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    "sender_name": "Lee McLamb",
    "subject": "[ans] ANS-127 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2017-05-07T04:09:34Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-127\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 at the Dayton Hamvention -- Call for volunteers\n* Hamvention Instructor's Forum to Feature Space Weather and AMSAT-NA\n* 2017 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nominations Notice\n* RadFxSat/Fox-1B Launch Moves Left\n* UBSEDS24 Balloon with SSDV – 2nd Launch Attempt, 8 May\n* AMSAT Sweden Celebrates 35 Years\n* Ciaran Morgan, M0XTD, and ARISS-UK Team Awarded the Louis Varney Cup\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-127.01\nANS-127 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 127.01\n  From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE May 7, 2017\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-127.01\n\nAMSAT at the Dayton Hamvention -- Call for volunteers\n\nThe Dayton Hamvention is less than two weeks away, May 19-21!\n\nIf you’ve been waiting to volunteer until you’d firmed up your plans, we\nneed to hear from you ASAP!\n\nIf you're an experienced satellite operator, we can use you and your\nexperience.\n\nIf you've never operated a satellite before, we can use your help too.\n\nWhether you're available for only a couple of hours or if you can spend\nthe entire weekend with us, your help would be greatly appreciated.\n\nPlease send an e-mail to Steve, [email protected] if you can help. Thank you!\n\n[ANS thanks Steve, N9IP, Dayton Team Leader, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nHamvention Instructor's Forum to Feature Space Weather and AMSAT-NA\n\n\nCarole Perry, WB2MGP, who may be Amateur Radio's premier supporter of\nyouth, will moderate her 30th Hamvention Youth Forum later this month,\nwhen Hamvention® convenes for the first time at its new venue in\nXenia, Ohio, May 19-21.\n\nThe Youth Forum is set for Saturday, May 20, 9:15 AM until noon, in\nRoom 2. She's lined up nine young presenters who will speak on a\nvariety of topics of interest to radio amateurs of all ages. The Youth\nForum is open to all. AMSAT-NA will donate Gould Smith's just revised\n\"Getting Started with Amateur Satellites\" (book printed in color) to\nthe Youth Forum presenters.\n\nCarole will also conduct her Hamvention Instructors' Forum on Friday,\nMay 19, 10:30-11:30 AM, in Room 3. \"Space Weather Woman\" Dr. Tamitha\nSkov will speak on \"Teaching Space Weather\" and AMSAT-NA Vice\nPresident, Educational Relations, Joe Spier, K6WAO, will present\n\"NxtGen Crystal Radio\". Joe will have 10 kits consisting of RTL-SDRs,\npre-amps, connectors, cables, 2M EZ-Lindenblad antennas, FoxTelem\nsoftware, and instructions to create a FOX Telemetry Ground Station\nfor educators at the Instructors' Forum on Friday.\n\n\n[ANS thanks the Hamvention 2017 Team, the ARRL Letter for May 4th,\nand Carole Perry, WB2MGP for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2017 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nominations Notice\n\nIt's time to submit nominations for the upcoming AMSAT-NA Board of\nDirectors election. Four directors' terms expire this year: Barry\nBaines, WD4ASW, Jerry Buxton, N0JY, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, and Bob\nMcGwier, N4HY. In addition, up to two Alternates may be elected for\none year terms.\n\nA valid nomination requires either one Member Society or five current\nindividual members in good standing to nominate an AMSAT-NA member for\nDirector. Written nominations, consisting of the nominee's name and\ncall, and the nominating individual's names, calls and individual\nsignatures should be mailed to: AMSAT-NA, 10605 Concord St, #304\nKensington, MD 20895-2526.\n\nIn addition to traditional submissions of written nominations, which\nis the preferred method, the intent to nominate someone may be made by\nelectronic means. These include e-mail, fax, or electronic image of a\npetition. Electronic petitions should be sent to [email protected] or\nfaxed to (301)822-4371.\n\nNo matter what means is used, petitions MUST arrive no later than June\n15th at the AMSAT-NA office. If the nomination is a traditional\nwritten nomination, no other action is required. If it is other than\nthis, i.e. electronic, a verifying traditional written petition MUST\nbe received at the AMSAT-NA office at the above address within 7 days\nfollowing the close of nominations on June 15th.\n\nELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS WITHOUT THIS SECOND, WRITTEN VERIFICATION ARE\nNOT VALID UNDER THE EXISTING AMSAT-NA BYLAWS.\n\n[ANS thanks Paul, N8HM, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nRadFxSat/Fox-1B Launch Moves Left\n\nIn the world of secondary payloads we're all used to launches moving to\nthe right as issues with the primary payload and launch vehicles or\ntheir schedules often occur.  But what is a move to the left?\n\nThe RadFxSat/Fox-1B launch had been recently announced as NET September\n23, 2017.  Today, the primary payload JPSS-1 moved to the left and we\ncan now announce a new launch date of NET September 21, 2017 for\nRadFxSat and all of the other ELaNa XIV mission payloads.\n\nThat's \"only\" two whole days earlier, true, but with all of our Fox-1\nlaunches having been on a steady march to the right since (and\nincluding, at the time) AO-85/Fox-1A was launched, we'll take what we\ncan get!\n\n[ANS Jerry, N0JY, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUBSEDS24 Balloon with SSDV – 2nd Launch Attempt, 8 May\n\nRichard Meadows M0SBU reports there will be a second attempt to launch the\nRaspberry Pi Zero equipped 434 MHz balloon UBSEDS24 early Monday morning.\n\nOn the UKHAS Google Group Richard writes:\n\nThere’s going to be another attempt to launch this flight from Bristol this\nMonday, May 8 between 0500 and 0530 BST [0400-0430 GMT]. This is weather\npermitting, but the forecast looks okay at the moment.\n\nThis launch is using a 1.9m envelope and longer payload train, and so \nthere’s a\nNOTAM in place. This tracker has a Raspberry Pi Zero V1.3 attached, which\ntransmits images when solar power is available. It’s a different design \nto our\nlaunch last August; in this case the tracker will continue to operate \neven if\nthe pi fails. For the curious the ‘pi status’ telemetry values are: 0 = \noff, 1 =\non, 2 = PITS started, 3 = SSDV started).\n\nThere will hopefully be a cutdown mounted between the balloon and the \ntracker.\nWe’ll be testing the 434 MHz uplink to this whilst it’s still in range of\nBristol; if it returns over the UK at a convenient time and place we will\nattempt to trigger the cutdown.\n\nThe tracker has several transmissions:\n\n– 434.635 MHz USB Telemetry – Contestia 16/1000 with pips and RSID, \ntransmitting\n   telemetry. Once per minute below 8km altitude and every two minutes \notherwise.\n\n– 434.637.5 MHz SSDV – Two modes:\n(1) While balloon over UK and English channel GMSK at 12 ksymbol/s. 4×4\n     interleaved, R=1/2 convolutional K=5, HDLC framing, whitened etc. \nas per the\n     AX5043 manual. Concatenated with RS(255,223) to mop up some burst \nerrors.\n(2) Outside UK 300 baud RTTY, 850 Hz shift, 8N2.\n\nIf you are listening to the RTTY, remember to turn off the ‘RxID’ button \non the\ntop right of dl-fldigi.\n\nRather than the usual JPEG SSDV, this is transmitting Better Portable \nGraphics\n(BPG) images. This is experimental, and ssdv.habhub.org doesn’t support \nit just\nyet. Hence receivers should upload to http://ssdv.bristol-seds.co.uk \ninstead,\nplease read the instructions on this site. You’ll need dl-fldigi release \n3.2, as\nexplained on the site. James Coxon M6JCX has made the dl-fldigi release\navailable at: https://github.com/jamescoxon/dl-fldigi/releases/tag/3.2\n\nThe flight is expected to head south towards France. Many thanks to \neveryone who\nattempts to track this.\n\nTrack the balloon online at https://tracker.habhub.org/\n\nListen to the balloon online with the SUWS WebSDR link at\nhttps://amsat-uk.org/beginners/balloons/\n\nUBSEDS http://www.bristol-seds.co.uk/\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Sweden Celebrates 35 Years\n\nAMSAT-SM (Sweden) has been active in 35 years 2017. AMSAT-SM was founded \nApril\n24:th 1982 by a group of swedish hams. The first AMSAT-SM president was \nSM5IXE\nThomas Johansson.\n\nOne AMSAT-SM's objectives is to inform Swedish hams about the fun with \namateur\nsatellites! Not many SM hams are active via satellite at the moment. \nWith the\nhelp of their Swedish webpage and HF-net it is hoped that more Swedish hams\nshould be using amateur satellites.\n\nThe AMSAT-SM annual meeting is held every spring. Some weeks on Sundays \nwe have\na HF-net on 80 meters with lots of news about satellites and space.\n\nToday AMSAT-SM has aprox. 200 members and we have an active news feed \nvia web,\nTwitter and Youtube. So, we are still alive and kicking!\n\nhttp://www.amsat.se/english-info/\nhttps://twitter.com/amsat_sm\nhttps://www.youtube.com/AMSATSM\n\n[ANS thanks Lars, SM0TGU, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCiaran Morgan, M0XTD, and ARISS-UK Team Awarded the Louis Varney Cup\n\nCiaran Morgan, M0XTD, and the Amateur Radio on the International Space \nStation\n(ARISS) UK Team were awarded the Louis Varney Cup on April 22 at the \nRSGB 90th\nAnnual General Meeting in Cardiff, Wales. RSGB recognized Morgan and the \nARISS-\nUK team for advances in space communications. Accepting the trophy were \nGraham\nShirville, G3VZV; Noel Matthews, G8GTZ, and John Cariss, G7ACD.\n\nThe award’s namesake, Louis Varney, G5RV, was the inventor of the \nworld-famous\nG5RV antenna and an RSGB member for 74 years. Varney died in 2000.\n\nMorgan and the ARISS-UK team have also been fundraising on behalf of ARISS.\n\n[ANS thanks ARRL for the above information]\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,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n\n",
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