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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-005\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* NASA Digital Learning Network Special Opportunity\n* Winter Issue of AMSAT-UK OSCAR News Available\n* Hillbilly Tracking for Low Earth Orbit Satellites\n* High Resolution Data available on FUNcube Data Warehouse\n* Call for Papers for the AMSAT-SA Space Symposium\n* OPDX Interview With ND9M.VQ9JC Diego Garcia\n* AMSAT Representatives Requested for Vienna Wireless Society Hamfest\n* ARISS News - TBD\n* Satellite Shorts from All Over\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-005.01\nANS-005 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 005.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nJanuary 5, 2013\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-005.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNASA Digital Learning Network Special Opportunity\n\n\n***Special Opportunity***\nWould you like to have your class participate in an interactive\nwebcast with an astronaut? NASA invites students and teachers to an\ninside look at America's Spaceport at 2:30pm ET on January 31st. Four\nschools (target audience grades 5-9) will have the special opportunity\nto connect directly and ask questions of astronaut and Director of\nNASA's Kennedy Space Center Bob Cabana. Learn about his education and\ntraining, living and working in space, and the future of space\nexploration. All other schools may participate by watching the web\nstream athttp://dln.nasa.gov. Email [email protected] for more\ninformation.\n\n[ANS thanks NASA for the above announcement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nWinter Issue of AMSAT-UK OSCAR News Available\n\n\nE-members of AMSAT-UK can now download the PDF of the Winter edition\nof the OSCAR News magazine here (as well as previous 2013 and 2012\nissues).\n\nThe paper edition should be posted to members soon.\n\nIn this issue\n• FUNcube-1 Operations Report\n• FunCube Dongle Pro+ V2.0 on Shortwave\n• The Fun-Loop\n• Space Science at Someries Junior School\n• A newcomers view of satellite operating\n• UKube-1, ESEO, QB50pc1 – Update\n• Low Cost DVB-S Receivers Suitable For HAMTV\n• HAMTV Reception\n• FUNcube-1 – The Launch – A Personal Account\n• IET/RSGB Joint Meeting\n• $50SAT a low cost amateur radio satellite\n• Shorts\n\nThe AMSAT-UK Membership year lasts for 12 months starting on January\n1 each year.\n\nMembership of AMSAT-UK is open to anyone who has an interest in\namateur radio satellites or space activities, including the\nInternational Space Station (ISS).\n\nE-members of AMSAT-UK are able to download OSCAR News as a\nconvenient PDF that can be read on laptops, tablets or smartphones\nanytime, anyplace, anywhere. Join as an E-member at Electronic (PDF)\nE-membership\n\nThere are two rates for the paper edition to cover the extra postage\ncosts:\nUK\nRest of the World (Overseas)\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above announcement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nHillbilly Tracking for Low Earth Orbit Satellites\n\n\nIn a video, Travis Goodspeed KK4VCZ describes his Low Earth Orbit\n(LEO) satellite tracking system to the 30th Chaos Computer Congress\nwhich took place December 27-30, 2013 at the Congress Center Hamburg\nin Germany.\n\nThe YouTube description reads:\n\nSatellites in Low Earth Orbit have tons of nifty signals, but they\nmove quickly though the sky and are difficult to track with fine\naccuracy. This lecture describes a remotely operable satellite\ntracking system that the author built from a Navy-surplus Inmarsat\ndish in Southern Appalachia.\n\nThe entire system is controlled through a Postgres database, fed by\nvarious daemons spread across multiple machines. So when I click on a\nsatellite on my laptop or cellphone, it runs “UPDATE target SET\nname=’Voyager 1?;” and the motor daemon then begins to track the new\ntarget while the prediction daemon maintains accurate estimates of\nits position in the sky.\n\nAdditional daemons take spectral prints or software-defined radio\nrecordings of the targeted object for later review.\n\nThere is a description of the system on Travis Goodspeed’s Blog at\nhttp://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.co.uk/\n\nOther 30c3 videos available at\nhttp://www.youtube.com/user/albertveli/videos\n\n30th Chaos Computer Congress\nhttps://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/wiki/Main_Page\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above announcement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nHigh Resolution Data available on FUNcube Data Warehouse\n\n\nAs promised, we are making the FUNcube-1 (AO-73) CubeSat High\nResolution Data available for download from the Data Warehouse.\n\nIt contains Hi-Res data generated every hour, on the hour for the 60\nminutes preceding the extract.\n\nPlease note that unlike the Whole Orbit Data, the Hi-Res data may be\nincomplete (have significant gaps) because of a lack of ground\nstations on the ground track.\n\nNow that we have the WOD and Hi-Res extracts working, we are going\nto move on to the RealTime extract.\n\nPlease provide any feedback on the FUNcube forum.\n\n73 and Happy New Year,\n\nDave, G4DPZ\n\nFUNcube-1 High Resolution Data\nhttps://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/highres.html?satelliteId=2\n\nData Warehouse – Telemetry Archive\nhttps://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/\n\nDashboard App – Telemetry Decoder\nhttp://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/funcube-telemetry-dashboard/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above announcement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCall for Papers for the AMSAT-SA Space Symposium\n\n\nSA AMSAT has announced that its annual Space Communication symposium\nwill be held on Saturday 24 May 2014 at the Innovation Hub in\nPretoria. Proposals for papers are now called for. Submit a brief\noverview of the planned paper by 15 March 2014 to\[email protected]. Authors will be advised of the acceptance of\ntheir paper by 31 March. The final written paper will be requited by\n30 April and PowerPoint presentation by 15 May. Please also include a\nshort CV and a photograph of your self.\n\nRegistration for the symposium will open on 1 February. Follow details\nof www.amsatsa.org.za.\n\n[ANS thanks SARL News for Sunday, December 29, 2013 for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nOPDX Interview With ND9M.VQ9JC Diego Garcia\n\n\n(Here is an interview from the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin with Jim Clary,\nND9M, known for his amateur radio and amateur satellite operation\nfrom Diego Garcia, and maritime mobile operation. - ANS Ed.)\n\nVQ9, CHAGOS (Update). Last week we reported that Jim, ND9M, is\nonce again active as VQ9JC from Diego Garcia. Jim informed OPDX\nthat he arrived on the island a month ago, but he had to get his\nlicense renewed; it expired a couple days before he landed.\n\nJim states, \"Normally, I get it renewed within one business day, but\nthis time there was an administrative hiccup that led to a month-\nlong delay. The British military officer in charge of the island -\ncalled the 'Brit Rep' - was new to his post here. He read all the\ncan's and cannot's of the job, and the legal info about issuing ham\nlicenses says that tickets are signed by the Territorial Commissioner\nwho's back in the U.K.\n\nThe Brit Rep finally got the official word last week that issuing\nauthority was delegated to the local office, and my license was\nsigned the next day. This was the first time in the 15 years I've\nbeen coming here that anything like that had happened. In fact,\nlicensing had been so smooth here that in 2008, I walked in to the\nBrit Rep's office without an appointment and left 45 minutes later\nwith not only a signed renewal for my regular VQ9JC license but also\na special temporary license for my VQ98JC operation. I wonder if\nanyone else can claim receiving two licenses fully authorized with-\nout previous notice that fast!\n\nAnyway, I'm still operating Field Day style from the covered picnic\ntable at the park which has AC power and dozens of gecko lizards\nchasing the bugs. The table is about 30 feet from the wall of the\njungle, and this weekend I'll try to thread a 135-foot OCF dipole\nthrough all the trees in the jungle so that I can not only leave\nthe antenna up but also have multi-band capability. If I hoist the\nantenna where it can be seen, I would stand a very good chance of\nit being quickly removed as the 150 pound fishing line that I use\nto secure the antenna and the copper wire are both precious commo-\ndities here.\n\nThe OCF dipole doesn't work on 15m, 30m, or 60m, even with a match-\nbox, so I'll put up separate dipoles for 15 and 30 and feed those\ntwo and the OCF to a switch. I don't know yet if I'll put up a 60m\ndipole. The 80m OCF is going to be a big enough project just to get\nit hoisted to only 25 feet; the jungle's pretty thick! I'll also be\nputting up a 20m dipole and maybe a 30m dipole as well on the ship.\nObviously, I sign /MM during any contacts made from the ship as I\ndid earlier this year. Contacts with me as /MM aren't valid for\nDXCC of course, but SKCC ops can count them if my ship's QTH is near\nthe island.\n\nThe rig is an FT-857D. I'll be running 100 watts most of the time,\nbut I'm expecting to do some QRP work from here too. Most of my oper-\nating will be CW as usual (with a cootie most times), but I'll be on\nSSB occasionally. Also, I'm a rookie when it comes to digital comms,\nbut I'm hoping to get my Rigblaster and FLDigi software configured\nto do some PSK and RTTY work.\n\nWhile on board the ship, I use an Icom IC-760 that I have set up in\nmy service shop. I feed the coax through a helicopter control center\nthat's directly above my shop. My shipboard antennas are about 115\nfeet above the water line. I don't have internet connectivity when\nI'm at my operating QTH on the island, so I obviously can't help\nwith real-time QSY requests or the ever present 'EU PSE' when I'm\ncalling for NA & SA stations.\"\n\nOPDX asked Jim about the status of the club station, possibly using\na special VQ prefix for 2014, activity on the satellites and if he\nwould attend the 2014 Dayton HamVention, and he replied, \"Yeah, the\nham club station is gone forever unfortunately. The log periodic has\nbeen grounded and dismantled, and everything in the shack has been\nturned back over to the Navy. I'm here six months out of the year of\ncourse, but once Larry, VQ9LA left three years ago, there was no one\nreliably present during my off times. When the Navy's MWR office\npersonnel made a routine visit, they found nobody there since I was\nStateside, so they decided that the club was no longer in use and\ntook what they thought were appropriate steps. By the time I got\nback to the island and worked my way up the chain of command, the\ndeal had been sealed.\n\nAnd yes, I'm working the satellites out here although there aren't\nmany ops to work. I'll be on the birds when I get home again next\nyear.\n\nI don't know yet if my XYL Cori (KK4CGA) and I will be at Dayton\nthis coming May or not. We're hoping to go to New England for the\nARRL Centennial in July, and we'll likely do only one trip. My\nassignment schedule has me returning to the ship a few days\nbefore the national convention, and I'm trying to work things out\nwith the guy that's here when I'm off ship for him to stay a little\nlonger so that I can attend. He hasn't given me a firm answer yet\nthough.\n\nMy plan for 2014 is to get VQ94JC issued for sometime during the\nsecond half of the year. The local licensing office has no require-\nments toward my getting a ticket other than having one already\nissued by the FCC. My US license expires in April, and the FCC\nwon't enable the renewing process until 90 days before the expir-\nation date, so I have to wait until early January to do that. If\nI can get the renewed license here - actually just a scanned copy\nwill do and my XYL will send that - I can turn that over to the\nlocal office, and they should issue me the short-term ticket.\nEmphasis on special. It's all legal of course, but the folks in\nthat office are all British military who typically do one-year tours\nhere before being re-assigned, so I can never assume that the next\nperson will cooperate. I'm optimistic though as I've already had 7\nVQ9xJC licenses plus the VQ975FOC ticket earlier this year, so the\nprecedent's pretty well established. When I started doing the VQ9xJC\nbit in 2007, I did it just for fun and I thought the WPX chasers\nwould like it. I really didn't expect to still be doing it after so\nmany years. Now I'm looking ahead at rounding out the decade of\nannual special callsigns and thinking about what special prefix\nvariation to initiate after the 10th one!\" QSL via ND9M.\n\n[ANS thanks Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1143 for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Representatives Requested for Vienna Wireless Society Hamfest\n\nJack Welch, coordinator for the Vienna Wireless Society Hamfest, in\nNorthern Virginia is seeking AMSAT-related representatives, who would\nlike to either do a classroom presentation or a parking lot demo\nduring their winterfest this February. The event is on Feb 23rd in\nAnnadale, VA. It will be held at the Northern Virginia Community\nCollege. They have a classroom and seminar room available for 30-60\nminute presentations. Also available are parking lots, some for\nparking, some for tailgating, that have a pretty good view of the\nhorizon for demos.\n\nIf you are available to help pleae contact AMSAT Director-Field\nOperations, Patrick Stoddard, WE9EWK, at [email protected] or Jack\nWelch, AI4SV, dhakajack at gmail dot com\n\nOur hamfest info is at: http://www.viennawireless.org/winterfest.php\n\n[ANS thanks Jack Welch AI4SV for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\nUncoming ARISS contact with Zespel Szkel Technicznych, Ostriw\nWielkopolski, Poland\n\nAn International Space Station school contact has been planned with\nparticipants at Zesp?l Szk?l Technicznych, Ostr?w Wielkopolski,\nPoland on 08 Jan. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately\n10:43 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and\n30 seconds. The contact will be direct between OR4ISS and SP3POW. The\ncontact should be audible over Poland and adjacent areas. Interested\nparties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The\ncontact is expected to be conducted in English.\n\nThe Centre of Technical Schools in Ostrew Wielkopolski is a school\nwhich educates future electronics and mechatronics engineers,\ncomputer scientists and renewable energy specialists. Our school has\nbeen cooperating with Polish universities, electronic and mechatronic\nindustrial plants and schools in Germany and the UK, what brings very\ngood results. Thanks to the participation in the ARISS program our\nschool has partnered with the Space Research Centre of the Polish\nAcademy of Sciences in Warsaw. Our students participate in various\nforms of extra-curricular activities which develop their passions and\ninterests. As a result, they have created many interesting electronic\nand mechatronic devices. For example, some of the recent\nconstructions include fpv plane, a qudrocopter, a stratospheric\nballoon capsule, some amateur radio equipment and many more.\n\nCurrently, the school has 800 students aged 16 - 19 years. The\nCenter of Technical Schools has invited its younger mates (students\n13 - 15 years old) from Junior High School No. 1 named of Polish\nNobel laureates in Ostr?w Wielkopolski and 10 - 12 year-old students\nfrom Pope John Paul II Primary School in Lamki so that they all can\nparticipate in the ARISS program. Preparations for the ARISS contact\nbegan in late 2011. A series of amateur radio classes were carried\nout so that students could learn the rules of work on the radio. It\nwas a very interesting experience to carry out radio communications\nthrough amateur radio satellites and to take photos from NOAA\nsatellites. In addition, we monitored other radio signals from the\nspace. Most emotions were from the radio contact with the ISS in the\nAPRS system and from listening to ARISS contacts of other schools in\nPoland and Europe.\n\nThe schools participating in the ARISS program organized a series of\nevents to promote various fields of science, particularly those that\nare the most relevant for the development of astronautics.\n\nParticipants will ask as many of the following questions as time\nallows:\n1. What scientific experiments are carried out on the space station\nat present?\n2. How does the magnetic needle work in space?\n3. How do you handle different illnesses?\n4. How would a pendulum clock work on board of the ISS?\n5. Was there anything that surprised or impressed you during your\nstay in space?\n6. What was the largest mammal (except for humans) which was on the\nISS?\n7. How do flying insects behave in zero gravity?\n8. Do you know how many centimeters your body lengthened in\nweightlessness?\n9. Is it easy to use a pen or a fountain pen on the space station?\n10. Do you think that time in space passes faster?\n11. How do you observe and explore the Moon?\n12. What or how did you feel when you saw the Earth from space for\nthe first time?\n13. Does Kirobo work well and fulfill its mission on the ISS?\n14. Is it hard to get used to weightlessness?\n15. Is it possible to be able to breed crystals in weightlessness?\n\nPLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES:\n\nSign up for the SAREX maillist at\nhttp://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex\n\nVisit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on\nthe International Space Station (ARISS).\n\nTo receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status\n\nNext planned event(s):\n\n1. Berkeley Middle School, Williamsburg, VA, direct via K4RC\n\nWed, 08Jan2014, 18:33 UTC\n\nARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering\nthe participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA,\nCNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from\nparticipating countries.\n\nARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the\nexcitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-\nboard the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and\ncommunities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS\ncan energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and\nlearning. Further information on the ARISS program is available on\nthe website http://www.ariss.org/ (graciously hosted by the Radio\nAmateurs of Canada).\n\n[ ANS thanks David, AA4KN for the above update]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts from all over\n\nSkyCube 2meter highly reflective balloon\n\nThe empty gray box shown at the top of the satellite model is\nthe container that holds SkyCube's balloon. We will command the\nballon to inflate 90 days into the mission.\nMost CubeSats are far too small to see from the ground, but SkyCube\nwill be an exception. The satellite will carry a tightly-packed\nballoon, made of 0.35-mil (9 µm) low-density polyethylene, coated\nwith highly reflective titanium dioxide (TiO2) powder. During the\nfinal phase of the mission, the balloon will be inflated with a 4-\ngram CO2 cartridge, and expand to a diameter of nearly 7 feet (2 m).\nThis will make SkyCube brightly visible to millions of people on the\nground as it passes over the Earth's twilight regions.\nSkyCube's balloon serves another purpose. Once it inflates,\nSkyCube's orbit will decay rapidly due to atmospheric drag. Less\nthan two weeks after balloon inflation, SkyCube will re-enter the\nEarth's atmosphere and burn up harmlessly. The balloon lets SkyCube\nend its mission cleanly, and avoid becoming space debris that could\nharmfully impact future missions. SkyCube's balloon was developed by\nGlobal Western, an experienced supplier of aerostats for NASA, JPL,\nand others with unique high-altitude ballooning needs.\nFurther details are available in SkyCube's Orbital Debris Assesment\nReport (ODAR), required by NASA and approved with our FCC license,\nabove.\n\n[ANS thanks Kevin Fetter and the Seesat-l mailing list for the\nabove short]\n\n\n2M Scotland\n\nListen for Paul Robinson, 2E1EUB/2M1EUB/P operating\nportable from Scotland beginning on 4 January for 7 days. Paul\nplans to be active on the satellites via AO7, AO73, VO52, FO29 and\nSO50. His operations will be from his van, holiday style. Paul says\nthat on this trip he will only be in NE Scotland this time.\n\n[ANS thanks Paul, 2E1EUB/2M1EUB/Pfor the above short]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n\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,\nJoe Spier, K6WAO\nk6wao at amsat dot org\n",
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