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    "sender_name": "E.Mike McCardel",
    "subject": "[ans] ANS-001 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2017-01-01T01:57:55Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-001\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* Tomsk-TPU-120 CubeSat to deploy during EVA\n* New Amateur Radio FM Transponder CubeSat Now in Space\n* Background info on launch problems for BY70-1\n* Possible Satellite Activity Galapagos Islands\n* CONTACT! via UHF ISS digipeater using Kenwood TH-D72\n* AMSAT CW Activity Day\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-001.01\nANS-001 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 001.01\n>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nJanuary 01, 2017\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-001.01\n\n\n\nTomsk-TPU-120 CubeSat to deploy during EVA\n\nThe amateur radio CubeSat Tomsk-TPU-120 may be deployed during a\nRussian spacewalk (EVA) in July 2017.\n\nThe satellite was developed by students at the Tomsk Polytechnic\nUniversity to test new space materials technology and is the world’s\nfirst space vehicle with a 3D-printed structure. It was launched from\nBaikonur in Kazakhstan to the ISS on March 31, 2016 in a Progress-MS-\n2 cargo vessel.\n\nIt will be deployed by hand during a Russian spacewalk, which is why\nunlike other CubeSats this one has a handle. The call sign of the\nsatellite is RS4S.\n\nAccording to Alexey Yakovlev, head of the Tomsk Polytechnic\nUniversity’s Institute of High Technologies, the 3D printed satellite\nis something of a landmark for additive manufacturing, being the\nfirst example of a fully 3D printed satellite: “The Tomsk-TPU-120 is\nthe first such project in the world, in which the entire casing of a\nsatellite is fully 3D printed using dynamic modeling,” Yakovlev\nrecently told Sputnik. “The combination of these technologies can\nsignificantly reduce the development time and the number of full-\nscale tests, find new engineering solutions, and reduce the project’s\ncost.”\n\nIn May 2016 the Tomsk Polytechnic University celebrated its 120th\nanniversary. As part of the celebrations on May 10/11 the Tomsk-TPU-\n120 was activated in the ISS and transmitted a greeting to Earth\ninhabitants, recorded by students of the university in 10 languages:\nRussian, English, German, French, Chinese, Arabic, Tatar, Indian,\nKazakh and Portuguese.\n\nThe greeting message was transmitted once a minute on 437.025 MHz\nFM. A Kenwood transceiver on the ISS provided a cross-band relay, re-\ntransmitting the signal on 145.800 MHz FM.\n\nRead the 3ders article at\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS001-3darticle\n\nSputnik News – Unique 3D-Printed Siberian Satellite to Orbit Earth\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS001-3D/\n\nISS Calendar http://spaceflight101.com/iss/iss-calendar/\n\nTomsk-TPU-120 CubeSat Video http://tinyurl.com/ANS001-Tomsk-TPU-120\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNew Amateur Radio FM Transponder CubeSat Now in Space\n\nThe BY70-1 CubeSat launched on December 28 from the Taiyuan Space\nLaunch Center in China, but in a lower orbit than intended. The\nsatellite carries an Amateur Radio FM transponder.\n\nBY70-1 was intended to go into a 530-kilometer (approximately 329-\nmile) circular Sun-synchronous orbit, but it appears the orbit is 524\nx 212 kilometers, which will give the spacecraft an orbital lifetime\nof just a month or two.\n\nPaul Stoetzer, N8HM, reported working Wyatt Dirks, AC0RA, through\nthe FM transponder during the 1709 UTC pass on December 28. \"Uplink\nrequires precise frequency adjustment, and there's a delay on the\ndownlink, but the signal is strong,\" Stoetzer said.\n\nBY70-1 is a 2U CubeSat project for education and Amateur Radio. It\nfeatures 3-axis stabilization and deployable solar panels. In\naddition to the FM transponder, BY70-1 has a camera, and plans call\nfor downloading images and telemetry via a 9600 bps BPSK downlink.\nThe IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination pages list an\nuplink of 145.920 MHz, and a downlink of 436.200 MHz.\n\nAMSAT-UK has more information online at,\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS001-AMSAT-UK-BY70\n\n[ANS thanks ARRL for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nBackground info on launch problems for BY70-1\n\nOn Dec 28 China launched a CZ-2D from Taiyuan - the first time the\n2D model has flown from their southern launch site. However, the\nrocket appears to have run into problems and achieved orbit with an\nunderspeed of 100 m/s, making a 212 x 520 km orbit instead of a\ncircular 500 km one.\n\nThe main payloads are Gaojing 1 and 2, two commercial high\nresolution (0.5m) imaging satellites also called SuperView 1 and 2.\nThe satellites are owned by Beijing Aerospace World View Information\nTechnology Co., Ltd (also called Beijing Space View Tech Co.Ltd.);\nthe US company DigitalGlobe is a major investor.\n\nAlso aboard was BY70-1, or Bayi kepu weixing 01 xing, a 2U cubesat\nwith an amateur radio payload developed by high school students at\nthe PLA-related Beijing Bayi School.\n\n[ANS thanks Jonathan's Space Report, No. 733 for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nPossible Satellite Activity Galapagos Islands\n\nHC8, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. Geoff, G8OFQ, will once again be active as\nHC8/G8OFQ from Isabela Island (SA-004) between August 1st and October\n31st, 2017. Activity will be on 160-6 meters using SSB only. There is\na possibility of some satellite activity on 2m and 70cm SSB. Geoff is\nthere working as a volunteer for the Galapagos National Park at the\nGiant Tortoise Breeding Center (see pictures on QRZ.com) on Isabela\nIsland. QSL via G8OFQ: Geoff Dobson, 9 Fitzpain Road, Ferndown,\nDorset, BH22 8RZ, United Kingdom. Also LoTW on request.\n\n[ANS thanks Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin #1297 for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCONTACT! via UHF ISS digipeater using Kenwood TH-D72\n\nI made CONTACT! Through the UHF ISS digipeater using my Kenwood TH-D72\n\nView the video at:\nhttps://www.facebook.com/SpaceComms/videos/1342108185861041/\n\nThis was my second contact through the ISS digipeater. I actually\ncontacted the same station I contacted in this video, W8LR, three\ndays before, but I wasn't recording any video.\nFor this video I recorded the audio from my Kenwood TH-D72a and\nlater played it back to Soundmodem+UISS. Soundmodem decodes many more\npackets than my radio does. I made a screen capture of UISS and its\nmap so you can see the complete details of every received packet.\nAnother thing this video shows is how hard it can be to track a near\noverhead pass (close to 90 degrees elevation). When I was beginning\nin satellites I only tried to work overhead passes because I knew the\nsignal would be strongest when the satellite was closest to me. While\nthat is true, the closer the satellite is to you the faster its\nrelative speed is. When it passes overhead it switches from coming\ntowards you to going away from you very fast, and drops 10s of\ndegrees in seconds. That makes the satellite very easy to lose track\nof.\n\nIn this video I got distracted while changing settings on my radio\nand lost the ISS after it went overhead. It didn't help that I was\nusing a tripod for the first time. I prefer to hold the antenna in my\nhand precisecly because I find it's easier to track, as I can make\nquick adjustments and listen for the signal going up and down. To\ncontrol the radio for packet, it helps to have two hands. See my\nprevious UHF ISS digi video to see how hard it is to change settings\nwith one hand.\n\nHere is the very appropriate QSL card I got from W8LR for my first\nISS digi contact:\nhttp://imgur.com/vUfwkiE\nhttp://imgur.com/DIq7fD4\n\nHere are all the stations I heard on the pass from this video (time\nstamps GMT -5)\n--------------\nN4ZQ 12/18/2016 11:08:08 System time\nKG4AKV-5 12/18/2016 11:08:13\nW8LR 12/18/2016 11:09:02\nKC4LE 12/18/2016 11:09:17\nW0NBC 12/18/2016 11:11:07\nRS0ISS 12/18/2016 11:11:38\nW4TBD-6 12/18/2016 11:12:14\nKA8YES-6 12/18/2016 11:12:52\nTotal Stations = 8\n\nThe music at the end is \"Jubilee - Opa--locka\"\n\nYou can subscribe to John's SpaceComms YouTube Channel at:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/SpaceComms1?sub_confirmation=1\n\n[ANS Thanks John KG4AKV for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT CW Activity Day\n\nJanuary 1, 2017 (UTC) will be AMSAT's first annual CW Activity Day!\n\nAs with the old Straight Key Night, this is a fun event, not a\ncontest. It will run for 24 hours on January 1, 2017 (UTC).\n\nAll forms of CW are welcome, -- straight keys, bugs, keyers, even\nkeyboards and decoders.  Since it is not a contest, there is no\nrequired exchange.  A QSO is a QSO. Working the same station on more\nthan one satellite is permitted.\n\nInstead of submitting Best Fist nominations, all participants are\nasked to post their results, including \"Soapbox\" comments, to AMSAT-\nBB.  Please include the satellites you used, and the number of CW\nQSOs you had on each.  While it is not necessary to post your full\nlog, you may do so if you wish.\n\n[ANS thanks Ray W2RS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Primary School Georges\nWallers, Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (59), France and Astronaut Thomas\nPesquet KG5FYG using Callsign FXØISS. The contact began Sat 2016-12-\n31 11:31:12 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was\ndirect via F4KJV. ARISS Mentor was Joseph F6ICS.\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule\n\nCollège Mathilde Marthe  Faucher, Allassac, France, direct via\nF1IMF. The ISS callsign is presently  scheduled to be FXØISS. The\nscheduled astronaut is Thomas Pesquet  KG5FYG\nContact is a go for: Wed 2017-01-04 11:16:26 UTC\n\nRainbow Middle School, Rainbow City, AL, direct via K4JMC. The ISS\ncallsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS. The scheduled  astronaut\nis Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD\nContact is a go for: Wed 2017-01-04  17:29:40 UTC\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Amateur Radio Kids Day January 7\n\n  Organized by the ARRL Kids day, scheduled this year for January 7\n  is meant to develop interest in Amateur Radio. Please consider\n  this while operating the satlleite January 7. Listen for kids\n  on-the-air or plan to assist kids with operating the satellites.\n  For more information visit http://www.arrl.org/kids-day.\n\n  [ANS thanks the ARRL for the above information]\n\n+ ANS Seeks Rotating Editors\n\n  The AMSAT News Service (ANS) seeks additional volunteers to serve\n  as rotating editors. The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free,\n  weekly news and information service of AMSAT North America, The\n  Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to\n  Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a\n  worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active\n  interest in designing, building, launching and communicating\n  through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites.\n\n  If you are interested in serving AMSAT-NA in this important and\n  rewarding role, please contact Lee McLamb, KU4OS:\n  ku4os at amsat dot org.\n\n  [ANS thanks the ANS editorial staff for the above information]\n\n+ The AMSAT News Service editors wish you and yours a prosperous and\n  safe 2017.\n\n  [ANS thanks Lee KU4OS, Joe K6WAO and EMike AA8EM for the above\n   information]\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, AA8EM\naa8em at amsat dot org\n",
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