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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/KDF4XUII43O2O35PP4457KNCWP6DSRJ5/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "KDF4XUII43O2O35PP4457KNCWP6DSRJ5", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/KDF4XUII43O2O35PP4457KNCWP6DSRJ5/", "sender": { "address": "dave (a) g4dpz.me.uk", "mailman_id": "4cd84fbc2bba4f1893957af5ac1686f4", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/4cd84fbc2bba4f1893957af5ac1686f4/emails/" }, "sender_name": "David Johnson", "subject": "[ans] ANS-035 AMSAT Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2007-02-04T21:00:23Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-035\n\nANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America,\nThe Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the activities of a\nworldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in\ndesigning, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital\nAmateur Radio satellites.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\n\[email protected]\n\nIn this edition:\n* AMSAT-DC SPACE SEMINAR 2007\n* ARISS Weekly Report\n* Space Shorts From All Over\n* Upcoming ARISS Contacts\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-035.01\nAMSAT-DC MEETING AND SPACE SEMINAR 2007\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 035.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nFebrary 4, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-035.01\n\nExcitement is brewing for the next annual local AMSAT meeting and space \nseminar\nto be held in the Maryland-DC area on Saturday, March 24, 2007. You are\ninvited!\n\nThere will be talks, demos, tutorials and plenty of socializing on amateur\n satellites, ground station set up, and high-altitude balloon experiments in\nthe greater mid-Atlantic USA area.\n\nAMSAT members, students, educators & the public are all invited. No \ntickets, no\nRSVP is needed. Come as you are, but bring a friend and pass the word!\n\nThe event will be held in the Pioneer Hall at the Historical Electronics \nMuseum\n(HEM) at 1745 West Nursery Road, Linthicum, Maryland (ZIP 21090) near BWI\nairport. Starting time is 11 A.M. local for the day long event.\n\nDirections to HEM are at the museum web site: http://www.hem-usa.org/\n\nTALK-IN will be on 146.760 MHz with a 107.2 Hz tone in the two hours \nprior to\nthe start time.\n\nYour host is AMSAT Area Coordinator Pat Kilroy, N8PK, [email protected], and\nothers.\n\nSpeaker slots are open. More demos are solicited. Coordination help is \nsought\nin advance and also on the day of the meeting. AMSAT members please contact\nthe host.\n\nThis event is sponsored by the local volunteer AMSAT members. All \npresenters\nare volunteers. A pass-the-hat offering will be taken for donations to help\noffset the meeting room cost, refreshments and associated items.\n\nFor any late breaking updates go to\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/fieldops/events.php\n\nYou won't want to miss this one!\n\nAdditional information is available at www.ao27.org\n\n[ANS thanks Pat Kilroy, N8PK, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-035.02\nARISS Weekly Status Report January 29, 2007\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 035.02\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nFebrary 4, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-035.02\n\n\n1.Canadian School Contact Successful\n\nStudents from Ecole elementaire publique Le Prelude experienced an Amateur\nRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Wednesday, \nJanuary\n4. The event was held at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa.\nSunita Williams, KD5PLB, greeted the students in both English and French \nand\nanswered 21 questions put to her by twelve K-6 graders. An audience of \n175 was\npresent for the contact, including two elected members of Federal \nParliament,\none City Councilor, the School Board Chair, and the president of Radio \nAmateurs\nof Canada (RAC). Among the media attending were four major French and \nEnglish\ntelevision stations. Audio was fed into the EchoLink AMSAT and JK1ZRW\nconference room servers; seventeen connections were made from 6 countries.\n\n2.Winnebago Reservation School Contact Successful\n\nOn Thursday, January 25, students at the Winnebago Public School spoke with\nSunita Williams, KD5PLB, via Amateur Radio on the International Space \nStation\n(ARISS). Nineteen students were each able to ask one question. An \naudience of\napproximately 500 students, teachers and parents listened over the PA \nsystem.\nTelevision station Channel 9, from Sioux City, IA and the Sioux City \nJournal\ncovered the event, interviewing at least 9 students. The school posted\ninformation about the ARISS activities on its website.\n\nSee http://winnebago.esu1.org.\n\nFor the Sioux City Journal article,\n\nsee: \nhttp://www.siouxcityjournal.com/video/video_vid_player.php?v=20070125_winnebagospace_384\n\nWinnebago is a rural, Title 1 school with 86% of the school population \ncoming\nfrom economically disadvantaged families.\n\n3. ARISS New York Contact to be Rescheduled\n\nThe Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact \nwith East\nAurora Middle School in New York, originally slated for Thursday, \nFebruary 1,\nhas been cancelled due to scheduling issues. The event will be \nrescheduled in\nthe near future.\n\n4.ARRL Article Covers ISS Crew\n\nThe American Radio Relay League (ARRL) ran an article on ISS Hams and \nupcoming\nspacewalks.\n\nSee: http://www.arrl.org/?artid=7145\n\n5.Boulder Hill Elementary Prepares for ARISS Contact\n\nBoulder Hill Elementary School in Montgomery, Illinois has been \npreparing for\nan Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact. The\nschool has a radio club made up of 30 members from the fourth and fifth\ngrades; two-thirds of the members are girls. The Fathers Club and PTA are\npreparing for the contact, making a stage curtain, and trying to obtain \nspace\nfood and astronaut costumes for the teachers. They also plan to invite an\nastronaut to visit the school. Display cases have been set up \npublicizing the\nevent, providing information on the International Space Station, space, \nsolar\nenergy, (complete with solar panels), and satellite models and rockets. A\ndocumentary is in the works, which will cover all activities related to the\ncontact. An Illinois state representative and state senator have been \ninvited\nto attend the event, tentatively planned for the spring.\n\n6. ARRL Article on Students SuitSat-2 Work\n\nThe American Radio Relay League (ARRL) ran a web story on the college \nstudents\nwho are participating in the SuitSat-2 software defined radio hardware \ntesting\nand development.\n\nSee: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2007/01/24/101/?nc=1\n\nThe two Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) members, who taught \nthis\nsoftware defined radio class at The College of New Jersey, have received an\ninvitation from the Engineering department head to repeat the course in the\nfall.\n\n[ANS thanks Pat Carol Jackson, KB3LKI, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-035.03\nSpace Shorts From All Over\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 035.03\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nFebruary 4, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-035.03\n\n+ On February 3, 2007 Craig, KL4E conducted a live amateur radio\n communications exhibition for the PQ-13 pilots and support per-\n sonnel of the 491st Aviation Regiment, ASDF, at Camp Carroll\n on Fort Richardson, Alaska. For the satellite portion of the\n demonstration, Craig operated on AO-51 and SO-50.\n\n+ Taking advantage of good operating conditions aboard the recently\n recovered AO-27 satellite its controllers have shifted the bird's\n schedule to begin 7 minutes earlier than usual and have extended\n the transmitter's on-time to 8 minutes. This will allow operators\n to contact the satellite DXpeditions currently active aboard cruise\n ships in the Carribean. See http://www.ao27.org.\n\n+ Here's a chance to do some space browsing in the shack while\n waiting for the next satellite pass. http://sky-map.org/ features\n an interactive sky map with point-and-click accessibility. You\n can simply point your mouse at any sky object and a small pop-up\n appears displaying the name and a brief description of that object.\n By clicking on the object you instantly have access to detailed\n information about this star.\n\n+ Sources at SpaceDaily.com reported this week the International\n Space Station will likely remain operational until 2025 according\n to the head of the Russian spacecraft manufacturer Energia. Nikolai\n Sevastyanov said Tuesday, \"By 2009-2015, Russia will be the only\n country able to deliver crews to the station. No one is going to\n sink or drop the ISS, as all countries realize that the station is\n becoming a full-scale industrial facility in space. Although it is\n scheduled for decommissioning in 2015, its operational life could\n be prolonged until 2025. Energia has proposed making the station\n permanent. If we terminate its existence, it would be hard for man-\n kind to implement such a project anew.\"\n\n[ANS thanks everyone for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-035.04\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2007-02-02\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 035.04\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nFebruary 4, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-035.04\n\nQuick list of scheduled contacts and events:\n\nTotal number of ARISS school contacts is 267.\n\nQSL information may be found at: \n\nhttp://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html \nhttp://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's \n\nISS callsigns: DP0ISS, NA1SS, RS0ISS\n\n*****************************************************************************\n\nThe schedule page has been updated as of 2007-02-02 23:00 UTC. Here \nyou will \nfind a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS \nrelated websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any \ncontact\nthat may be streamed live. \n\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt\n\nThe successful school list has been updated as of 2007-01-26 04:00 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\ncorrection as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction.rtf\n\nListing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC:\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf\n\n*****************************************************************************\n\nThere has been a rumor that the ISS was having direct contacts on the \n40 meter\nband. There is no HF radio equipment on board and available yet. The HF\nantenna is mounted. Sometimes WA3NAN will retransmit shuttle audio.\n\n*****************************************************************************\n\nExpedition 14 on orbit:\nMichael Lopez-Alegria KE5GTK\nMikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT \n\nExpedition 14/15 on orbit:\nSunita Williams, KD5PLB\n\n*****************************************************************************\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the \nPresident's\nClub. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT \nProject\nFunds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application \nforms are\navailable from the AMSAT Office.\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nDave Johnson\ng4dpz at amsat dot org\n\n", "attachments": [] }