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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/KWCLEMBYKEMFNPZ2JZKMC2R6IIEPGL7B/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "CAM5+sovhv9awQzWWqN2wBeFwWuZG54DPELLfs81+FcftJveo_g@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "KWCLEMBYKEMFNPZ2JZKMC2R6IIEPGL7B", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/KWCLEMBYKEMFNPZ2JZKMC2R6IIEPGL7B/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "mccardelm (a) gmail.com", "mailman_id": "147f14b8d896456cbff7f12049b091a2", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/147f14b8d896456cbff7f12049b091a2/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "E.Mike McCardel", "subject": "[ans] ANS-208 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2014-07-27T01:06:08Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-208\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* Goodbye HAMSAT-VO52 - Rest In Peace\n* Ham TV Test Mode Operation, Planned start-up on 22 July\n* Amazon Smile Update\n* Return envelope sent with AMSAT-NA ballot package has old address\n* Reid Wiseman KF5LKT Activates ARISS During ARRL Centennial\n* AMSAT Symposium Only Ten Weeks Away\n* 2014 AMSAT Symposium Trips, Social Events, and Tours\n* How to contribute to the Fox-1C satellite.\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-208.01\nANS-208 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 208.01\n>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE July 27, 2014\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-208.01\n\n\nGoodbye HAMSAT-VO52 - Rest In Peace\n\nIn a posting to the AMSAT-BB July 21, Mani Subramani, VU2WMY/KJ6LRS,\nSecretary & Station-In-Charge Upagrah Amateur Radio Club VU2URC ISRO\nSatellite Centre, sadly reported \"HAMSAT VO-52 succumbed in Space on\n11th July 2014...\"\n\nDear Friends,\n\nWith heavy heart, I sadly convey, that our little angel 'HAMSAT VO-\n52' would no more be able to offer her services to the 'Amateur Radio\nFraternity. HAMSAT VO-52 succumbed in Space on 11th July 2014, while\nshe was on her 49,675th orbit, due to the failure of on-board lithium\nion batteries that have met their end of life.\n\nAlthough her desires were to be at work with other systems and sub-\nsystems working normal as per the latest telemetry received, the on-\nboard computer recurring to 'Reset' mode due to the failure of\nbatteries is preventing her to do so. Hence, it is decided not to\nexpect any more meaningful and reliable services from HAMSAT VO-52.\n\nSince 11th July, every best possible effort has been put in by the\nspacecraft controllers here in ISTRAC Bangalore to revive her back to\nlife and to help her with work load, so she won't be swamped when she\nreturns, but with no luck. Though it is hard, the HAMSAT VO-52\ndesigners and controllers insist that the time has come to let the\nlittle angel free in space to go drifting on her own from their care\nand custody.\n\nThus, today 21st July 2014, ISRO have decommissioned 'HAMSAT-VO52'\nofficially.\n\nWe all here in ISRO do definitely hope that 'HAMSAT VO-52' worked\ntirelessly and was a good friend to the 'Amateur Radio Fraternity'\naround the World. We are sure that HAMSAT was loved by all who worked\nthrough her. Though, we are deeply saddened by the loss of HAMSAT VO-\n52, but she will never be forgotten and far from our hearts, minds\nand memories.\n\nHAMSAT VO-52 will always be remembered by all of us here in ISRO as\none of the greatest satellites of ours.\n\nDear 'HAMSAT', looking at the sky, we all say 'Good Bye' to you.\nYou'll be greatly missed. Rest in Peace.\n\nNevertheless, at this point of time, on behalf of the World Amateur\nRadio Fraternity, we thank each and everyone who contributed to the\ngreat success of 'HAMSAT'.\n\nParticularly, our sincere thanks to the Chairman ISRO, Dr. K.\nRadhakrishnan, past chairmen Dr. Kasthurirangan, Dr. G. Madhavan\nNair, Director-ISAC Dr. S.K.Shiva Kumar, past ISAC Directors Dr. P.S.\nGoel, Dr. Shankara, Dr. T.K. Alex, Director-ISTRAC Shri. B.S.\nChandrasekhar, scientific secretary Dr. Koteshwar Rao, Project\nDirector-Shri. J.P. Gupta, Deputy project Directors, Mission Director-\nShri. R.Suresh, Operations Director-Shri. Parimalarangan and each and\nevery person directly or in-directly contributed.\n\nAt this point of time, we also thank AMSAT-India and in particular,\nlateShri. Nagesh Upadhyaya-VU2NUD, Shri. B.S. Gajendra Kumar-VU2BGS,\nShri. Prathap Kumar-VU2POP, Air Commodore. Subramanian-VU2UV, Shri.\nV.P. Sandlas-VU2VP, Dr.R. Ramesh-VU2RMS, Shri. Nitin-VU3TYG, Mr.\nWilliams Leijenaar PE1RAH and each and every member.\n\nPasted below is the message from Mr. R. Suresh, Mission Director:\n\nHAMSAT, the first small satellite by ISRO has been Decommissioned\nafter nearly a decade of service to the World Ham community.\n\nA true masterpiece among small satellites, designed for one year\nmission life, but exceeded all expectations by serving for almost 10\nyears. A truly autonomous satellite, with \"Zero maintenance\" in terms\nof Mission operations, it provided a springboard to test many new\nconcepts such as BMU. LI-ion based power system, automatic Spin rate\ncontrol and Auto SAOC for maintaining the Satellite attitude without\nany ground commanding.\n\nHAMSAT known as \"OSCAR-52\" among the Amateur HAM operators has been\nvery popular because of its high sensitivity receiver and strong\ntransmitter. Indian Radio Amateurs on many occasions conveyed to us\nthat they have been greatly honored to share the adulations showered\non ISRO and INDIA by the International Radio Amateur for gifting this\nwonderful satellite \"HAMSAT\".\n\nI take this opportunity to applaud the HAMSAT teams at ISAC, ISTRAC\nand other centre for their efforts and support, which has made ISRO\nproud among the HAM users across the globe.\n\nR,SURESH\nMISSION DIRECTOR\nHAMSAT\n\n---\nMani [VU2WMY/KJ6LRS]\nSecretary & Station-In-Charge\nUpagrah Amateur Radio Club VU2URC\nISRO Satellite Centre\n\n[ANS thanks Mani VU2WMY/KJ6LRS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nHam TV Test Mode Operation, Planned start-up on 22 July\n\nHam TV Test Mode Operation, Planned start-up on Tuesday, July 22\n\nIt was announced that HAM TV on board the International Space\nStation (ISS) will be activated on Tuesday, July 22, 2014 at 9:55\nUTC. Operation will be in the Blank Transmission mode.\n\nThe signal is sent from the ISS Columbus module and will be in\nConfiguration 4: 2.395 GHz and 2.0 MSym/sec. Operation will continue\nthrough August 6, 2014.\n\nARISS-Europe Chair, Gaston Bertels invites ground stations to submit\nreception reports to the following website,\nhttp://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_FSTV/submit.php\n\n\n[ANS thanks David Jordan, AA4KN, ARISS PR for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAmazon Smile Update\n\nAMSAT-NA is participating in the AmazonSmile program. AmazonSmile is a\nsimple and automatic way for you to support your favorite charitable\norganization every time you shop at Amazon.com, at no cost to you.\n\nAmazon will donate 0.5% of eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the\ncharitable organization of your choice. If you do business with Amazon\nyou can apply your donation by logging into your Amazon account using\nhttp://smile.amazon.com/ch/52-0888529 to designate AMSAT-NA as the\norganization of your choice. You must use the URL smile.amazon.com for\nAMSAT (or another charity) to receive the donation from your\npurchases.\n\nThe AMSAT Office reports that to date, AMSAT-NA has received $66.62\nfrom Amazon Smile. If you shop on Amazom.com we encourage your\nparticipation. Every little bit helps.\n\n[ANS thanks Martha at the AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nReturn envelope sent with AMSAT-NA ballot package has old address\n\nAfter the 2014 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors election ballots were\nmailed, we were notified by our\nprinter that old stock return envelopes were inadvertently included.\nThese have the old Silver\nSpring, MD address. The ballot postcard and other documents have\nthe correct Kensington, MD address.\nMail is being efficiently forwarded to the new AMSAT-NA office\naddress, and will continue to be\nforwarded for several months. You may use either the envelope\nincluded in the packet, or your own\nenvelope or address label to send the ballot to the current address:\n\nAMSAT\nThe Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation\n10605 Concord Street\nKensington, MD 20895\nUSA\n\nWe and our printer regret any inconvenience. Whichever method you\nchose, please return them promptly\nto ensure that your ballot is received by 15 September!\n\nAlan Biddle\nWA4SCA\nAMSAT Corporate Secretary\n\n[ANS thanks Alan WA4SCA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nReid Wiseman KF5LKT Activates ARISS During ARRL Centennial\n\nAn unexpected treat happened in Hartford on Saturday morning during\nthe ARRL Centennial. Patrick Stoddard WD9EWK had planned on being\noutside the convention center for ISS passes, prepared to show off\nthe ISS digipeater, and - if a voice was heard on 145.800 MHz talk to\nan ISS crewmember.\n\nPatrick reports, \"The first of the three workable passes from\nHartford came a little while before the convention officially opened\nfor the day at 0835 local/1235 UTC. The ISS was passing across the\nnorthern sky, with maximum elevation of 25 degrees. I heard only\npacket on 145.825 MHz, and was ableto bounce a few packets through\nthe ISS digipeater using a TH-D72A and Elk dual-band log periodic\nantenna.\n\n\"The next pass, around 1010 local/1410 UTC, was the best of the\npasses fornthe morning - going across the southwestern sky with\nmaximum elevation ofn59 degrees. I had a radio listening to both\n145.800 and 145.825 MHz. I heard nothing on 145.825 MHz, but thought\nI heard something on 145.800 MHz.\n\n\"I started calling for NA1SS using my TH-D72A/Elk combination, and\nReid Wiseman (the same astronaut who was on for Field Day last month)\nanswered my call. My audience went crazy, and I was happy to make\ncontact and have a nice 3- to 4- minute chat.\n\n\"I asked Reid if he might be on the microphone for the next pass over\nthe eastern USA around 1200 local/1600 UTC. He said he would try,\nand we were outside for that as well.\n\n\"Once we told people in the hall of the successful contact, the ARRL\nmade sure there was a larger crowd outside for this pass. Several\nminutes before AOS, I was out there again, this time answering lots\nof questions from different people. After AOS, I started calling for\nNA1SS, but never heard anything on 145.800 MHz during the shallow\n(maximum elevation 6 degrees) pass.\"\n\n[ANS thanks Patrick WD9EWK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Symposium Only Ten Weeks Away\n\nBilled as the Charm City Space Symposium, AMSAT-NA's 32nd Symposium\nand Annual Meeting will be held October 10-12, 2014 in Baltimore,\nMaryland.\n\n* Board of Directors meeting on October 9 and morning of October 10.\n* Technical presentations on satellite design/operating begin the\n afternoon of October 10 and continue October 11.\n* Meet AMSAT Officers and Board members.\n* Meet and greet fellow satellite operators.\n* Satellites on display.\n* Annual general meeting afternoon of October 10.\n* Saturday evening annual banquet with door prizes.\n* Sunday morning Area Coordinator's breakfast.\n* Sunday ARISS Operations Team meeting.\n* Sunday and Monday tours.\n\nHotel: DoubleTree by Hilton -- Baltimore - BWI Airport\n890 Elkridge Landing Rd, Linthicum, Maryland, 21090\nPhone: 410-859-8400\n\nAsk For: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation Group or use the Code:\nRAS\n\nAMSAT Special Room Rate--$99.00 per night\n$10 Breakfast Buffet Coupons--Full Hot and Cold Breakfast*\n\nFREE Parking\nFREE WiFi\nFree Airport and Close-in Transportation\nEasy Train/Light Rail Service to Baltimore Inner Harbor & D.C. Metro\nWalking distance to National Electronics Museum\n\nSpecial Guest Presentations\n\n*Purchase at check-in\n\nA registration form for the Symposium and all events may be\ndownloaded at\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS208-SymposiumRegistration\n\nOnline registration is available through the AMSAT Store\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS208-OnlineRegistration\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2014 AMSAT Symposium Trips, Social Events, and Tours\n\nWe will have two \"working\" events scheduled Sunday morning (October\n12)-the Area Coordinators Breakfast and the ARISS Operations Team\nMeeting.\n\nSimilar to last year's symposium, two opportunities for tours are\nplanned for the 2014 Space Symposium:\n\n1) On Sunday October 12 (Afternoon), several Small Group/Light Rail\ntours are being planned. Symposium participants can choose one of\nthe following tours: Baltimore Inner Harbor Tour (including the\nAquarium), the B&O Railroad Museum, Edgar Allen Poe House or the\nNational Electronics Museum.\n\n2) On Columbus Day, Monday October 13 we will take a bus to the\nWashington Dulles airport area to tour the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space\nMuseum. Udvar-Hazy is a phenomenal museum with hundreds of aircraft\nand spacecraft, including the Space Shuttle Discovery, an SR-71,\nEnola Gay, and many others. The plan is to leave the hotel at 9 am\nand return around 4 pm.\n\nIn order to get maximum benefit from all the holiday weekend events,\nthe symposium committee suggests that symposium participants consider\nscheduling their airline flights for no earlier than 6 pm on Monday\nOctober 13.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nHow to contribute to the Fox-1C satellite\n\nWith the recent announcement of the launch opportunity for the Fox-\n1C Cubesat, AMSAT has an immediate need to raise funds to cover both\nthe launch contract and additional materials for construction and\ntesting for Fox-1C. We have set a fundraising goal of $125,000 to\ncover these expenses over the next 12 months, and allow us to\ncontinue to keep amateur radio in space.\n\nContributing to Fox-1C: let us count the ways.\n\nTo contribute specifically to the Fox-1C satellite, you can specify\nthis in your communication with AMSAT, and in the \"For\" line if you\npay by check.\n\nVia E-mail:\[email protected]\n\nVia telephone:\n>From the US call toll free at (888) 322-6728\n>From all other locations call (301) 822-4376\n\nVia regular mail:\nRadio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT)\n10605 Concord St, #304\nKensington, MD 20895\n\nOn line:\nGo to www.amsat.org and select the \"Support the Fox Satellite\"\nDONATE button in the upper right. This will take you to PayPal where\nyou may donate any amount. If desired, you can make this a monthly\nrecurring donation. You may cancel this at any time through your\nPayPal account. All contributions at this time go directly to the\nFox-1C satellite. This is specified in the Reference on the PayPal\npage.\n\nGo to the AMSAT Store http://store.amsat.org/catalog/ and select\nGeneral Donations from the left column. When you check out, note in\nthe remarks section that you want the contribution to go to Fox-1C.\n\nHowever you chose to contribute, thank you for helping to Keep\nAmateur Radio in Space!\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\nJoin ARISS us on Facebook : Amateur Radio on the ISS (ARISS)\n\nFollow ARISS on Twitter: @ARISS_status\n\nThere were no ARISS School Contacts the week of July 20-26, 2014.\nThe radios were off for most of the week due to Progress undocking\nand docking.\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule\n\nESA 2014 Space Camp, Rossall School, Fleetwood, United Kingdom\ntelebridge via via W6SRJ\nContact is a go for: Tue 2014-07-29 14:01:13 UTC 53 deg\nWatch for live audio/video simulcast\nHttp://www.batc.tv/streams/arissuk/\n\nSpace Jam 8, Rantoul Airport & Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul\nIL, telebridge via W6SRJ\nContact is a go for: Sat 2014-08-02 12:23:19 UTC 60 deg\n\nARISS is requesting listener reports for the above contacts. Due\nto issues with the Kenwood radio that are not fully understood at\npresent, the Ericsson radio is going to be used for these contacts.\nARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to\nsend your reports to [email protected] or [email protected].\n\nSeveral of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS\nwebsite and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to\nhttp://www.ariss.org/\n\nNote that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site.\n\nQSL information may be found at:\nhttp://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html\nhttp://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html\n\nISS callsigns: DPØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS\n\nThe successful school list has been updated as of 2014-07-11 19:30\nUTC.\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf\n\nCheck out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts\nhttps://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415\n\nExp. 39/40 on orbit\nSteve Swanson\nAleksander Skvortsov\nOleg Artemyev\n\nExp. 40/41 on orbit\nMaxim Suraev\nGregory Wiseman KF5LKT\nAlexander Gerst KF5ONO\n\n>From 2014-11-10 to 2014-12-07, there will be no US Operational\nSegment (USOS) hams on board ISS. Any schools contacts during\nthis period will be conducted by the ARISS Russia team.\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ 2014 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium Presentations to be\n Archived\n\n Although the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium ends Sunday\n the British Amateur Radio Club (BATC) would like to inform everyone\n that post conference, the videos will be available at\n http://batc.tv/ under \"Film Archive\". Select the AMSAT2014\n category.\n\n Trevor M5AKA suggests that, in theory some videos may be uploaded\n at 18:00 BST (1700 GMT) on Saturday. Best thing is to check batc.tv\n film archive and see if any have turned up, if they have you can be\n fairly sure that Sunday's will be joining them on the same place.\n\n The programme for the Colloquium is available at\n http://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2014/\n\n [ANS thank Trevor M5AKA for the above information]\n\n+ Join AMSAT on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/7828379515/\n\n+ Follow AMSAT on Twitter https://twitter.com/amsat\n @amsat\n\n+ Visit AMSAT online http://www.amsat.org\n\n+ Join ARISS on Facebook http://tinyurl.com/ANS208-ARISS-Facebook\n Amateur Radio on the ISS (ARISS)\n\n+ Follow ARISS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ARISS_status\n @ARISS_status\n\n+ Visit ISS Fan Club http://http://www.issfanclub.com/\n\n+ Follow ISS Fan Club on Twitter https://twitter.com/rs0iss\n @rs0iss\n\n+ New Version of FUNcube Dashboard Released\n\n According to a Tweet released by @FUNcubeUK early Saturday\n morning, a version 847 of FUNcube Dashboard has been released.\n Download it now from\n funcube.org.uk/working-documents/funcube-telemetry-dashboard\n\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,\nEMike McCardel, KC8YLD\nkc8yld at amsat dot org\n", "attachments": [] }