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    "sender_name": "Lee McLamb",
    "subject": "[ans] ANS-148  AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2012-05-27T02:17:40Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-148\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* AMSAT Submits NASA Edison Program Proposals\n* ARISS Call For Volunteers\n* North America Rare Grid EK69 Activation From Cayo Culebra Island\n* High Altitude Balloon Crossband Repeater Payload Northeast USA\n* Satellite Operations Planned for Worldwide Museum Ships Weekend\n* Dayton Hamvention Satellite Demonstration Area Videos Posted\n* UKube-1 is Taking Shape\n* Listen to HORYU-2 on the Web\n* ARISS Status - 21 May 2012\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-148.01\nANS-148 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 148.01\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMay 27, 2012\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-148.01\n\nAMSAT Submits NASA Edison Program Proposals\n\nThis week the Board of Directors announced AMSAT was a partner in a\npair of Phase-2 NASA Edison Program proposals that were successfully\nsubmitted on Tuesday May 22, 2012.\n\nIf selected, these proposals would provide AMSAT and its partners\nwith the funds to construct and launch new amateur radio satellites.\nDue to the highly competitive nature of this program, no additional\ninformation can be released at this time.\n\nNASA intends to announce the winning proposals in the Fall of 2012.\nMore information will be released as it becomes available.\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Board of Directors for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS Call For Volunteers\n\nDuring the Dayton Hamvention AMSAT and the ARRL announced opportun-\nities for amateur radio satellite operators to join the ARISS Pro-\ngram (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) in roles as\nTechnical Mentors and Ground Station Operators.\n\nOn Friday and Saturday of the Hamvention AMSAT Vice President for\nEducational Relations Mark Hammond, N8MH took advantage of the ARRL\nStage to explain these roles for radio amateurs who serve as an ad-\nvising and coordinating liaison between NASA, the school or group\nmaking the ARISS contact, and the Ground Station Operators, who set\nup the satellite station at the contact location.\n\nThis week the ARRL published the ARISS recruiting program on the web\nwith a call for volunteers. The ARRL said, \"Public awareness of the\nARISS program is growing as a result of a new proposal process, and\npromotion by NASA through its broad outreach to schools and teachers.\nThis presents the Amateur Radio community with an opportunity to\nreach out to even more schools in locations across the US through the\nARISS program.\n\nSee the ARRL web for full details of the ARISS call for volunteers:\nhttp://www.arrl.org/ariss-volunteers\n\nWith the help of experienced Amateur Radio volunteers, and coordi-\nnation from the ARISS partnership team, crew members speak directly\nwith large youth audiences in a variety of public forums --school\nassemblies, science museums, Scout camporees and jamborees and space\ncamps-where students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about\nspace, space technologies and  Amateur Radio.\n\nThere are two ways to get involved:\n\nVolunteer with a Ground Support Team\n------------------------------------\nWe are recruiting clubs and individuals throughout the US who are\nable and willing to support the ARISS program in their local com-\nmunities. Optimally, this means setting up direct Amateur Radio con-\ntacts with the ISS. Direct contacts provide the best opportunity to\nshowcase Amateur Radio and offer students a firsthand experience. An\nARISS event can open the door for an ongoing relationship between\nlocal ham radio clubs and schools, providing students with continuing\nopportunities to explore radio science, satellite communications and\nwireless technology with Amateur Radio.\n\nVolunteer as an ARISS Technical Mentor\n--------------------------------------\nARISS is also seeking additional volunteers to train to support the\nprogram in the liaison capacity as US ARISS Technical Mentor who will\nserve as the coordinators between NASA operations and the local on-\nsite support teams at the event site. They serve as advisors to the\nlocal Ground Support Volunteers and need the same skills as well as\nhands-on satellite communications experience. Technical Mentors com-\nmunicate with the other mentors on the ARISS international operations\nteam to coordinate ARISS contacts via telebridge stations around the\nworld. They assimilate and transfer this information to the local\nGround Support Volunteers who complete all of the arrangements for a\nscheduled ARISS contact.