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    "subject": "[ans] ANS-024 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-024\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* In Memory of Robert J. (Bob) Carpenter, W3OTC-SK by Bill Tynan, W3XO\n* AMSAT SKN Winners and Changes for Next Year\n* Student Internship CubeSat Opportunities in Greenbelt, MD USA\n* VHF Groups Join Forces to Sponsor \"Super Conference\"\n* 2016 NASA Student Airborne Research Program\n* AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-024.01\nANS-024 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 024.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE January 24, 2016\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-024.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nIn Memory of Robert J. (Bob) Carpenter, W3OTC-SK by Bill Tynan, W3XO\n\n\nBob, a longtime friend, one-time business partner and devoted AMAST\nvolunteer became a Silent Key Friday, January 8th. Bob was born July 31,\n1930 in Washington, DC.\n\nI first met Bob in the late 1940s on six meters. At the time, we both lived\nin Silver Spring, Maryland.  After a few QSOs we decided to meet and compare\nnotes. I found that, in addition to the interest we shared in the VHF bands,\nhe was very intrigued with FM broadcasting, as I had been for years.\n\nFollowing graduation from The University of Maryland, in 1951 with a degree\nof Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Bob served in the U.S. Air\nForce, at the US Air Force Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On\ncompleting his Air Force commitment, he joined the Johns Hopkins Applied\nPhysics Laboratory in the DC area where I was employed. Leaving the\nLaboratory 1955, Bob joined, what was then called the National Bureau of\nStandards, first in Boulder, Colorado and later at their facility at\nGaithersburg, Maryland. In his early work at the Bureau, he was instrumental\nin the development of technology for passing message traffic via the short\nbursts of VHF frequency propagation caused by the ionization produced by\nmeteors entering the Earth's atmosphere. When Bob returned to Maryland, he\nwas involved in development of computer networking, retiring from what is\nnow called The National Institute for Standard and Technology in 1992. In\n1988, he received the US Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award for\nDistinguished Service.\n\nFollowing retirement from NIST, Bob became available to assist AMSAT, of\nwhich he was an early member, holding AMSAT Life Membership Number 21. His\nknowledge of computers, was invaluable to Martha in keeping the office\ncomputers up to date and the various data bases current. He regularly came\ninto the AMSAT office up until the last few days of his life.\n\nBob was active on six meters up until the time he sold his home in\nRockville, Maryland and moved to a retirement facility in nearby \nGaithersburg.\n\nIn earlier years, Bob did extensive traveling in Europe and elsewhere, his\nfavorite country to visit being France. He became quite fluent in the French\nlanguage. He went on one DXpedition, journeying to the French Caribbean\nisland of Guadalupe. I, and a number of other six meter operators, were able\nto work a new country through Bob's efforts.\n\nAs mentioned earlier, Bob and I shared in interest in FM broadcasting. That\ninterest blossomed during the late 1950s when Bob rented half of the house I\nthen owned in Rockville, Maryland. After much discussion of the pros and\ncons, we decided to construct a station of our own. So, we applied for a\nConstruction Permit (CP) from FCC to build a station in Bethesda, Maryland,\na nearby suburb of Washington. Bob handled most of the technical work, while\nI concentrated on the business side. He always has been more adept at the\ntechnical side of radio and electronics than I. After receiving our CP, we\nwent to work in earnest to build the station. Finally, in June, 1961, FCC\ncame out with standards for broadcasting stereo. Bob and I reasoned that,\nfor a new station, such as ours, to have any chance of success, it had to\nhit the air with stereo. Since there was no stereo broadcasting equipment\navailable at the time, much of what we needed had to be constructed by us.\nThis herculean task could not have been completed without Bob's expertise,\nbut on November 12, 1961, only five months after FCC's establishment of\nstandards for stereo broadcasting, WHFS, the DC area's first stereo FM\nstation, hit the air on 102.3 MHz.\n\nOnce on the air, Bob kept WHFS on the air while I struggled with the\nmultitude of paperwork associated with running a small business, especially\na radio station. Each of us was smart enough to keep our “day jobs,” making\nrunning a radio station especially difficult.\n\nWe sold the station in 1963, affording Bob and me more time for ham radio.\n\nIt has been a great pleasure to have known Bob all these years. I will miss\nhim and I know that Martha and all of AMSAT will miss him as well.\n\n73, Bob.\n\nWith thanks to Perry Klein, W3PK, and Tom Pyke, K4DSD, who were responsible\nfor providing valuable information for this tribute to Bob.\n\nMartha at the AMSAT Office reports: \"The memorial service for Bob \nCarpenter,\nW3OTC has been postponed for 1 week due to weather. It is now scheduled to\ntake place at 7:00 PM on Saturday, January 30th at the chapel of Asbury\nMethodist Village in Gaithersburg MD.\"\n\n\n[ANS thanks Bill Tynan, W3XO, AMSAT President Emeritus for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT SKN Winners and Changes for Next Year\n\n\nThanks again to all who participated in AMSAT's Straight Key Night 2016,\nheld in memory of Ben Stevenson, W2BXA. The following participants each\nreceived at least one Best Fist nomination: AA5PK,. WA5KBH, WA8SME,\nW3TMZ, W4CVV, W5PFG.  Special kudos to Glenn Miller, AA5PK, who received\nthree.\n\nActivity was down this year, for a variety of reasons, some having to do\nwith availability of suitable satellites and some to do with changes in\namateur radio in general.  Since this was AMSAT's  25th annual SKN, it's\na good time to consider changes. While Morse as a license qualification\nhas gone the way of the spark gap, amateur CW activity is as popular as\never.  Straight keys and \"bugs\", however, have found a niche primarily with\nthe boat anchor crowd, and AMSAT's insistence on their use in OSCAR SKN is\nprobably holding down participation. Similar considerations have led ARRL\nto broaden its annual HF event to include all forms of CW, even\ncomputer-generated. The idea is to encourage everyone to enjoy CW \noperation,\nno matter how they choose to do it.\n\nSo, in with the new: AMSAT CW Activity Day on OSCAR. As with the old SKN,\nit will be a fun event, not a contest, and will run for 24 hours on\nJanuary 1.  All forms of CW will be welcome.  Instead of best fist\nnominations, all participants will be encouraged to post \"Soapbox\"\ncomments to AMSAT-BB.\n\nA further announcement will be posted in December 2016.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Ray, W2RS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nStudent Internship CubeSat Opportunities in Greenbelt, MD USA\n\n\nAPPLY NOW: Paid NASA Intern Opportunities Summer 2016\n\nThe NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is offering student internship\npositions for the Summer 2016 semester.  Applications are being taken\non the NASA One Stop Shopping Initiative (OSSI) recruiting web site.\nGo to:\nhttps://intern.nasa.gov --> Student Opportunities -->\nthen click on the first dropdown link to start reading all about\nthe internships and the process of applying.  There is no need for\nstudents to upload a resume in OSSI when they apply.  The resume\nis essentially built through the student's responses to the\nquestions within the online application.\n\nGo to:\nhttps://intern.nasa.gov/ossi/web/public/guest/searchOpps/\nto search and filter through the many Opportunities at the\ndifferent NASA locations across the country in addition to the\nGoddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.  Search\non \"cubesat\" without the quotes to see examples from which\nthe student may select to apply.\n\nOne such Opportunity, \"CubeSat Ground Station Development,\"\nIs being offered by NASA engineer and fellow AMSAT member\nPat Kilroy, N8PK.  He is looking for university level students\nwith a course of study in engineering.  Electrical or Electronics\nEngineering (EE) or Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)\nmajors in their junior class or higher this fall are sought for\nthe 10-week summer program.  Pat says experience in hardware\nand certain skills are required, as described in the text of\nhis Opportunity listing.\n\nOpen to U.S. citizens.\n\nThe student application instructions provide a deadline of March 1\nto apply, but mentors have already started to evaluate applications\nand make their selections.  The word to the wise is to get in one's\napplication immediately.   Don't wait.\n\nApplications must be made via the OSSI web.  Please be sure to\ninclude your Amateur Radio callsign under the Special Skills\nsection -- or that you are studying for it.\n\n\n[ANS thanks NASA and Pat, N8PK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nVHF Groups Join Forces to Sponsor \"Super Conference\"\n\n\nThe Southeastern VHF Society (SVHFS), North East Weak Signal Group (NEWS)\nand Mount Airy VHF Radio Club (Pack Rats) are cosponsoring a VHF Super\nConference, hosted by the Grid Pirates Contest Group (K8GP) and Directive\nSystems and Engineering. The conference will take place April 15-17 in\nSterling, Virginia.\n\nEarly registration discounts are available. Conference Proceedings in\nprinted and digital form will be available after the event. Sign up when\nregistering. All registrations include lunch and all-day beverages.\n\nThe event will feature an array of forums and workshops, a test lab, and a\nconference banquet. A microwave loop Yagi workshop will be offered during\nthe weekend at an additional fee. The workshop will explain how loop Yagis\nwork, how to adjust them, and how to build one. Free shuttle service will be\navailable to the Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum.\n\nA second call for papers and presentations for the VHF Super Conference has\nbeen issued. The conference sponsors are seeking presentations or papers\ndealing with all aspects of VHF, UHF, microwave, and higher. Topics may\ninclude operating, contesting, homebrewing, software, EME, surplus,\nantennas, test equipment, amplifiers, and SDR. Photos are encouraged.\n\nSteve Kostro, N2CEI, and Paul Wade, W1GHZ, are coordinating Proceedings.\nDirect submissions and questions to them via e-mail.\n\nView the ARRL press release at:\nhttp://www.arrl.org/news/vhf-groups-join-forces-to-sponsor-super-conference\n\n\n[ANS thanks the ARRL for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2016 NASA Student Airborne Research Program\n\n\nThe NASA Airborne Science Program invites highly motivated undergraduate\nstudents currently in their junior year to apply for the NASA Student\nAirborne Research Program, also known as SARP 2016. The program provides\nstudents with hands-on research experience in all aspects of a major\nscientific campaign, from detailed planning on how to achieve mission\nobjectives to formal presentation of results and conclusions to peers and\nothers. Students will assist in the operation of airborne instruments aboard\nthe NASA DC-8 aircraft. They also will analyze remote-sensing data collected\nduring the program from the NASA ER-2.\n\nThe program takes place in summer 2016. Instrument and flight preparations,\nand the research flights themselves, will occur at NASA's Armstrong Flight\nResearch Center in Palmdale, California. Postflight data analysis and\ninterpretation will take place at the University of California, Irvine.\n\nSuccessful applicants will be awarded a stipend plus a travel allowance for\neight weeks of participation in the program. Housing and local\ntransportation also will be provided.\n\nThe deadline for applications is Feb. 2, 2016.\n\nFor more information and to download the program application, visit\nhttp://www.nserc.und.edu/sarp/sarp-2016.\n\nSpecific questions about the program should be directed to\[email protected].\n\n\n[ANS thanks the NASA Education Express Message -- Jan. 21, 2016 for the\nabove 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*Friday and Saturday, 19-20 February 2016 – Yuma Hamfest and 2016 ARRL\nSouthwest Division Convention in Yuma AZ\n\n*Friday, 4 March 2016 – presentation for the Associated Radio Amateurs\nof Long Beach meeting in Signal Hill CA\n\n*Saturday and Sunday, 12-13 March 2016 – ScienceCity science fair, on\nthe University of Arizona campus in Tucson AZ\n\n*Saturday, 19 March 2016 – Scottsdale Amateur Radio Club Spring\nHamfest 2016 in Scottsdale AZ\n\n*Saturday, 26 March 2016 – Tucson Spring Hamfest in Tucson AZ\n\n*Saturday, 7 May 2016 – Cochise Amateur Radio Association Hamfest in\nSierra Vista AZ\n\n*Saturday, 4 June 2016 – White Mountain Hamfest in Show Low AZ\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\nSucessful Contacts\n\nBrihaspati Vidyasadan, Kathmandu, Nepal, telebridge via  VK5ZAI\nThe ISS callsign was NA1SS\nThe scheduled  astronaut was Timothy Peake KG5BVI\nContact was successful: Wed 2016-01-20  08:37:04 UTC 26 deg\n\nA telebridge contact via VK5ZAI with students at Brihaspati Vidyasadan,\nKathmandu, Nepal was successful 01/20/2016 at 08:37:04 UTC 26 deg.\nAstronaut Tim Peake, KG5BVI  answered 17 questions for students. An\naudience of about 300 included students from 10 other schools, as\nwell as the British Ambassador to Nepal, the Cultural Affairs Officer\nfrom the US Embassy, and a member of the National Human Rights\nCommission and former Ministry for Science and Technology.\n\nBrihaspati Vidyasadan is a 32 year old High school, located in\nKathmandu, Nepal. Brihaspati runs classes from nursery to 100 at\nsecondary level and the 10+2 program in Science and Management at the\nhigher secondary Level. Besides these Brihaspati also runs Diploma in\nHospitality Management and Tourism in affiliation with Confederation\nof Tourism and Hospitality (CTH), UK.\n\nBrihaspati is known for its academic excellence. To date Brihaspati\nhas produced over 2000 SLC graduates and over 600 +2 graduates who\nhave achieved excellent academic achievements. Brihaspati has also\nbeen awarded the \"Best School in Nepal\" in 2055BS.\n\nBrihaspati is also known for its co-curricular and extra-curricular\nactivities including sports, debates and concerts. Over the years\nthe school has achieved Inter-school successes in football (soccer),\ncricket and basketball at national levels. School has also successes\nin inter-school competitions like debate, elocution and concerts.\n\nFor its academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular achievements\nBrihaspati has been placed among the Class A schools of Nepal by the\nMinistry of Education, Government of Nepal.\n\nBrihaspati staff and students have been known for their innovation\nin education. The school is reputed to be the first school in Nepal\nto introduce computer education. Brihaspati houses clubs like\nLokopakar, which is a student club that looks into Humanitarian aid.\nBrihaspati students recently started gThink Inkh, an activity\ndesigned using the principles of Extreme Design from Stanford for\ninstilling critical thinking and problem solving skills in students.\nThis program has gained attention of a lot of people in the academia\nat a very rapid pace.\n\nBrihaspati is located in a 25 acre land space at the heart of\nKathmandu within the Balmandir compound. It  has academic facility\nthat is of very high standards. It houses the Free and Open Source\nResearch Lab and Ham (amateur radio) facility that students and staff\nhave access to.\n\nRecently during the earthquake of Nepal, one of the buildings of\nBrihaspati was used by ham radio operators from Nepal and India to\ncoordinate search and reconciliation of families where over 500\nfamilies were reunited with their loved ones.\n\nSome local news media video reports are available at\n\nhttp://thehimalayantimes.com/kathmandu/british-astronaut-tells-nepali-\nstudents-to-follow-their-cherished-dreams/\n\nhttp://e-visitnepal.blogspot.se/2016/01/talk-to-astronauts.html\n\nhttp://nagariknews.com/feature-article/story/52883.html\n\n\nUpcoming Contacts\n\nA direct contact with students at PSU. Wittayanusorn School, Kho Hong\nDistrict, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand  is scheduled for Sat\n2016-01-30 11:06:23 UTC 63 deg.\n\nPSU. Wittayanusorn School, established in 2005, is a Prince of Songkla\nUniversity affiliated private high school in Hatyai, Songkhla Province,\nThailand.  The school serves approximately 1,200 students in 7th to 12th \ngrade.\nThe school's identity colors are blue and grey.  The blue represents\nsustainability and grey stands for wisdom.  The school motto is \"wisdom \nbrings\nlasting success and happiness\".  The guiding principle is \"our soul is \nfor the\nbenefit of mankind\".  The desired characteristics of our students are \n\"SMART+\"\nwhich are referred to scientific mind, good manner, aesthetic appreciation,\nresponsibility and reliability, teamwork, and +global citizenship. Green\neducation is our school's uniqueness which focuses on education for \nsustainable\ndevelopment.\n\nPSU. Wittayanusorn School is dedicated to create an exceptional teaching and\nlearning environment in which morality is emphasized, science and \nmathematics\nconcepts are embedded.  The school curriculum is designed to maximize each\nstudent's potential for critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, community\ninvolvement, and responsible leadership.  Additionally, the school has been\nselected by the Ministry of Science and Technology to be one of the \nfirst four\nregional schools of the country to host a special three-year science \nclassroom\nprogram for high school level, grades 10 to 12, according to the proactive\nhuman resources development project to upgrade the science and technology\ncapability of the country.  The selection of students with high ability in\nmathematics and science for the science classroom program is carried out \nby the\nInstitute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology and closely\ncollaborated with Prince of Songkla University.  Each student who passes the\nselection will be entitled to a scholarship from grade 10 onwards, and\nsubjected to certain additional criteria, he/she will be eligible for a\nscholarship until he/she can complete his/her education up to a doctoral \ndegree\nlevel.\n\nPSU Wittayanusorn School was accredited with the score 97.02% by the \nOffice of\nNational Education Standards and Quality Assessment on May 26, 2015.\n\n\nWatch\nhttp://www.ariss.org/upcoming-contacts.html\nfor information about upcoming contacts as they are scheduled.\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, and Charlie, AJ9N for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nYuri UT1FG is on the move\n\nFor those who chase Yuri in new grids, I received an update that he has left\nport in Montreal and is headed to Algiers.\n\n[ANS thanks Drew, KO4MA, AMSAT Vice President for Operations for the above\ninformation]\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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