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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-286\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 Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Amateur Radio Involvement in Human\n   Spaceflight\n* Keith Baker, KB1SF / VA3KSF signs off with final column for \n\"Monitoring Times\"\n* Hams Collaborate to Greet Juno Spacecraft on Flyby; Results Are Pending\n* SkySat-1 & SkySat-2 being shipped to Russia for upcoming launch\n* RSGB Centenary Convention October 11-13, 2013\n* STRaND-1 talk at RSGB Convention this Sunday, October 13, 2013\n* Raspberry Pi at RSGB Convention\n* AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1 Presentation at RSGB Convention\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-286.01\nANS-286 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 286.01\n   From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 13, 2013\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-286.01\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Amateur Radio Involvement in Human\nSpaceflight\n\n\nThe 31st Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting takes place 1-3 NOV\n13 at the Houston Marriott South at Hobby Airport.  Details about the \nSymposium\nmay be found on AMSAT website (www.amsat.org). Deadline for reserving rooms\nunder the AMSAT Block is Wednesday, 16 OCT 13.  Time is running out;  \nreserve\nyour room directly with the hotel and register for the Symposium, the \nbanquet,\nand special tours on the AMSAT website!  Note: the special tour of Johnson\nSpace Center scheduled for Monday, 4 NOV is booked and reservations are \nclosed.\nAll Symposium activities online reservations will close 25 OCT 2013.\n\nA special highlight of this year's Symposium is the celebration of the 30th\nanniversary of amateur radio involvement in human space flight and the\nevolution of amateur radio into a successful program on board the \nInternational\nSpace Station. ARISS (Amateur Radio on the ISS) is an international program\nthat supports educational outreach as well as provides an opportunity for\ninformal contacts between astronauts/cosmonauts and amateur radio operators\naround the world.  The recent delivery of \"Ham TV\" equipment to the Columbus\nmodule by the European Space Agency is a reflection of the continued support\nthat amateur radio holds for communicating with students.\n\nAstronaut Owen Garriott, W5LFL on STS-9 in November 1983 was the first\nastronaut to utilize amateur radio to communicate with personnel on the \nground,\nallowing the general public to speak with US astronauts from space, \noutside the\ncommunication channels of NASA's Mission Control.  In recognition of the \n30th\nanniversary of this historic event, a multi-media panel featuring Owen and\nother key individuals who initiated this amazing program will take place on\nSaturday evening as part of the banquet, moderated by AMSAT VP-Human Space\nFlight Frank Bauer, KA3HDO.  The presentation includes not only remarks \nby Owen\nand others in response to Frank's questions, but video highlights of amateur\nradio participation in STS-9 and other Shuttle flights will be shown.  \nHaving\nsuch a celebration take place in Houston makes it more special as it \nallows us\nto have non-AMSAT personnel involved with placing amateur radio on the \nShuttle\nand ISS participate in our special program.\n\nThose that attended the 29th AMSAT Space Symposium that took place in San\nJose, CA in November 2011 were treated to an amazing presentation as we\ncelebrated the 50th anniversary of OSCAR-1 (launched on 12 DEC 61), with\nProject OSCAR and AMSAT member Lance Ginner, K6GSJ telling the story of the\ndevelopment and launch of OSCAR-1 with slides and his recollections of how\nOSCAR-1 was built and installed on the launch vehicle. Likewise, this year's\nbanquet provides a special opportunity to \"meet history\" as attendees hear\ndirectly from those that initiated amateur radio into human space flight.\n\nCome to Houston and help celebrate a significant event in amateur radio \nhistory!\n\n[ANS thanks Martha at the AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nKeith Baker, KB1SF / VA3KSF signs off with final column for \"Monitoring \nTimes\"\n\n\nAs has been well publicized, Grove Enterprises will stop publishing\n\"Monitoring Times\" after the December 2013 issue. AMSAT's own Keith Baker,\nKB1SF / VA3ksf submited the last installment of his regular column \"Amateur\nSatellite Update\" in the November 2013 issue, which is now available. \nKeith's\narticle begins on page 46. He discusses UKube-1, FUNcube-1 and Fox-1a. Keith\nsign's off saying \"..., it’s been a real pleasure sharing learning with  you\nthese past few years.\" and then invites his readers to join and support \ntheir\nrespective national AMSAT societies.\n\n[ANS thanks E. Michael McCardel, KC8YLD, for the above announcement]\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nHams Collaborate to Greet Juno Spacecraft on Flyby; Results Are Pending\n\n\nRadio amateurs around the globe greeted NASA's Juno spacecraft October 9 \nas it\nlooped past Earth for a gravity-assisted boost on its way to Jupiter.\nParticipants were invited to spread out across 10 meters to transmit \"HI\" in\nvery slow speed CW (1/25 WPM), sending 30 second dits punctuated by 30 \nsecond\nspaces and 90 seconds between the two characters. The experiment involved 16\nidentical rounds or cycles and ran a bit longer than 2-1/2 hours all \ntold (1800\nto 2040 UTC). The object of the experiment was to see if Juno's onboard \n\"Waves\"\nexperiment would be able to detect the collective RF. One possible \nglitch was\nthat the spacecraft's systems went into \"safe mode\" at some point. \nUniversity\nof Iowa researcher and Waves Principal Engineer Don Kirchner, KDØL, believes\nthe unexplained switchover will not prove to be a problem for the \"Say \n'HI' to\nJuno\" experiment.\n\n\"Safe mode entry was late enough that we likely have data taken from the\nevent,\" Kirchner told ARRL. \"[Project managers] are carefully working \nthrough\ntheir standard procedures, which take priority over downlinking the science\ntelemetry that should be stored on board. I am still hopeful that we \nwill have\nenough data to determine whether or not our instrument was able detect \namateur\nsignals.\"\n\nAmong stations participating were operators at the Virginia Tech Amateur \nRadio\nClub's K4KDJ, who posted video of their activity on YouTube.\n\nWhatever the outcome, Kirchner said, he and the Juno team would like to \nthank\nthe operators who took part in the experiment. He said reports came in \nfrom all\nover the world. Anyone who took part can request a QSL card that \nacknowledges\ntheir help.\n\n\"Indications are that we had very large and enthusiastic participation,\" he\nadded.\n\nAt the time of the experiment the Juno spacecraft was within 50,000 \nkilometers\nfrom Earth, and the Waves team determined that would be the best opportunity\nfor the wide-band receiver to detect Amateur Radio signals. Spreading out\nparticipants on a wide range of 10 meter frequencies was intended to improve\nthe chance of the Waves instrument's hearing the ham signals. The \ndetector has\na bandwidth of 1 MHz.\n\n\"The natural signals we expect to measure at Jupiter will consist of a large\nnumber of discrete tones,\" a pre-experiment announcement explained, \"so\nspreading the signals out in this manner is a good approximation to the \nsignals\nwe expect to detect. But at Jupiter, we don't expect to be able to \ndecode CW in\nour telemetry!\"\n\nDespite the government shutdown two websites were available to guide\nparticipants when to key down and when to stop transmitting. Numerous \noperators\nwere monitored who, apparently not having read or fully understood the\ninstructions, transmitted \"HI\" and their call signs at normal CW speeds. The\nvery slow speed CW was necessary because the Waves instrument samples the\nspectrum just once per second. As the website explained, \"By spreading the\nsignal out in time, we can average to reduce the noise level. In \naddition, the\nspacecraft spins at 2 RPM, so a 30 second 'dit' time gives us a full spin to\nsee if there is any spin modulation.\"\n\nOrganizers were actually hoping for poor conditions on 10 meters, so that\nsignals from Earth would pass through the ionosphere for the most part,\nallowing the spacecraft a better chance of detecting them.\n\nThe Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Say \"HI\" to Juno web page and the Southwest\nResearch Institute's Say \"HI\" to Juno Event website will report the \nresults of\nthe experiment.\n\n[ANS thanks the ARRL Letter -- Oct. 10, 2013 for the above information]\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSkySat-1 & SkySat-2 being shipped to Russia for upcoming launch\n\nSpace News reports SkySat-1 and SkySat-2 being shipped to Russia for \nupcoming\nlaunch.\n\nhttp://www.spacenews.com/article/civil-space/37671skybox-imagings-hopes-high-\nas-launch-of-first-satellites-draws-near\n\nSkybox’s satellites weigh approximately 100 kilograms and are slightly \nlarger\nthan the miniature refrigerators often found in college dormitory rooms.\nAlthough the satellites dwarf the 1-kilogram cubesats many of the firm’s\nexecutives, including founders Berkenstock and Julian Mann, worked on in the\nStanford laboratory — their professor at Stanford, Bob Twiggs, helped to \ninvent\nthe tiny spacecraft — the CubeSat approach is readily apparent at Skybox\nheadquarters. The Skybox design team created satellites capable of \ngathering 1-\nmeter resolution imagery while eschewing costly features that would \nraise the\nprice of each satellite.\n\n\n[ANS thanks the Space News and Greg, W9GB for the above information]\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nRSGB Centenary Convention October 11-13, 2013\n\nThe RSGB’s Centenary Convention, generously sponsored by Martin Lynch & \nSons,\nis scheduled over the weekend 11th –13th October 2013 at Horwood House \njust a\nfew miles outside Milton Keynes.\n\nLECTURES.\nSome of the highlights are…\n\nJOE TAYLOR, K1JT. Joe is a Nobel Prize winner and is very well known in the\nfield of amateur radio weak signal communication. He will be speaking on \nDXing\nwith weak signals, which is sufficiently broad to allow an overview of \nboth HF\nand EME related applications. His amateur radio feats have included \nmounting an\n‘expedition’ in April 2010 to use the Arecibo radio telescope to conduct\nmoonbounce with amateurs around the world using voice, Morse code and \ndigital\ncommunications. He’s written several computer programs and communications\nprotocols, including WSJT (Weak Signal/Joe Taylor), a software package and\nprotocol suite useful for passing short messages via non-traditional radio\ncommunications methods, such as moon-bounce and meteor scatter and other low\nsignal-to-noise ratio paths. It is also useful for extremely long distance\ncontacts using very low power transmissions.\n\nTUVALU T2GM. Tom Wylies, GM4FDM is one of the four Scottish amateurs who\nrecently headed to Tuvalu to operate as T2GM. He has kindly agreed to \ngive us\nan insight to, amongst other things, the troubles they encountered \ngetting to\nTuvalu. If you recall they made over 18,000 contacts working UK on 15m \nthrough\nto 40m, which was a great feat transiting the auroral oval right over \nthe North\nPole.\n\nEASTER ISLAND XR0YG. Michael Wells, G7VJR will be giving a presentation \non his\nventure to Easter Island where he and his colleagues operated as XR0YG in\nMarch, on all bands 160m through to 10m – CW only. Electricity on Easter \nIsland\nwas subject to frequent blackouts, which caused a few problems, but \nafter six\ndays on the air they’d made some 24,000 QSOs.\n\nWWI COMMUNICATIONS. Dr Elisabeth Bruton is a postdoctoral researcher on a\ncollaborative project looking at telecommunications in WWI and how quickly\ndevelopment in radio was made at that time. Others involved in this \nproject are\nthe University of Leeds and the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, BT\narchives, IET archives, Porthcurno Telegraph Museum and the Science Museum.\nElisabeth has kindly agreed to come and speak at the Convention. You may \nhave\nheard Elisabeth recently taking part in the Radio 4 series “In our Time” \nhosted\nby Melvyn Bragg. Elisabeth was one of the three contributors to the edition\nbroadcast on 4 July entitled “The Invention of Radio”.\n\nDUD CHARMAN’S AERIAL CIRCUS. Continuing the historic theme, Terry Giles, \nG4CDY\nwill be giving a demonstration of his recreation of G6CJ, Dud Charman’s \nAerial\nCircus. Some Members will have seen this demonstrated at the recent \nCentenary\nDay celebrations at Bletchley Park, where Terry gave his lecture twice to\npacked rooms.\n\nRASPBERRY Pi. One of the most successful lectures at last year’s event was\nPeter Goodall, 2E0SQL’s sessions on Raspberry Pi. I’m pleased to confirm \nthat\nPeter has agreed to give another presentation at this year’s event, \nwhich will\nbe complimented by a presentation by Eben Upton, the founder of the \nRaspberry\nPi Foundation. Eben will also be part of the judging panel for the Centenary\nConstruction Competition that’s being judged at this year’s Centenary\nConvention.\n\nSAM JEWELL, G4DDK. Sam will be presenting a modern 70MHz transverter. At \ntimes\nof high Sporadic-E activity, signal levels encountered on the 70MHz (4m) \nband\ncan be extremely high, especially Eastern European OIRT FM broadcast \nstations.\nTo reduce intermodulation and blocking, equipment for this band must have a\nhigh dynamic range receiver. Transmit signals should also be clean to avoid\ninterference to other services. This talk describes a modern transverter \ndesign\nfor the radio amateur to build that meets these requirements.\n\nCHRIS MOULDING, G4HYG. Chris will be talking about the recent \ndevelopments of\nthe Sentinel HF SDR noise measurement receiver and an HF active antenna,\nlooking at how to get accurate RF noise measurements in an amateur radio\nstation without spending large sums on professional test equipment. The talk\nwill also cover SDR receiver design and a novel HF antenna designed to \nminimise\nthe effects of local RF noise in a typical amateur station.\n\nUK LICENCE EXAMINATIONS. As in previous years, the RSGB will be offering\nanyone wishing to obtain a UK amateur radio licence the opportunity to \ncomplete\none or more of RCF Examinations over the weekend. All candidates must book\ntheir exams prior to the event and, as normal, have to provide evidence that\nthey’ve completed the required practical assessments. Candidates for the\nFoundation and Intermediate exams must contact the exams co-ordinator\nbeforehand so that their progress as regards the practical assessments \ncan be\nverified. Contact the RCF Department at RSGB HQ on 01234 832 700 for further\ninformation and booking the examinations. If required, advice can be \ngiven or\nhelp finding a local tutor to complete the practical assessments in \nadvance of\nthe Convention weekend.\n\nUS EXAMINATIONS. The US exams will be available on Sunday 13th. Candidates\nwill need some form of ID, preferably hoto ID, a pen, a US postal \naddress for\nthe FCC to send your licence to and the exam fee (currently the Sterling\nequivalent of $15). The whole of the US exam question pool is available \nin the\npublic domain and can be downloaded. There are many websites that have\npractical papers with answers and (for self study candidates) there are many\nbooks available.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK, and RSGB for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSTRaND-1 talk at RSGB Convention this Sunday, October 13, 2013\n\n\nDr Chris Bridges M6OBC / M0GKK of the Surrey Space Centre is one of the\nvolunteers who developed the UK’s first CubeSat STRaND-1 on 437.568 MHz.At\n11:30 on Sunday, October 13 he will be providing an update on the satellite\nto those attending the RSGB Convention near Milton Keynes.\n\nLaunched on February 25, 2013 STRaND-1 was the first satellite to carry a\nSmartphone into space and attracted world-wide media interest.\n\nAt the heart of STRaND-1 is a Google Nexus One smartphone with an Android\noperating system. Smartphones contain highly advanced technologies and\nincorporate several key features that are integral to a satellite – such as\ncameras, radio links, accelerometers and high performance computer \nprocessors –\nalmost everything a spacecraft needs except the solar panels and propulsion.\n\nSTRaND-1 information\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/satellites/strand-1/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK, for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nRaspberry Pi at RSGB Convention\n\n\nPeter Goodhall 2E0SQL, a well known amateur radio satellite operator, is\nscheduled to give a presentation on the Raspberry Pi computer board at \nthe RSGB\nConvention this weekend.\n\nThe popular Raspberry Pi has been used for many different amateur radio\napplications. Peter’s presentation is scheduled to be given at \n14:30-15:15 on\nSaturday, October 12.\n\nThe RSGB’s Centenary Convention, sponsored by Martin Lynch & Sons, takes \nplace\nthis weekend (Fri eve-Sun) October 11-13 at Horwood House, MK17 0PH just \na few\nmiles outside Milton Keynes\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK, for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-UK FUNcube-1 Presentation at RSGB Convention\n\n\nDave Johnson G4DPZ is scheduled to be giving a presentation on the amateur\nradio AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1 and UK Space Agency (UKSA) UKube-1 satellites \nto the\nRSGB Convention on Saturday, October 12.\n\nThe presentation is scheduled to take place from 16:45-17:30 in the Cook \n2 room\nat Horwood House, MK17 0PH on Saturday, October 12.\n\nFUNcube-1 carries a 435/145 linear transponder for SSB and CW communications\nand an educational telemetry beacon using 1k2 BPSK for school outreach \npurposes.\n\nUkube-1 carries a set of AMSAT-UK FUNcube boards that will provide an\nadditional 435/145 MHz linear transponder and educational telemetry beacon.\n\nThe current launch information has lift off for FUNcube-1 scheduled for late\nNovember and UKube-1 on February 20.\n\nFUNcube-1 communication subsystem:\n• 400 mW Inverting linear transponder for SSB and CW\n- Uplink      435.150 – 435.130 MHz\n- Downlink  145.950 – 145.970 MHz\n• 400 mW BPSK Telemetry  145.935 MHz\n\nUKube-1 communications subsystem:\n• Telemetry downlink 145.840 MHz,\n• FUNcube subsystem beacon 145.915 MHz\n• 400 mW Inverting linear transponder for SSB and CW\n- Uplink     435.080 -435.060 MHz\n- Downlink 145.930 -145.950 MHz\n• S Band downlink 2401.0 MHz\n• myPocketQub 437.425-437.525 MHz\n\nThe RSGB’s Centenary Convention, sponsored by Martin Lynch & Sons, takes \nplace\nthis weekend (Fri eve-Sun) October 11-13 at Horwood House, MK17 0PH just \na few\nmiles outside Milton Keynes.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK, for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2013-10-09 17:00 UTC\n\nQuick list of scheduled contacts and  events:\n\nS. K. Seri Suria, Bangsar, Selangor, Malaysia, direct via  9M2RPN\nContact was successful: Wed 2013-10-09 09:31:14 UTC 80 deg\n\nEcole Francaise Jacques Prevert, Saly, Senegal, direct via  6V7SPACE\nContact is a go for: Mon 2013-10-14 16:31:33 UTC 30  deg\n\nIstituto Comprensivo, Marzocchino Di Seravezza, Italy and Comprensivo\nCamaiore 3, Camaiore, Italy, direct via IQ5VR\nContact is a go  for: Sat 2013-10-19 15:54:53 UTC 33 deg\n\n\nARISS is  requesting listener reports for the above contacts.  Due to\nissues with the  Kenwood radio that are not fully understood at present, the\nEricsson radio is  going to be used for these contacts.  ARISS thanks \neveryone\nin advance for  their assistance.  Feel free to send your reports to\[email protected] or  [email protected].\n\n\nLooking  for something new to do?  How about receiving DATV from the ISS?\nIf  interested, then please review the document provided by Gaston Bertels\nON4WF, the ARISS-Europe  Chairman.\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/HamTV.pdf\n\n\nThe  webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy.  Out of date\nwebpages  were removed and new ones have been added.  If there are \nadditional\nARISS  websites I need to know about, please let me know.\n\nNote, all times  are approximate.  It is recommended that you do your own\norbital prediction  or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed\ntime.\nAll dates and  times listed follow International Standard ISO 8061 date and\ntime format  YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS\nThe complete schedule page has been updated as of  2013-10-09 17:00 UTC.\n\nHere you will find a listing of all scheduled  school contacts, and\nquestions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and  Echolink websites, and\ninstructions for any contact that may be streamed  live.\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf\n\n\nTotal number  of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 858. (***)\nEach school counts as 1  event.\nTotal number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 840.  (***)\nEach contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time  slot.\nTotal number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is  46.\n\nA complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found  in the\nfile.\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf\n\nUS  Hams, don’t forget that there is a new process for US school proposals.\n   For US schools to have an ARISS contact, they must fill out a proposal,\nsubmit  it to NASA, and see if they are approved or not.  Once a school is\napproved  and put on the list, an ARISS mentor will be assigned to \nassist the\nschool.\n\nNASA will have two open windows a year for  schools to submit a proposal.\nThe window for contacts during the second  half of 2012 has already closed.\nLook for the window for first half 2013  contacts later this year. You\nmust go through NASA to get the proposal  material.  Contact Teaching From\nSpace, a NASA Education office, at  [email protected] or by \ncalling\nthem at (281) 244-2320.\n\nThe following US states and entities have never had an  ARISS contact:\nArkansas, Delaware, Kansas, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, \nVermont,\nWest Virginia, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands,\nand the Virgin  Islands.\n\n\nIN  LIGHT OF SOME COMMENTS THAT HAVE APPEARED RECENTLY ON THE VARIOUS\nBULLETIN\nBOARDS; THE COMMENTS BELOW STILL HOLD TRUE:\n\nQSL  information may be found at:\nhttp://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html\nhttp://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's\n\nISS callsigns:  DPØISS,  NA1SS, OR4ISS,  RSØISS\n\n\nThe  successful school list has been updated as of 2013-10-09 17:00 UTC.\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf\n\nFrequency  chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing\nDoppler  correction  as of 2005-07-29 04:00  UTC\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction\n.rtf\n\nListing  of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC.\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf\n\nCheck  out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts\n\nARISS School  Contacts\nhttps://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415\n\nSuccessful  ARISS  contacts\nhttps://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?OBJID=412218000000023448\n\nAdditional  Zoho links may be found at\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf\n\nExp.  36/37 on orbit\nFyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI\nKaren L. Nyberg\nLuca Parmitano  KF5KDP\n\nExp. 37/38 now on orbit\nOleg Kotov\nSergey  Ryazansky\nMichael S. Hopkins  KF5LJG\n\n\nARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the\nparticipating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, \nJAXA, and\nCSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.\n\nARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of\nAmateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the \nInternational\nSpace Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how \nAmateur\nRadio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science,\ntechnology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is \navailable\non the website http://www.ariss.org/ (graciously hosted by the Radio \nAmateurs\nof Canada).\n\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatelite Shorts From All Over\n\nAMSAT's Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK was at the Mohave Amateur Radio Club's \nannual\nhamfest in Kingman, Arizona, on Saturday (12 October 2013).\nHis plan was to have WD9EWK on as many satellite passes as possible \nduring the\nhamfest for on-air demonstrations of satellite operating.  The hamfest site\nis in grid DM25xf, in Mohave County AZ.\n\nSince Kingman is near a couple of grid boundaries, he planned on driving \nto one\nof those boundaries after the hamfest for some passes on Saturday afternoon\nand early evening (early Sunday, 13 October, UTC time) before driving home.\nThe DM25/DM35 grid boundary isn't too far from the hamfest site,\nrunning through the east side of Kingman. The DM24/DM25 grid boundary is \nabout\n20 miles/32km south of Kingman along I-40  He planned to operated from \nboth of\nthese grid boundaries.\nFor a QSL card all QSOs should be uploaded to Logbook of the World, or \nyou can\ne-mail him with the QSO details if you made a contact.\nIf you are in the log, you will get a card.\n\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n[ANS thanks Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK, for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n\n\n\n/EX\n\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\n\n",
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