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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/LEWGR6IPLOME44AKGHCD3RD6TBZCDMRF/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "CADDbS5DkJkNTMSopLOiJq83Syr49-QVnnJyM5otcw+34c64wew@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "LEWGR6IPLOME44AKGHCD3RD6TBZCDMRF", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/LEWGR6IPLOME44AKGHCD3RD6TBZCDMRF/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "k0jm.mark (a) gmail.com", "mailman_id": "4fa2bb5eca934ca4b14c4ede20ff0c9a", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/4fa2bb5eca934ca4b14c4ede20ff0c9a/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Mark Johns, K0JM", "subject": "[ANS] ANS-183 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for July 2", "date": "2023-07-02T00:00:00Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-183\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* AMSAT Announces Candidates for 2023 Board of Directors Election\n* Updated \"For Beginners\" Compilation Available on the AMSAT Website\n* TX5S DXpedition to Clipperton Island to Include Satellite Operations\n* 2023 AMSAT Field Day Preliminary Report\n* Communication Problems on the Moon\n* The Big Bang Theory Antenna Lives On\n* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution\n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information\nservice of AMSAT, the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes\nnews related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities\nof a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active\ninterest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog\nand digital Amateur Radio satellites.\n\nThe news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in\nSpace as soon as our volunteers can post it.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor [at]\namsat.org\n\nYou can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service\nBulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see:\nhttps://mailman.amsat.org/postorius/lists/ans.amsat.org/\n\nANS-183 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nTo: All RADIO AMATEURS\nFrom: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation\n712 H Street NE, Suite 1653\nWashington, DC 20002\n\nDATE 2023 July 2\n\n\nAMSAT Announces Candidates for 2023 Board of Directors Election\n\nThe nomination period for the 2023 AMSAT Board of Directors Election ended\non June 15th. The following candidates have been duly nominated:\n\nZach Metzinger, N0ZGO\nJerry Buxton, N0JY\nDrew Glasbrenner, KO4MA\nBarry Baines, WD4ASW\nFrank Karnauskas, N1UW\n\nAs four seats on the Board of Directors are up for election this year, four\nof these candidates will be seated on the Board, along with one alternate\nwhen the voting period concludes on September 15th. The election will be\nheld via AMSAT's Wild Apricot membership system. Instructions for voting\nwill be emailed to all members in good standing as of July 1st by July\n15th. Biographies of the candidates will be available for review online and\npublished in the next issue of The AMSAT Journal.\n\n[ANS thanks Jeff Davis, KE9V, AMSAT Secretary, for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n The 2023 AMSAT President's Club coins are here now!\n To commemorate the 40th anniversary of its launch\non June 16, 1983, this year's coin features\nan image of AMSAT-OSCAR 10.\n Join the AMSAT President's Club today and help\nKeep Amateur Radio in Space!\n https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nUpdated \"For Beginners\" Compilation Now Available on the AMSAT Website\n\nAn updated freely downloadable compilation of “getting started” articles\nwritten by Keith Baker, KB1SF/VA3KSF, is now available on the AMSAT\nwebsite. These articles originally appeared in The AMSAT Journal from 2019\nto 2021.\n\nCheck out the compilation at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/introduction-to-working-amateur-satellites/\n\nUnfortunately, because both satellites and URLs change over time, the\ncurrentness of information such as this can quickly be overcome by events.\nHowever, the tools and techniques outlined in Keith’s beginner series are\nstill very much applicable to operating on current and future AMSAT\nsatellites. For the latest information about satellites currently in orbit,\nplease consult the AMSAT Communications Satellites page.\n\nMore detailed information can be found in AMSAT's Getting Started with\nAmateur Satellites book which can be purchased on the AMSAT store.\n\n[ANS thanks Keith Baker, KB1SF/VA3KSF, Past AMSAT President, and Joe\nKornowski, KB6IGK, AMSAT Journal Editor-In-Chief, for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nTX5S DXpedition to Clipperton Island to Include Satellite Operations\n\nThe TX5S DXpedition to Clipperton Island, scheduled for January 2024, has\nannounced that it will include satellite operations. The satellite station\nmanager, Andreas, N6NU, reports the following preparation\nactivities for the TX5S DXpedition to Clipperton Island:\n\nAndreas has made his first QSO’s made on the IO-117 (GreenCube) Satellite.