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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/K7FHOYWWQAD2PPVKPD3YJLVJLSBDY6SH/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "K7FHOYWWQAD2PPVKPD3YJLVJLSBDY6SH", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/K7FHOYWWQAD2PPVKPD3YJLVJLSBDY6SH/", "sender": { "address": "n1uw (a) gokarns.com", "mailman_id": "684263b135e74eb98a4fed6b61b4c189", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/684263b135e74eb98a4fed6b61b4c189/emails/" }, "sender_name": "Frank Karnauskas", "subject": "[ans] ANS-019 Draft_200118_2329", "date": "2020-01-18T23:31:20Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "This is what will fly at 0000 unless anyone has any final corrections\nor additions.\n\nMostly the same but some style changes in the API article and\nreformatting some lines with extra spaces.\n\n73\nF\n\nAMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-019\n\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and \ninformation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio\nAmateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur\nRadio in space including reports on the activities of a worldwide\ngroup of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in \ndesigning, building, launching and communicating through analog and\ndigital Amateur Radio satellites.\n\nThe news feed on http://amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio \nin space as soon as our volunteers can post it.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\nans-editor at amsat dot org.\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* GOLF-TEE Reaches Major Milestones\n* ARISS Contact Opportunity Call for Proposals February 1, 2020 to \n March 31, 2020\n* Satellite Status and Tracking API's Added to AMSAT Website\n* Qarman Beacon Telemetry Information Released\n* China Telecoms Regulator Proposing to Delete Some Current \n Amateur Allocations\n* Memorial Service for Brian Kantor, WB6CYT\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts from All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-019.01\nANS-019 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 019.01\n>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nJanuary 19, 2020\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-019.01\n\n\nGOLF-TEE Reaches Major Milestone\n\nA group of GOLF-TEE (Greater Orbit Larger Footprint - Technology \nEvaluation Environment) satellite prototype boards transmitted \ntelemetry for the first time on Tuesday, January 14, 2020. The boards \nare laid out on a bench as a \"flat-sat\" with interconnecting wires, \nbench power supplies, and a dummy load on the transmitter. The \ninterconnected boards include: \n\n- An early RT-IHU (Radiation Tolerant Internal Housekeeping Unit \n (i.e. computer) prototype,\n- A CIU (Control Interface Unit) prototype, and \n- A set of spare boards from HuskySat-1 that act as prototypes for \n the LIHU (Legacy IHU) and legacy VHF/UHF RF components. \n\nNow that the development team has reached this point, it has RF to \nuse as a basis for developing a GOLF-TEE decoder for FoxTelem, the \nground telemetry receiver software.\n\nThousands of hours of work by many AMSAT volunteers have gone into \nthe hardware and software that got GOLF-TEE this far, with much work \nyet to be done before flight units are ready.\n\nGOLF-TEE is designed as a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) testbed for \ntechnologies necessary for a successful CubeSat mission to a wide \nvariety of orbits, including MEO(Medium Earth Orbit) and HEO (High \nEarth Orbit).\n\nTo help support the GOLF program, please consider volunteering or \ndonating today.\n\nhttps://www.amsat.org/volunteer-for-amsat/\n\nhttps://www.amsat.org/donations/amsat-golf-program-donations/\n\n[ANS thanks Burns Fisher, WB1FJ, AMSAT Flight Software, and the \nentire GOLF team for the above information]\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nARISS Contact Opportunity Call for Proposals February 1, 2020 to \nMarch 31, 2020\n\nThe Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program \nis seeking formal and informal education institutions and \norganizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur \nRadio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS is happy to \nannounce a proposal window which will open February 1, 2020 for \ncontacts that would be held between January 2021 and June 2021. Crew \nscheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To \nmaximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for \norganizations that will draw large numbers of participants and \nintegrate the contact into a well-developed education plan. \n\nThe proposal window for contacts between January 2021. and June 2021 \nwill open on February 1, 2020 and close on March 31. 2020. Proposal \ninformation and documents can be found at www.ariss.org. Two ARISS \nIntroductory Webinar sessions will be held on two different date and \ntimes. The first is at January 23 at 2100 ET and the second is at \nJanuary 27 at 1800 ET. The same material will be covered during both \nsessions, so choose the session that best fits your schedule. The \nEventbrite link to sign up is \nhttps://ariss-proposal-webinar-spring-2020.eventbrite.com \n\nThe Opportunity \n\nCrew members aboard the International Space Station will participate \nin scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are \napproximately 10 minutes in length and allow students to interact \nwith the astronauts through a question-and-answer session. \n\nAn ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via \nAmateur Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space \nstation and classrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford \neducation audiences the opportunity to learn firsthand from \nastronauts what it is like to live and work in space and to learn \nabout space research conducted on the ISS. Students also will have an \nopportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless \ntechnology, and radio science. Because of the nature of human \nspaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the \nISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate \nchanges in dates and times of the radio contact. \n\nAmateur Radio organizations around the world with the support of NASA \nand space agencies in Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe present \neducational organizations with this opportunity. The ham radio \norganizations' volunteer efforts provide the equipment and \noperational support to enable communication between crew on the ISS \nand students around the world using Amateur Radio. \n\nFor More Information\n\nFor proposal information and more details such as expectations, \nproposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of \nInformation Webinars, go to www.ariss.org.\n\nPlease direct any questions to [email protected] . \n\n[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information.]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n Need new satellite antennas? Purchase Arrows, Alaskan Arrows,\n and M2 LEO-Packs from the AMSAT Store. When you purchase through\n AMSAT, a portion of the proceeds goes towards\n Keeping Amateur Radio in Space.\n https://amsat.org/product-category/hardware/\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nSatellite Status and Tracking API's Added to AMSAT Website\n\nThanks to an initiative by Heimir, W1ANT, AMSAT added Application \nProgramming Interfaces (APIs) to the AMSAT web site to make it easy \nfor developers to write apps for mobile devices and the Internet of \nThings (IoT). For example, the satellite status page \nwww.amsat.org/status does not work well on small screens. By \naccessing the status data directly developers can easily present the \ndata in a way appropriate for their screens. \n\nThese APIs also make it easy for IoT homebrewers to do things like \nbuild next pass reminder gizmos so they can beep out notices in CW. \nThe developers have set a goal of February 15, 2020 to finalize the \nAPIs, and consider them operational on March 1, 2020. Developers \nare encouraged to send suggestions or questions to \nwww.amsat.org/webmaster-contact/ For details of API use \nvisit www.amsat.org/status/api/ and www.amsat.org/track/api/\n\n[ANS thanks Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P for the above information.]\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\nQarman Beacon Telemetry Information Released\n\nQARMAN, a nano-satellite designed and built at VKI, was launched to \nthe International Space Station on December 5, 2019. Deployed is \nexpected to take place in the week of February 12, 2020.\n\nQARMAN (Qubesat for Aerothermodynamic Research and Measurements on \nAblatioN) is the world's first CubeSat designed to survive \natmospheric re-entry. Work on it started in 2013 at the von Karman \nInstitute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI).\n\nThe aim of the QARMAN mission is to demonstrate the usability of a \nCubeSat platform as an atmospheric entry vehicle. Spacecraft \ndescending towards a planet with an atmosphere experience very harsh \nenvironment including extreme temperatures (several thousand \ndegrees).\n\nInformation about Qarman's 437.350 MHz 9600 bps GMSK AX.25 beacon has \nnow been released by the team.\n\nDownload the Qarman Beacon Definition QARMAN_BCNdef_v1.1 at \nhttps://ukamsat.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/qarman_bcndef_v1.1.pdf\n\nDownload the Beacon Decoder spreadsheet QARMAN_BCNdecoder at \nhttps://ukamsat.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/qarman_bcndecoder.xlsx\n\nReports can be sent to [email protected] \n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information.]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n The digital download version of the 2019 edition of\n Getting Started with Amateur Satellites is now available as a\n DRM-free PDF from the AMSAT Store. Get yours today!\n https://tinyurl.com/ANS-237-Getting-Started\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nChina Telecoms Regulator Proposing to Delete Some Current \nAmateur Allocations\n\nChina's telecommunications regulator has proposed amending the \nMeasures for the Administration of Amateur Radio Stations, and some \namateur bands are in danger of being eliminated. Lide Zhang, BI8CKU, \ntold ARRL that the proposal would prohibit amateur operation on the \n2200-meter band as well as on 146 - 148 MHz, 1260 - 1300 MHz, \n3400 - 3500 MHz, 5650 - 5725 MHz, and all bands above 10 GHz.\n\nRadio communications engineer and Chinese Amateur Satellite Group \n(CAMSAT) CEO Alan Kung, BA1DU, told ARRL that government efforts to \neliminate some amateur bands are nothing new, but proposals that have \nbeen aired for a while now are on the regulatory agency's schedule. \nKung said he does not anticipate that all of the bands proposed will \nbe taken away, but he conceded that the climate will \"undoubtedly\" \nbecome increasingly more dangerous for China's amateur radio \ncommunity.\n\n\"The attempt to crowd out the amateur radio bands has a long history \nthroughout the world,\" he said, \"but it may never have become so \nurgent for the amateur radio community as it is today. We all \nunderstand that radio spectrum resources have become a bottleneck for \nfurther development.\" He said today's radio communication industry \n\"is working hard to share spectrum resources.\" Kung characterized \nspectrum as \"the soil on which amateur radio depends.\"\n\n[ANS thanks the ARRL for the above information.]\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMemorial Service for Brian Kantor, WB6CYT\n\nPhil Karn, KA9Q shares the following announcement:\n\n\"As you know, Brian Kantor, WB6CYT passed away suddenly on \nNovember 21, 2019. We will hold a memorial service for Brian on \nSaturday, Feb 1 2020 at 1:30 PM in La Jolla, CA (part of San Diego). \nPlease see this link for details: \nhttps://tinyurl.com/ANS-019-Kantor-Memorial\n\n\"Please bring any photos, mementos and (above all) stories and \nanecdotes about Brian to share. Brian wasn't exactly a highly formal \nperson who stood on ceremony, so we'll keep this informal. If you \nhave a story to tell, it's up to you whether you stand up and relate \nit to the whole group or just a few others at a time. There will be \nplenty of time for both.\n\n\"Everyone who knew Brian is welcome. His friendships spanned at least \nthree distinct social circles, and I know he'd be very happy to see \neveryone meet and enjoy everyone else's company. Even if he'd be a \nlittle embarrassed that we were doing it in his honor.\n\n\"Free snacks and refreshments will be provided, so please RSVP \nthrough the evite link so we can tell the hotel how much to make \navailable. If you have special dietary needs, please say so; the \nhotel has a menu we can choose from.\n\n\"Please forward this email to anyone you think might be interested. \nHope to see you on the 1st.\"\n\n[ANS thanks Phil Karn, KA9Q for the above information.]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n AMSAT, along with our ARISS partners, is developing an amateur\n radio package, including two-way communication capability, to\n be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit.\n Support AMSAT's projects today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nUpcoming Satellite Operations\n\nNew Orleans, LA (EL49, EL58, EM59, EM40, EM50, EM60) January 14 - \nFebruary 1, 2020\nAdam, KC3OBS, will be roving EM40, EM50, EL49, EL59, January 14 - \nFeb 1. In between, Adam will be EL58, January 18 or 19 \ndepending on weather, and in EM60 January 29. Adam will announce \npasses and updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sparky_husky\n\nLabrador (GO11 +) January 19-27, 2019\nChris VE3FU, Dave VE9CB, and Frank VO1HP will be active as VO2AC in \nthe 2020 CQ160 CW contest, January 24-26, from Point Armour \nLighthouse, in Labrador. If time permits before the contest, they \nmay be active on FM satellites from GO11 as VO2AC or VO2AAA.\nDepending on weather and timing of passes, you might catch them on \nFM satellites as they make their way from FO93 to GO-11, passing \nthrough FO92, GO02, GO13, GO12, and GO22 along the way, but no \npromises. They will also make the reverse trek on January 27.\n\nMontserrat (FK86) January 26 - February 2, 2020\nMel, W8MV, will be in Montserrat 26 January until 2 February, \noperating under the call sign VP2MCV on FM Sats. QSL via LOTW.\n\nAntigua (FK97) February 2 - 9, 2020\nMel, W8MV, will be in Antigua 2-9 February. Mel is waiting for his \noperating license. Will update as soon as it arrives. FM only. \nQSL via LOTW\n\nIsla Perez, Mexico (EL52, EL50, EL51) February 11 - 17, 2020\nMembers of Radio Club Puebla DX will be active as 6F3A from \nIsla Perez, Mexico, between February 11-17. The operators mentioned \nare Patricia/XE1SPM (Team Leader), Ismael/XE1AY, Rey/XE1SRD and \nRicardo/XE1SY. Activity will be on 80/40/20/17/15/12/10/6 meters, and \ninclude the ARRL DX CW Contest (February 15-16). QSL via XE1SY. \nIsmael, XE1AY, reports that he doing CW and the satellites, and will \nalso TX from EL50 and XE1AY/mm from EL51.\n\nBig Bend National Park (DL88) March 16-17, 2020\nRon AD0DX, Doug N6UA, and Josh W3ARD will operate from Big Bend \nNational Park to put grid DL88 on the air. Details will be added \nhere, as they come available, but you are more than welcome to keep \nan eye on their individual Twitter feeds: https://twitter.com/ad0dx, \nhttps://twitter.com/dtabor, and https://twitter.com/W3ARDstroke5\n\n[ANS thanks Robert Bankston, KE4AL for the above information.]\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nARISS News\n\n(Editor's Note: See school contact opportunity story above.)\n\n+ Upcoming Contacts\n\nMorita Junior High School, Fukui, Japan, direct via 8J9MO \nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS \nThe scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP\nContact is go for: Wed 2020-01-22 08:00:46 UTC 27 deg\n\nOntario Science Centre, Toronto, Canada, telebridge via IK1SLD\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP\nContact is go for: Wed 2020-01-22 17:21:36 UTC 32 deg\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N for the above information.]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n Purchase AMSAT Gear on our Zazzle storefront.\n 25% of the purchase price of each product goes\n towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space\n https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nShorts from All Over\n\n+ ARISS-US Educators Review Processes for US Proposal Window\n\nA team of educators who are members of the ARISS-US Education \nCommittee is finalizing the last few processes related to the late \n2019 ARISS-US Proposal Window. The team had ranked the education \nproposals and then sent a list to the ARISS-US leaders of the top \nschools and education groups recommended for hosting an ARISS \ncontact. A news release is in draft stage. The organizations selected \nwill be in the queue for scheduled ARISS contacts during the second \nhalf of 2020. A new ARISS-US Proposal Window will open soon and \ndetails on this will be forthcoming.\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information.]\n\n\n+ WIA 2020 Annual Conference Presentations\n\nThe Wireless Institute of Australia Annual Conference will be held in \nHobart, Tasmania May 8-10 2020 and registrations are open.\n\nOn the Saturday afternoon a wide range of presentations are organized \nto showcase the conference theme which is the \"Antarctic Gateway\".\n\nFollowing lunch there will be two presentation streams which can be \ncategorized as the \"Antarctic\" stream and the \"Radio\" stream. \nComplete information can be viewed at:\nhttps://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2020/20200111-3/index.php\n\n[ANS thanks the Wireless Institute of Australia for the above \ninformation.]\n\n\n+ AMSAT Argentina Celebrates LO-19 30th Anniversary\n\nOn Feb-22-1990 LUSAT/LO-19 was launched along with AO-16, DO-17, \nWO-18, UO-14 & UO-15. It was the first Argentina Satellite, and one \nof first to use PACSAT protocol. LUSAT is still calling home with \nits carrier at +/-437.125.\n\nMembers of AMSAT Argentina (LU7AA) celebrate the 30th anniversary of \nthe LUSAT (LO-19) satellite between Jan. 18 and 26 on HF on SSB, \nFT8, CW. An award is available as well. QSL via LU7AA (d), eQSL.\nFind complete information at:\nhttp://lu4aao.org/lu7aa/cert_30_aniv_lusat_2020.htm and\nhttp://amsat.org.ar/certlusat30.htm\n\n[ANS thanks the DARC DX Newsletter and AMSAT-LU for the above \ninformation.]\n\n\n+ AMSAT-SA Announces A New Date Fre Their Space Symposium\n\nThe annual AMSAT SA Space symposium date has changed to \nSaturday, 11 July 2020. While the call for papers is ongoing till the \nend of February, AMSAT SA is pleased to announce that Burns Fisher, \nWB1FJ, of AMSAT NA will delivery two papers at the symposium: \nFox-in-a-box: Fox telemetry reception using an inexpensive \nRaspberry Pi and a J-pole antenna including a discussion on the \noptimal positioning for a J-pole antenna for satellite reception and \nan overview of what is in orbit currently and expected in the near \nfuture and their features. Prospective authors are invited to \npropose other papers by submitting a brief synopsis to \[email protected] before 28 February 2020.\n\n\n+ Cardiff Microwave Roundtable Saturday, March 7, 2020\n\nThe Cardiff University ARS will host a meeting of the UK Microwave \nGroup on Saturday March 7, 2020 at our campus in Cardiff. This one \nday event is a mix of talks, measurements, and socializing about \nactivities in the GHz frequencies.\nGNU Radio Workshop\n\nOn the following day, Sunday March 8, there will be a hands on \nIntroduction to GNU Radio and Software Defined Radio. More info \ncoming soon, please send an email to [email protected] \nif you are interested.\n\n[ANS thanks the UK Microwave Group for the above information.]\n\n\n+ Lockheed Martin Launches First Smart Satellite Enabling Space \n Mesh Networking\n\nRecently, Lockheed Martin launched the Pony Express 1 mission as a \nhosted payload on Tyvak-0129, a next-generation Tyvak 6U spacecraft. \nPony Express 1, an example of rapid prototyping, was developed, built \nand integrated in nine months. Some of the key technologies being \nflight-tested include: \n\n- Software validates advanced adaptive mesh communications between \n satellites, shared processing capabilities, and can take advantage, \n of sensors aboard other smart satellites, \n- A software-defined radio that allows for high-bandwidth hosting of \n multiple RF applications, store-and-forward RF collection, data \n compression, digital signal processing and waveform transmission, \n- 3D-printed wideband antenna housing. \n\nRead the full story at \nhttp://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=55121\n\n[ANS thanks Spaceref.com for the above information.]\n\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 \nadditional benefits. Application forms are available from the \nAMSAT office.\n\nPrimary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at\none-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students\nenrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the \nstudent rate for a maximum of six post-secondary years in this \nstatus.\n\nContact Martha at the AMSAT office for additional student \nmembership information.\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nFrank Karnauskas, N1UW\nn1uw at amsat dot org\n\nSent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum \navailable to all interested persons worldwide without requiring \nmembership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author \nand do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA.\n\nNot an AMSAT member? Join now to support the amateur satellite \nprogram!\n\nSubscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }