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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/KHPU3DFI6MK2EH5OQQKDD5VKZHLEJZK7/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "KHPU3DFI6MK2EH5OQQKDD5VKZHLEJZK7", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/KHPU3DFI6MK2EH5OQQKDD5VKZHLEJZK7/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[ans] ANS-004 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2015-01-04T07:19:05Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-004\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* W5PFG/P Northern Maine Grid Expedition\n* Opportunities to Help at AMSAT User Services\n* Design The Next AMSAT Satellite!\n* 73 on 73 Award #5 - EC4TR\n* Geosynchronous Es'hail-2 with Amateur Payload Contracted for 2016 Launch\n* DESPATCH FO-81 Concludes Operations\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-004.01\nANS-004 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 004.01\n From AMSAT HQ Kensington, MD.\nJanuary 4, 2015\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-004.01\n\nW5PFG/P Northern Maine Grid Expedition\n\nWeather permitting, a grid expedition to northern Maine will begin Saturday,\nJanuary 10, 2015. Planned grids will be: FN53-54, FN57, FN65-67. The \nplan is\nto try to operate as many satellite passes and gridlines as possible in \nthe same\nfashion as AC0RA's March 2014 trip. The trip will end up in FN42 by Sunday,\nJanuary 11 evening.\n\nTwitter via @w5pfg will be the primary form of communications with\nfollow-up afterwards with some pictures at www.w5pfg.us.\n\n[ANS thanks Clayton, W5PFG, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nOpportunities to Help at AMSAT User Services\n\nAMSAT's User Services Department is recruiting for several volunteer\npositions to augment our dedicated and elite staff! The User Services\nDepartment provides support in several areas including:\n\n+ AMSAT News Service\n+ The AMSAT Journal magazine\n+ AMSAT's web presence at www.amsat.org\n\nThe AMSAT News Service\n-----------------------\nWe need two or more volunteers to step forward who can dedicate time on a\nrotating shift of news editors. The AMSAT News Service (ANS) sends out a\nweekly news bulletin of everything of interest to amateur radio in space.\nThe entire ANS crew (currently 3 editors) helps round up the news and each\nANS editor takes a week as editor to compile the week's ANS bulletins. We'll\nget you into the bulletin rotation and you'll take your turn as the ANS\neditor this week.\n\nThe AMSAT Journal Magazine\n--------------------------\nWe need two or more volunteers who can help compile one of AMSAT's key\nmembership benefits ... The AMSAT Journal Magazine. An assistant editor is\nneeded to help our existing team of editors (currently 3) to locate articles\nand establish contact with potential authors. All you need is an eye for\narticles of interest to amateur radio in space. You'll compile input from\nAMSAT HQ, volunteer authors, and amateur radio news sources into articles\nfor publication in our bi-monthly magazine.\n\nWe also need one volunteer who is capable of assuming the position of\neditor-in-chief of the AMSAT Journal. You'll help develop article sources\nand using AMSAT provided software and templates compile the 32-page magazine\nfor six issues per year. Our publishing system is the Adobe InDesign CS6\npackage. This can be learned quickly by any computer literate ham. InDesign\nis MS-Word on steroids.\n\nAMSAT's Web Presence\n--------------------\nHelp is needed on the front to locate and publish up to date content for the\nAMSAT web. We publish late breaking news of amateur radio in space. We also\npublish reference information to help operate on the satellites ...\nsoftware, radios, antennas, operating techniques. Web content containing\nlate-breaking operating news and reliable operator tips currently has\nseveral gaps needing to be filled. Our WordPress environment makes the web\ndisplay easy but you'll be spending your volunteer time on the content. This\nis a job for 5 or more volunteers and needs to be filled immediately!\n\nAMSAT also is looking for a webmaster who will assume responsibility for the\ndisplay of all content in a WordPress environment. The basic framework is in\nplace but can definitely stand to be fine tuned and made into a world class\ndisplay of amateur radio in space. For most hams on-line www.amsat.org is\nour \"front door\" and we are looking for the most capable help on this\nimportant user interface!\n\nOur team is the \"voice of AMSAT\". News, operator tips, and membership\nbenefits are important products for AMSAT User Services. For questions or to\nvolunteer please contact AMSAT's Vice President of User Services, JoAnne\nMaenpaa, K9JKM at [email protected]\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT Vice President of User Services, JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM for\nthe above information]\n\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nDesign The Next AMSAT Satellite!\n\nAt the 2014 AMSAT Space Symposium AMSAT Vice President - Engineering\nJerry Buxton announced the plan for the next generation of AMSAT\nsatellites. \"The door is open for everyone, to submit their ideas.\nAMSAT Engineering has a long term strategy and this is the first\nstep.\"\n\nThe Engineering long term strategy includes the following goals:\n - Advancement of amateur radio satellite technical and communications \nskills\n - Enhance international goodwill\n - Grow and sustain a skilled pool of amateur radio satellite engineers\n - Establish and maintain partnerships with educational institutions\n - Develop a means to use hardware common to all opportunities\n\nWith respect to the last goal Jerry said \"Within the bounds of the\ntype of satellite it takes to achieve any of the various orbit\nopportunities, let's consider in those plans the possibility of\ndeveloping a platform that can suit any and all orbits. Perhaps a\nmodular CubeSat, using a common bus as we did in Fox-1, which gives\ngreat flexibility in building and flying different sizes and\nconfigurations of CubeSats with simple common-design hardware\nchanges.\"\n\nSubmissions should be thorough and contain the following\ninformation. The purpose of the proposal is not just in suggesting an\nidea; being an all-volunteer team AMSAT needs your help in carrying\nout the idea.\n\nDesign Implementation - CubeSat platform Estimated timeline Cost -\nvolunteer resources, commercial (COTS) units Launch - how does it get\nto orbit Strategy - how it fits into AMSAT's Engineering long term\nstrategy\n\nAs mentioned above the idea should be based on the CubeSat platform.\nThis is the standard through which we will look for launches in the\nforeseeable future.\n\nIn considering your proposal, Jerry encourages you to contact him\nfor more details on the criteria. A guidebook to the criteria is now\navailable for download here. In particular, if you plan to include a\nuniversity as a partner to provide experiments or other support and\nyou are not representing that university, please contact Jerry for\nassistance in working with our existing partners or establishing a\nnew partnership.\n\n\"Being amateur radio operators, it is easy for us to fall into a\nparticular trap because of our history of communicating with other\namateurs throughout the world\" says Jerry. \"Specifically, most people\nwho are not already involved in the world of satellite technology are\nunaware of or simply overlook the provisions of the current ITAR and\nsoon to be EAR export rules particularly with regard to deemed\nexports which requires governmental permission to discuss satellite\nprojects with foreign nationals.\"\n\nWhile all amateurs are invited to submit ideas, U.S. amateurs must\ntake particular care of they choose to become involved in a\ncollaboration which includes individuals from other countries. It is\npermissible to receive ideas and proposals from outside the U.S., but\nit is not permitted for U.S. Persons to export or share design ideas\nwith other countries unless they have taken the proper steps to\ninsure compliance with ITAR and deemed export rules.\n\nAdditionally, those wishing to work on proposals should use care in\npresenting themselves in their contacts. While the goal is for AMSAT\nto build and launch the satellite, it is not an AMSAT project until\nit is accepted by the AMSAT Board of Directors. It is acceptable to\nrepresent yourself as members of a project team that plans to submit\na proposal to AMSAT for a future satellite project, as the AMSAT name\nis well known.\n\n\"It is not our intention that ideas be submitted to AMSAT-NA which\nwould be more appropriately handled by an AMSAT organization in a\ncountry where AMSAT is established. AMSAT-NA is seeking ideas from\namateurs in North America and will certainly consider ideas from\namateurs in countries which do not have an established AMSAT\norganization or relationships with an existing AMSAT organization.\"\n\nThe deadline for submissions is May 30, 2015. After the submission\ndate the ideas will be screened for completeness and then reviewed by\na board consisting of the AMSAT Engineering Team, AMSAT Senior\nOfficer and Board of Directors representatives, and aerospace\nindustry members. The review board may modify or consolidate ideas\nand will consider which meet the criteria to become a project based\non feasibility, cost, and the ability to bring value to the amateur\nsatellite community. The review process is expected to be completed\nin September 2015.\n\nFor those ideas selected to become a project which satisfy the\nrequirements for an ELaNa launch, the idea authors will be asked to\nwork with the AMSAT Engineering Team on an ELaNa proposal.\n\nThe Engineering Team will then work on the details of execution for\nthe selected project(s) and present a proposal to the AMSAT Board of\nDirectors in October 2015 for final approval to begin work. Once\napproved, any ELaNa proposals will be submitted in November 2015 and\nthe project(s) will move forward.\n\nNow is the time for YOU to begin working on the next AMSAT satellite!\n\n[ANS thanks Jerry, N0JY, for the above information\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n73 on 73 Award #5 - EC4TR\n\nCongratulations to Jose Luis Peña Sanchez, EC4TR, for becoming the\nfifth recipient of the 73 on 73 Award. He submitted a list of 73\nstations worked via AO-73 between September 1, 2014 and December 31,\n2014.\n\nFor more information on the award see\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/funcube/73-on-73-award/\n\n[ANS thanks Paul, N8HM, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nGeosynchronous Es'hail-2 with Amateur Payload Contracted for 2016 Launch\n\nThe new satellite will be positioned at 26° East. In September 2014, a \ncontract\nwith MELCO was signed to build the satellite based on the DS-2000 bus. In\nDecember 2014, a launch contract was signed with SpaceX to launch the \nsatellite\non a Falcon-9 v1.1 booster in late 2016.\n\nEs'hail 2 will also provide the first Amateur Radio geostationary \ncommunication\ncapability linking Brazil and India. It will carry two \"Phase 4\" Amateur \nRadio\ntransponders. The payload will consist of a 250 kHz linear transponder \nintended\nfor conventional analogue operations in addition to another transponder \nwhich\nwill have an 8 MHz bandwidth. The latter transponder is intended for\nexperimental digital modulation schemes and DVB amateur television. The \nuplinks\nwill be in the 2.400-2.450 GHz and the downlinks in the 10.450-10.500 GHz\namateur satellite service allocations. Both transponders will have broad \nbeam\nantennas to provide full coverage over about third of the earth’s \nsurface. The\nQatar Amateur Radio Society and Qatar Satellite Company are cooperating \non the\namateur radio project. AMSAT-DL is providing technical support to the \nproject.\n\n[ANS thanks Gunter Krebs for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nDESPATCH FO-81 Concludes Operations\n\nThe following update was provided by Akihiro Kubota.\n\nOne month has past since Deep Space Sculpture \"ARTSAT2:DESPATCH(FO-81)\"\nwas put into an Earth-escape orbit as a piggyback payload of H-IIA F26\nlaunched at December 3, 2014 from Tanegashima Space Center, JAXA. It is\nestimated to have stopped sending radio waves since the battery of\nDESPATCH already ran out (We predicted that the battery will work for 27\ndays according to the running time of the transmitter).\n\nToday January 3, the main control station, Tama Art University Ground\nStation, decided to conclude the operation of DESPATCH. Many people\nsupported and cooperated us throughout the design and development of\nDESPATCH. In addition, many excellent many ham radio operator received\nand reported super weak radio waves of DESPATCH from deep space. To\nhave this opportunity, I would like once again to thank all of them very\nmuch.\n\nReception reports of DESPATCH are summarized on the following page.\n\nReception Reports\nhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WP-\nFzXHe8axAzNy44SGbKpJqIRKWHAcIP9vXnaHMb6g/edit#gid=0\n\nFinally, we had two reception reports at 4.7 million kilo-meters from\nthe Earth (more than 12 times of the distance to the Moon). They were\nfar beyond what we expected. They are the the longest communication\ndistance in the world between two amateur radio stations.\n\nOrbital elements of DESPATCH is as follows (J2000 heliocentric ecliptic\ncoordinates).\n\n- Semi-major axis a : 1.003881127 [AU]\n- Eccentricity e : 0.08741828512\n- Inclination i : 6.796995362 [deg]\n- Argument of perihelion w : 96.90057903 [deg]\n- Longitude of the ascending node W : 250.5520871 [deg]\n- Mean anomaly at epoch M : 101.6280436 [deg]\n- Epoch : 2457023.50000 [JD]\n(Time of perihelion : 2456919.7870655278675 [JD])\n\ncf. Orbital elements of EARTH :\nhttp://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html\n\nCelestial sphere position and orbital trajectory of DESPATCH can be\nchecked anytime on the following web pages.\n\n- Celestial Sphere\nhttp://artsat.jp/project/despatch/celestial\n\n- Orbital Position\nhttp://artsat.jp/project/despatch/orbit\n\nTransmission of the radio wave from DESPATCH has ended. However, the\nlife of DESPATCH as a sculpture around the sun is almost eternal.\nWe calculated the orbit (the distance from the Earth) of DESPATCH for\n500 years from now.\n\nhttp://artsat.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/500years.png\n\nhttp://artsat.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/500years_large.png\n\nDESPATCH will continue to orbit around the sun as an artificial\nasteroid. By examining the calculated results for the local minimum\nvalue of the distance between the Earth, DESPATCH will approaches to\nless than 1 million km from Earth after about 350 years. Possibly it\nwill approach more closer to the Earth due to the interaction with\nunpredictable other celestial bodies.\n\nWe are glad if you think of DESPATCH as the most distant artwork in the\nworld sometimes in the future.\n\nARTSAT project will continue to the future. We already started the\nconceptual design of next ARTSAT3. We kindly ask for your continuous\nsupport and cooperation for the project.\n\n[ANS thanks Akihiro Kubota for the above information]\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,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }