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    "subject": "[ans] ANS-180 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2020-06-28T00:00:00Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-180\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor-\nmation service of AMSAT, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS\npublishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on\nthe activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who\nshare an active interest in designing, building, launching and commun-\nicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites.\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:\[email protected]\n\nYou can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service\nBulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/ans\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* AMSAT Symposium Proceedings Now Available to AMSAT Members\n* Ham Talk Live Episode on Satellite Etiquette\n* ASEE Presentation on CubeSatSim\n* CAS-6 Becomes TO-108, Added to AMSAT TLE Distribution\n* AMSAT Announces Candidates for 2020 Board of Directors Election\n* ARISS Volunteer VK5ZAI Named Member of the Order of Australia\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* ARISS News\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-180.01\nANS-180 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 180.01\n>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE 2020 June 28\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-180.01\n\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n         Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the AMSAT office\n    is closed until further notice. For details, please visit\n  https://www.amsat.org/amsat-office-closed-until-further-notice/\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nAMSAT Symposium Proceedings Now Available to AMSAT Members\n\nAll editions of the AMSAT Symposium Proceedings dating back to 1986 are\nnow available as a benefit of AMSAT membership via the Member Resources\nsection of our new membership portal at launch.amsat.org.\n\nIf you're a current member and have not yet logged on to the portal,\nplease do so to ensure that your information is accurate in the\ndatabase and check out the online resources we have made available to\nall members, including Proceedings, all issues of The AMSAT Journal\ndating back to 2014, and a printable frequency chart listing currently\navailable amateur satellites.\n\nIf you're not a current member, now is a great time to sign up. Visit\nhttps://launch.amsat.org/ today!\n\n(ANS thanks Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, AMSAT Executive Vice President for\nthe above information)\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHam Talk Live Episode on Satellite Etiquette\n\nPopular internet podcast \"Ham Talk Live!\" this past week featured an\nepisode on Satellite Etiquette. The podcast, which uses the format of\na radio call-in show, streams live on Thursdays at 9 p.m. Eastern Time\n(0100z in the current Daylight Time regimine), can be replayed on You-\nTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF1FnCczwUikw1aKsTqMR9g as\nEpisode 218.\n\nPodcast host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, conducted interviews with Kevin Zari,\nKK4YEL and Robert Bankston, KE4AL, AMSAT Vice President - User Services\nabout basic satellite operating etiquette as well as how to conduct\nsatellite operations special event stations, such as roamers and during\nevents such as Field Day.\n\n[ANS thanks @HamTalkLive on Twitter for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n     Need new satellite antennas? Purchase Arrows, Alaskan Arrows,\n    and M2 LEO-Packs from the AMSAT Store. When you purchase through\n           AMSAT, a portion of the proceeds goes towards\n                  Keeping Amateur Radio in Space.\n           https://amsat.org/product-category/hardware/\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nCAS-6 Becomes TO-108, Added to AMSAT TLE Distribution\n\nThe CAS-6 (TQ-1) microsatellite was launched December 20, 2019 on a\nCZ-4B launch vehicle from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China.\nCAS-6 (TQ-1) was developed by the Chinese Amateur Satellite Group\n(CAMSAT) and in cooperation with China’s commercial satellite manufac-\nturer. CAMSAT completed the design and manufacture of the amateur radio\npayload, and manages the on-orbit operation of the payload. The satel-\nlite carries CW and digital telemetry beacons and a linear transponder.\nThe deployment of the amateur antennas was delayed due technical and\nCOVID-19 issues, but was completed on June 20, 2020. Currently the\nbeacons are carriers only, and the transponder operates with about 2\nseconds on and 5 seconds off.\n\nAt the request of CAMSAT and the CAS-6 team, AMSAT hereby designates\nCAS-6 (TQ-1) as TQ-OSCAR 108 (TO-108). We congratulate the owners and\noperators of TO-108, thank them for their contribution to the amateur\nsatellite community, and wish them continued success on this and fu-\nture projects.\n\nFrequencies for the intended radio amatuer mission are:\n• CW Telemetry Beacon: 145.910 MHz\n• AX.25 4.8kbps GMSK Telemetry: 145.890 MHz\n• U/V Linear Transponder Downlink: 145.925 MHz, 20 kHz bandwidth\n• U/V Linear Transponder Uplink: 435.280 MHz, Inverted\n\nOperator reports indicate that the transponder is active only for brief\nintervals of about 2 seconds, spaced approximately seconds apart. With\npatience, and quick transmissions, QSOs have been completed.\n\nCAS-6 (NORAD Cat ID 44881) has been added to the AMSAT distributions of\nTwo Line Element (TLE) sets beginning from June 25, 2020. Watch for\npossible future changes to the satellite name in future TLEs.\n\n[ANS thanks Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, AMSAT VP Operations & OSCAR Number\nAdministrator; Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager; and\nAlan Kung, BA1DU, for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nASEE Presentation on CubeSatSim\n\nAt this week's American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) virtual\nnational conference, AMSAT's VP of Educational Relations, Alan Johns-\nton, Ph.D., KU2Y, presented a paper on the use of the AMSAT CubeSatSim\nin the classroom. His paper \"The CubeSat Mini Project: Experiences\nwith an Introductory Freshman Electrical and Computer Engineering\nCourse\" described the use of the CubeSatSim in the spring of 2019 at\nVillanova University.\n\nIn addition to building CubeSatSims, the students also built tape mea-\nsure Yagi-Uda antennas, tracked amateur radio satellites, and listened\nto morse code telemetry using SDRs.  The CubeSatSim is a low cost sat-\nellite emulator that runs on solar panels and batteries, transmits UHF\nradio telemetry, has a 3D printed frame, and can be extended by addi-\ntional sensors and modules. It can be built for about $200. Details\nabout the design and use of the simulator are in a series of articles\nin the AMSAT Journal. More information on the AMSAT CubeSatSim is\navailable at https://cubesatsim.org or by contacting Alan at ku2y at\namsat dot org or on Twitter @alanbjohnston.\n\n[ANS thanks Alan Johnston, KU2Y, AMSAT VP Educational Relations for\nthe above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAMSAT Announces Candidates for 2020 Board of Directors Election\n\nThe nomination period for this year's AMSAT Board of Directors\nelection ended June 15. The following candidates have been found to\nhave their membership in good standing and their nomination\ncredentials in order:\n\nHoward DeFelice, AB2S\nMark Hammond, N8MH\nJeff Johns, WE4B\nRobert McGwier, N4HY\nBruce Paige, KK5DO\nPaul Stoetzer, N8HM\n\nThis year, AMSAT will be electing three voting members of the Board\nof Directors. These will go to the three candidates receiving the\nhighest number of votes. In addition, there will be two alternates\nchosen, based on the next highest number of votes received.\n\nFurther details regarding the mechanics of the election will appear in\nANS in the near future. Ballots will be mailed to the AMSAT membership\nby July 15th based on a membership list that will be generated as early\nas July 1. Members are encouraged to use the AMSAT Membership\nPortal at launch.amsat.org to verify that their membership is in good\nstanding and their mailing address is correct.\n\n[ANS thanks Brennan Price, N4QX, AMSAT Secretary, for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n    Want to fly the colors on your own grid expedition?\n            Get your AMSAT car flag and other neat stuff\n                    from our Zazzle store!\n        25% of the purchase price of each product goes\n            towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space\n              https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nARISS Volunteer VK5ZAI Named Member of the Order of Australia\n\nVeteran Amateur Radio on the International Radio Station (ARISS) volun-\nteer Tony Hutchison, VK5ZAI, has been honored as a Member of the Order\nof Australia in Queen Elizabeth’s Birthday Honours List. Hutchison was\nrecognized “For significant service to amateur radio, particularly to\nsatellite and space communication.” The Australian Government’s Depart-\nment of the Prime Minister and Cabinet noted that Hutchison is one of\n10 official ARISS telebridge stations to the International Space Sta-\ntion, as well as a HamTV ground station.\n\nHutchison’s station has served as the ham radio contact point for ISS\ncrew members to speak with schools and groups on Earth via ham radio,\nwhen a contact location is not within the footprint of an ISS pass. The\nstudents connect via a teleconference line from their school to the\ntelebridge station, and then with the astronaut using ham radio.\n\nHutchison provided communication support for contacts with Australian\nastronaut Andy Thomas, VK5JAT/VK5MIR, during Thomas’s tour on the Rus-\nsian Mir space station, and he enabled the first school contact with\nMir in 1993. As part of ARISS, he helped 65 schools prepare for ARISS\ncontacts and used his telebridge station for 58 ARISS contacts through-\nout the world. He is a member of AMSAT-VK.\n\n“Tony’s been an ARISS mentor for years, and was lead of Australia’s\nmentors,” ARISS-International Secretary Rosalie White, K1STO, said.\n“He enjoyed talking to the Mir crews long before.” White said that\nHutchison, who is in his early 80s, remains involved in the ARISS pro-\ngram. Licensed in 1960, Hutchison became interested in satellite com-\nmunication in 1965 with OSCAR-3.\n\n“Although I received the honour, I would like to share it with all team\nmembers I work with,” Hutchison said. “If it wasn’t for the work that\nall the ARISS-International volunteers do, this award would never have\nbeen given.”\n\nAn investiture ceremony is tentatively set for this fall.\n\n[ANS thanks ARRL for the above information]\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nARISS NEWS\n\nAmateurs and others around the world may listen in on contacts between\namateurs operating in schools and allowing students to interact with\nastronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. The\ndownlink frequency on which to listen is 145.800 MHz worldwide.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team men-\ntors for the above information]\n\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n    AMSAT, along with our ARISS partners, is developing an amateur\n    radio package, including two-way communication capability, to\n            be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit.\n\n   Support AMSAT's projects today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n\nUpcoming Satellite Operations\n\nUpcoming Roves:\nQuick Hits:\n\nCM86, 6/26. W6KSR: Will be on a few passes on Friday from CM86,\n\nEM19, 6/27 & 6/28 KE9AJ : Will be at the farm with FM and Linear gear.\n\nFM25 and Maybe FM26, @KM4LAO   Now though 6/28. Ruth will be at the\nbeach, no schedule yet!\n\nEM58/EM59, 6/29 @KX9X  will be heading out to the  grid line between\n14:00 and 22:00.  Watch his twitter feed for updates. <- Updated\n\nEM57 & EM67 (Saturday 7/11 & 7/12) N4DCW    <-Change of grids!\n\nFN45 & FN46, VE2FUA, 7/12 & 7/13: Chris is heading out to a little\nknown state (to rovers at least) called Maine. Might want to get him\nwhile he is there.\n\nMajor Roves:\n\n@WY7AA is heading out again!!!  Starting July 13th\n    DN63 (Some Day passes)\n    DN64 fir a few days of fly fishing\n    then DN55 – DN68, and getting home on July 31st….\n\nDL88: Ron (@AD0DX) and Doug (@N6UA) are making another run at the elu-\nsive DL88 in Big Bend National Park, TX. As we know they tried this\ngrid back in March, and due to the mud couldn’t get to the grid, so\nnever ones to quit, off they go again. Today the tentative date is\nMonday July 6th, 2020. They will be using the K5Z call sign. More in-\nformation is available at the K5Z QRZ Page.\n\nPlease submit any additions or corrections to Ke0pbr (at) gmail.com\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overnfor, KE0PBR, AMSAT rover page manager, for the\nabove information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n\nWant to see AMSAT in action or learn more about amateur radio in space?\nAMSAT Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating\nthrough amateur satellites, and host information tables at club meet-\nings, hamfests, conventions, maker faires, and other events.\n\nDue to COVID-19, many hamfest and events around the United States have\nbeen cancelled or postponed.  While we make every effort to ensure the\ninformation contained below is correct, there may be some that we\nmissed. We wish all of you safekeeping and hope to be at a hamfest\nnear you soon.\n\nCurrent schedule:\n  * Shelby NC Hamfest (Contact N4HF for info or if you want to help.)\n  Phil Jenkins, N4HF, is planning to present a forum – and set-up/man\n  an info table – at the Shelby NC Hamfest Friday/Saturday Sept 4 & 5.\n  (the ‘fest runs Sept 4-6, but he’ll probably only be there Friday\n  and Saturday). Demos possible if additional volunteers step up.\n\nA copy of the AMSAT hamfest brochure is available for download from:\nhttps://bit.ly/2ygVFmV  This color brochure is designed to be printed\ndouble-sided and folded into a tri-fold handout.\n\nTo include your upcoming AMSAT presentation and/or demonstration,\nplease send an email to ambassadors (at) amsat (dot) org.\n\n[ANS thanks Robert Bankston, KE4AL, AMSAT VP-User Services for the\nabove information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Rohit Bokade, VU3OIR, has started a petition requesting a change to\n  the Amateur Radio license in India to permit all grades of license to\n  use the amateur radio satellites. In India, holders of the Restricted\n  grade of license (VU3 prefix) are not permitted to use amateur radio\n  satellites or communicate with the International Space Station.\n  (ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information)\n\n+ NASA's Perseverance rover is getting ready to launch to Mars in July,\n  and it'll carry some very special messages with it. We already knew\n  about the 11 million names and the statement \"explore as one\" writ-\n  ten in Morse code. NASA revealed last week it'll also take a tribute\n  to health care workers all the way to the red planet. The Persever-\n  ance team installed a small aluminum plate showing Earth on top of a\n  serpent-wrapped rod, a nod to the ancient Rod of Asclepius symbol for\n  medicine. NASA said the plaque commemorates the impact of the COVID-\n  19 pandemic and pays tribute to the perseverance of health care work-\n  ers around the world. (ANS thanks cnet.com for the above information)\n\n+ NASA has agreed to allow its astronauts to fly on reused Crew Dragon\n  spaceships and Falcon 9 boosters beginning as soon as SpaceX’s third\n  launch of a crew to the International Space Station, a mission expec-\n  ted to launch next year. The space agency has modified its contract\n  with SpaceX to permit reuse of spacecraft and rocket hardware. NASA\n  had not previously approved the use of previously-flown spacecraft\n  and rockets on missions carrying the agency’s astronauts into orbit.\n  NASA said the contract modification allows for the extension of the\n  Crew Dragon’s Demo-2 test flight — which launched May 30 with astro-\n  nauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, KE5GGX — from two weeks to up to\n  119 days. (ANS thanks SpaceflightNOW for the above information)\n\n+ NASA announced this week that it will rename its Washington headquar-\n  ters after its first black female engineer, Mary Jackson, whose story\n  was told in the hit film \"Hidden Figures.\" Jackson was a research\n  mathematician who was later promoted to become the agency's first\n  black female engineer. The move by NASA comes as weeks of protests in\n  the United States have sparked a national reckoning about systemic\n  racism and racial inequality. (ANS thanks Space Daily for the above\n  information)\n\n+ Congratulations to Drew Blasbrenner, KO4MA, who has been awarded the\n  first AMSAT issued GridMaster Award (#11)! The GridMaster award is\n  available to all amateurs worldwide who submit proof with confirma-\n  tion of contacts with each of the 488 maidenhead grids located within\n  the contiguous United States of America. Contacts must be confirmed\n  in writing, preferably in the form of QSL cards or via Logbook of\n  the World (LoTW). This award was first introduced by Star Comm Group\n  in 2014. AMSAT thanks Damon Runion, WA4HFN, and Rick Tillman, WA4NVM,\n  for not only sponsoring this award since its inception, but, also,\n  entrusting AMSAT with the honor of carrying on this important award\n  for the benefit of the entire AMSAT community. (ANS thanks Bruce\n  Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director, Contests & Awards, for the above infor-\n  mation)\n\n+ The San Diego Microwave Group will hold a Zoom meeting this Monday,\n  June 29 at 7 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time (0200 UTC on June 30) with a pre-\n  sentation by Michelle Thompson, W5NYV, concerning challenges of plac-\n  ing an amateur microwave payload in space. Microwave on the ISS was\n  raised as a possibility this past week from the ARISS/AREx hardware\n  summit meetings. The San Diego Microwave Group meeting is a regular\n  technical roundtable on amateur microwave activities, questions, op-\n  erations, and experiments. Join Zoom Meeting ID: 819 2711 2936 using\n  Password: 487697. (ANS thanks AMSAT Board Member Michelle Thompson,\n  W5NYV, for the above information).\n\n+ Congrats to Joe Werth, KE9AJ, and Burt Demarcq, FG8OJ, for setting\n  a new distance record on XW-2B on June 20. This was also the longest\n  QSO recorded on any of the XW-2 series of satellites. FG8OJ located\n  at FK96ig17, to KE9AJ at DM79IQ47 is 4,978 km. (ANS thanks Paul\n  Stoetzer, AMSAT Executive Vice-President, for the above information)\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 and Remember to help keep amateur radio in space,\nThis week's ANS Editor, Mark D. Johns, K0JM\n\nk0jm at amsat dot org\n",
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