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    "sender_name": "Lee McLamb",
    "subject": "[ans] ANS-254  AMSAT Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2011-09-11T02:51:12Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-254\n\nANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America, The\nRadio 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* Final Call for AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballots\n* Registration Open for 2011 AMSAT Space Symposium 4-6 November 2011\n* STRaND-1 Frequency Coordinated\n* Louis Varney G5RV Cup\n* KiwiSAT Students Win Grant\n* OSCAR-11 Report   01 September 2011\n* 5.7 Metric Ton Satellite Uncontrolled Re-Entry Expected Soon\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n* ARISS Status - 5 September 2011\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.01\nFinal Call for AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballots\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 254.01\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 11, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-254.01\n\nBallots for the AMSAT-North America 2011 Board of Directors election\nhave been mailed to all members. To have your vote count you must\nreturn your ballot by mail to:\n\nAMSAT-NA\n850 Sligo Ave #600\nSilver Spring, MD, 20910\n\nBallots must arrive at the AMSAT Office by the close of business,\nSeptember 15, 2011.\n\nFour director's terms expire this year:\n\nBarry Baines, WD4ASW\nAlan Biddle, WA4SCA\nDrew Glasbrenner, KO4MA\nTony Monteiro, AA2TX\n\nSeven nominations have been received for the open seats. Listed\nalphabetically they are:\n\nBarry Baines, WD4ASW\nAlan Biddle, WA4SCA\nSteve Coy, K8UD\nDrew Glasbrenner, KO4MA\nMark Hammond, N8MH\nTony Monteiro, AA2TX\nPatrick E. Stoddard, WD9EWK\n\nSelect no more than four candidates on your ballot. The four candi-\ndates receiving the highest number of votes will be seated as full\nBoard members for two year terms. The two candidates receiving the\nnext highest number of votes will be seated as alternate Board mem-\nbers for one year terms.\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Office the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.02\nRegistration Open for 2011 AMSAT Space Symposium 4-6 November 2011\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 254.02\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 11, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-254.02\n\nAMSAT announces the 2011 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held on Friday,\nNovember 4th through Sunday, November 6th in San Jose, CA. Our annual\ngathering will feature:\n\n+ Space Symposium with Amateur Satellite Presentations\n+ Operating Techniques, News, & Plans from the Amateur Satellite World\n+ Board of Directors Meeting open to AMSAT members (Nov. 3-4)\n+ Meet Board Members and Officers\n+ Annual General Membership Meeting\n+ Annual Banquet-Keynote Speaker and Door Prizes\n\nThe 2011 Symposium hotel and registration web pages are now available\non the AMSAT web site. You may register for the Symposium and Annual\nBanquet at the AMSAT Store:\nhttp://www.amsat-na.com/store/SymposiumReg.php\n\nVisit the Symposium and Annual General Meeting web page for details\nand the latest information:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/symposium/2011/index.php\n\nSymposium Registration including a copy of the Proceedings is:\n+ $45 per person until September 19, 2011\n+ $50 per person starting September 20, 2011\n+ $55 per person at the door\n\nThe Saturday evening banquet is $45 per person. The Sunday morning\nArea Coordinator's Breakfast is $15 per person.\n\nThe hotel selected is the Wyndham San Jose, close to the airport. The\nAMSAT discount rate is $79.00+taxes per night. The reservation block\ncode when calling the hotel directly is \"AMSAT\". The hotel telephone\nnumber is 408-453-6200. If you are making reservations on-line use\n1031FSJAM for the group code. The direct link to the hotel web page\nis: http://www.wyndham.com/hotels/SJCAP/main.wnt\n\nIf you are planning to book a room on dates other than November 2,\n3, 4, 5, you will have to call the hotel directly and ask for *in-\nhouse reservations*. You can get the $79 rate 3 days before and 3\ndays after the above dates but you cannot book the room on their\nwebsite. Any problems, give Martha a call at the AMSAT Office:\n301-589-6062.\n\n[ANS thanks the 2011 Symposium Committee for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.03\nSTRaND-1 Frequency Coordinated\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 254.03\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 11, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-254.03\n\nThe IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel has recently agreed a frequency\nof 437.575 MHz for the UK CubeSat STRaND-1. It will carry a \nSmartphone and plans\nto have a UOSAT style speech synthesiser and a 9600 or 19200 bps AX.25 packet\ndownlink.\n\nSTRaND-1 is a 3U CubeSat measuring 30 by 10 by 10 cm and weighing 4 kg. Unlike\nprevious CubeSats it will feature full 3-axis control with the \nattitude an orbit\ncontrol system comprising a nano-magnetorquer, nano-reaction wheels, GPS\nreceiver, 8 pulse plasma thrusters and a butane thruster.\n\nA six page article on STRaND-1 appeared in the Spring issue of OSCAR News\navailable at\nhttp://www.uk.amsat.org/on_193_final.pdf\n\nThe video of the presentation on the STRaND-1 Smartphone CubeSat given by Shaun\nKenyon to the AMSAT-UK Colloquium is at\nhttp://www.batc.tv/vod/Strand.flv\n\nThe PDF of the PowerPoint slides is at\nhttp://www.uk.amsat.org/wp-content/uploads/colloquium%202011/AMSAT-UK-STRaND-\nPresentation.pdf\n\nAMSAT-UK: http://www.uk.amsat.org/\n\n[ANS thanks Trevor, M5AKA, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.04\nLouis Varney G5RV Cup\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 254.04\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 11, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-254.04\n\nThe Louis Varney G5RV Cup for Space Communications has been awarded to Paul\nRobinson 2E1EUB by RSGB president Dave Wilson M00BW.\n\nThe cup is awarded for advances in space communication and the presentation\ntook place at the Telford Hamfest on Sunday, September 4.\n\nPaul was nominated by AMSAT-UK for his work promoting and encouraging the\nuse of amateur radio satellites and perfecting the art of a portable ground\nstation.\n\nPaul comments that he is privileged to have his call sign and name on the\ncup alongside some very famous call signs, some of which are no longer with\nus, he would like to thank AMSAT-UK and the RSGB for this award.\n\nAMSAT-UK publishes a colour A4 newsletter, OSCAR News, which is full of\nAmateur Satellite information. A sample edition can be seen at\nhttp://www.uk.amsat.org/on_193_final.pdf\n\nJoin online at http://tinyurl.com/JoinAMSAT-UK\n\nhttp://www.uk.amsat.org/2011/09/05/louis-varney-g5rv-cup/\n\nPaul is well known for his mobile 2M1EUB satellite operations in\nInteresting and wild locations such on an island off the Scottish\nCoast. Photos and additional information about Paul's rover and\nsolar-powered station set-up can be seen on the 2E1EUB look up\nresults on QRZ.com\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and RSGB for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.05\nKiwiSAT Students Win Grant\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 254.05\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 11, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-254.05\n\nMassey University engineering students have been awarded a grant to work on\nsoftware for the Amateur Radio satellite KiwiSAT.\n\nScoop reports that:\n\nFour fourth-year honours students and a Masters student from the School of\nEngineering and Advanced Technology at the Albany campus have been awarded a\n$7,500 grant from the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters' Radio\nScience Education Trust to develop the software. The micro satellite is the\nsize of a basketball and will be launched from a Russian rocket in the\nnorthern hemisphere when the project is finished.\n\nKiwiSAT is being designed and built by a team of volunteers from New Zealand\nRadio Amateurs supported by Massey and various corporate sponsors. It will\nconnect with amateur radio stations globally and will carry out experimental\nwork in small satellite Attitude Determination and Control (ADAC) - a low\ncost control system that works through interaction with the Earth's magnetic\nfield to position the satellite at a specific attitude.\n\nRead the full story at\nhttp://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1108/S00164/\nmassey-students-create-space-satellite-software.htm\n\nKiwiSAT - Taking New Zealand into Space\nhttp://www.kiwisat.org/\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate ARC news site for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.06\nOSCAR-11 Report   01 September 2011\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 254.06\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 11, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-254.06\n\nThis report covers the period from 27 April to 01 September\n2011. The satellite has continued to operate in a very\npredictable way since the last report, and no changes have\nbeen observed. During this time the satellite has been heard\nreliably during its ten-day transmission periods. Excellent\nsignals have been reported from stations located around the\nworld, and good copy obtained from decoded telemetry frames.\n\nThe easiest way to check whether OSCAR-11 is operational is\nto look at the General Satellite Status website\nhttp://oscar.dcarr.org/index.php . You can also calculate\nthe operating schedule from the last switch-off time, which\nwas 26 August 2011 at 08:00 UTC (approx), using 10.35 days\noff followed by 10.35 days on.\n\nReception reports have been received from David VE3SB,\nJerry WB5LHD, Toby MM0TOB, Colin VK5HI and Lee M0HOK.  Many\nthanks to all and those who posted to the status website.