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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/5ULH63TI6D7PKNWJMFIGLY6DLSLLMN7D/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "4833F87784EC4858948231A022B7D3F0@DGXC4DC1", "message_id_hash": "5ULH63TI6D7PKNWJMFIGLY6DLSLLMN7D", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/5ULH63TI6D7PKNWJMFIGLY6DLSLLMN7D/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "morsesat (a) optonline.net", "mailman_id": "72f51eafcada419487d1a984af73dff5", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/72f51eafcada419487d1a984af73dff5/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Dee", "subject": "[ans] FW: [amsat-bb] ANS-045 AMSAT Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2010-02-14T15:45:33Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "\nAMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-045\n\nANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America,\nThe Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the activities of a\nworldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in\ndesigning, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital\nAmateur Radio satellites.\nThis is your chance to join in the ranks of AMSAT. There is still an\nopening or two for someone to step in and assist with the ANS editing\nprocess. If you are interested, please drop a line to Joanne Maenpaa,\[email protected]. There are many other volunteer slots and you can find them\nin the advertisement in the AMSAT Journal. It takes many helpful hands to\nkeep our group well oiled. (ed.)\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\n\[email protected]\n\n\nIn this edition:\n* 36th Annual Eastern VHF/UHF Conference\n* LORAN C Shutdown\n* HO-68 Schedule\n* Arecibo Dish to be Activated on Amateur Radio EME\n* W6ZH, Silent Key\n* ARISS Status - 8 February 2010\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-045.01\n36th Annual Eastern VHF/UHF Conference\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 045.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nFebruary 14, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-045.01\n\n36th Annual Eastern VHF/UHF Conference\n\nThe 36th Annual Eastern VHF/UHF Conference will be on April 16-18, \n2010 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Enfield, CT. The NorthEast Weak Signal \nGroup (NEWS) is calling for the submission of papers and presentations.\nPapers and presentations are solicited on both the technical and opera-\ntional aspects of VHF, UHF and Microwave weak signal amateur radio.\n\nWe will have a Hospitality Suite for early arrivals on Friday Evening \nstarting at 7:00PM to 11:00 PM. Conference registration will begin on \nSaturday at 7:30 AM and talks and band sessions will start at 8:30 AM. \nA banquet dinner, Triva quiz and prize raffles will begin at 7:00 PM.\nOn Sunday an outdoor flea market, weather permitting, will begin at\n8:00 to 11:00 AM. Starting this year flea market admission will be FREE \nfor both buyers and sellers of VHF and above relate equipment items only.\nCompliments of Greg WA1VUG and R&S we will have the following test capa-\nbilities up to 50 GHz.\n\nRegistration is now open for this years conference. A block of Hotel Rooms \nis available at the Crowne Plaza, Enfield under the NEWS group for $99. \nThe latest conference news can be found on-line at:\nhttp://www.newsvhf.com/vhfconf.html\n\n[ANS thanks Bruce, N2LIV Conference Chairman for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-045.02\nLORAN C Shut Down\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 045.02\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nFebruary 14, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-045.02\n\nLORAN-C shut down\nOn February 8 the U.S Coast Guard shut down the Loran-C a navigation\n system that has been in use since World War II.\n\nLORAN (LOng RAnge Navigation) made use of a network of Low Frequency \n(LF) radio transmitters and the receivers used these multiple signals \nto determine the location and speed of the vessel. It has served \nmariners and aviators well for over 60 years.\n\nPresident Obama has called the system obsolete, saying it is no \nlonger needed in an age in which Global Positioning System devices \nare nearly ubiquitous in cars, planes and boats. \n\nRunning Loran-C is claimed to cost the Federal Government about \n$38 million a year but shutting it down means there is no longer \na back-up system for GPS.