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    "sender_name": "Lee McLamb",
    "subject": "[ans] ANS-232 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2017-08-20T14:18:55Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-232\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* Cubesats Deployed During Russian EVA - TOMSK TPU-120 Reported Active\n* Pat Gowen, G3IOR, Silent Key August 17\n* AMSAT Fox-1B Completes P-POD Integration\n* AMSAT Phase 4 Groundstation Update Report\n* AMSAT 2017 Symposium Call for Papers\n* AMSAT Journal Packet Articles Added to Station and Operating Hints Page\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-232.01\nANS-232 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 232.01\n  From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE August 20, 2017\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-232.01\n\nCubesats Deployed During Russian EVA - TOMSK TPU-120 Reported Active\n\nNews on the AMSAT-UK webf described the hand-deployment plans\nof three Russian Cubesats during a spacewalk this week:\n\nExpedition 52 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, RN3FI and Flight\nEngineer Sergey Ryazanskiy, of the Russian space agency\nRoscosmos, conducted a planned extravehicular activity from\nthe ISS on Thursday, August 17.\n\nRyazanskiy began the schedule of extravehicular activities\nwith the manual deployment of five nanosatellites from a\nladder outside the airlock.\n\nThe satellites, each of which has a mass of about 11 pounds,\nhave a variety of purposes. [the satellites are thought to\ninclude Tanyusha-SWSU 1 & 2 and Tomsk-TPU-120]\n\nOne of the satellites, with casings made using 3-D printing\ntechnology, will test the effect of the low-Earth-orbit\nenvironment on the composition of 3-D printed materials.\nAnother satellite contains recorded greetings to the people\nof Earth in 11 languages. A third satellite commemorates\nthe 60th anniversary of the Sputnik 1 launch and the 160th\nanniversary of the birth of Russian scientist Konstantin\nTsiolkovsky.\n\nThanks to Mike, DK3WN for this post-deployment information:\nhttp://www.dk3wn.info/p/?cat=325\nTOMSK TPU-120 (RS04S)   437.025 MHz    digital voice\nTanusha-SWSU-1 (RS-6S)  437.050 MHz    9k6 FSK, digital voice\nTanusha-SWSU-2 (RS-7S)  437.050 MHz    9k6 FSK, digital voice\n\n[ANS thanks Mike, DK3WN, and AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nPat Gowen, G3IOR, Silent Key August 17\n\nAMSAT-UK reported that Pat Gowen, G3IOR became a silent key\non August 17. Pat was the amateur radio operator who made the\ndiscovery on June 21, 2002 that AO-7 was transmitting again.\n\nPat posted a message on the amsat-bb, \"I have just come across\nsomething most remarkable this Friday 21st June evening. Checking\nout interlopers in our 145.800 - 146.000 MHz space band with a\nnew vertical now atop my 60' tower and working like magic, at\n1728UTC I came across a beacon at  S.7 sending slow 8 -10 wpm\nCW on 145.973.8 MHz. It slowly Dopplered down to 145.970 MHz\nbefore going out at 1739 UTC.\"\n\nPat's original message and follow-up replies can be accessed in the\namsat-bb archives:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/amsat-bb/200206/msg00525.html\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Fox-1B Completes P-POD Integration\n\nTuesday, August 15 Jerry Buxton, NØJY, Vice President Engineering,\ndelivered RadFxSat, our AMSAT Fox-1B CubeSat, built in partnership\nwith Vanderbilt University to Cal Poly University.\n\nRadFsSat/Fox-1B was successfully integrated into the P-POD cubesat\ndeployment container on August 16 along with her pod-mates\nMakersat-0 and EagleSat. Launch qualification vibration testing\nof the integrated P-POD was completed on August 17.\n\nThe P-POD will next be mounted on the ULA Delta II rocket for launch\nno earlier than October 12, 2017.\n\nAt the conclusion of integration and testing Jerry commented, \"Many\nthanks to the Cal Poly, Tyvak, and NASA personnel who we performed\nthe integration with, to the Makersat-0 and EagleSat team members,\nand to my west coast AMSAT CubeSat wing man Al Vasso for a successful\nand fun day!\"\n\nLook for photos and more news to be published in the AMSAT Journal.\n\nRadFxSat/Fox-1B\nUplink:    435.250 MHz FM (67.0 Hz CTCSS tone for access)\nDownlink:  145.960 MHz FM (with subaudible slow speed telemetry data)\n            145.960 MHz 9600 baud FSK data\n\n[ANS thanks Jerry Buxton, NØJY, AMSAT Vice President Engineering for the\nabove information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Phase 4 Groundstation Update Report\n\nMichelle Thompson, W5NYV has published this week's AMSAT Phase 4\nGround Weekly Report - video here:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZxGfh1Es_I&feature=youtu.be\n\nThe video provides photos and full discussion of the Team's report.\nBelow is a summary of the highlights, editted for the news format\nof the e-mailed ANS bulletins.\n\nSo there's quite the backlog. Let's get caught up. We have a True\nPosition GPS 10 MHz reference with Arduino and display. A very nice\nsystem for the money, and we have a session scheduled with the local\nmicrowave club to get them up and running for some Phase 4 Ground\nreceiver development.