\n\nThe ARISS program is a cooperative venture of NASA, the ARRL and\nAMSAT and other international space agencies. ARISS organizes and\nschedules contacts via Amateur Radio between ISS crew members and\neducational organizations.\n\n+ Again ... More details about volunteering to assist with ARISS can\n   be found at the ARRL website at:\n   http://www.arrl.org/ARISS-volunteers\n\n+ Amateur radio operators interested in becoming involved as a\n   ground support team or technical mentor are invited to send an\n   email to:  [email protected]\n\n[ANS thanks ARRL, ARISS, and AMSAT for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNorth America Rare Grid EK69 Activation From Cayo Culebra Island\n\nMembers of the Radioclub Cancun will be active as 4A3RCC from Cayo\nCulebra Island, Mexico (NA-200) between June 1-3. Activity will be\non 80-6 meters and possibly the Satellites. Special attention will\nbe on 6m. Operators include: Jose Angel, XE3PP; Guillermo, XE3RA;\nZalo, XE3N; Julio, XE3PHM; Jorge, XE3PBL; and Julio, XE3JMA.\n\nCayo Culebra is located on Reserve of Biosphere of Siaan Ka'an.\n\nFor more details, see the following Web page at:\nhttp://www.radioclubcancun.org/culebra\n\nThe main contact is Jose Angel Yanez, XE3PP\nPresidente / President\nEMAIL: [email protected]\n\nQSL via EA5FL:\nJOSE MIGUEL MONCHO ALCARAZ\nApartado Postal : 252\n03700 - DENIA\nSpain\n\n[ANS thanks the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1063 for the above\n  information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nHigh Altitude Balloon Crossband Repeater Payload Northeast USA\n   \t  \t\nAmateur radio operators in New England and northern Atlantic coast\nin the US and Canada are invited to listen and operate via the cross-\nband repeater payload on a high altitude balloon flight from Hermon,\nMaine. Launch is planned for June 2, 2012 at about 0830 EDT (UTC-4)\nby members of the Pine State Amateur Radio Club as one of the events\nduring the 25th Annual Bangor Hamfest at Hermon High School. The club\nis working with the University of Maine Electrical and Computer Engin-\neering Department to plan and execute the flight.\n\nThe crossband repeater frequencies are:\nUplink:   147.570 MHz\nDownlink: 446.100 MHz\n\nThe payload will also include APRS for position and altitude track-\ning. University of Maine tracking information can be found at:\nhttp://eece.maine.edu/umhab/\n\nCoverage for the VHF/UHF repeater is estimated to be more than 450\nmiles. Stations as far away as western New York, Long Island, all of\nNew England, and Maritime Canada should be able to work it.\n\nThe PSARC High Altitude Balloon team will award a certificate for\nthe station furthest away from the balloon to make contact through\nthe repeater. Please join in to help set a distance record for the\nrepeater.\n\nThe latest launch information and more details are available on-line:\nhttp://www.n1me.org/Hamfest.php\nhttp://eece.maine.edu/umhab/ (which will be updated shortly before\nthe launch.)\n\n[ANS thanks Steve Jordan, KD1OM, President PSARC and Stuart\n  Ballinger, WA2BSS for the above information]\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Operations Planned for Worldwide Museum Ships Weekend\n\nMuseum Ships Weekend Coming Up June 2-3, 2012\nby Allen F. Mattis, N5AFV, n5afv at amsat.org\n\nThe worldwide Museum Ships Weekend Event (MSWE) will be held for two\ndays, June 2-3, 2012. Last year 83 ships in 13 countries around the\nworld participated in the event. Amateur radio operators make special\nevent contacts from these museum ships on all amateur radio bands\nwith most of the contacts taking place on the HF bands. In the past\nseveral years only two or three museum ships in North America have\nmade satellite contacts during the event.\n\nThis year a number of Houston area AMSAT members, W5ACM, N5AFV and\nWC5WM, will participate with the Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club\n(BVARC) operating club station KK5W from Seawolf Park on Pelican\nIsland in Galveston, Texas. Seawolf Park is home to two Second World\nWar vintage museum ships - the destroyer escort USS Stewart (DE-238)\nand the submarine USS Cavalla (SS-244). As a result, a contact with\nKK5W counts for two ships. Amateur radio operators who make contacts\nwith 15 or more ships qualify for a handsome certificate.\n\nThe BVARC KK5W station plans to operate the afternoon passes of AO-27\nand FO-29 on Saturday June 2nd and hope other AMSAT members will be\noperating from other ships. This will be their fifth year participat-\ning in the MSWE and hope to make their first MSWE satellite contact\nwith another museum ship this year.\n\nIf any AMSAT members are interested in this event they may visit the\nMSWE website: http://www.nj2bb.org/museum/index.html to find out if\nany museum ships near them are participating.\n\n[ANS thanks Allen Mattis, N5AFV for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nDayton Hamvention Satellite Demonstration Area Videos Posted\n\nPatrick Stoddard, WD9EWK/VA7EWK recorded three videos of satellite\npasses that were worked from the AMSAT demonstration station at last\nweekend's 2012 Dayton Hamvention.\n\nThe videos are now available on Patrick's YouTube channel:\nhttp://youtube.com/va7ewk\n\nTwo of the three videos were from VO-52 passes last Friday (18 May)\nand Saturday (19 May). Later on Saturday, the third video from an\nSO-50 pass was recorded.\n\nYou will see Keith Pugh, W5IU; Doug Papay, KD8CAO, and Roger Ley,\nWA9PZL taking care of the antenna. Keith's equipment is used for\nthe demonstration station is two Yaesu FT-817s, two homebrew an-\ntennas (3-element 2m Yagi, 6-element 70cm Yagi), and a laptop run-\nning SatPC32 to control the radios. The radios and laptop are\npowered from a large 12V battery.\n\n[ANS thanks Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK/VA7EWK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUKube-1 is Taking Shape\n\nAMSAT-UK is reporting UKube-1, the UK Space Agency's first Cubesat\nmission, has reached an important milestone. Two payloads have now\nundergone pre-integration testing at Clyde Space's facilities in\nGlasgow.\n\nUKube-1, is a collaboration between the UK Space Agency, industry\nand academia. Open University payload C3D and University of Bath\npayload TOPCAT were the first of the four payloads selected to be\ntested. These workshops provided the first opportunity to carry out\nphysical and functional testing between the protoflight payloads\nand platform subsystems.\n\nThe tests confirmed physical, electrical and operational interfaces\nbetween the subsystems. The tests represent the successful handover\nto flight integration and delivery from the interface emulator (sup-\nplied to payload teams by Clyde Space at the start of the program to\nfacilitate rapid parallel development of subsystems).\n\nC3D is a small imager which will take pictures of the earth and\ninvestigate radiation damage effects in space. It uses new sensor\ntechnology developed for space conditions.\n\nTOPCAT (Topside Ionosphere Computer Assisted Tomography) will meas-\nure space weather conditions to inform users of the Global Position-\ning System (GPS) users using a dual-frequency GPS receiver designed\nespecially for use in space.\n\nWith the remaining payloads due to be tested over the coming few\nweeks, the program continues confidently towards full integration\nin July.\n\nUKube-1 will also take an educational subsystem called FUNcube, de-\nveloped by the voluntary organisation AMSAT-UK, to encourage young\npeople to learn about radio, space, physics and electronics. It con-\ntains a 1200 bps BPSK telemetry beacon and a 435/145 MHz linear\ntransponder.\n\nSee these links to AMSAT-UK for more information:\nUKube-1 on BBC TV http://www.uk.amsat.org/5983\nUKube-1 to launch in 2013 http://www.uk.amsat.org/5933\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nListen to HORYU-2 on the Web\n\nAndrei YO8SSQ and Cezar YO8TLC have made available a web based\nreceiver to enable listeners to hear the new amateur radio satel-\nlite HORYU-2 when it's within range of Romania.\n\nThe WebSDR receiver is located at the Astronomical Observatory\nDepartment of \"Stefan cel Mare\" University in Suceava, Romania,\nlatitude 47.6417N longitude 26.2453E, grid locator KN37cp. The\nheight ASL is 350m.\n\nThe hardware consists of two SDR receivers which are fed into\n48 kHz sound cards on an AMD Sempron 2600+ computer running Vec-\ntor Linux.\n\nThe web page displays a track showing the current position of HORYU-2\nand also provides coverage of the 3.5 MHz (80m) band.\n\nListen to the HORYU-2 and 80m WebSDR at http://sdr.opt.ro:8901/\n\nMore information about HORYU-2 437.375 MHz (+/- 9 kHz Doppler shift)\nat http://www.uk.amsat.org/7404\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS Status - 21 May 2012\n\n\n1. ARISS International Team Meeting Held\n\nThe ARISS International Team monthly meeting was held on May 15. Discussions\nincluded a status of the Ham TV project.  Minutes have been posted:\nhttp://ariss.rac.ca/arisstel2012-05-15.htm\n\n\n2. Astronaut Training Status\n\nChris Hadfield, KC5RNJ/VA3OOG and Thomas Marshburn, KE5HOC, both slated to fly\nwith Expedition 34, acquired their preflight training during a session on May\n14.  Alexander Gerst, KF5ONO (Expedition 40) took his introductory/ basic\noperations class on May 9.\n\nKevin Ford, KF5GPP is scheduled for a preflight session on May 22. He is\nscheduled to launch with the Expedition 33 crew in October 2012.\n\n[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]\n\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",
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