\nThis satellite has passes that last over an hour and has a huge footprint\nsince it is in an almost 6,000 KM orbit. He has an 11 Element 70CM antenna,\nRAS Mini AZ/EL rotator with Green Heron Controller, Icom IC-9100H,\nRigblaster TI-5000 and Icom AG-35 mast mounted pre-amp. The 6ft mast uses a\nhome brew base. The next step is to configure an Icom IC-9700 as backup.\nThen on to RS-44 and 6m and 23 cm EME. He appreciates the help and advice\noffered by several AMSAT members.\n\nFor more information on the TX5S DXpedition, visit https://clip.pdxg.net/\n\n[ANS thanks the Perseverance DX Group 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\n2023 AMSAT Field Day Preliminary Report\n\nThe 2023 AMSAT Field Day is over, and early data shows how the satellites\nwere utilized.\n\nIt has been many years since there were more than one or two AMSAT Field\nDay submissions from outside North America. This year, immediately after of\nField Day ended, there were two submissions from Japan.\n\nThe satellites worked well. The FM Tevel family of satellites and GreenCube\nseemed to be popular. SO-50, AO-91, and the International Space Station\nwere also busy with their FM single channels. RS-44 was quite tame, with\nplenty of bandwidth for many to make contacts, whether they were sitting on\na frequency and calling CQ or using the hunt-and-pounce method.\n\nMore data is on the way. For updates, visit the AMSAT website.\n\n[ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Awards Manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nCommunication Problems on the Moon\n\nThe chilly relationship between the U.S. and China on Earth could raise\nsafety risks in space and the specter of competition on the Moon as both\nnations aim to send people to the lunar surface in the coming years.\n\nChina and the U.S. — the two most dominant players in space today — do not\ngenerally collaborate on space research and exploration, and they have\nlimited communication in orbit and beyond. But both nations are separately\nsending missions to the Moon. NASA expects its astronauts will be back on\nthe surface of the Moon as early as 2025, and China has plans for its\ntaikonauts to land on the lunar surface by around 2030.\n\nThe Chinese military is refusing to use established communications channels\nthat could help to prevent an unintended crisis on Earth. Recent close\ncalls between U.S. and Chinese crafts at sea and in the air underscore the\nrisk.\n\nLack of transparency into activities has framed the U.S-China relationship\nin space for decades, with some key exceptions, including coordinating\norbiters at Mars and NASA collaborating with China during one of the\nnation's robotic Moon missions.\n\nThe Chinese government has a fundamentally different way of engaging in the\nworld that makes open communication difficult, Dean Cheng, a China analyst,\ntells Axios. The government is \"not accustomed to thinking of alliance\nstructures and cooperation,\" he added.\n\nNASA will likely miss its 2025 Artemis landing date, with technical and\nbudgetary delays pushing the first crewed landing to later in the decade.\nChina, however, \"will put a human crew on the Moon by 2030,\" Cheng said.\n\"If that is their intent, then it will happen.\"\n\nCommunication could be particularly important on the lunar surface because\nChina and the U.S. are both planning to land missions in the same part of\nthe Moon, at the lunar south pole. While those initial landing zones will\nlikely be widely separated, future missions could lead to new questions\nabout space traffic management, communications satellites and even the\nprimary language used in those activities at the Moon.\n\n[ANS thanks Axios Space for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nThe Big Bang Theory Antenna Lives On\n\nAn antenna that holds an important place in scientific history sits on a\nsmall parcel of land on Crawford Hill in Holmdel Township, New Jersey.\n\nThe antenna is known as the Holmdel Horn Antenna, and it was built in 1959\nby Bell Labs (now Nokia Bell Labs) researchers. It was originally designed\nto bounce radio signals off of reflective satellite balloons for\nlong-distance communication. It worked, and the Holmdel Horn Antenna was no\nlonger needed.\n\nTwo Bell Labs astronomer employees, Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson,\nreceived permission in 1965 to use the antenna to search for radio\ntransmissions in outer space. They pointed the antenna toward what was\nconsidered a quiet area, but what they discovered was anything but quiet.\nThey discovered Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, which provided\nevidence for the Big Bang Theory.\n\nNow, there is a historical marker at the site, but there has been some\ndispute as to who owns the antenna and surrounding land. In mid-June 2023,\nthe Holmdel Township Committee voted unanimously to approve resolutions\nthat will begin the process of acquiring two of the three parcels that make\nup the Crawford Hill property. The township committee is leaving the third\nparcel to be part of the redevelopment toward preserving Crawford Hill as a\npublic park to celebrate the horn antenna's place in scientific history.