\n\nLDPC decode work took some strides forward primarily due to Charles\nBrain G4GUO and Jan Schiefer AC7TD. Check out the repository in the\nnotes. There will be some more updates there very soon on-line at:\nhttps://github.com/phase4ground/DVB-receiver\n\nTwo B200s compliments of Ettus Research have been delivered to\nPhase 4 Ground members for R&D. Wally Ritchie WU1Y and Mike Sprenger\nand Tony Stone W4UOO & W4TAS are the current responsible parties and\nare learning and doing. This very generous donation is greatly\nappreciated. If you are in the market for a lab-grade SDR, then go\nto Ettus and tell them Michelle W5NYV sent you.\n\nWe're making progress on receivers for DVB-S2 in GNU Radio. We\ndemonstrated the current smoking pile of various blocks at Hamvention,\nand then Maker Faire, and then DEFCON. We will next bring our work\nto GNU Radio Conference in September, hopefully that same weekend\nat TAPR DCC, and then we will bring what will by then be a complete\nand perfect flow graph to AMSAT Symposium in October. An added bonus?\nIf we can swing it, we'll bring all the wireless challenge exercises\nfrom GNU Radio Conference to AMSAT Symposium and be on hand to teach\nanyone that wants to learn how to use GNU Radio to solve them.\n\nOh, and there's another Maker Faire in there somewhere and I think\nwe should set up a booth. If you're in or around San Diego, Maker\nFaire will be at Balboa Park on October 7-8. I have a tower trailer\nfor traditional demonstrations but I'm looking to show off satellite,\nSDR, and digital microwave.\n\nWe will have Phase 4 Ground members at Microwave Update, IEEE conferences,\nGNU Radio Conference, TAPR DCC, and AMSAT Sympsosium. Most of these\nconferences will have papers and/or presentations. If you have never\nbeen to any of them, please check them out. These are some of the\npremier annual events for various overlapping technical communities.\nWe had a very successful Hamvention.\n\nVisit https://youtu.be/vHI96TRXchk for a great video of our Hamvention\nAMSAT engineering booth! Thank you to EC1AME for posting this.\n\nWe had an extremely successful DEFCON. Phase 4 Ground promoted AMSAT,\nSDRs, and GNU Radio to one of the largest and most enthusiastic crowds\nwe've ever seen. This was the 25th anniversary of DEFCON, in a new\nlocation, and we were invited to be a part of the Wireless Village\nfor all three days as an anchor exhibit and demonstration station.\nThis was a very successful outreach by any measure and we are already\nplanning for next year.\n\nIf you can help with the GNU Radio DVB-S2 receiver blocks, then do\nit now because we need more people working on it to make quick progress.\nOther areas of activity are Phase 4 Ground support of the wireless signal\nintelligence competition, or CTF, at GNU Radio Conference, and a hackable\namateur radio themed badge project. Steve Conklin is coordinating and his\nfirst deadline is a February hardware hackers cruise out of San Diego.\nNext stop after that, Hamvention 2018. If you are interested in badgelife,\nBluetooth, integrating VHF/UHF into a hackable wearable badge project,\nthen do we have a challenge for you.\n\nPhase 4 Ground will also be at Burning Man. An upcoming video will\nfocus on what we learn from our desert hackathon. The focus will be\non getting ahead on DVB-S2 receive and coming up with challenges for\nthe GNU Radio CTF.\n\nIf you have not got your ticket to GNU Radio Conference, then please do.\nLink in the notes. www.gnuradio.org\n\nBesides producing a radio for AMSAT five and dime, we all want to show\nhow truly fun SDR and GNU Radio and embedded devices and digital\ncommunications really are. If you have questions or don't know where\nto start, then please write me [email protected]\n\n[ANS thank Michelle Thompson, W5NYV for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT 2017 Symposium Call for Papers\n\nThis call for papers is for the 2017 AMSAT Annual Meeting and Space \nSymposium to\nbe held on the weekend of October 27, 28, 29, 2017 at the Silver Legacy \nResort,\nReno, Nevada. Proposals for papers, symposium presentations and poster\npresentations are invited on any topic of interest to the amateur satellite\ncommunity. We request a tentative title of your presentation as soon as\npossible, with final copy to be submitted by October 6 for inclusion in the\nprinted proceedings. Abstracts and papers should be sent to Dan Schultz \nN8FGV at\nn8fgv at amsat.org\n\n[ANS thanks Dan, N8FGV, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Journal Packet Articles Added to Station and Operating Hints Page\n\nThe AMSAT Station and Operating Hints page has been updated to include\nPDF copies of the packet operating articles recently published in the\nAMSAT Journal. See https://www.amsat.org/station-and-operating-hints/\n\n+ January/February 2017 AMSAT Journal article \"Get on the Air with ARISS\n   Packet\" (PDF ~500 KB) – How to set up and use computer & soundcard to\n   work the packet system aboard the ISS and other APRS-capable satellites.\n\n+ January/February 2017 AMSAT Journal article \"Working Digipeaters with\n   the Kenwood TH-D72A and TH-D74A\" (PDF ~300 KB) – How to use the\n   packet/APRS capability of these radios to work the packet system aboard\n   the ISS and other APRS-capable satellites.\n\nAMSAT members received this issue of the AMSAT Journal several months\nago. The AMSAT Journal is a premium membership benefit of AMSAT. Please\nconsider joining AMSAT if you are not already a member. Visit\nhttps://www.amsat.org/product-category/amsat-membership/ to sign up\ntoday!\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Web Page Guys for the above information]\n\n\n/EX\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, KT4TZ\nkt4tz at amsat dot org\n\n",
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