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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/3KCX6DXKXZI2FE3NWMSZ4KDUSA3KW3RS/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "3KCX6DXKXZI2FE3NWMSZ4KDUSA3KW3RS", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/3KCX6DXKXZI2FE3NWMSZ4KDUSA3KW3RS/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[ans] ANS-122 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2016-05-01T01:36:38Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-122\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* Three New CubeSats Now in Orbit\n* Tomsk-TPU-120 CubeSat Celebrates University Anniversary\n* Audio Recordings of FO-12 and AO-15 Requested\n* ZACUBE-1 Beacon Preparations to be Presented at AMSAT SA Space Symposium\n* Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule\n* Possible Satellite Activation CY9C St. Paul Island August 2016\n* IARU Region 2 Call for EmComm Workshop Papers, Presentations\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-122.01\nANS-122 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 122.01\n From AMSAT HQ Kensington, MD.\nMay 1, 2016\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-122.01\n\nThree New CubeSats Now in Orbit\n\nSignals have been received from the three CubeSats launched April 25 on \nSoyuz\nflight VS14 from the Kourou spaceport in South America.\n\nThe three CubeSats were developed by student teams under the European Space\nAgency (ESA) Education Office “Fly Your Satellite!” program, which is \naimed at\ntraining the next generation of aerospace professionals. The satellites are\nOUFTI-1, Université of Liège, Belgium; e-st@r-II, Polytechnic of Turin, \nItaly;\nAAUSAT-4, University of Aalborg, Denmark.\n\nThe signal from the e-st@r satellite 1200 bps beacon is very weak which may\nindicate an antenna deployment issue or unexpectedly low transmit power. ESA\nreport the e-st@r team is working to consolidate the radio communication \nlink\nwith their satellite.\n\nOUFTI-1 carries the first dedicated amateur D-Star satellite transponder,\nfurther information and frequencies of all three CubeSats are at\nhttps://amsat-uk.org/2016/04/05/d-star-satellite-to-launch-from-kourou/\n\nDaniel Estévez EA4GPZ used a FUNcube Dongle Pro+ and a handheld Arrow \nSatellite\nantenna to receive a signal from AAUSAT-4, call sign OZ4CUB.\nhttp://destevez.net/2016/04/first-signals-from-aausat-4/\n\nOUFTI-1 reports http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?cat=321\n\ne-st@r reports http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?cat=84\n\nAAUSAT-4 reports http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?cat=8\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nTomsk-TPU-120 CubeSat Celebrates University Anniversary\n\nThe Russian Tomsk-TPU-120 CubeSat is different from other CubeSats – it \nhas a\nhandle!\n\nThe 3U CubeSat was launched from Baikonur to the ISS on March 31, 2016 in a\nProgress-MS-2 cargo vessel. It will be deployed by hand during a future \nRussian\nspacewalk (EVA), which is why it has a handle.\n\nThe satellite was developed by students at the Tomsk Polytechnic \nUniversity to\ntest new space materials technology and will be the world’s first space \nvehicle\nwith a 3D-printed structure.\n\nIn May 2016 Tomsk Polytechnic University celebrates its 120th \nanniversary. As\npart of the celebrations on May 10-11 Tomsk-TPU-120 will be activated in \nthe ISS\nand will transmit a greeting to Earth inhabitants, recorded by students \nof the\nuniversity in 10 languages: Russian, English, German, French, Chinese, \nArabic,\nTatar, Indian, Kazakh and Portuguese.\n\nThe greeting signal will be transmitted once a minute on 437.025 MHz FM. \nOne of\nthe Kenwood transceivers on the ISS will provide a simulcast of the \nsignal on 145.800 MHz FM.\n\nDmitry Pashkov R4UAB reports that on May 5 the Russian ISS crew will \ncharge the\nsatellite battery, connect the antenna and configure the Kenwood \ntransceiver for\nsimulcast operation, they will then make a test transmission.\n\nDmitry operates a WebSDR which you can use to receive the transmissions \nwhen the\nISS is over Russia http://websdr.r4uab.ru/\n\nThe next Russian spacewalk appears to be EVA-43 which expected to take \nplace in\nearly 2017 http://spaceflight101.com/iss/iss-calendar/\n\nUse Google translator to read original article by Dmitry Pashkov R4UAB\nhttp://r4uab.ru/?p=11845\n\nWorld’s First 3D-printed Satellite http://tpu.ru/en/news-events/760/\n\n[ANS thanks Gunter's Space Page, R4UAB, and AMSAT-UK for the above\ninformation]\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAudio Recordings of FO-12 and AO-15 Requested\n\nMathias, DD1US, maintains a homepage at www.dd1us.de Included is a section\ncalled \"Sounds from Space\".\n\nMore than 1000 recordings of various satellite and space objects have been\ncollected and are available for listening.\n\nMathias is still searching for various recordings of Amateur Radio \nSatellites,\nespecially for Fuji-OSCAR-12 and UoSAT-OSCAR-15. If you have old tapes or\ncassettes with recordings of Ham Radio Satellites he will be happy to \ndigitize\nthem and add them to the archive.\n\n[ANS thanks Mathias, DD1US, for the above information]\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nZACUBE-1 Beacon Preparations to be Presented at AMSAT SA Space Symposium\n\nStudents from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology will present a \npaper\nat the AMSAT SA Space Symposium on the high frequency beacon transmitter\ndeveloped to test a three element direction finding array constructed at \nSANSA\nSpace Science in Hermanus to receive the 14 099 kHz HF beacon signal from\nZACUBE-1 and future ZACUBE-i space weather missions. A ground-based \ntransmitter\nwas developed for verification and calibration of this array. The signal \nwill be\nused to verify the operation of the hardware and software used to \ndetermine the\ndirection of arrival of the incoming signal. More about the symposium on \n28 May\n2016, details on the many papers to be presented and how to register for the\nevent can be found on www.amsatsa.org.za\n\n[ANS thanks the SARL weekly news in English 2016-4-30 for the above \ninformation]\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule\n\nAshfield Primary School, Otley, West Yorkshire, UK, direct via GB1APS\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be GB1SS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI\nContact is a go for: Thu 2016-05-05 08:08:09 UTC 46 deg (***)\n\nAll Saints STEAM Academy (AS2A), Middletown, Rhode Island, direct via\nN1ASA\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be TBD\nThe scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN or Jeff Williams KD5TVQ\nContact is a go for: Fri 2016-05-06 16:43:47 UTC 56 deg (***)\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie, AJ9N, for the above information]\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nPossible Satellite Activation CY9C St. Paul Island August 2016\n\nCY9C, ST. PAUL ISLAND DXPEDITION (August 19-29th). Randy, N0TG, reports\nthe following on April 16th: As was reported previously, we will have\ntwo separate sites...separated approximately 1.5 miles.\n\n Site 1 will be the Atlantic Cove site with 6 operators. We will try\n to keep 4-5 radios running and more if 12/10m opens. Our plan is to\n have a RTTY station active at all times. From this site 160 will be\n given lots of attention with the Battle Creek Special antenna.\n\n Site 2 - the Northeast Point separate island will be enhanced to include\n 4 -5 operators active at all times, thus the dxpedition in total can\n potentially have 8-10 radios working most of the time. We are seriously\n considering 6m EME and Satellite, however, we need to work out the\n planning details. And, as always, budget matters are a significant\n consideration as we expand operations. We appreciate the support by\n many to date. The desire is to make this a very complete operation\n that will offer fun and meeting needs for all interests.\n\n The CY9C Web page is: http://www.CY9Dxpedition.com\n\n[ANS thanks the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin #1263 for the above information]\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nIARU Region 2 Call for EmComm Workshop Papers, Presentations\n\nInternational Amateur Radio Union Region 2 (IARU-R2) will hold an Emergency\nCommunications Workshop in Chile this fall, in conjunction with the 19th \nIARU\nRegion 2 General Assembly. The conference committee is inviting papers and\npresentations the event. The workshop on October 11 in Viña del Mar, \nChile, will\noffer an opportunity for Region 2 emergency coordinators and other national-\nlevel Amateur Radio emergency communication experts to network and to share\ninformation on Amateur Radio emergency response as well as to augment the\ncapabilities of the region’s amateurs to react to large-scale, multinational\ncommunication emergencies.\n\nThe event is open to radio amateurs in IARU Region 2 with high-level \nexpertise\nin providing disaster and emergency communication. Attendees will be \nresponsible\nfor their travel and lodging costs. A block of rooms will be available \nat the\nO’Higgins Hotel in downtown Viña del Mar.\n\nLink to Register online:\n\nhttp://www.arrl.org/news/iaru-region-2-calls-for-emergency-communications-\nworkshop-papers-presentations\n\n\nCall for Papers\n\nDelegates representing IARU Region 2 member societies, national or \ninternational\nAmateur Radio emergency communication organizations, or \nnational/international-\nlevel subject matter experts in Amateur Radio emergency communication are\ninvited to submit proposals and informational papers. Topics must be \nrelated to\nAmateur Radio emergency communication, disaster response, technology, or\noperating standards.\n\nDocuments must be in electronic form (MS Word or Power Point). When \nlaying out\nthe document format, use A4 paper with at least 3-centimeter margins on all\nsides. The title page should have a top margin of at least 6 \ncentimeters. Do not\ninsert page headers or footers.\n\nThe deadline to submit is July 1. The IARU Region 2 Emergency Communications\nWorkshop Committee will select the most appropriate papers for \npresentation. All\nother submitted materials will be compiled for distribution to all \ndelegates and\nwill be posted on the Region 2 website for downloading.\n\nDirect submissions in English to [email protected]; direct submissions in \nSpanish\nto [email protected].\n\nThe Emergency Communications Workshop will be held on Tuesday, October \n11, at\nthe Hotel O’Higgins in Viña del Mar from 9 AM until 6 PM.\n\n[ANS thanks the ARRL and IARU for the above information]\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,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }