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    "subject": "[ans] ANS-081 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2015-03-22T06:15:23Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-081\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* AMSAT Hotel Room Reservations for Dayton Hamvention\n* AMSAT at the Dayton Hamvention -- First call for volunteers\n* ITU Symposium Endorses Small Satellite Regulation and Communication \nSystems\n   Declaration\n* Young Ham’s First Contact is via OSCAR Satellite\n* Two Million Packets Uploaded to Data Warehouse (AO-73)\n* Astronaut Issues Challenge for UK Students to Contact ISS\n* AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-081.01\nANS-081 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 081.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE March 22, 2015\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-081.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Hotel Room Reservations for Dayton Hamvention\n\n\nOnce again, this year, as in previous years AMSAT has reserved a block of\nrooms for the Dayton Hamvention at the Country Inn & Suites in Fairborn,\nOhio. The cost is $109 per night. The cutoff date for reservations is April\n12.\n\nFirst priority will be given to AMSAT members assisting with the booth\noperations, satellite operating demonstrations, and the AMSAT Forum\npresentations. Call Martha at the AMSAT office at 301-822-4376 to give her\nyour arrival/departure dates and your credit card information.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Martha at the AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT at the Dayton Hamvention -- First call for volunteers\n\n\nLast year, we had 52 people assist with the AMSAT booth at the Dayton.  It\nwas the efforts of those volunteers that made the 2014 Dayton Hamvention a\nsuccess for AMSAT.\n\nThe interaction with AMSAT members, satellite operators, designers, and\nbuilders makes the whole experience a lot of fun.\n\nThe 2015 Hamvention is May 15-17.  Would you consider helping AMSAT at\nDayton this year?\n\nWhether you're available for only a couple of hours or if you can spend the\nentire weekend with us, your help would be greatly appreciated.\n\nPlease send an e-mail to Steve, [email protected] if you can help.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT's Hamvention Chairman Steve Belter, N9IP for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nITU Symposium Endorses Small Satellite Regulation and Communication Systems\nDeclaration\n\n\nInternational Amateur Radio Union (IARU) representatives were in Prague\nearlier this month to join discussions on the regulatory aspects of \norbits and\nspectrum usage for nanosatellites and picosatellites. On hand for the\nInternational Telecommunication Union (ITU) Symposium and WorkshopMarch 2-4\nwere IARU Vice President Ole Garpestad, LA2RR, and former IARU Region 1\nPresident Hans Blondeel Timmerman, PB2T. In particular, discussions \ncentered on\nthe application of the ITU Radio Regulations. The symposium concluded \nwith the\nunanimous endorsement of the “Prague Declaration on Small Satellite \nRegulation\nand Communication Systems.”\n\n“The symposium provided a unique opportunity for experts to examine the\nprocedures for notifying space networks and consider possible \nmodifications to\nenable the deployment and operation of small satellites,” said ITU \nSecretary-\nGeneral Houlin Zhao. “‘The Prague Declaration’ represents an important \nstep in\nthis direction.”\n\nMore than 160 participants from some 40 countries attended the \nsymposium. The\ngathering is being considered an important step in preparing for the \n2015 World\nRadiocommunication Conference (WRC-15) in Geneva November 2-27.\n\nDelegates discussed challenges facing small satellite development, including\naspects related to national and international legal and regulatory issues,\nfrequency management, and radiocommunication standardization. Participants\nreiterated the need to ensure the long-term sustainability of small \nsatellites\nin outer space. They stressed the importance of implementing national\nregulatory frameworks that clearly define the rights and obligations of all\nstakeholders, in conformance with international laws, regulations, and\nprocedures established by the UN General Assembly, the United Nations \nCommittee\non the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, and the and ITU.\n\nThese regulatory issues relate to the registration of objects launched into\nouter space, frequency coordination, and the registration of satellite\nnetworks, as well as compliance with the space debris mitigation guidelines.\n\nITU Radiocommunication Bureau Director François Rancy, said the ITU, in\npartnership with key players, including academe, “is addressing newly \nemerging\nrequirements by various industry sectors to place small communication \nsatellite\nsystems in orbit. “We are examining the regulatory aspects of the use of \nradio\nfrequency spectrum and satellite orbits to facilitate the launch and \noperation\nof a new generation of small satellites,” he said.\n\nThe symposium was organized by ITU in cooperation with ITU Academia Member,\nthe Czech Technical University’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering (CTU \nFEE).\n\nhttp://www.arrl.org/news/itu-symposium-endorses-small-satellite-regulation-and-\ncommunication-systems-declaration\n\n\n[ANS thanks the ARRL for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nYoung Ham’s First Contact is via OSCAR Satellite\n\n\n8-year-old radio amateur Hope Lea, KM4IPF made her first contact just 45\nminutes after her callsign appeared in the FCC database. The contact with\nArthur, K4YYL, via the FO-29 satellite, took place on March 11, 2015 at\n2100 UT.\n\nHer elder sister Faith, WA4BBC and brother Zechariah, WX4TVJ got to work \nK4YYL\nas well. They had both gained their US Technician licenses in February and\nupgraded to the US General a couple of weeks later.\n\nHope’s younger sister is studying for her license.\n\nVideo of the contact is posted here:\nhttps://vimeo.com/122112807\n\nFO-29 information\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/satellites/two-way-comms-satellites/fuji-oscar-29-jas-2/\n\nJohn Heath G7HIA describes how to work FO-29 in this article\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/beginners/radcom-getting-started-on-satellites/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-BB & AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nTwo Million Packets Uploaded to Data Warehouse (AO-73)\n\n\nThe FUNcube team are pleased to announce that the Data Warehouse has \nreceived\ntwo million packets of telemetry data from ground stations around the world.\n\nFUNcube-1 (AO-73) was launched on November 21, 2013 and since then radio\namateurs and schools have been receiving the telemetry packets \ntransmitted by\nthe satellite and passing them to the AMSAT-UK Data Warehouse for \nanalysis and\nstorage.\n\nThere are normally several people uploading the same packet but for the 2\nmillionth it was an individual:\n\n• Carlos Eavis, G3VHF\n\nThe Data Warehouse statistics as of 09:53 UT on March 15, 2015 were:\n\nNumber of registered users: 1529\nNumber of active users (data received in last two weeks): 193\nNumber of active users since launch: 818\n\nNumber of packets transmitted by satellite since deployment: 8312304 \n(2.13 GB)\nNumber of packets uploaded by users before de-duplication: 8539662(2.19 GB)\n\nNumber of packets stored in warehouse: 2000000 (512 MB)\n\nNumber of packets recovered & stored – Time – Coverage\n• Realtime 2M – 115 days – 25%\n• HiRes 3.9M – 1085 minutes – 19%\n• WOD 0.56M – 385.78 days – 80%\n\nAs always, many thanks for all those individuals and groups who are sending\ndata to the warehouse.\n\nFUNcube-1 (AO-73) Telemetry:\n• Dashboard App\nhttp://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/funcube-telemetry-dashboard/\n• Data Warehouse Archive\nhttp://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/\n• Whole orbit data\nhttp://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/wod.html?satelliteId=2\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAstronaut Issues Challenge for UK Students to Contact ISS\n\n\nTim Peake KG5BVI, the first British ESA astronaut, has issued an \ninvitation to\nUK school pupils to contact him via amateur radio whilst he is in space.\n\nTim will launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in November of this\nyear and will spend 6 months working and living on the ISS. Thanks to a\ncollaboration between Amateur Radio on the International Space Stations\n(ARISS), the UK Space Agency, the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) \nand the\nEuropean Space Agency (ESA), UK school pupils will be able to contact him\nwhilst he is on board the ISS via a scheduled amateur radio link-up.\n\nThe selected schools/organisations will host a direct link-up with the\nInternational Space Station during a two-day, space related STEM workshop.\nARISS UK will provide and set up all necessary radio equipment (for example,\nlow earth orbit satellite tracking antennas and radios) to establishing \na fully\nfunctional, direct radio link with the International Space Station from \ntheir\nvery own premises. In a ten-minute window when the ISS will be over the \nUK, an\namateur radio contact will be established with Tim, and students will be \nable\nto ask him questions about his life and work on board the ISS.\n\nDuring the contact with Tim the students will be able to hear and \npotentially\nsee his response immediately. Tim will be using the amateur radio callsign\nGB1SS whilst he is talking to UK based schools.\n\nSchools throughout the United Kingdom are being invited to host one of a\nlimited number of these in-flight calls, which will include space workshops\nwhere students can explore space, space related technologies, the \nrelevance of\nspace to our digital lives and even analyse data being sent down from \norbiting\nsatellites.\n\nThe students taking part in the link-up will have to obtain their full \namateur\nradio licence to be eligible to operate the radio and one lucky student \nat each\nof the selected schools will be responsible for making contact with the ISS.\n\nAn RSGB team and the ARISS UK Operations team will work with the chosen\nschools to prepare them for this exceptional opportunity during the \nmission of\nthe first British ESA Astronaut.\n\nTim Peake said:\n“I hope to share as much of my mission as possible and am delighted that I\nwill be able to talk to UK students when the ISS flies over Britain, \nthanks to\nthe radio amateur equipment on board the International Space Station and the\nARISS programme.”\n\nJeremy Curtis, Head of Education at the UK Space Agency, added:\n“Both Tim’s space mission and amateur radio have the power to inspire young\npeople and encourage them into STEM subjects. By bringing them together \nwe can\nboost their reach and give young people around the UK the chance to be \ninvolved\nin a space mission and a hands-on project that will teach them new skills.”\n\nCiaran Morgan, M0XTD, R.S.G.B. Lead for ARISS and ARISS Operations in \nthe UK,\nsaid:\n“Tim Peake, and his Principia mission to the ISS, offers students a unique\ninsight to space and amateur radio. ARISS (Amateur Radio on the \nInternational\nSpace Station) is delighted to be able to help UK students connect with Tim\nwhilst he is in space, using only amateur radio equipment on the ISS and in\nschools, to help inspire our future generations of scientists, technicians,\nengineers and mathematicians.”\n\nJohn Gould, G3WKL, President of the RSGB said:\n“The RSGB is delighted to be able to support the UK Space Agency and Tim’s\njourney into space, and looks forward to working with the selected schools.”\n\nHow to Apply\nThe opportunity to be involved in this exciting project opens 20 March 2015.\nEligible institutions are invited to apply in order to register their \ninterest.\n\nStage 1 application forms, available from the European Space Education\nResource Office web site at\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ariss-timpeake\nmust be returned no later than Friday 24 April 2015.\nSchools/Institutions that are to be invited to proceed to Stage 2 will be\nnotified in the week commencing 11 May 2015.\n\nStage 2 applications must be submitted and received by 26 June 2015.\nThere will then be a selection process involving the UK Space Agency, ESA,\nARISS and the RSGB. The successful schools will be announced at the UK Space\nConference on 14 July 2015.\n\nUK National STEM Centre – Amateur Radio on the International Space Station\nhttp://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary/media/500/ariss\n\n\n[ANS thanks RSGB and AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Events\n\n\nInformation about AMSAT activities at other important events around\nthe country.  Examples of these events are radio club meetings where\nAMSAT Area Coordinators give presentations, demonstrations of working\namateur satellites, and hamfests with an AMSAT presence (a table with\nAMSAT literature and merchandise, sometimes also with presentations,\nforums, and/or demonstrations).\n\n*Saturday, 28 March 2015 – Greater Houston Hamfest and 2015 ARRL Texas\nState Convention in Rosenberg TX (southwest of Houston)\n\n*Saturday, 28 March 2015 – Tucson Spring Hamfest in Tucson AZ (22nd\nStreet, east of Columbus Blvd.)\n\n*Friday, 3 April 2015 – presentation for the Associated Radio Amateurs\nof Long Beach in Signal Hill CA (Signal Hill Community Center)\n\n*Friday, 17 April 2015 – presentation for the Oro Valley Amateur Radio\nClub in Tucson AZ\n\n*Friday through Sunday, 1-3 May 2015 – ARRL Nevada State Convention in\nReno NV (Boomtown Casino Hotel)\n\n*Saturday, 2 May 2015 – Cochise Amateur Radio Association Hamfest in\nSierra Vista AZ\n\n*Thursday, 14 May 2015 – presentation for the Escondido Amateur Radio\nSociety in Escondido CA\n\n*Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 15-17 2015, Dayton Hamvention in\nDayton OH (Hara Arena)\n\n*Saturday, 6 June 2015 – White Mountain Hamfest in Show Low AZ\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 12-13 June 2015 – HAM-COM in Irving TX (west of\nDallas)\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 7-8 August 2015 – Austin Summerfest in Austin TX\n\n*Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 16-18 2015, AMSAT Symposium in\nDayton OH (Dayton Crown Plaza)\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\nRecent Contacts\n\n* Direct contacts with students at Collège Paul Langevin, Saint Junien,\nFrance, via  F8KFZ/P, and at Ecole La Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, \nFrance, via\nF6KFA/p were successful Thu 2015-03-19 08:17:56 UTC. Astronaut Samantha\nCristoforetti, IZØUDF answered questions for students at each school \nfrom the\nISS.  French astronaut Claudie Haigneré was on hand at Ecole La Malmaison to\nanswer additional questions.\n\n\nThe event could be seen in this link from Paul Langevin/F8KFZ (Contact \nstarts\nat 23'15\")\nhttp://www.f8kfz.org/ariss-87-retransmission-en-direct/\n\nand from this link from La Malmaison (Contact starts at 57'10\")\nhttp://www.mairie-rueilmalmaison.fr/actualit%C3%A9s/th%C3%A8mes/jeunesse-\nscolarit%C3%A9/en-direct-avec-lespace\n\n\nCollège Paul Langevin\n\nThe Collège Paul Langevin, situated in the town center of Saint-Junien \nin the\nwest of the Haute Vienne and the Limousin (400 km south of Paris), is a \nformer\nprimary school that became a general mixed college in 1964. The college \nfollows\na general teaching syllabus and a further syllabus for teaching children of\nspecial needs. The college is composed of 6 sixth year classes, 5 fifth year\nclasses, 5 fourth year classes, and 4 third year classes. Languages \ntaught are\nEnglish, German, Spanish, and Latin. The college also has an athletic \nsyllabus.\n\nThis school year, 2014–2015, the college has 615 students split over the \nfour\nyears. This includes the special needs children who benefit from \ninclusion in\nclass life. There are 64 Students in this special needs program. These \nstudents\nhave significant and persistent difficulties in terms of academic \nlearning, but\ndo not have intellectual disabilities.\n\n\nEcole La Malmaison\n\nThe elementary school La Malmaison is located in the department of Hauts-de-\nSeine in the city of Rueil-Malmaison, about 15 km west of Paris, and 10 \nkm away\nfrom the Versailles Palace. The school is surrounded by famous historic \nplaces:\nthe Castle of Malmaison, where Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine de\nBeauharnais lived at the end of the 18th Century; the banks of River Seine,\ndepicted by famous Impressionist painters (Renoir, Manet, and Monet) at \nthe end\nof the 19th century; Mount Valerien, with its national memorial of 2nd World\nWar French combatants; and the National Archeologic museum in the Castle \nof St\nGermain-en-Laye city nearby.\n\nThe goal of this ARISS project is to encourage the children to study\nscientific activities like  life aboard the ISS, the solar system, the \nday and\nnight caused by earth rotation, electricity experiences, the air quality on\nEarth and on the ISS, the weight on earth and the zero-gravity in space. \nThis\nARISS project is an opportunity to visit the Amateur RadioClub Station \nof Rueil-\nMalmaison (F6KFA) and discover their experiences on radio waves phenomena,\nlearn the Morse code, and more.\n\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule\n\n* Telebridge contacts with students at CEPES, Jodoigne, Belgium, and with\nstudents at Mimar Sinan Özel Okullar i, Istanbul,Turkey, via K6DUE are\nscheduled for Wed 2015-04-01 09:20:45 UTC 49 deg. Students will interview\nastronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, IZØUDF.\n\nCEPES School\n\nCepes is situated in Jodoigne, a city in the French speaking region of\nBelgium. It is a secundary school with 810 students. The students \nparticipating\nin the ARISS project specialize in Sciences, Mathematics, Languages and \nHuman\nSciences. They are 15 -20 years old.\n\nDuring this school year, the curriculum is oriented to the ARISS contact :\n  - Movements of the Earth and planets\n  - Acquisition of scientific vocabulary\n  - Studies of volumes and surfaces\n  - Graphic studies\n  - Use of instruments and techniques in model building\n  - Study of the concept of scale and scaling in model building\n  - Electricity: electrical systems\n  - Read a map, compass rose, latitude, longitude\n  - The effect of weightlessness on the human body\n  - Translation of ARISS contact questions from French into English\n\n\nMimar Sinan Collage\n\nMimar Sinan College is situated in Istanbul, Turkey. The students prepared\nthe questions after they learned about the ISS during science \nlessons.They also\nwatched videos of astronauts working in the ISS.\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie, AJ9N and David, AA4KN for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nPQ2 Brazil Satellite Operation March 20-22 Delayed\n\nJust a heads up for a DX opportunity that was scheduled to occur \n3/20-22/2015.\nThe expedition expects a delay of 30 days before the expedition will occur.\n\nOriginal Message:\nOhio/Penn DX Bulletin #1206\n\nPQ2, BRAZIL (Satellite/6m Op). Operators Pedro/PR8ZX and Augusto/PU8MET\nwill be active as PQ2ZXT and PQ2/PU8MET, respectively, from Tocantins State\n(WW Loc. GI64) between March 20-22nd. Activity will be on the satellites and\n6 meters. There are very few operators in this state. QSL via LoTW or\ntheir home callsign, direct or by the Bureau.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-BB for the above information]\n\n\nN2IEN in Haiti 4/4-4/6\n\nDXpedition to HH coming April 4-6!! Mostly HF cw, some SSB. And will\ntry to work SO 50 satellite. Hopefully I'll also be QRV RTTY.\n\nPat has done very well from the rarely heard FJ and VP2V over the past\nmonth with his Yaesu VX-8 and Arrow antenna. His QSL manager is NR6M.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-BB and Paul, N8HM 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,\nJoe Spier, K6WAO\nk6wao at amsat dot org\n",
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