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    "subject": "[ans] ANS-235  AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2015-08-23T00:27:00Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-235\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* Launch Date for AMSAT Fox-1A\n* Satellite Antennas and the Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015\n* CubeSat Developers' Workshop Presentations Online\n* JAXA H-II Transport Vehicle to Deliver Two ESA Cubesats\n* IARU Coordination of Satellite Frequencies\n* IARU Region 3 Act on Band Plan Satellite Allocations\n* AMSAT Satellite Communications Awards\n* Send Your Name to Mars on NASA's Next Red Planet Mission\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-235.01\nANS-235 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 235.01\n  From AMSAT HQ Kensington, MD.\nAugust 23, 2015\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-214.01\n\nLaunch Date for AMSAT Fox-1A\n\nJeru Buxton, N0JY, AMSAT Vice President of Engineering advises that \nAMSAT has\nbeen informed that the launch of Fox-1A is now scheduled for October 8.\nNo other details are available at this time.\n\n[ANS thanks Jerry, N0JY, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Antennas and the Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015\n\nAMSAT members are encouraged to contact their congressional representatives\nand senators, asking them to sign on to The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015\nas a co-sponsor. Passage of the Act (currently consisting of bills in both\nthe House and Senate) will directly benefit AMSAT members and likely help us\ngrow our membership numbers.\n\nPutting satellites in orbit is only half the challenge of \"working the\nbirds.\" Reaching them with an appropriate ground station is the other half.\nMany of us living in housing developments, condos or apartments would love\nto have a fixed station antenna system but are severely limited by\nrestrictive CC&Rs that forbid outside antennas. We are relegated to working\nISS, SO-50 and future LEO satellites with Arrows, Elks and HTs.\n\nThe Radio Amateur Parity Act of 2015 would not give Amateurs \"carte blanche\"\nto do whatever they wished in terms of erecting radio antennas where they\nnow are prohibited. But it would eliminate blanket prohibitions, requiring\nHOAs and other private land use regulators to extend reasonable\naccommodation to Amateurs who want to erect antennas.\n\nThe ARRL is leading on this issue for the larger Amateur Radio community.\nSample letters for the U.S. House and Senate, along with instructions for\ntheir use. can be found at this link:\n\nhttp://www.arrl.org/amateur-radio-parity-act\n\n[ANS thanks Joe Neil Kornowski, KB6IGK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCubeSat Developers' Workshop Presentations Online\n\nThe 12th Annual Summer CubeSat Developers’ Workshop was a great\nsuccess!! The Workshop feedback has been amazing, and truly underscores the\nefforts of all who participated, from the engaging, entertaining, and\nprovocative technical presentations to the incredible networking\nopportunities.\n\nThank you to all Presenters, Attendees, Sponsors, Live Stream Viewers, and\nOrganizers! Your contribution was invaluable to the success of the Workshop\nand greatly appreciated!\n\nFor those of you who could not make it, or for those of you who want to\nreview what you saw, all presentations can be found online on \ncubesat.org with a\nlink to the video of the presentation.\n\nPlease join us at the 13th Annual Spring Developers’ Workshop at Cal Poly in\nSan Luis Obispo, CA from April 20-22, 2016.\n\n[ANS thanks The CubeSat Workshop Team for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nJAXA H-II Transport Vehicle to Deliver Two ESA Cubesats\n\nJapan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) launch of its H-II Transport\nVehicle (HTV)-5 to the International Space Station on Wednesday, Aug. 19\nincluded two cubesats. These satellites will then be deployed together into\nspace in the first half of September, with the involvement of Danish ESA\nastronaut Andreas Mogensen. Both CubeSats originated from Denmark.\n\nGOMX-3 is a 3U Cubesat. The mission and its payloads will be used for story\ntelling and teaching. It will include an ADS-B receiver, magnetometer data,\nsolar cells and green energy and radio operation. An experimental X Band\ntransmitter plus an SDR receiver will also be carried.\n\nGOMX-3 downlink: 437.250 MHz with 1k2-9k6 GMSK data from a NanoCom AX100\nusing CSP protocol.\n\nAAUSAT-5 is a 1 unit cubesat. The primary mission is to receive AIS beacons\nfrom ships with a new design based on AAUSAT-3. In addition to that a\neducational payload for high school outreach was designed by engineering\nstudents. The AIS receiver payload is based on SDR principles. Once deployed\nfrom the ISS it is expected to remain in orbit for approx 6 months.\n\nAAUSAT-5 downlink:  437.425 MHz, GMSK telemetry.\n\nDanish Ministry of Science and Education, House of Natural Sciences\nhttp://nvhus.dk/house-of-natural-sceinces.aspx\n\nESA Cubesat launch announcement:\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ESA-Gomx\n\nSpaceRef.com article about AAUSAT-5:\nhttp://tinyurl.com/AAUSAT-Article\n\n[ANS thanks ESA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nIARU Coordination of Satellite Frequencies\n\nThe IARU have announced they are committed to only coordinate satellite\nfrequencies within the internationally aligned IARU band plans.\n\nThe two metre amateur band is one of the most popular and populated \nbands in all\nthe spectrum allocated to the amateur and amateur satellite services. This\nrecently led to a request by satellite builders for coordination outside the\nspectrum reserved for satellites in the IARU band plans (145.800 – \n146.000 MHz)\nas not enough channels are available to satisfy their requirements.\n\nThe IARU Satellite Adviser, Hans van de Groenendaal, ZS6AKV and his advisory\npanel are mandated to coordinate frequencies within the IARU band plans for\namateur satellites. Coordinated frequencies must comply with band plans \nthat are\ncommon to all three IARU Regions Satellites coordinated outside these plans\ncould cause interference to terrestrial amateur operations in other \nregions. In\ntheory satellites could be programmed so that they only operate over their\ncountry of origin.  Because satellite orbits make it difficult to pinpoint\noperations, spill over to other Regions may occur during parts of the orbit.\nAccordingly, IARU will not coordinate frequencies for satellites which are\nplanned to operate outside the internationally aligned IARU band plans for\namateur satellites.\n\nThe IARU offers frequency coordination in an effort to maximise spectrum\nutilisation and avoid possible interference to other satellites and ground\nstations.\n\nThe IARU requests that satellite groups work on a sharing plan or use other\nparts of the amateur service spectrum designated for satellite \noperation. When a\nlarge group of satellite sharing the same band are launched, they will soon\ndrift apart which enhances the opportunity to share the same \nfrequencies. For\nexample, during the initial phase, just after launch, a time sharing system\ncould be used to monitor the payloads before initialising transponders \nand other\nsystems.\n\nFor instance, the 10 metre band, once popular with satellite builders, \nis today\nnot significantly used. The band segment 29.300-29.510 MHz has been used for\namateur-satellite downlinks for more than 40 years, beginning with \nAustralis-\nOSCAR 5 in 1970 and AMSAT-OSCAR 6, AMSAT’s first communications \nsatellite, in\n1972.  The band segment was very popular for downlinks in the 1970s and \n1980s.\nToday, only one amateur satellite actively uses a 29 MHz downlink: \nAMSAT-OSCAR\n7, launched in 1974 [and RS-15 on 29.3525 MHz – Editor].  While a 29 MHz\ndownlink would not be practical for today’s very small satellites, owing \nto the\nsize of the antenna required, the band could be used very practically for\nuplinks even with small receiving antennas, because transmitting power \nat the\nearth station is easy to obtain.  The IARU Satellite Adviser and his panel\nbelieve that the 10 metre band offers a good alternative to 2 metre uplinks\n\nCurrently the IARU team also coordinates frequencies for satellites built by\nuniversities and educational groups in an effort to maximise spectrum\nutilisation and mitigate any possible interference to Amateur Radio \noperations.\nThe IARU is committed to work with these groups and with the ITU to find \nother\nspectrum for these satellites.\n\nRod Stafford W6ROD\nSecretary\nInternational Amateur Radio Union (IARU)\n\n[ANS thanks Rod, W6ROD, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nIARU Region 3 Act on Band Plan Satellite Allocations\n\nThe IARU Region 3 (Asia/Pacific) Directors have submitted a band plan paper\nconcerning amateur satellite allocations for consideration at the IARU \nRegion 3\nConference which takes place October 12-16 in Bali, Indonesia.\n\nThis is the 16th Conference and it will be hosted by the Amateur Radio\nOrganisation of Indonesia (ORARI). 60 Premier and 12 Suite hotel rooms \nhave been\nbooked at the Sanur Paradise Plaza Hotel which is described as being \nsituated in\nSanur, the secretly sophisticated side of Bali.\n\nORARI plans to run a special event station YB16IARU from October 11-16 \nfrom the\nconference and the delegates will be taken on a tour of Bali.\n\nThe President of ORARI, Sutiyoso YB0ST, says: “It’s an exciting time for \nus as\nwe continue to grow and thrive, remaining always adaptable, motivated and\nresponsive. The world of amateur radio is an exciting area in which to \nwork and\nplay, and we’ll continue to meet and bring inspired people together in \nforums\nlike this, to ensure IARU Region 3 remains at the cutting edge.”\n\nThe changes proposed by IARU Region 3 Directors would appear to prohibit \nthe use\nof the Amateur Satellite Service channel 144.490 MHz as an uplink for crewed\nspace missions. Use of this channel was agreed by IARU Region 3 some 20 \nyears\nago but the new paper says:\n\n“Note 2: The other portion of the band 144.035-145.8 MHz is exclusively\nidentified for the amateur service.”\n\nAt the same time IARU Region 3 had agreed the crewed space mission downlink\nchannel would be 145.800 MHz using 5 kHz deviation FM with a Doppler \nshift of\n+/- 3.75 kHz. The paper does not record this.\n\nRead the IARU R3 Directors amateur satellite band plan paper at\nhttp://www.iaru-\nr3.org/16r3c/docs/022%20Modification%20to%20R3%20Band%20Plan.docx\n\nThe Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) have presented a satellite \nband plan\npaper, see\nhttp://www.iaru-r3.org/16r3c/docs/023%20Changes%20to%20R3%20Bandplan.docx\n\nOther papers submitted for the conference may be seen at\nhttp://iaru-r3.org/16th-triennial-conference-of-the-iaru-r3-documents/\n\n16th IARU R3 Conference http://www.iarur3conf2015.org/\n\nIARU Coordination of Satellite Frequencies\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2015/08/20/iaru-coordination-of-satellite-frequencies/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAMSAT Satellite Communications Awards\n\nBruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director Contests and Awards provided the \nfollowing\ncorrected list of AMSAT Satellite Communications Award recipients as an \nupdate\nto the list previously published in ANS-228.\n\n  Steve Kristoff, AI9IN #564\n  Frank Westphal, K6FW #565\n  Fraser Bonnett, W3UTD #566\n  Carlton Noll, KA4H #567 (also a new member to AMSAT)\n\n[ANS thanks Bruce, KK5DO, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSend Your Name to Mars on NASA's Next Red Planet Mission\n\nMars enthusiasts around the world can participate in NASA’s journey to \nMars by\nadding their names to a silicon microchip headed to the Red Planet \naboard NASA's\nInSight Mars lander, scheduled to launch next year.\n\n\"Our next step in the journey to Mars is another fantastic mission to the\nsurface,\" said Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA \nHeadquarters in\nWashington. \"By participating in this opportunity to send your name aboard\nInSight to the Red Planet, you're showing that you're part of that \njourney and\nthe future of space exploration.\"\n\nSubmissions will be accepted until Sept. 8. To send your name to Mars aboard\nInSight, go to:\n\nhttp://go.usa.gov/3Aj3G\n\nThe fly-your-name opportunity comes with “frequent flier” points to \nreflect an\nindividual's personal participation in NASA’s journey to Mars, which \nwill span\nmultiple missions and multiple decades. The InSight mission offers the \nsecond\nsuch opportunity for space exploration fans to collect points by flying \ntheir\nnames aboard a NASA mission, with more opportunities to follow.\n\nLast December, the names of 1.38 million people flew on a chip aboard \nthe first\nflight of NASA's Orion spacecraft, which will carry astronauts to deep space\ndestinations including Mars and an asteroid. After InSight, the next \nopportunity\nto earn frequent flier points will be NASA's Exploration Mission-1, the \nfirst\nplanned test flight bringing together the Space Launch System rocket and \nOrion\ncapsule in preparation for human missions to Mars and beyond.\n\nInSight will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California in March \n2016 and\nland on Mars Sept. 28, 2016. The mission is the first dedicated to the\ninvestigation of the deep interior of the planet. It will place the first\nseismometer directly on the surface of Mars to measure Martian quakes \nand use\nseismic waves to learn about the planet's interior. It also will deploy \na self-\nhammering heat probe that will burrow deeper into the ground than any \nprevious\ndevice on the Red Planet. These and other InSight investigations will \nimprove\nour understanding about the formation and evolution of all rocky planets,\nincluding Earth.\n\nFor additional information about the InSight mission, visit:\n\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/insight/main/index.html\n\nYou can follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at:\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/NASAInSight\n\nand\n\nhttps://twitter.com/nasainsight\n\n[ANS thanks NASA 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, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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