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    "subject": "[ans] ANS-040 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2014-02-09T02:57:39Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-040\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* Ham radio CubeSat deployment postponed\n* Ham TV Commissioning Postponed until March 8\n* Satellites News from the Magazines\n* Can Radio Hams receive NASA's ISSE-3/ICE ?\n* Send Your Name to the Asteroid Bennu!\n* Outernet - Shortwave radio from space\n* FCC Seeks Comments on WR-2015 Draft Rcommendations\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-040.01\nANS-040 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 040.01\n>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nDATE MMMM DDDD, YYYY\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-040.01\n\n\nHam radio CubeSat deployment postponed\n\nThe deployment of amateur radio CubeSats from the International\nSpace Station (ISS) planned for Thursday, February 6 has been\npostponed.\n\nNASA say:\n\nFlight Engineer Koichi Wakata KC5ZTA spent his morning working in\nthe Japanese Kibo module to install a deployer mechanism that will be\nused in concert with the Kibo robotic arm to \"launch\" the first set\nof NanoRacks CubeSats. Wakata, who ran into some difficulty last week\ninstalling an electronics box that would help control the deployment\nof the mini-satellites, successfully installed that box after\ntroubleshooting an alignment issue.  The deployment of the first\nbatch of CubeSats, which had originally been scheduled for this week\nbefore being postponed following last week's installation issue, has\nbeen postponed further to make sure that the CubeSats do not fall\ninto the intended orbit of the Global Precipitation Measurement\nsatellite launching later this month. The exact date of the CubeSat\ndeployment is still being evaluated.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nHam Video Commissioning postponed\n\nESA postponed the Ham Video Commissioning to March 8.\n\nPossible dates for the four Commissioning steps are March 8 (step\n1), March 9 (step 2), and March 16 (step 3).\nStep 3 could be turned into step 4.\nThese dates are all on the weekend.\n\nWith this agenda, we have just 1 week of blank transmissions.\n\nThe agenda is still to be finalized.\n\n[ANS thanks Gaston ON4WF, via HamTV Bulletin #6 for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellites News from the Magazines\n\nSteve Ford, WB8IMY, mentions Mineo Wakita's, JE9PEL, list of amateur\nsatellite frequencies in February's QST. Check it out on page 52.\nIncluded are the links to the list on the web and to his Excel list.\nWeb Satlist: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/satslist.htm\nExcel Satlist: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/satslist.xls\n\nFebruary issue of CQ is their QRP Edition. On pp. 54-59 see Mike\nHerr's article \"Satellites and the QRPer...or Don't Worry About\nSunspots\".\n\nThe Department article \"vhf plus\", page 88, features a Teen led ISS\ncontact, Victor CO6CBF/KF5YXV acquiring his US Technician license,\nFUncube, and Saying Hi to Juno\n\nThere are many other articles, that even though aren't specific to\nAmateur Satellites, should be of interest for portable operators.\n\nNote that CQ's three sister magazines \"Popular Communications\", \"CQ\nVHF\", and \"World Radio Online\" have all merged into a digital\nsupplement to the digital CQ to be called \"CQ Plus\". If you subscribe\nto one of these magazines your subscriptions will be transfered to CQ.\n\n[ANS thanks QST and CQ for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCan Radio Hams receive NASA's ISSE-3/ICE ?\n\nA post on the Planetary Society website wonders if radio amateurs\nwill be able to pick up the signal from the ISSE-3/ICE spacecraft as\nit passes Earth\n\nEmily Lakdawalla says: The International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE-\n3), a spacecraft that was launched in 1978 to study Earth's\nmagnetosphere and repurposed in 1983 to study two comets. Renamed the\nInternational Cometary Explorer (ICE), it has been in a heliocentric\norbit since then, traveling just slightly faster than Earth. It's\nfinally catching up to us from behind, and will return to Earth in\nAugust, 2014.\n\nIt's still functioning, broadcasting a carrier signal that the Deep\nSpace Network successfully detected in 2008. Twelve of its 13\ninstruments were working when we last checked on its condition,\nsometime prior to 1999.\n\nThe 36 year-old satellite is still apparently operational but it\nappears that NASA can no longer send commands to it because the\ntransmitters to do so were removed in 1999.\n\nEmily sums up:\nSo ISEE-3 will pass by us, ready to talk with us, but in the 30\nyears since it departed Earth we've lost the ability to speak its\nlanguage.\nI wonder if ham radio operators will be able to pick up its carrier\nsignal - it's meaningless, I guess, but it feels like an honorable\nthing to do, a kind of salute to the venerable ship as it passes by.\n\nThe satellite carries Redundant S-band transponders, each with 5\nWatt RF output\n\nTransponder A:\n2090.66 MHz RHCP uplink, command or ranging\n2270.40 MHz RHCP downlink, telemetry or ranging\n\nTransponder B:\n2041.95 MHz LHCP uplink, command\n2217.50 MHz LHCP downlink, telemetry\n\nTransmit antenna: medium gain with dual inputs for simultaneous\nright and left hand circular polarization downlink, 8 rows of 4\nelements, 7 dBi, ±6° beamwidth, multibeam, electronically steerable,\nfour lobe, omni directional coverage in azimuth\n\nReceive antenna: 2042 MHz, intermediate gain, 1 row of 4 elements, 0\ndBi, ±45° beamwidth\n\nRead the Planetary Society post at\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS040-emily-lakdawalla\n\nISSE-3/ICE Telecommunications Summary\nhttp://mdkenny.customer.netspace.net.au/ISEE-3.pdf\n\n[ANS thanks The Planetary Society via Southgate ARN for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSend Your Name to the Asteroid Bennu!\n\nNASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names to be\netched on a microchip aboard a spacecraft headed to the asteroid Bennu\nin 2016.\n\nThe \"Messages to Bennu!\" microchip will travel to the asteroid aboard\nthe Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security\nRegolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, spacecraft. The robotic mission will\nspend more than two years at the asteroid, which has a width of\napproximately 1,760 feet (500 meters). The spacecraft will collect a\nsample of Bennu's surface and return it to Earth in a sample return\ncapsule.\n\nThe deadline to submit names online is Sept. 30, 2014. Participants\nwho submit their names to the \"Messages to Bennu!\" campaign will be\nable to print a certificate of appreciation to document their\ninvolvement.\n\nFor more information and to submit your name, visit\nhttp://planetary.org/bennu.\n\nParticipants who \"follow\" or \"like\" the mission on Facebook\n(https://www.facebook.com/OSIRISREx) will receive updates on the\nlocation of their names in space from launch time until the asteroid\nsamples return to Earth in 2023. Facebook fans also will receive\nmission progress and late-breaking news through regular status\nupdates.\n\nFor more information about the OSIRIS-REx mission, visit\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex and http://osiris-rex.lpl.arizona.edu.\n\nQuestions about this opportunity should be directed to\[email protected].\n\n[ANS thanks NASA Education Express Message -- Feb. 6, 2014 for the\nabove information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nOuternet - Shortwave radio from space\n\nOuternet is described as the modern version of shortwave radio\nbroadcast from space\n\nIt is planned that the Outernet will consist of a constellation of\nhundreds of low-cost, CubeSats in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Each\nsatellite receives data streams from a network of ground stations and\ntransmits that data in a continuous loop until new content is\nreceived.\n\nIn order to serve the widest possible global audience, the entire\nconstellation utilizes UDP-based multicasting over WiFi. Although\nstill not common, WiFi multicasting is a proven technology,\nespecially when the data requires only one hop to reach the recipient.\n\nOuternet claims to be able to bypass censorship, ensure privacy, and\noffer a universally-accessible information service at no cost to\nglobal citizens.\nThey say lack of an Internet connection should not prevent anyone from\nlearning about current events, trending topics, and innovative ideas.\n\nAlthough Outernet's near-term goal is to provide the entire world with\nbroadcast data, the long-term vision includes the addition of two-way\nInternet access for everyone - for free.\n\nThe team hope to have the first test CubeSats launched in 2015.\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS040-SpaceShortwave\n\nOuternet\nhttps://www.outernet.is/\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate ARC for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFCC Seeks Comments on WR-2015 Draft Rcommendations\n\nThe FCC has invited comments by February 18 on the latest batch of\ndraft recommendations of its Advisory Committee for World\nRadiocommunication Conference 2015 (WRC-2015).\n\nAt its January 27 meeting, the Advisory Committee (WAC) approved\ndraft recommendations on a number of issues that will be considered\nby WRC-2015. Some items, including one which could possibly lead to\nchanges to 60 meters in the long term, could affect the Amateur and\nAmateur-Satellite services.\n\nOf interest to the Amateur Radio Satellite community, WRC-2015 will\nconsider a number of issues that could impact amateur allocations\nabove 420 MHz, including a possible extension of the current\nworldwide allocation to the Earth Exploration-Satellite service in\nthe band 9300 to 9900 MHz by up to 600 MHz \"within the frequency\nbands 8700 to 9300 MHz and/or 9900 to 10,500 MHz\"\n\nIncumbent services in the 9900 to 10,500 MHz range include the\nRadiolocation, Fixed, Mobile, Amateur, and Amateur-Satellite services.\n\nThe Amateur Service is secondary at 10,000 to 10,500 MHz worldwide,\nand the Amateur-Satellite Service is secondary at 10,450 to 10,500\nMHz worldwide.\n\nThe FCC said comments provided by interested parties will assist it\nin its consultations with the US Department of State and NTIA in the\ndevelopment of US positions for WRC-2015. \"The recommendations...may\nevolve in the course of interagency discussions as we approach WRC-15\nand, therefore, do not constitute a final US Government position on\nany issue,\" the FCC Public Notice stressed.\n\nComments should reference IB Docket 04-286 and specific\nrecommendations by WAC document number. Interested parties may file\ncomments via the FCC's Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) at\nhttp://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/ . The ARRL plans to file comments in this\nproceeding.\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate ARN for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\nSuccessful ARISS Contacts\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Takatsuki Dai 1 Junior High\nSchool, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan, and Astronaut Koichi Wakata KC5ZTA\nusing callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2014-02-08 09:11:01 UTC and\nlasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via 8N3T.\nARISS Mentor was 7M3TJZ.\n\nThe Dai 1 Junior High School Area Education Council is the\norganization where many organizations, such as a school, a local\nresident, etc. of the Dai 1 Junior High School Division, have\nparticipated.\nThe Dai 1 Junior High Schoolarea education council is in the center\nof Takatsuki city.\nA secretariat is located in the Dai 1 Junior High School.\nThe 10th anniversary of foundation will be celebrated this\nyear.Their reason for a ARISS contact was to give their children a\ndream as a commemorative event.\n\nThe Dai 1 Junior High School opened April 22, 1947. It is the oldest\nJunior High School in the Takatsuki city and has a long history. Its\ncentrally located and is next to the old castle foundation. There are\nnow 404 students in attendance. They all study hard abd pursue sports\nactively.\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule\n\nChuuou Elementary School, Toyoake, Japan, direct via  8N2TCES\nContact is a go for: Sun 2014-02-09 08:22:48 UTC\n\nEscola Estadual \"Gonçalves Dias\" , Boa Vista, Brazil, direct  via\nPV8DX\nContact is a go for: Thu 2014-02-13 17:19:54 UTC\n\nITIS Giovanni Caramuel, Vigevano, Italy, telebridge via AH6NM\nContact is a go for: Sat 2014-02-15 10:11:54 UTC\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Nh6Y Operating as W1AW/KH6 for one week starting on February 5.\n\nDX Newsletter  DXNL 1870 - February 5, 2014\n\nKH6, Hawaii:\n     Tom, NH6Y, is going to cover the satellite operations of\n     W1AW/KH6 for one week starting on February 5.\n\n[ANS thanks DX Newsletter for the above information]\n\n\n+ DC Area Technician Class\n\nThe Montgomery Amateur Radio Club has scheduled a free amateur radio\nTechnician class for six Saturday mornings starting March 1st.  These\nwill be held at Montgomery College, in Rockville, MD. The schedule\nand location can be found via\n\n       http://www.marcclub.org/mweb/exam_classes.html\n\nWe have a classroom, a schedule and instructors, but we need more\nstudents at this time.  Please spread the word to help us to get\nstudents for this free class.\n\nIn addition, they have posted their scheduled public exam sessions.\nThe details are at\n\n       http://www.marcclub.org/mweb/exam_details.html\n\n[ANS thanks David, W2LNX and AMSAT-DC for the above information]\n\n+ Heavens-Above adds AO-73\n\nChris Peat, who runs Heavens-Above states that FUNcube-1 has been\nadded to the list of Amateur Satellites.\n\nhttp://www.heavens-above.com/AmateurSats.aspx\n\n[ANS thanks David G4DPZ for the above information]\n\n+ Video: Deploying CubeSats from the Space Station\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS040-DeployCubes\n\n[ANS Thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n+ FUNcube Fitter Messages\n\nA text file which contains ALL the Fitter Messages that have been\ncaptured by groundstations  can be downloaded using the link on the\nFitter Messages page on the FUNcube Warehouse at:\n\nhttp://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/fitter.html\n\nThe process to generate this file is executed once per day at\nmidnight UTC.\n\nThe live page will show that Fitter Messages captured during the\npast 7 days.\n\n+ AMSAT at ARRL Centennial July 17\n\nAMSAT will offer a day long session on the basics of Amateur\nSatellites. The following is from the ARRL Centennial site.\nhttps://www.regonline.com/builder/site/tab2.aspx?EventID=1248082\n\nAmateur Satellites: The Basics - Barry Baines, WD4ASW\nSince Amateurs heard the first transmissions of Sputnik and\nOSCAR-1, they have asked, \"How can I do that?\"  This daylong session\nwill provide best practices and helpful hints that will allow even\nthe modest station to be used to communicate with the amateur \"birds\nin space.\"\n\n[ANS Thanks ARRL for the above 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, KC8YLD\nkc8yld at amsat dot org\n\n",
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