\n\nVisit the https://bit.ly/3rbnKaR to learn more.\n\n[ANS thanks The ARRL Letter for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n Want to fly the colors on your own grid expedition?\n Get your AMSAT car flag and other neat stuff\n from our Zazzle store!\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\nChanges to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for 2023 30 June\n\nTwo Line Elements or TLEs, often referred to as Keplerian elements or keps\nin the amateur community, are the inputs to the SGP4 standard mathematical\nmodel of spacecraft orbits used by most amateur tracking programs. Weekly\nupdates are completely adequate for most amateur satellites. Elements in\nthe TLE bulletin files are updated daily. TLE bulletin files are updated to\nadd or remove satellites as necessary Thursday evenings around 2300 UTC, or\nmore frequently if new high interest satellites are launched. More\ninformation may be found at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/keplerian-elements-resources/\n\nThis week there are no additions or deletions to the weekly AMSAT-NA TLE\ndistribution.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT Orbital Elements page for the above information]\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nARISS NEWS\n\nAmateurs and others around the world may listen in on contacts between\namateurs operating in schools and allowing students to interact with\nastronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. The\ndownlink frequency on which to listen is 145.800 MHz worldwide.\n\nCOMPLETED:\nMohammad Bin Rashid Space Centre, Dubai, UAE, direct via A68MBR. The ISS\ncallsign was OR4ISS, and the crewmember was Sultan Al Neyadi, KI5VTV. The\nARISS mentor was ON6TI. Contact was successful: Thursday, 2023-06-22\n08:38:52 UTC with 51 degrees maximum elevation. Congratulations to the\nMohammad Bin Rashid Space Centre students, Sultan Al Neyadi KI5VTV, and\nmentor ON6TI!\n\nUPCOMING:\nDue to summer school holidays, no contacts currently scheduled.\n\nThe crossband repeater continues to be active (145.990 MHz up {PL 67} &\n437.800 MHz down). If any crewmember is so inclined, all they have to do is\npick up the microphone, raise the volume up, and talk on the crossband\nrepeater. So give a listen, you just never know.\n\nThe packet system is also active (145.825 MHz up & down).\n\nAs always, if there is an EVA, a docking, or an undocking; the ARISS radios\nare turned off as part of the safety protocol.\n\nNote, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own\norbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed\ntime.\n\nThe latest information on the operation mode can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html\n\nThe latest list of frequencies in use can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors\nfor the above information]\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nUpcoming Satellite Operations\n\nTo include your satellite roving plans in the AMSAT News Service Weekly\nbulletins, send them to Ian, K5ZM at k5zm (at) comcast (dot) net at least a\ncouple of weeks in advance. Upcoming satellite operations are updated\nweekly on the AMSAT Upcoming Satellite Operations page but may expire\nbefore the next AMSAT News Service bulletin is released. You can watch for\nthe latest roving information to become available at\nhttps://www.amsat.org/satellite-info/upcoming-satellite-operations/\n\nMitch Ahrenstorff, AD0HJ, has a satellite rove planned over the July 4th\nweekend in the hopes of joining the exclusive Western Roving Coalition.\nLook for him to activate Montana grid squares DN57, DN67, DN77, DN87, DN97,\nDN56, DN66, DN76, DN86, DN96, DN55, DN65, AND DN64 between June 30th and\nJuly 3rd. Planned passes are available at http://hams.at OR on Twitter\n@GridMasterHeat\n\nJim DeLoach, WU0I, with XYL, KK6DZS, just started a 6-week road trip. Along\nthe way, they hope to activate a number of rarer grid squares on the FM\nbirds on the way to the Four-Corners area of the Southwest from the\nMichigan UP, through Western Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and\nIdaho.\n\nA growing number of satellite rovers are currently engaged in sharing their\ngrid square activations on https://hams.at. By visiting the website, you\ngain easy access to comprehensive information about the operators\nresponsible for activating specific grid squares. Additionally, you have\nthe ability to assess the match score between yourself and a particular\nrover for a given pass, while also being able to identify the upcoming\nsatellite passes that are accessible from your location.\n\n[ANS thanks Ian Parsons, K5ZM, AMSAT rover page manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n\nAMSAT Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating through\namateur satellites, and host information tables at club meetings, hamfests,\nconventions, maker faires, and other events.\n\n+ Small Satellite Conference\n August 5-10, 2023\n Utah State University, Logan, UT\n More information at: https://smallsat.org/\n\n+ AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting\n October 20-21, 2013\n Dallas, Texas\n\nAMSAT Ambassador Clint Bradford, K6LCS, says,\n“Think a 75-minute presentation on “working the easy satellites” would be\nappropriate for your club or event? Let me know by emailing me at\nk6lcsclint (at) gmail (dot) com or calling me at 909-999-SATS (7287)!”\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Events page for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+The 15th annual 13 Colonies Special Event will take place July 1 - July 7,\n2023, and will include satellite operations, primarily on the linear\ntransponder satellites. All 13 colonies are covered by satops this year\nmaking a clean sweep possible. See http://www.13colonies.us/ for more\ndetails. (ANS thanks Ant Lefebvre, NU1U, for the above information)\n\n+ In a highly anticipated and globally coordinated announcement on\nWednesday, June 28, teams of scientists worldwide reported the discovery of\nthe \"low pitch hum\" of cosmic waves flowing through the Milky Way. While\nastronomers don't definitively know what's causing the hum, the detected\nsignal is \"compelling evidence\" and consistent with theoretical\nexpectations of gravitational waves emerging from pairs of \"the most\nmassive black holes in the entire universe\" weighing as much as billions of\nsuns. (ANS thanks Space.com for the above information)\n\n+ ESA announced the Zero Debris Charter at the Paris Air Show, by which\nthey mean that they will figure out their plans for generating zero space\ndebris (hopefully) by the end of the year, to be implemented by 2030. (ANS\nthanks The Orbital Index for the above information)\n\n+ Gamma Ray Burst 221009A, a supernova with its energetic jet pointed\ndirectly at Earth, was first observed last October. While it was 2.4\nbillion light-years away, it still managed to disturb Earth’s ionosphere,\nproduced 18 tera-electron-volt photons, and saturated spacecraft X-ray and\ngamma-ray sensors. This explosion is now referred to as the BOAT (Brightest\nof All Time) and is thought to be a once-in-a-10,000-year occurrence. It\nalso illuminated dust clouds in our galaxy, allowing their distances and\nproperties to be measured with unprecedented accuracy. (ANS thanks The\nOrbital Index for the above information)\n\n+ Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic launched its first commercial space\nflight Thursday, June 29, sending three Italian researchers, two company\npilots and an astronaut trainer on a high-speed thrill ride to the edge of\nspace aboard a winged rocketplane. (ANS thanks SpaceflightNow for the above\ninformation)\n\n+ A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft left the International Space Station on\nThursday, June 29, to return to Earth. The spacecraft is carrying more than\n3,600 pounds of equipment, supplies and scientific experiments, some of\nwhich have been on the space station for nearly six years and which had\ntheir final in-orbit tests completed earlier this year. (ANS thanks Space\nDaily for the above information)\n\n+ The European Space Agency’s Euclid spacecraft launched on July 1 from\nCape Canaveral Space Force Station. Euclid features a telescope 1.2 meters\nacross equipped with a camera operating at visible wavelengths and a\nnear-infrared spectrometer and photometer. The two-ton spacecraft will\noperate at the Earth-sun L-2 point also used by the James Webb Space\nTelescope 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, generating the largest and\nmost accurate 3-D map of the universe to date. Astronomers hope that\nEuclid’s observations will shed light on two of the biggest mysteries in\ncosmology: the nature of both dark energy and dark matter that, combined,\ncomprise 95% of the universe. (ANS thanks SpaceNews for the above\ninformation)\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nJoin AMSAT today at https://launch.amsat.org/\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership to:\n\n* Societies (a recognized group, clubs or organization).\n* Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at\none-half the standard yearly rate.\n* Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status\nshall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary\nyears in this status.\n* Memberships are available for annual and lifetime terms.\n\nContact info [at] amsat.org for additional membership information.\n\n73 and remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space!\n\nThis week's ANS Editor, Mark Johns, KØJM\nk0jm [at] amsat.org\n\n\n", "attachments": [ { "email": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/LEWGR6IPLOME44AKGHCD3RD6TBZCDMRF/?format=api", "counter": 2, "name": "attachment.html", "content_type": "text/html", "encoding": "utf-8", "size": 22081, "download": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/LEWGR6IPLOME44AKGHCD3RD6TBZCDMRF/attachment/2/attachment.html" } ] }