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    "subject": "[ans]  FW: [amsat-bb]  ANS-109  AMSAT Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2009-04-19T14:01:43Z",
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    "content": "\n\nAMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-109\n\nANS is a free, weekly, news and information service \nof AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite \nCorporation. ANS reports on the activities of a \nworldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share \nan active interest in designing, building, launching \nand communicating through analog and digital \nAmateur Radio satellites.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\n\[email protected]\n\n\nIn this edition:\n* AMSAT Activites at Dayton 2009\n* AMSAT/TAPR Banquet Note\n* HAMSAT\n* SumbandilaSat: From Sub To Space\n* Satellite Shorts\n* Balloon Launch-Assist in Tracking\n* ARISS Schedule\n\n \nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-109.1\nAMSAT Activites at Dayton 2009\n\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nApril 19, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-109.1\n\nIn addition to being the keynote speaker at the AMSAT/TAPR \nBanquet on Friday, Richard Garriott, entrepreneur, game \nprogrammer and space tourist will being visiting the AMSAT \nbooth on Friday and Saturday. Come by and meet Richard, \nthe specific times will be available soon.  We will be \nhaving our Thursday night get-together at a new location \nthis year - Tickets Pub in Fairborn. The menu has many \ntasty items, so come by and visit with your AMSAT friends.\nDrew and Keith will be leading the outdoor satellite \ndemonstrations this year. They will have two types of \nstations setup and operational -  computer controlled \nstation and handheld station. \nThis is the 40th Anniversary of AMSAT, we have a great \ntee design by Steve Kenwolf to celebrate the event as \nwell as many pices of AMSAT memorabilia on display.\nMembers of the SuitSat-2  team will have a complete \noperational SuitSat protoype with an experiment. As \nalways there will be new publications, frequency \nchart, LVB Trackers and premiums for membership \nrenewal. The AMSAT Forum is Saturday moring \n11:15 to 13:30 in Room 5. Visit the AMSAT web \nsite for additional information. Come by booths \n444-449 during the May 15-17 2009 Dayton Hamvention.\n\n[ANS thanks Gould, WA4SXM, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-109.2\nAMSAT/TAPR Banquet Note\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 109.2\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nApril 19, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-109.2\n\nThe Dayton AMSAT/TAPR banquet is just about 1 month away.  \nOur Guest Speaker is Richard Garriott, W5KWQ. If you have \nnot registered, go to the AMSAT website and look on the \nleft hand side.  There will be a box that says \nDayton Hamvention.  Click on that and it will lead you \nto the banquet registration.  You MUST be pre- registered\nto attend. You cannot register at Dayton.\n\n--\n[ANS thanks Martha, AMSAT Manager, for the above information]\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-109.3\nHAMSAT\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 109.3\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nApril 19, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-109.3\n\n Hi All\nHamsat 4th Birthday is coming up next month, 5 May 2009 and \nHamsat has been the most popular Amateur Sat for beginners \nand veterans all over the world.\n\n Hamsat is very healthy and should serve the ham \ncommunity for many more years.\n\n Amsat India is pleased to announce that we are conducting \na Workshop to coincide with the 4 th anniversary celebrations \nof the Hamsat.\n( Note this is an advance infomation, complete programme \nschedule is frozen and will be announced shortly)\n\n Date  10 May 2009\nStarts at 8 AM with registration and breakfast Morning \nsessions include various topics Lunch Afternoon session \nTea & close by 4 pm\n\n Venue : Little Lilly English School, Vidyaranyapura, \nBamgalore Delegate fee Rs 100/-\n\n Detailed programme schedule etc will be announced \nshortly on these email groups, local nets etc.\nYou may also check our web page www.amsatindia.org  \nemail : [email protected]\n\n We request all hams and wouldbe hams interested in \nAmateur Satellite  activity to kindly participate \nand make the event a grand success.\nLooking forward to your participation.\nBest 73\nPop\nVU2POP\nSecy  Amsat India\n\n[ANS Thanks Pop, VU2POP, for the above info]\n/EX\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-109.4\nSumbandilaSat: From Sub To Space\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 109.4\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nApril 19, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-109.4\n\nA Sat News Daily story dated April 12, 2009, says \nSumbandilaSat to launch in June from a sub. \n\nSumbandilaSat: From Sub To Space\nhttp://www.satnews.com/cgi-bin/story.cgi?number=195613620 \n\nSatNewsDaily were quoting from a South African \nBusiness Report story -  \n\nRussian sub to launch second satellite\nhttp://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=552&fArticleId=4930464 \n\nThe South African Business Report website last \nyear carried a story on the use of Soyuz launcher \nat Baikonur. \nhttp://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=552&fArticleId=4596130 \n\nThe Southern Africa AMSAT website is still quoting \nBaikonur http://www.amsatsa.org.za/ \n\n[ANS Thanks, Trevor, M5AKA, for the above info] \n\n/EX\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-109.5\nSatellite Shorts\nAMSAT News Service Bun 109.5\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nApril 19, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-109.5\n\nGood DX via AO-7\n\nThis week AO-7 continued to surprise and delight amateur radio \nsatellite operators with opportunities for good DX. On April 12\nTim, N3TL reported, \"At 21:33 UTC today G1WPR answered my \"CQ DX\" \non AO-7 Mode B. I was sending CW with the straight key I picked \nup for Straight Key Night on AO-51, and Terry called me in SSB \nso we completed a cross-mode QSO of more than a minute with a \nfew exchanges. I am thrilled!\"\n\nTim also logged more trans-Atlantic AO-7 QSOs on April 16, \"PH7PCF \nin the Netherlands answered my CW \"CQ DX\" with a hello in SSB. Then, \na couple of minutes later, F2IL returned my CW in some CW from France. \nWhat a hoot!\"\n\nThe equipment at N3TL consists of a Yaesu FT-857D for TX and a Yaesu \nFT-817ND for RX (both used radios). He uses a Diamond MX-72H duplexer \nto connect them to a dual-band Elk log periodic, which is hand-held,\nmanually tracking the satellites. Computer doppler control was done\nwith Simon's HRD Satellite Tracker.  Of the CW operation Tim described\nhis setup, \"I have the \"CQ DX\" call set up in a memory buffer on my \nFT-857D. But when somebody responds, the straight key takes over.\"\n\nTurning 35 years old on November 15, 2009 AO-7 still carries lots of\namateur satellite traffic.  Joe, K3SZH says Igor UA9CS Igor has now \nlogged over 6000 QSOs via the bird.  Also, this month Mike, KC9ELU \nhas reached his 1000th QSO via AO-7.\n\n[ANS thanks Tim, N3TL and Joe, K3SZH for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nW0YPT Silent Key\n\nAMSAT received the sad news that Telmer G. Olson, W0YPT became a\nsilent key at age 91 this week. Telmer had worked the satellites\nfrom the earliest OSCARs to the modern satellites.  Jerry, W0SAT\nremembered, \"He elmered me and helped me get on the satellites in \n1996. I knew him as a great friend that I called on for advice all\nthe time. I used to visit him at his QTH and went to hamfests with\nhim too. I and all the people who ever had contact with will always\nremember the many QSO,s and contacts we had with him.\" \n\nANS thanks Jerry, WOSAT for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-109.6\nBalloon Launch-Assist in Tracking\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 109.6\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nApril 19, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-109.6\n\nThe NS3 group of Cornell University engineering graduate students \nwill launch PBH-9 (Project Blue Horizon) from Lockheed Martin in \nOwego NY on Sunday evening, 19Apr09, at approximately 21:00EDT \n(Monday, 20Apr09, 01:00UT)  This ARHAB flight (Amateur Radio \nHigh Altitude Ballooning) will ascend and then float for up to \n50-hours while drifting to the east.\n\nThe payload will include a KC2TUA-8 144.390 APRS beacon \n(track via (http://findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=KC2TUA-8) \nand HF CW position report and telemetry downlinks on 7.104MHz \nand 10.148MHz.  The NS3 PBH-9 team requests distant ground \nstations receive and report HF telemetry via [email protected] \nincluding reception UT date and time.\n\nDistant receiving stations are welcome to also submit HF \nreception reports to [email protected] for the ARHAB <50MHz \ntelemetry reception record, \nsee http://showcase.netins.net/web/wallio/ARHABrecords.htm.\n\nAdditional PBH-9 information including HF telemetry transmit \nschedule and format is available via \nhttp://showcase.netins.net/web/wallio/ARHABlaunchannouncements.htm.  \nFlight updates are available from the NS3 PBH-9 team \nvia http://twitter.com/pbh3.\n\n[ANS thanks Ralph, W0RPK, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-109.7\nARISS Schedule\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 109.7\n  From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nApril 13, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-109.7\n\n1. Upcoming School Contacts\n\nStudents from Ulvila Upper Secondary School in Ulvila, Satakunta,\nFinland have been preparing for an Amateur Radio on the \nInternational Space Station (ARISS) contact. It was completed on\nFriday, April 17 at 07:40 UTC. They have studied physics \nand astronomy and have researched the ISS. They have written \nessays and created posters on related subject matter.  \nStudents have also learned about amateur radio. Newspaper, \nradio and television coverage is anticipated.\n\nAn Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) \ncontact has been scheduled for St. Edward School in Ashland, \nOhio, U.S.A. on Monday, April 20 at 16:36 UTC.  The ARISS \ncontact has been integrated into the science curriculum \nwhich covers topics on satellite images, global positioning \nof satellites, telescopes, and radio waves. Students read \nscience related books and poems, conducted informational \ninternet searches, wrote stories and informational articles, \ninterviewed amateur radio operators, and studied and applied \nscience and math objectives. Media coverage is expected.\n\n2. Japanese Contact to be Rescheduled\n\nAn Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) \ncontact was scheduled for Thursday, April 9 between Kawanishi \nSeiwadai Community Center in Hyogo, Japan and Koichi Wakata, \nKC5ZTA onboard the ISS. Due to technical difficulties, the \ncontact did not take place.  The contact will be \nrescheduled in the near future.\n\n3. Parkside Contact Video \n\nOn Monday, March 30, students from Parkside Community \nCollege in Cambridge, U.K. took part in an Amateur Radio \non the International Space Station (ARISS) contact with \nSpaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, KE7KDP/HA5SIK. \nVideo of the contact is now available.  \nSee:  http://www.it-sparkles.co.uk/ARISS/Parkside.aspx \n\n4. Article Posted on ARISS - Kalori Contact\n\nOn Wednesday, April 1, Kalori Catholic School students in \nWallaroo, Australia experienced an Amateur Radio on the \nInternational Space Station (ARISS) contact with Mike \nFincke, KE5AIT. The Yorke Peninsula Country Times \npublished an article covering the event.  See:\nhttp://www.ypct.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4840&Itemid\n=66\n\n5. ARRL Article on CLC Contact\n\nThe American Radio Relay League (ARRL) ran a story about an \nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) \ncontact that took place in October 2008 between the \nIndianapolis Challenger Learning Center (CLC) and Spaceflight \nParticipant Richard Garriott, W5KWQ. The article, \n\"Hams Mentor Challenger Center Students for Garriott \nContact,\" may be found here: \nhttp://www.arrl.org/news/features/2009/04/08/10758/?nc=1\n\nThe ARRL Web site has 100,000 regular readers.\n\n6. ARISS News on Amateur Radio Newsline\n\nOn April 3, the Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1652 included an \nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) \nnews item.  The story, \"Ham Radio in Space:  KE7KDP, KE5AIT\nand RA3DT Return from the ISS,\" summarizes the ARISS \naccomplishments of Charles Simonyi and Mike Fincke \nduring their missions.  To view the story, \ngo to: ftp://ftp.arnewsline.org/quincy/News/news.txt\n\n7. Astronaut Training Status\n\nThe Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) \nteam provided another training session to Mike Fossum on \nThursday, April 9 to prepare him for his amateur radio \nlicense exam.\n\n8. ARISS Report to WIA\n\nThe Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) will hold its \nAnnual General Meeting (AGM) over the May 1-3 weekend.  \nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) \nmentor and telebridge station operator Tony Hutchison, V\nK5ZAI will give his ARISS 2008-09 report.  It has been \nposted on the ARISS Web site under \"Latest News.\"  \nSee: http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm  \n\n9. ARISS-Related Article in NASA HQ News Briefs\n\nNASA Headquarters News Service cited an op-ed found in the \nTimes of London.  The item, written by Lucy and Stephen \nHawking, mentions Richard Garriott's mission and how he \ninspired youth through his numerous radio contacts while \nonboard the ISS.  \nSee:\nhttp://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/arti\ncle6027988.ece\n\n10. Simonyi PowerPoint Presentation \n\nAn Amateur Radio on the International Space Station \n(ARISS) volunteer prepared a PowerPoint presentation on \nSpaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi's mission and used \nthis during the Milwee Middle School (Longwood, Florida) \ncontact on April 1. To view the slideshow, go to \nwww.mydrive.ch/en. Enter username, \"plethra2\" and password, \n\"aa4kn_1\".  Select the \"ARISS SLIDE SHOW\" folder and \ndownload the available files. \n\n11. SuitSat-2 Meeting Held \n\nA SuitSat-2 meeting was held in Phoenix, Arizona on April 3 - 5. \nThe team primarily worked on software, but there was also \nsome final coordination on the cabling and hardware.  \nThe software team was able to run some integration tests \nand achieved the first radio frequency (RF) output of the \nsystem. During the testing, the team demonstrated the \ncontinuous wave (CW) and voice message transmissions. Work \ncontinues on the solar panel mounting.  Amateur Radio on \nthe International Space Station (ARISS) plans to have \nSuitSat-2 hardware ready for delivery by September.\n\n\n\n[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nDee Interdonato, NB2F\nnb2f at amsat dot org\n\n\n\n\n",
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