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate news service for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-045.03\nHO-68 Schedule\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 045.03\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nFebruary 14, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-045.03\n\n14 Feb. 2010, Linear Transponder\n=======================================\n01:37...Turn On FM/Digital Transponder\nNorth Asia,East Asia,South Asia\n01:52...Turn Off\n\n08:40...Turn On\nEurope,Africa\n09:20...Turn Off\n\n19:15...Turn On\nAfrica,Europe,NA\n20:00...Turn Off\n\n15 Feb. 2010, FM/Digital Transponder\n=======================================\n00:25...Turn On\nSouth America, NA\n01:05...Turn Off\n\n03:03...Turn On\nNorth Asia,East Asia,South Asia\n03:18...Turn Off\n\n06:10...Turn On\n\nNA,North Asia,Middle East,Europe,Africa\n06:55...Turn Off\n\n15:25...Turn On\n\nMiddle Asia,India,Europe,NA\n16:10...Turn Off\n\n18:45...Turn On\n\nAfrica,Europe,NA\n19:30...Turn Off\n\n16 Feb. 2010, FM/Digital Transponder\n=======================================\n01:55...Turn On\nSouth America,NA,North Asia\n02:35...Turn Off\n\n11:00...Turn On\nOceania,South Asia,\nEast Asia,North Asia,Europe\n11:40...Turn Off\n\n15:25...Turn On\nNA,South America\n15:55...Turn Off\n\n16:50...Turn On\nIndia,Middle East,Europe,NA\n17:35...Turn Off\n\n20:15...Turn On\nAfrica,Europe,NA\n21:00...Turn Off\n\n17 Feb. 2010, FM/Digital Transponder\n=======================================\n02:24...Turn On\nNorth Asia,East Asia,South Asia\n02:39...Turn Off\n\n10:45...Turn On\nOceania,East Asia,North Asia,Europe\n11:30...Turn Off\n\n15:10...Turn On\nEurope,NA,South America\n15:40...Turn Off\n\n18:30...Turn On\nIndia,Middle East,Africa,Europe,NA\n19:15...Turn Off\n\n20:10...Turn On\nAfrica,Europe,NA\n20:55...Turn Off\n\n18 Feb. 2010, FM/Digital Transponder\n=======================================\n02:17...Turn On\nNorth Asia,East Asia,South Asia\n02:32...Turn Off\n\n03:10...Turn On\nSouth America,NA,North Asia\n03:55...Turn Off\n\n10:25...Turn On\nOceania, South Asia, East Asia,\nNorth Asia,Europe\n11:10...Turn Off\n\n16:15...Turn On\nIndia,Middle East Asia,Europe,NA,\n17:00...Turn Off\n\n19:40...Turn On\nAfrica,Europe,NA,\n20:25...Turn Off\n\n19 Feb. 2010, FM/Digital Transponder\n=======================================\n01:54...Turn On\nNorth Asia,East Asia,South Asia\n02:10...Turn Off\n\n02:50...Turn On\nSouth America,NA,North Asia\n03:35...Turn Off\n\n14:35...Turn On\nSouth America,NA,North Asia,Europe\n15:05...Turn Off\n\n19:35...Turn On\nAfrica,Europe,NA\n20:20...Turn Off\n\n23:20...Turn On\nSouth America,NA,North Asia,East Asia\n24:05...Turn Off\n\n20:00...Turn On\nAfrica,Europe,NA,North Asia\n20:45...Turn Off\n\n20 Feb. 2010, FM/Digital Transponder\n=======================================\n01:34...Turn On\nNorth Asia,East Asia,South Asia\n01:49...Turn Off\n\n02:35...Turn On\nSouth America,NA,North Asia\n03:20...Turn Off\n\n08:45...Turn On\nNorth Asia, Europe,Africa\n09:25...Turn Off\n\n19:05...Turn On\nAfrica,Europe,NA\n19:50...Turn Off\n\n21 Feb. 2010, FM/Digital Transponder\n=======================================\n01:27...Turn On\nNorth Asia,East Asia,South Asia\n01:41...Turn Off\n\n02:20...Turn On\nSouth America,NA,North Asia\n03:00...Turn Off\n\n08:30...Turn On\nNorth Asia,Europe,Africa\n09:10...Turn Off\n\n11:25...Turn On\nOceania\n11:40...Turn Off\n\n\n73\nAlan Kung, BA1DU\nHO-68(XW-1) Project Manager\nwww.camsat.cn\n\n[ANS thanks Alan Kung, BA1DU\nHO-68(XW-1) Project Manager for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-045.04\nArecibo Dish to be Activated on Amateur Radio EME\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 045.04\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nFebruary 14, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-045.04\n\nArecibo Dish to be Activated on Amateur Radio EME\n\nWhile this item is not satellite related it may provide our ANS\nreaders with a unique opportunity to utilize modest UHF and 1296\nstations to copy EME signals. A large OSCAR-class antenna array\nequipped station may be able to participate.\n\nEchoes of Apollo EME 2010 or World Moon Bounce Day, is scheduled\nfor the weekend of April 16, 17, and 18. This year, EOA has been \ngraced with a special opportunity to use the Arecibo Dish as the\nultimate \"big gun\" station on 432 MHz SSB & CW. EME operation on\n1296 MHz may also be possible. Arecibo has more than 50 dbi gain \non 432 MHz so the team thinks it can be heard with modest equip-\nment.\n\n[ANS thanks the Echoes of Apollo project for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-045.05\nW6ZH, Silent Key\n\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 045.05\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nFebruary 14, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-045.05\n\n\nIt is with much sadness that AMSAT notes the passing on Feb.4 of Herbert\n\"Pete\" Hoover III, W6ZH at his home in San Marino, CA. Pete was the grandson\nof former President Herbert Hoover. Pete's W6ZH call was inherited from his\nfather who served as ARRL President; Pete's original call was W6APW. He was\nAMSAT Life Member #65.\n\nIn the 1970's, Pete and Bill Eitel (W6UF) saw that AMSAT and amateur\nsatellites were a significant wave of amateur radio's future. In addition to\nmaking substantial contributions, they worked with the ARRL to form the ARRL\nFoundation in 1976. Beginning in 1978 Pete served on the ARRL Long Range\nPlanning Committee.\n\nI remember the hospitality Pete and his wife Meridith showed to Jan King\n(W3GET) and me on several occasions when we dropped by his home in San\nMarino to discuss AMSAT's future.\n\nPete was always very active in the American Red Cross. When the Pacsat\nconcept was being developed, Harold Price (NK6K) and I called on Pete at the\nHoover Foundation offices to discuss the concept of a store-and-forward\nmessaging satellite to provide medical communications to a remote area. At\nPete's instigation, we began working with VITA (Volunteers in Technical\nAssistance) and our Pacsat concept bore fruit when UoSAT-3 was re-badged as\nHealthsat-1 (see http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/healthsat-2.htm).\n\nI last saw Pete at Dayton two years ago. I was in the chow line when I heard\na \"Hey Tom\" from a nearby table. Pete was spending most of his time at his\nretirement home on Maui and he looked very fit and had an incredible tan!\nWhile I was munching on a hamburger we has a great face-to-face QSO. He told\nme that he was still on the air, now using an Elecraft radio.\n\nI'll miss Pete's enthusiasm and friendship. I could always count on his\nthoughtful advice.\n\n73 de Tom, K3IO (ex W3IWI)\n\n[ANS thanks Tom, K3IO, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-045.06\nARISS Status - 8 February 2010\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 045.06\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nFebruary 14, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-045.06\n\n\n1.\tAstronaut T. J. Creamer Enjoys ARISS Contact with Riley Ave.\nStudents\n\nOn Tuesday, February 2, astronaut Timothy Creamer, KC5WKI spoke with Riley\nAvenue Elementary School students through an Amateur Radio on the\nInternational Space Station (ARISS) contact. The Calverton, New York youth\nspent weeks preparing for the contact, studying space and the solar system\nduring Science and creating rockets and robots in Art class. The Peconic\nAmateur Radio Club helped coordinate the contact and provided the equipment\nused. A Riley fourth grader and newly licensed ham acted as the control\noperator during the contact.\n\n2.\tPrincipal has Good Memories of First ARISS Contact\n\nThe first Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact\nwas held between Bill Shepherd on the ISS and students attending Burbank\nSchool in Burbank, Illinois on December 21, 2000. Recently Burbank's\nprincipal made the comment, \"I continue to feel that the contact and the\nfollow-up visit were by far my best experiences as an educator,\" which says\nmuch about the program and its effect on those who participate. The school\ncontinues to display a plaque commemorating the ARISS event in its lobby.\n\n3.\tISS Ham Debrief Held with Frank De Winne \n\nExpedition 20/21 astronaut Frank DeWinne, ON1DWN participated in an Amateur\nRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) debrief session on\nThursday, February 4, 2010. The feedback provided will help ARISS update\nprogram operations.\n\n4.\tARISSat-1 Status Report Posted\n\nAMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation) posted an article on the status\nof ARISSat-1. To view \"Building the First US ARISSAT-1 Flight Unit Begins,\"\nsee:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/index.php\n\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\nClub. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project\nFunds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms\nare\navailable from the AMSAT Office.\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nDee Interdonato, NB2F\nnb2f at amsat dot org\n\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }