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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/6VG2ACSC3C2LCBA2Z3PFMHMIBSONNXNC/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "6VG2ACSC3C2LCBA2Z3PFMHMIBSONNXNC", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/6VG2ACSC3C2LCBA2Z3PFMHMIBSONNXNC/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[ans] ANS-077 AMSAT Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2007-03-18T00:54:14Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-077\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.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\n\[email protected]\n\nIn this edition:\n* AMSAT/TAPR Banquet at Dayton 2007\n* Suitsat-2 Hardware Takes Shape\n* OSCAR I Pioneer SK\n* Call for donations for ARISS Antennas on Columbus\n* Call for Papers--2007 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference\n* ARISS Status - 12 March 2007\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-077.01\nAMSAT/TAPR Banquet at Dayton 2007\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 077.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 18, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-077.01\n\nAMSAT is pleased to announce the first AMSAT/TAPR Banquet will be held Friday\nevening May 18,2007 at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH in conjunction with\nthe 2007 Dayton Hamvention. The two groups share many members and this gives\neveryone the opportunity to attend both dinners. The \"Dinner Under the\nWings\" festivities will begin at 18:00 with a cash bar and appetizers in the\nAir Power Gallery (World War II). The buffet dinner will be served at 19:00\nin the Cold War area. Following a few AMSAT and TAPR announcements after\ndinner you will be free to roam the museum. The price for the dinner is\n$35.00 per person and includes appetizers, salad, meal, dessert, coffee, iced\ntea, tax and gratuity. \nSee http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/ for information about the museum.\n\nThe museum will close at 22:00 and everyone must be out of the museum by then.\n\nVegetarian meals are available if selected when you purchase your ticket.\n\nReservations are required. These can be purchased online at the AMSAT Store\nhttp://www.amsat-na.com/item.php?id=100133\nor from the TAPR web site at http://www.tapr.org/dayton.html \n\nThere will be no Banquet ticket sales at the AMSAT booth this year. We expect\nthis to be a very popular event, so reserve your tickets early.\n\nReservations will close this year on Monday night, May 14,2007 to allow us to\ngive the museum a count on Tuesday.\n\nEveryone is responsible for their own transportation to and from the museum.\n\nThere will be no banquet speaker this year to give everyone a chance to view\nthe exhibits.\n\nBanquet Menu available on the AMSAT web site\n\nAt 5:00 PM on Friday afternoon there will be a special showing of the IMAX\nmovie \"Space Station\". This movie is approximately 47 minutes long and\ncontains about 4 minutes of amateur radio contacts between school children\nand the International Space Station. The IMAX theater is located in the\nmuseum building off the main lobby area. Attendees at the movie will be able\nto go to the banquet at 6:00 PM when the doors open about 10 minutes after\nthe movie is over. The lobby contains restrooms, telephones and some\nseating. At least 50 people must sign up for the movie in advance. Call the\nmuseum IMAX theater on (937)-253-IMAX to make reservations. Special rates\napply for children and seniors. Adults are $6.00, seniors are $5.50 and\nchildren 8 through college 22 (student ID required) are $4.50.\n\n[ANS thanks Gould, WA4SXM,for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-077.02\nSuitsat-2 Hardware Takes Shape\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 077.02\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 18, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-077.02\n\nBob McGwier, N4HY, AMSAT's VP of Engineering provided the following update on\nthe development of hardware for Suitsat-2.\n\nWe had a complete breakthrough on the Odyssey Siren in the past two weeks. It\nwill be used in Suitsat 2, in a terrestrial linear repeater experiment by\nViktor Kudielka OE1VKW and friends, who supported its development, and we are\nalready leaping all over the place to applications.\n\nFrank Brickle and I will be doing our SDR code on it over the next several\ndays. The board as shown in the schematic needs some modifications to fix the\n3 - ish volt power supply for the Codec and a modified oscillator circuit but\nwe are certain it will all work now.\n\nOn the 10.7 MHz IF, I measured 0 dBm max into a 50 ohm load and less than -120 \ndBm MDS and > 80 dB dynamic range. This is with a BOM of <$50 in parts and \nabout a $20 dsp pic chip!\n\nYesterday in Rick's, W2GPS, lab, with Tom, K3IO, we made the above\nmeasurements, hacked on code and turn the thing into a bent pipe transponder.\nI also did the hilbert transform to make it an inverting transponder. It all\nworked perfectly.\n\nDetected audio in an SDR-IQ SDR as well as captured IF from the SDR-IQ of the\ntransponder. Can be downloaded and heard from:\nhttp://www.cnssys.com/~w2gps/amsat_files/suitsat/\n\nWe have to balanced for image and do DC offset correction but the thing works\nand sounds great as you can hear for yourself!\n\nAdditional details and pictures of the hardware can be found at\nhttp://hpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=ODYSSEY\n\n[ANS thanks Bob, N4HY, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-077.03\nOSCAR I Pioneer SK\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 077.03\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 18, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-077.03\n\nPassing away last week, we remember a WWII vet who helped launch the 1st\ncivilian satellite.\n\nRichard 'Dick' Esneault never had a day of basic training, never fired a shot\nin a war and never finished college.\n\nBut the electronics whiz of the 1940s was a highly-sought-after non-combatant\nsoldier during World War II. He also became a successful Huntsville business\nowner during the height of the 1960's boom.\n\nOutside his family, Esneault's biggest accomplishment was his role in helping\ndevelop and launch the first civilian satellite, OSCAR (Orbiting Satellite\nCarrying Amateur Radio), made by a group of ham radio operators.\n\nThe 10-pound, three-watt radio transmitter was launched Dec. 12, 1961, from\nVandenberg Air Force Base in California, riding on the back of an Atlas-Agena\nbooster carrying a military reconnaissance satellite. Its Morse code\nmessage, \"Hi,\" was received by more than 570 radio amateur tracking stations\nin 28 countries.\n\nThe homemade satellite, built primarily from donated parts at an out-of-pocket \ncost of $63, beat the multimillion-dollar satellite Telstar to space by seven \nmonths.\n\nIt captured the attention of broadcast legend Edward R. Murrow, who told\nthen-President John Kennedy about it.\n\nKennedy said of OSCAR: \"This is exactly what we're looking for.. a peaceful\nuse of space.\"\n\nIn a Dec. 12, 1986, article in The Times, Esneault said Kennedy was\nresponsible for giving OSCAR the go-ahead to ride aboard a military mission.\n\nEsneault became an avid ham radio operator and received his license at age 13. \nWhile in high school, he took night lessons to learn Morse code so he could \nbe certified by the Federal Communications Commission. His instructor was so \nimpressed with his aptitude, he offered the teenager a job with Pan American \nWorld Airways.\n\nAnother case of \"We are History, We are Ham Operators\".\n\n[ANS thanks John, VK5BUI, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-077.04\nCall for donations for ARISS Antennas on Columbus\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 077.04\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 18, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-077.04\n\nThis week Gaston Bertels, ON4WF, ARISS-Europe chairman discussed the\nplanned amateur radio station to be installed aboard the European Space\nAgency's Columbus Space Laboratory module which will be added to the\nInternational Space Station.\n\nThe microwave panel antenanas, attached to the Meteorite Debris Panels\nof the Columbus Space Laboratory, will allow operationgs on new frequen-\ncies that will enable ARISS to establish wideband and video operations\nfor the first time. This facility will provide ATV facilities for School\ncontacts and allow continuous transponder operation. Also, With the\nColumbus module being located at some considerable distance from the other\ntwo ARISS stations aboard the ISS, this new antenna configuration will\npermit parallel operations on the new bands at the same time as the\nexisting operations.\n\nThe development of the antennas is presently taken care of by the Institute\nof Telecommunications and Acoustics of the Wroclaw University of Technology.\nThe Columbus antennas will work on L-band and S-band.\n\nTaking into account that time is getting really short, ARISS-Europe renews\nthe call for donations to the IARU and AMSAT societies as well as to their\nmembers individually.\n\nA financial account has been opened by AMSAT Belgium. Donators within the\nEuropean Union will not have to pay any additional banking costs (beyond\nthe costs of a national money transfer) if they use the following inter-\nnational banking number (IBAN) and mention the international identification\ncode (BIC), reference the transfer as \"Donation Columbus\":\n\nAMSAT Belgium\n001-2306592-08\n\nIBAN BE63 0012 3065 9208\nBIC GEBABEBB\n\nIf you have a PayPal account you can easily make a donation by using the\n\"Donate\" button in the left column. Even if you don't have a PayPal account\nyou can use your creditcard to make a Paypal donation for the Columbus pro-\nject by clicking the \"Donate\" button and follow instructions.\n\n[ANS thanks Gaston, ON4WF, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-077.05\nCall for Papers--2007 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 077.05\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 18, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-077.05\n\nTechnical papers are solicited for presentation at the 26th Annual ARRL\nand TAPR Digital Communications Conference to be held September 28-30,\n2007 in Hartford, Connecticut. These papers will also be published in\nthe Conference Proceedings (you do NOT need to attend the conference to\nhave your paper included in the Proceedings). The submission deadline is\nJuly 31, 2007. Please send papers to:\n\nMaty Weinberg\nARRL\n225 Main St\nNewington, CT 06111\n\nor you can make your submission via e-mail to: [email protected]\n\nPapers will be published exactly as submitted and authors will retain\nall rights.\n\n[ANS thanks Steve, WB8IMY, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-077.06\nARISS Status - 12 March 2007\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 077.06\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 18, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-077.06\n\n1. Illinois School Contact Successful\n\nOn Tuesday, March 6, students at Boulder Hill Elementary School in Montgomery, \nIllinois participated in an Amateur Radio on International Space Station \n(ARISS) contact. Twenty-three children from the Boulder Hill Radio Club were \nable to ask one question each of Sunita Williams, KD5PLB. The audio was fed \ninto the EchoLink AMSAT (101 377) and JK1ZRW (277 208) servers (15 \nconnections from six countries), as well as the IRLP Discovery Reflector \n9010. Several newspapers covered the event. The Beacon News posted an article\non its website. See:\nhttp://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/news/286091,2_1_AU07_RADIO_S1.a\nrticle\n\nSeveral local dignitaries attended including the mayor of Oswego who\nremarked, “A very impressive presentation. I ran a Summer Science Camp in\nNaperville 203 Schools for 17 years until I retired last year and wish we\ncould have had this experience for our science campers since our focus was on\nspace travel and students built rockets and robots. Your presentation was\nmentioned at this mornings's Rotary Club meeting and we who were present\napplauded your efforts, your clubs hard work, and the students'/teachers\ntremendous interest.”\n\nThe School Superintendent also sent thanks “for bringing a very special,\nhistory making event to the kids and the community. I am certain our kids\nwill never forget yesterday. I know I won’t.”\n\nAnother thank you from the ARISS-Boulder Hill contact control operator was\nposted to the ISS Fan Club webpage. See:\nhttp://www.issfanclub.com/node/5743#comment-11410\n\n\n2. Mission Viejo School Contact Successful\n\nOn Friday, March 9, Mike Lopez-Alegria, KE5GTK, spoke with 9-12th graders\nfrom Mission Viejo High School in California, (Mike’s alma mater), during an\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact. Originally\nplanned for March 8, the school experienced technical difficulties, and the\ncontact was rescheduled for the next day. The astronaut answered 13 questions\nposed to him by thirteen students. The audio was streamed live on the\nUniversity of California, Irvine website. Audio was also fed into the\nEcholink AMSAT server, which received 9 connections, including 2 repeaters,\nfrom the U.S., Japan, the Netherlands and Australia. The Orange County\nRegister ran an article on its website covering the event entitled, “Students\npick brain of O.C. astronaut.” See:\nhttp://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/sciencetech/abox/article_1614937.php\n\n3. ARISS Contact Excites School Children\n\nNathan McCray, K9CPO, who teaches at East Elementary School in Wisconsin, left \nhis ham radio turned on in the classroom in case any contacts with the Space \nStation might be heard. He was fortunate enough to pick up on an Amateur \nRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) school contact which grabbed \nhis students’ attention for the next several minutes. One of the students \nparticipating in the contact asked how fast the space station traveled and \nwhen Sunita gave the answer “over 17,000 mph,” the class made a \ncollective “Ooooh” sound! Afterwards, the teacher took the opportunity to\nteach a mini-lesson on geography and math using the information presented in\nthat short ARISS contact. The students have repeatedly asked him, “When can\nwe talk to the astronauts?” He is now in the process of filling out an\napplication. \n\n4. Virginia Run Elementary School Contact Update\n\nVirginia Run Elementary School experienced an Amateur Radio on the\nInternational Space Station (ARISS) contact on March 2. The American Radio\nRelay League covered the event with a story posted on its website. See:\nhttp://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2007/03/06/101/?nc=1\nPhotos of the contact are available on:\nhttp://www.viennawireless.org/ariss.php\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 President's\nClub. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project\nFunds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms are\navailable from the AMSAT Office.\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n", "attachments": [] }