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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/HG4BPOX3UPYI6QXTRI6YCYEVHTGREEKK/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "CAM5+sovmyi0oByfG=9xwmqqsYafYc=R9SRyByF0HE=UJD2X8LQ@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "HG4BPOX3UPYI6QXTRI6YCYEVHTGREEKK", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/HG4BPOX3UPYI6QXTRI6YCYEVHTGREEKK/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "mccardelm (a) gmail.com", "mailman_id": "147f14b8d896456cbff7f12049b091a2", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/147f14b8d896456cbff7f12049b091a2/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "E.Mike McCardel", "subject": "[ans] ANS-279 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2013-10-06T01:28:41Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-279\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 SYMPOSIUM - Procrastinator ALERT!!\n* Space News in October CQ Magazine\n* Cubesat Spaceport Coming to Jacksonville, Florida\n* AMSAT-DL Satellite Symposium\n* Two Ham Astronauts Depart NASA\n* High altitude Ham Radio balloon to study comets\n* Amateur Satellites in World Radio Online\n* YURI UT1FG/MM ALERT!\n* AMSAT Journal Call for Articles\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-279.01\nANS-279 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 279.01\n>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nDATE October 6, 2013\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-279.01\n\n\nAMSAT SYMPOSIUM - Procrastinator ALERT!!\n\nThe 2013 AMSAT Space Symposium & Annual General Meeting will be held\nNovember 1-3, 2013 at the Houston Marriott South at Hobby Airport\n\nSome important deadlines loom.\n\nThe cutoff date for hotel reservations is now Oct 16, 2013.\n\nReservations for the Marriott at Hobby can be made at the following\nlink http://tinyurl.com/kz26tk9 or by calling 713-943-7979\nAsk For The AMSAT Block or Use the Code AMSAMSA\n\nRegistration for the Symposium continues for $45.00\nAt the door registration is $55.00.\nRegistration includes a copy of the Proceedings.\n\nSymposium Registration can be made at the AMSAT Store\nhttp://tinyurl.com/2013Symposium-Registration\n\nDon't forget the Saturday Evening Banquet, $45.00 and the Sunday\nmorning Area Coordinators' Breakfast, $15.00\n\nFor the most up to date information visit the 2013 ASMAT Symposium\nwebsite page\nhttp://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=1555\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSpace News in October CQ Magazine\n\nThe October, 2013 CQ Magazine includes news of interest to the amateur\nsatellite world. Ham Radio News on page 2 reports on AMSAT's filing\nfor clarification on the status of amateur satellites under new US\nGovernment regulations. VHF Plus columnist Joe Lynch, N6CL discusses\nthe filing in more detail on page 89.\n\nOther news of amateur radio in space in this issue include:\n\n+ News of the HamTV transmitter launched to the ISS is covered on page\n 88.\n\n+ OSCAR 7 gets mention on page 2.\n\n+ Video from the NASA Cubesat workshop on page 90.\n\n+ The 2013 AMSAT Space Symposium in Houston is mentioned on page 91.\n\n[ANS thanks CQ Magazine for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCubesat Spaceport Coming to Jacksonville, Florida\n\nNASA awards first CubeSat-class launch services contract (30\nSeptember 2013) NASA has selected Generation Orbit Launch Services\nInc., of Atlanta, Ga., to provide a CubeSat-class launch via the NASA\nLaunch Services Enabling eXploration and Technology (NEXT) contract.\n\nNEXT is an element of a strategic initiative led by NASA's Launch\nServices Program (LSP), focused on assuring long-term launch services\nwhile also promoting the continued evolution of the U.S. commercial\nspace launch market.\n\nThe NEXT launch service will deliver three 3U-configuration CubeSats\nto a 264-mile orbit via a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-\nlicensed launch aboard Generation Orbit's GOLauncher 2 rocket in\nAugust 2016 from Cecil Field Spaceport in Jacksonville, Fla.\n\nNEXT is a pathfinder contract for future acquisitions of launch\nservices for low-cost and/or high-risk tolerant payloads. It sets\nthe groundwork for LSP to utilize different contracting strategies\nthat tailor the spectrum of government insight and approval based on\nthe risk tolerance of the spacecraft. The total cost value for the\nNEXT launch service is approximately $2.1 million. This new contract\nresulted from a competitive award set-aside for small businesses only.\n\nGOLauncher 2 will launch CubeSats as the primary payload via the\nNEXT contract due to their ability to tolerate the higher risk of a\nnew nano-class rocket while also helping to provide additional\nopportunities for the many CubeSats awaiting launch opportunities\nunder NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI).\n\n[ANS thanks NASA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-DL Satellite Symposium\n\nThe AMSAT-DL satellite symposium and AGM will be held in Bochum,\nGermany on Saturday, October 5, 2013.\n\nThe AMSAT Deutschland Facebook page says\n“There will be certainly some exciting news!”\n\nThe radome of the amateur radio facility at Bochum houses an\nimpressive 20 metre dish antenna that was used to bounce amateur\nradio signals off the planet Venus.\n\nThe AMSAT-DL Symposium lecture schedule\n\nSaturday 05.10.2013\n\n10:15 – 10:30 Welcome\n\n10:30 – 11:15 Stereo A / B status and Turbo Code introduction,\nexperience report by Mario Lorenz, DL5MLO\n\n11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break\n\n11:45 – 12:15 Asteroid Defense by Wolfgang Wittholt, Fernuni Hagen\n\n12:15 – 12:45 Space Generantion Advisory Council (SGAC) Small\nSatellite Project Group (SSPG) presentation and objectives by Dennis\nMattes\n\n12:45 – 14:00 Lunch break\n\n14:00 Current and new projects / project progress / etc then an\nofficial part of the AGM with elections.\n\nAMSAT-DL event announcement\nhttp://tinyurl.com/AMSAT-DL-Symposium\n\nAMSAT-DL\nhttp://tinyurl.com/AMSAT-DL\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate ARN for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nTwo Ham Astronauts Depart NASA\n\nNASA astronauts Gregory E. Chamitoff, KD5PKZ and Ronald J. Garan\nKF5GPO are leaving the agency. Chamitoff is joining the faculty of\nTexas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and the University of\nSydney in Australia. Garan will work on a range of new\nentrepreneurial and humanitarian efforts.\n\n\"Greg and Ron will certainly be missed by the Astronaut Office,\"\nsaid Bob Behnken, KE5GGX, NASA's chief astronaut. \"Greg's passion\nfor sharing the spaceflight experience will serve him well as he\nbegins a new adventure in academia and continues to inspire the next\ngeneration of innovators and explorers. I'll miss Ron both as a\ncontributor to our office and as a classmate. The entire office is\ngrateful for their service to NASA.\"\n\nChamitoff began his 18-year NASA career in 1995 as a space shuttle\nguidance and control officer in mission control at the agency's\nJohnson Space Center in Houston.\nHe was selected as an astronaut in 1998.\n\nHe flew in space twice, in 2008 as a flight engineer and science\nofficer for Expeditions 17 and 18 aboard the International Space\nStation, and as\na mission specialist during STS-134 in 2011, the penultimate shuttle\nmission. During his most recent mission, Chamitoff participated in\ntwo spacewalks to complete assembly of the International Space\nStation, taking part in the installation of the Alphamagnetic\nSpectrometer. He has spent more than 198 days in space.\n\nGaran, who joined the agency in 2000, is ending a 13-year NASA\ncareer that included more than 178 days in space and four spacewalks.\nGaran flew in space twice, first in 2008 as a space shuttle Discovery\nmission specialist on STS-124, and again in 2011 aboard the\nInternational Space Station as a flight engineer for Expeditions 27\nand 28. Garan retired from the Air Force as a colonel in 2009 after\n25 years of service. He has logged more than 5,000 flight hours in\nmore than 30 aircraft types. He recently served within NASA’s Open\nGovernment Initiative.\n\nFor Chamitoff's biography, visit:\nhttp://go.nasa.gov/gcruuu\n\nFor Garan's biography, visit:\nhttp://go.nasa.gov/1998pSo\n\nFor information about NASA and agency programs, visit:\nhttp://www.nasa.gov\n\nEDITOR's NOTE: Due the the U.S. Governmaent shut down the above\nlinks may not work until which time governmaent services are restored.\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate ARN for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nHigh altitude Ham Radio balloon to study comets\n\nAn amateur radio balloon operating on 145.765 MHz will be launched\non Sunday from Bangalore, India\n\nThe National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad with Dhruva\nSpace, India's first small satellite start-up, is supporting the\nIndian Institute of Astrophysics with its high altitude balloon\ncampaign to study the comet ISON.\n\nThe Helium filled balloon plans to launch on September 29, 2013 in\nthe early morning from the Hoskote campus of the Indian Institute of\nAstrophysics, Bangalore.\n\nThe payload will carry a 145.765 MHz APRS packet radio transmitter\nand a GPS GSM tracker, both of these are extremely important in\nkeeping track of the balloon in flight, as it rises up to 40 km\nreaching the upper stratosphere. NIAR are extensively involved in the\nefforts of tracing and safely recovery of the payload.\n\nOn the afternoon of September 29 there will be a presentation given\non \"Amateur Radio For High Altitude Ballooning” by Dhruva Space.\nMr S.Ram Mohan, VU2MYH, Director, National Institute of Amateur\nRadio will speak on APRS technologies for tracking.\n\nNational Institute of Amateur Radio (NIAR)\nhttp://www.niar.org/\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate ARN for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAmateur Satellites in WorldRadio Online\n\nThe October issue of WorldRadio Online reports on the IARU's\nannouncement that Fox-1 will operate in Mode U/V with a 435.180-MHz\nuplink and a 145.980 downlink. It also links to AMSAT on YouTube's\nvideo taken at the Dayton Hamvention. Other spories covered include\na video link on operating via SO-50, and a report on the delivery of\nthe HamTV transmitter to the ISS.\n\nWorldRadio Online is a pay for subscription service.\n\n[ANS thanks WorldRadio Online and CQ Communications, Inc. for the\nabove information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nYURI UT1FG/MM ALERT!\n\nFrank, K4FEG received an email from Yuri, UT1FG/mm from port in\nUruguay. He will be leaving port today and he will be sailing SOUTH to\ngo around the southern tip of South America and will be making port in\nChile. He will be taking on loads in 4 ports in Chile before heading\nNORTH towards Panama.\n\nHere is the list of Ports of call for the \"SILVER\" the ships callsign\nis: 5BNC3.\n\nHe is expected arrival at San Antonio, Chile is October 14, 2013.\n\n1st port San Antonio/Chile - FF46\n2nd port Las Ventanas/Chile - FF47\n3rd port Coquimbo/Chile - FG40\n4th port Punto Patache - FG49\n\n[ANS thanks Frank, K4FEG for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Journal Call for Articles\n\nThe AMSAT Journal is continuously searching for news, articles,\nand photos related to all of the activities of amateur radio\nin space. In the past this has included satellite development,\nsatellite history, ground stations, antennas, hardware devel-\nopment, software. We find that some items related to SDR, VHF,\nUHF, and microwave operating or roving are directly applicable\nto satellite operations.\n\nEducational outreach has been identified as a key area which AMSAT\nmay use to leverage launch opportunities. The Journal welcomes\nnews, photos, and articles of ARISS contacts, University research\nand development, and STEM programs.\n\nAmateur satellite operators have the gear and expertise to also\nreceive interesting transmissions from non-amateur spacecraft and\nEME. Articles discussing how this is done are useful to our readers\ndiscovering they can do more with the station they have built.\n\nThe deadlines for each AMSAT Journal, which is published six times\nper year, are:\n\n ISSUE DEADLINE\n --------------------- --------------\n 1. January/February December 20\n 2. March/April February 20\n 3. May/June April 20\n 4. July/August June 20\n 5. September/October August 20\n 6. November/December October 20\n\nOur editors will work with you to finalize your article for publi-\ncation. Please send the following:\n\n1. Electronic copy of your article in any of the popular word pro-\n cessing formats (MS-Word, OpenOffice, plain-text Notepad, etc.)\n PDF files containing a custom layout with embedded graphics can-\n not be used.\n\n2. Your text must be single column wide. You do not need to do any\n formatting to make it appear in the 3 column layout of the fin-\n ished magazine. We have to remove all your hard work of pre-\n formatting before publication so save yourself the problems of\n trying to get columns to line up, etc.\n\n3. You may send a copy of your article with the photos where you\n recommend they appear with the text but this is not the version\n that will be published. This gives the editors some cues to\n maintain continuity with photos/captions and text.\n\n4. We require a text-only copy your article. Embedded photos will\n not publish during the layout process. You can leave in a ref-\n erence in the text related to the photo associated with that\n point in your article as shown here:\n\n ... text ... text ... text ... text ... text ... text ...\n ... text ... text ... text ... text ... text ... text ...\n\n (Insert Graphic 1234 here)\n Figure 2. Sample Lorem Ipsum Text\n\n ... text ... text ... text ... text ... text ... text ...\n ... text ... text ... text ... text ... text ... text ...\n\n5. Send a separate text file with the captions to each of the\n graphics.\n\n6. Send photos and graphics as separate files. Use as high resolu-\n tion pixel format as you can. The preferred graphic format for\n the Journal is JPG.\n\n The Journal can publish additional graphic formats including\n GIF, BMP, and PNG. Contact the editor before submitting these\n formats.\n\n Note that a photo which appears nicely on a web page does not\n publish well on the high resolution finished magazine product.\n Photos from digital cameras in mega-pixels work well. You do\n not need to compress or shrink the file for us.\n\n7. If you use printed circuit board software or schematic drawing\n programs we can usually import a PDF copy of the diagram into\n the publishing software. Please do not send PDF formatted copies\n of the article however.\n\n8. We can freely republish papers you have submitted to prior AMSAT\n Symposiums. If you have a good idea that you would like to get\n out the AMSAT Journal is an excellent way to expand your audience.\n We find that 200-300 copies of the Symposium Proceedings are dis-\n tributed. The AMSAT Journal reaches 4000 additional satellite\n operators.\n\n9. If your article was previously published in another AMSAT organi-\n zation's Journal, or magazine (QST, CQ, CQ VHF, etc.) we will\n work with you to secure the permission to republish your work.\n\nOur Journal editors will be happy to work with you to assist getting\nyour article published. We can help you develop an idea into a fin-\nished article as well as a ready-to-print submission. Ask us via\ne-mail and we can get rolling with your article.\n\nDuring the preparation process it is quite likely that an editor\nworking on the article might personally contact you with questions\nand suggestions. Those suggestions might include extra pictures or\nmaybe additional references, keeping in mind that some readers\nmight not have an extensive background on the topic being discussed.\n\nSend your articles and photo/graphics files as attachments to\ne-mail to [email protected].\n\n[ANS thanks JoAnne, K9JKM for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nARISS News\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Sarnelli De Donato Middle\nSchool, Polignano a Mare, Bari, Italy and Astronaut Luca Parmitano,\nKF5KDP, using callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2013-09-21 10:03 UTC\nand lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was telebridged via\nW6SRJ. The ARISS Mentor was IKØWGF\n\n\"Sarnelli De Donato\" School is a middle school. It serves the\neducational needs of the town because it is the only middle school in\ntown. It caters for boys and girls, aged 11-14. Located in one of the\nregion's tourist areas, it is in the suburbs of the pleasant town of\nPolignano a Mare, in the south-east of the APULIA region, south-east\nof Italy. In its Curriculum the school focus on: Space Communication,\nMedia Communication, the Environment, Science activities in lab. The\nschool has a gym, an auditorium, a music room, two computer rooms, a\nnew scientific laboratory, a video room, 22 classrooms. At present\nthere are 526 students on roll and they attend the regular class\ndaily, from 8.00 am to 1.00 pm.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Collège de la Combraille, La\nMouniaude À Chatelguyon, France, and Astronaut Luca Parmitano ,\nKF5KDP, using callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2013-09-28 08:39 UTC\nand lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was telebridged via\nVK5ZAI. The ARISS Mentors were ON4WF and F6ICS.\n\n\"Combraille High school is located 4 hours south from Paris in\nbeautiful Auvergne region. Our students aged 11-15 study non\nvocational subjects. Three foreign languages are taught : English,\nGerman an Spain. The school house has a scientific workshop. It\nfocuses on the yearly launch of a sounding balloon in partnership\nwith French Center for Space Studies (C.N.E.S.). The school has had\nan astronomy club for five years now.\n\n\"We have night star gazing sessions, practice sun observations, take\ndigital pictures of the sun and the stars, experiment measuring\nterrestrial meridian ( Eratosthenes experiment ), built a telescope\n(Newton type), participate in science fairs and exhibits, organize\nsessions for the public of the local area. Our school club has even\nsparked off the creation of a local club (Les Astronomes de la\nCombraille) We own and use: One DOBSON 250mm telescope, Two NEWTON\n115 x 900 mm, One tracking 120 x 1000mm, One Herschel helioscope, One\ndigital reflex camera, One CCD webcam.\"\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Polska Akademia Dzieci\n(Polish Academy of Kids), Gdansk, Poland, and Astronaut Luca\nParmitano KF5KDP using callsign NA1SS. The contact began Sat 2013-10-\n05 11:37:33 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact\nwas telebridged via W6SRJ. ARISS Mentors were SP3QFE and IN3GHZ\n\n\"Language Laboratories, School of Genius (SG), is one of the first\nLanguage schools In Poland (est. in 1968). Till today it is a unique\nscientific and educational unit, where each student has individually\ndesignes programme of learning in a foreign language, including\nAstronomy, Neuropsychology and Robotics. Classes at SG are\nindividually prepared for each student (including post- and prenatal\nteaching ). Individual programmes include updated ICT tools carefully\nadapted to the Ss' interest. Language is only the tool used to\ncommunicate.\n\n\"The Project Polish Academy of Kids is the first university run by\nkids on an international scale, where Young Scientists can freely\nchoose the field of scientific interest. Lecturers are from 6 to 2\nyears old and examine magnetic levitation, the missing links of\nvertebrates' evolution or dogs, cats and stick insects. They decide\nabout the scope of research and we, adults, only help them with the\ntechnical aspects and show reliable sources of knowledge. We work\nunder the patronage of Ministry of Science and Education, Patent\nOffice, Ministry of Education, Jagiellonian University and many\nothers. For more details visit website: akademiadzieci.edu.pl.\n\nPolish Academy of Kids was nominated the Science Populariser 2011\nand 2012 in the contest organised by Science and Scholarship in\nPoland (Polish Press Agency and Ministry of Science and Higher\nEducation) while the co-founders of Polish Academy of Kids were\nawarded the Pol-Cul prize for their contribution to children's\ndevelopment in Poland and wonthe award of distinction for the best\nvoluntary initiative in Pomerania.\"\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule\n\nScuola Media Statale “Salvo D’Acquisto”, Cesano Maderno, Italy,\ntelebridge via VK6MJ\nContact is a go for: Mon 2013-10-07 07:48:49 UTC\n\nS. K. Seri Suria, Bangsar, Selangor, Malaysia, direct via 9M2RPN\nContact is a go for: Wed 2013-10-09 09:31:14 UTC\n\nExp. 36/37 on orbit\nFyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI\nKaren L. Nyberg\nLuca Parmitano KF5KDP\n\nExp. 37/38 now on orbit. Welcome aboard!\nOleg Kotov\nSergey Ryazansky\nMichael S. Hopkins KF5LJG\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS and Charlie, AJ9N for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Alan, WA4SCA, reports that the AMSAT News Service is being picked up\nand redistributed by the Taiwan Amateur Satellite Association, TAMSAT.\n\n+ The October issue od SatMagazine is now online\nhttp://preview.tinyurl.com/SatMagazine\n\n+ NASA Mars mission escapes government shutdown, will launch\nNASA says it next mission to Mars has been cleared for takeoff amid\nfears the U.S. government shutdown could cause it to miss its launch\nwindow.\nSee http://tinyurl.com/ANS279-Mars for full story\n\n[ANS thanks Mars Daily 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,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nEMike McCardel, KC8YLD\nkc8yld at amsat dot org\n", "attachments": [] }