\n\nAlthough eclipses occur during every orbit, the evening\npasses over the UK were mostly clear of eclipses, owing to\nthe longer hours of daylight during the Summer months. This\nresulted in stronger signals during the evening passes.\nHowever, as winter approaches eclipses will now start to\naffect the evening passes.\n\nThe on-board clock continues to gain, 26 seconds during the\ncurrent reporting period, and 83 seconds since regular\ntransmissions started at the end of August 2010. There is\nhowever a large accumulated error of 308.54339 days slow.\nThis was caused mainly by the clock stopping during\neclipses, when there was also an unknown drain on the power\nsupply. The units of the least significant digit correspond\napproximately to seconds (0.86 seconds actually).\n\nThe VHF beacon frequency is 145.826 MHz.  AFSK FM ASCII\nTelemetry. The satellite is operating in the default mode,\nwith a cycle time of 20.7 days. 10.35 days on followed by\n10.35 days off.\n\nAt the present time, while OSCAR-11 is operating in a\npredictable way, I no longer need direct reports or files by\ne-mail. However, could all listeners continue to enter their\nreports on the general satellite status website. This is a\nvery convenient and easy to use facility, which shows the\ncurrent status of all the amateur satellites, and is of use\nto everyone. Reports around the expected times of switch-on\nand switch-off are of special interest, especially for times\n12:00 - 17:00 and 22:00 - 07:00 UTC, when the satellite is\nout-of-range in the UK . The URL is\nhttp://oscar.dcarr.org/index.php\n\nA longer version of this report report is available on my\nwebsite, and new listeners to OSCAR-11 should read this for\nfurther information. The URL is www.g3cwv.co.uk/oscar11.htm\nThis page contains a links to the longer report, a short\naudio clip to help you identify the satellite and a file of\nthe last telemetry received. The website also contains an\narchive of news & telemetry data which is updated from time\nto time, and details about using a soundcard or hardware\ndemodulators for data capture. There is also software for\ncapturing data, and decoding ASCII telemetry.\n\nIf you place this bulletin on a terrestrial packet network,\nplease use the bulletin identifier $BID:U2RPT156.CWV, to\nprevent duplication.\n\n73 Clive G3CWV [email protected] (please replace the x's by\ng3cwv)\n\n[ANS thanks Clive, G2CWV, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.07\n5.7 Metric Ton Satellite Uncontrolled Re-Entry Expected Soon\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 254.07\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 11, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-254.07\n\nLeonard David reported in his September 7 Space Insider Column on\nSpace.com, \"Huge Defunct Satellite to Plunge to Earth Soon, NASA\nSays\".\n\nHe wrote, \"The huge Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is\nexpected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in an uncontrolled fall in\nlate September or early October. Much of the spacecraft is expected\nto burn up during re-entry, but some pieces are expected to make it\nintact to the ground, NASA officials said.\"\n\nHe further reported that NASA computer analysis showed that about\n150 component types, including the parent body of the satellite,\nwill demise during re-entry, and 12 types (26 counting multiple\ncomponents) would endure the fiery fall to Earth. The analysis\nindicated a surviving mass of 1,170 pounds (532 kilograms) falling\nwithin a debris footprint length of some 500 miles (800 kilometers).\n\nThe satellite is 35 feet long, 15 feet in diameter, and weighs 5.7\nmetric tons. It's operational orbit was at 375 miles inclined at\n57 degrees to the equator.\n\n\"The risk to public safety or property is extremely small, and safe-\nty is NASA's top priority,\" noted a NASA website dedicated to the re-\nentry. There is a chance that pieces of debris from the satellite\nwill crash in areas accessible to the public.\n\nAccording to NASA, on UARS re-entry day, \"if you find something you\nthink may be a piece of UARS, do not touch it. Contact a local law\nenforcement official for assistance.\"\n\nAs of September 7 a NASA statement read, \"It is too early to say\nexactly when UARS will re-enter and what geographic area may be\naffected, but NASA is watching the satellite closely and will keep\nyou informed.\"\n\nThe full story was published on September 7 on the Space.com site:\nhttp://www.space.com/12859-nasa-satellite-falling-space-debris-uars.html\n\n[ANS thanks Space.com for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.08\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 254.08\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 11, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-254.08\n\n+ Episode 16 of the internet TV show Ham Nation is available for down\n   load at http://twit.tv/show/ham-nation/16. This week's show features\n   Steve Bible, N7HPR talking about AMSAT & ARISsat-1 along with many\n   other interesting ham radio topics.\n\n+ Trevor, M5AKA forwarded a link from the BBC with news that the\n   United Kingdom's first satellite launched on a UK built rocket\n   40 years ago will attempt to be reactivated. The Prospero space\n   craft was launched by a Black Arrow rocket on October 28, 1971\n   from Launch Area 5B, Woomera. It operated on 137.560 MHz.\n   Full story and pictures at\n   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14783135\n   Additional information on the AMSAT-UK website:\n   http://tinyurl.com/3dny3s4\n   Web based tracking for Prospero: http://www.n2yo.com/?s=5580\n   and at: http://www.vk3ukf.com/Space/GadgetSatProspero.htm\n\n+ Congratulations to Rodney, KC0ZHF for earning his VUCC endorsement\n   for grids 100-250.\n\n+ The AO-27 website is temporarily down. The Java scheduler app will\n   always be accurate to within 2 minutes (the cumulative error in the\n   satellite's clock) as long as a new schedule hasn't been uploaded\n   to the bird itself. While the latest files for the AO-27 schedule\n   are on the webpage, the required data files for the Java app until\n   the website is back up, have been placed on the Java scheduler down-\n   load page http://sites.google.com/site/ao27satellitescheduler\n   (George, KA3HSW)\n\n+ An article regarding getting the FUNcube Dongle to run under linux\n   can be found at: http://webshed.org/wiki/FUNcube-Dongle-Linux\n\n+ NASA is giving the public the power to journey through the solar\n   system using a new interactive Web-based tool. The \"Eyes on the\n   Solar System\" interface combines video game technology and NASA\n   data to create an environment for users to ride along with agency\n   spacecraft and explore the cosmos. Screen graphics and information\n   such as planet locations and spacecraft maneuvers use actual space\n   mission data. Begin your ride at: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes/\n\n+ The Summer 2011 TAPR Packet Status Register newsletter is now\n   available at http://www.tapr.org/psr\n\n+ A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 1061 posted that Eric, KV1J and Jack, KV1E\n   will be active as FP/KV1J and FP/KV1E from Miquelon Island (NA-032)\n   from 25 October to 1 November. Plans are to operate SSB and RTTY,\n   with some CW and PSK31, on 160-10 metres, plus 6m \"if indications\n   of openings\". FP/KV1J will take part in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest\n   (SOAB HP). QSL via home calls, direct or bureau, and LoTW, Informa-\n   tion on satellite activity and and other details can be found at:\n   http://www.kv1j.com/fp/october11.html AO-51 (if available), AO-27,\n   SO-50, SO-67, and HO-68. All FM mode, V/U\n\n[ANS thanks everyone for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.09\nARISS Status - 5 September 2011\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 254.09\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 11, 2011\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-254.09\n\n1. Vision Australia Contact Successful\n\nStudents from Vision Australia in Enfield, New South Wales, Australia took part\nin an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on\nMonday, August 29 via station WH6PN in Hawaii.  On-orbit Astronaut Mike Fossum,\nKF5AQG answered 12 questions put to him by the youth before the ISS went over\nthe horizon. Students were interested in the logistics of living in space as\nwell as how astronauts stay in contact with friends and family during their\nmissions. Vision Australia is a nonprofit agency that provides low vision and\nblindness services to the community in Australia.\n\n\n2. Merritt Island Students Speak with Satoshi Furukawa\n\nOn Tuesday, August 30, an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station\n(ARISS) contact was held between da Vinci Academy of Aerospace Technology\nstudents at Merritt Island High School in Florida and Astronaut Satoshi\nFurukawa, KE5DAW on the ISS. Questions asked included those concerning the long\nterm effects of microgravity on the human body and influences on Furukawa's\ndecision to study in the fields of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and\nMath). Florida Today ran a story on the event:\nhttp://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011108310317\n\n\n3. EE Times, ARISSat Blog\n\nAnother entry has been posted to the EE (Electronic Engineering) \nTimes \"Chips in\nSpace\" blog about amateur radio satellite ARISSat-1. This week the blog covers\nthe \"Design challenges, intrigue and solutions\" of the project. See:\nhttp://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/other/4219588/Chips-in-Space--Design-\nchallenges--intrigue-and-solutions\n\n[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's\nClub. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project\nFunds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms are\navailable from the AMSAT Office.\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n",
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