back the project.\nSee: http://cosmomayak.com/default#mobileapp\n\nHow bright is Mayak? Brightness estimates have varied, but the\nidea was that it would be the brightest shooting star in the sky.\nSome estimated it would be nearly as bright as Venus, the sky’s\nbrightest planet. Its brightness is part of its purpose, which\nis partly, simply, to inspire people.\n\n From Mayak’s website: The main objective of the project is to\nmake cosmonautics and space research poplar in Russia, as well\nas to make scientific and technical researches attractive to\nyouth.\n\nAlso from Mayak’s website:\n\nQuestion: Why did you build the satellite?\nAnswer: Everyone is used to think that flying into space is a\nprivilege of state and military corporations. We wanted to\nprove that space is simpler and closer than it seems, and a\nteam of enthusiasts can launch a satellite into space!\n\nThis The video shows Mayak’s launch, along with 72 other\nsatellites, on July 14, 2017 at 9:36 Moscow Time from the\nBaikonur cosmodrome: https://youtu.be/E0X0KfEnJAk\n\n[ANS thanks EarthSky News 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, KT4TZ\nkt4tz at amsat dot org\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }