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    "subject": "[ans] ANS-074 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-074\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* AMSAT 2015 Hamfest Recruiting Brochure Available\n* AMSAT Presence at 2015 Science City/Tucson Festival of Books\n* New SpaceMath@NASA Resources Available\n* 2015 NASA Office of Education -- Aeronautics Undergraduate\n  Scholarship\n* ARISS School Proposal Window, for US, Remains Open Through April 15\n* More satellite DX News\n* $50SAT/MO-76: 15 months, 15 orbits per day, and some unexpected\n  behavior\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-074.01\nANS-074 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 074.01\n>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE March 15, 2015\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-074.01\n\n\nAMSAT 2015 Hamfest Recruiting Brochure Available\n\nAs hamfest season nears we've added a link to AMSAT's 2015\nRecruiting Brochure to the page listing the hamfests our AMSAT Field\nOps guys and helpers plan to attend:\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?page_id=218\n\nThis color PDF file is a recruiting tool to help share the\nexcitement of AMSAT and amateur radio in space. The brochure\ndesigned to print double-sided and be folded tri-fold. The AMSAT\noffice maintains a small stock of these printed brochures. They have\nbeen included in the hamfest support boxes available to support your\nevent. For more information about these kits, contact:\nmartha at amsat dot org\n\nIf you are setting up a hamfest or club support activity let our\nDirector of Field Operations, Patrick WD9EWK know via\nwd9ewk at amsat dot org and you will be listed on the events page.\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Field Ops team for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Presence at 2015 Science City/Tucson Festival of Books\n\nAMSAT took part in the University of Arizona's K7UAZ Amateur Radio\nClub booth at the 2015 Science City/Tucson Festival of Books, on the\nmain mall of the University of Arizona in Tucson on Saturday, 14\nMarch 2015. Science City/Tucson Festival of Books is a large science\nfair held yearly in Tucson, and AMSAT is happy to support the K7UAZ\nclub.\n\nMore information about this event is available at:\nhttp://www.sciencecity.arizona.edu/\n\nDuring the day (0930-1730 local, 1630-0030 UTC), Patrick Stoddard\nWD9EWK took advantage of opportunities for on-air demonstrations of\namateur satellite activity. Satellite demonstrations were conducted\nusing Patrick's WD9EWK call sign. The radio club's K7UAZ call sign\nwas used for making HF contacts. The University of Arizona campus is\nin grid DM42.\n\nPatrick posted updates during the day from Science City on his\n@WD9EWK Twitter feed. If you aren't on Twitter, you can view these\nin a web browser at:\n\nhttp://twitter.com/WD9EWK\n\nSatellite QSOs made during the demonstration using Patrick's WD9EWK\ncallsign will be uploaded to the Logbook of the World, and Patrick\nhave QSL cards available on request for those wanting to receive a\nwritten confirmation. Please e-mail him with the\nQSO details:\nWDEWK at amsat dot org\n\nThe K7UAZ club callsign was used for using HF contacts, please\ndirect those QSL requests to the K7UAZ club, email to\nk7uazarc at gmail dot com, or at the club's postal address:\n\nK7UAZ Amateur Radio Club\nSystems & Industrial Engineering Department\nThe University of Arizona\n1127 E. James E. Rogers Way\nP.O. Box 210020\nTucson, AZ 85721-0020\n\nPAtrick reports that QSOs were made using his WD9EWK callsign via AO-\n7, AO-73, FO-29, SO-50 and a QSO using APRS messages via the ISS\npacket digipeater. Patrick would like to thank Kirk Krenzel N7VGJ and\nthe K7UAZ Amateur Radio Club as well as the Ohio Valley Amateur Radio\nClub W0HF, for their hospitality in Tucson.\n\n[ANS thanks Patrick WD9EWK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNew SpaceMath@NASA Resources Available\n\nExplore behind-the-scenes mathematics that occur when scientists\nmake discoveries and engineers solve technical problems in spacecraft\ndesign and spaceflight. Each module uses press releases to spark\nstudent interest, then standards-based mathematics and science skills\nare explored that relate to the missions discussed. New modules are\nnow available that focus on the SAGE III stratospheric aerosol\nmission and the JPL InSight Mars Lander mission to be launched in\n2016. The multimedia modules follow the 5E education\napproach.\n\nThe SAGE III stratospheric aerosol mission modules are available at\nhttp://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/SAGEIII/SAGEIII.html.\n\nThe JPL InSight Mars Lander mission modules are available at\nhttp://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/Mars.html.\n\nQuestions about these resources should be directed to Dr. Sten\nOdenwald at\nsten.f.odenwald at nasa dot gov.\n\n[ANS thanks NASA Education Express Message -- March 5, 2015 for the\nabove information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2015 NASA Office of Education -- Aeronautics Undergraduate Scholarship\n\nNASA's Office of Education is accepting applications for the for the\nAeronautics Undergraduate Scholarship, or AUS, program. The\nAeronautics Undergraduate Scholarship is for individuals pursuing or\nplanning to pursue undergraduate studies leading to an Associate's or\na Bachelor's degree in areas related to aeronautics. These\nscholarships are directed toward enhancing the state of aeronautics\nfor the nation, transforming the nation's air transportation system,\nand developing the knowledge, tools, and technologies to support\nfuture air and space vehicles.\n\nEligible students include freshmen, sophomores and juniors at the\nundergraduate level. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or nationals.\nThe scholarship includes 75% of tuition up to $9,000 academic\nscholarship, based on tuition amount, and $6,000 for a summer\ninternship.\n\nApplications are due March 31, 2015.\n\nApplications should be submitted through the NASA One Stop Shopping\nInitiative at http://intern.nasa.gov. Applicants should be sure to\nselect \"scholarship\" for the type of application.\n\nQuestions about the 2015 Aeronautics Undergraduate Scholarship\nopportunity should be emailed to:\nNASA.ASP2015 at nasaprs dot com.\n\n[ANS thanks NASA Education Express Message -- March 5, 2015 for the\nabove information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS School Proposal Window, for US, Remains Open Through April 15\n\nFebruary 17, 2015 - ARISS is now accepting proposals for U.S. schools\nwishing to schedule contacts between their students and the\nInternational Space Station for the next cycle. Details on\nsubmitting proposals can be found below in the attached ARRL News\nRelease.\n\nMessage to US Educators\n\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station\n\nContact Opportunity\n\nCall for Proposals\nProposal Window February 15 - April 15, 2015\n\nThe Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program\nis seeking formal and informal education institutions and\norganizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur\nRadio contact with a crew member on board the ISS.  ARISS anticipates\nthat the contact would be held between *January 1, 2016 and June 30,\n2016*. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact\ncontact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS\nis looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of\nparticipants and integrate the contact into a well-developed\neducation plan.\n\nThe deadline to submit a proposal is April 15, 2015.\nProposal information and documents can be found at\nwww.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact.\n\nThe Opportunity\n\nCrew members aboard the International Space Station will participate\nin scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are\napproximately 10 minutes in length and allow students and educators\nto interact with the astronauts through a question-and-answer session.\n\nAn ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via\nAmateur Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space\nstation and classrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford\neducation audiences the opportunity to learn firsthand from\nastronauts what it is like to live and work in space and to learn\nabout space research conducted on the ISS. Students also will have an\nopportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless\ntechnology, and radio science. Because of the nature of human\nspaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the\nISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate\nchanges in contact dates and times.\n\nAmateur Radio organizations around the world, NASA, and space\nagencies in Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe sponsor this educational\nopportunity by providing the equipment and operational support to\nenable direct communication between crew on the ISS and students\naround the world via Amateur Radio. In the US, the program is managed\nby AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation) and ARRL (American\nRadio Relay League) in partnership with NASA.\n\nMore Information\n\nInterested parties can find more information about the program at\nwww.ariss.org and www.arrl.org/ARISS.\n\nFor proposal information and more details such as expectations,\nproposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of\nInformation Sessions go to www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact.\n\nInformation Sessions are available for those wishing to obtain\nmore information or to ask questions about the ARISS Proposal\nprocess. Upcoming sessions will be held Monday March 16 at 7pm EDT\nand Thursday March 26 at 4pm EDT. Those interested in attending one\nof these sessions should send email to ariss at arrl dot org to\nrequest login information.\n\nPlease direct any questions to ariss at arrl dot org.\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nMore satellite DX News:\n\nMike, WA0SPG, who will be on his first DXpedition, will be active as\nWA0SPG/4 from the Dry Tortugas between May 4-6th. Activity will be on\nthe HF bands using CW and SSB. Equipment will be a KX3 and a FT-817\ninto a buddipole vertical dipole near saltwater, Alpha vertical and\nLoop antenna.\n\nMike will also be on the satellite using 2x FT-817's for SO-50 and\nFO-29 (CW/SSB) with both arrow and elk antennas. All power will be by\nGoal Zero batteries being charged by Solar PV panels. QSL via his\nhome callsign. Clayton, W5PFG says several AMSAT satellite operators\nare working with Mike to prepare for this trip.\n\n[ANS thanks the OPDX Bulletin, John Papay, K8YSE, and Clayton, W5PFG\n for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n$50SAT/MO-76: 15 months, 15 orbits per day, and some unexpected\nbehavior\n\nSaturday, February 21, 2015 marked the 15 month anniversary of the\nlaunch of $50SAT/MO-76, and you guessed it - it is still operating.\n\nThursday, February 12, 2015 marked a different milestone - its orbit\nhas decayed to the point where its mean motion crossed the 15 orbits\nper day threshold.  The TLEs from Saturday, February 21, 2015\nindicate it is now at 15.00521293 orbits per day.\n\nSome people noticed that something odd started happening on Monday,\nFebruary 23, and Tuesday, February 24. The $50SAT/MO-76 team noticed\nthe same thing - during daytime passes in the northern hemisphere,\n$50SAT was transmitting once per minute, always sending telemetry in\nRTTY format, but never sending GFSK telemetry packets.  Moreover, the\ntotal reset count kept going up by one each time.\n\nThe link below will list all the RTTY telemetry messages (of which\nthe $50SAT/MO-76 team are aware) gathered on February 23 and 24:\n\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2015/03/05/mo-76-15-months/\n\nWhat seems to be happening on the decending (daytime) passes is the\nCPU is reset just after sending a full RTTY telemetry message, as\nhere are no GFSK packets sent, but within a half minute the FM Morse\nbeacon is heard with Stuart's callsign (GW7HPW, the first one in the\nrotation).  The teams guess is that the battery voltage is decaying\nduring the operational cycle, and goes below the 2.9V reset threshold\njust after sending the RTTY or just as it is about to send the GFSK\npackets.  nce the satellite is able to enable solar power (PCB\ntemperature >= 0 degrees C), it starts behaving normally; it is now\nable to send GFSK packets.  During ascending (nighttime) passes, it\nbehaves normally, at least here in EN82 land.\n\nThere was a brief time where this behavior stopped (2015-02-25,\n17:05 UTC through 2015-02-26, 3:47 UTC).  It did, however, start back\nup sometime before 2015-02-26, 05:21 UTC, and has continued since.\n\nWhy is this happening now?  The team is still investigating, but it is\napparent when looking at the chart of battery voltage over the\nlifetime of $50SAT/MO-76 that the battery has suffered a sizeable\ndrop in capacity.  If the battery voltage under load is dropping\nbelow 2.9V, how is it able to recover back above 3.3 V (the minimum\nrequired to enable transmission) and nearly complete another\noperational cycle?  Moreover, why does it always seem to be able to\nfinish sending an entire RTTY packet before resetting?  In the hopes\nof better understanding what is happening, I am in the process of re-\nassembling my \"BoxSat\" test setup in an effort to reproduce on the\nground what is happening in space.  In the meantime, the once-per-\nminute transmission is actually convenient from telemetry monitoring\nstandpoint, as one no longer has to wait 3 minutes for $50SAT/MO-76\nto start transmitting.  So, for any of you who have not heard\n$50SAT/MO-76, now is the time.  Who knows how long it will continue\nto operate in this manner?  Who knows how long it will continue to\noperated at all?  Every time an anomaly has occurred and thought,\n\"this is it - well, it was great while it lasted\", $50SAT/MO-76 has\nproven to survive. The team hopes that is the case here as well.\n\nThe Dropbox has been updated with all the telemetry observations\nthrough (Wednesday, March 4 2015, and can be accessed via the\nfollowing URL:\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS-074-50Dollar-Telemetry\n\nI have also uploaded an MP3 file from the daytime pass over EN82\nland on Friday, February 27, 2015 starting at 16:59 UTC (11:59 AM\nlocal time); it can be accessed via the following URL:\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS-074-50Dollar-MP3\n\nDuring the recording, I switch back and forth between FM and LSB\nmodes so I can hear the FM Morse beacon as well as the RTTY telemetry.\n\nPlease keep the telemetry observations coming, especially now!\n\n$50SAT was a collaborative education project between Professor Bob\nTwiggs, KE6QMD, Morehead State University and three other radio\namateurs, Howie DeFelice, AB2S, Michael Kirkhart, KD8QBA, and Stuart\nRobinson, GW7HPW. The transmitter power is just 100 mW on 437.505 MHz\n(+/-9 kHz Doppler shift) FM CW/RTTY. $50SAT uses the low cost Hope\nRFM22B single chip radio and PICAXE 40X2 processor.\n\nThere is a discussion group for $50SAT\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/groups/50dollarsat/\n\n50DollarSat http://www.50dollarsat.info/\n\n[ANS Thanks Michael Kirkhart KD8QBA, the $50SAT/MO-76 team and AMSAT-\nUK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\nDouble School Contact for Samantha Cristoforetti, IZØUDF\n\nSaturday, March 7, 2015 at 10:51 UTC, 11:51 local time and at 12:29\nUTC, 13:29 local time, students at \"G. Salvemini - G. La Pira\",\nMontemurlo, Italy, and \"Dante Alighieri\" 1st Grade Secondary (Middle)\nSchool, Casale Monferrato, Italy established two ARISS contacts with\nESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, IZØUDF onboard the\nInternational Space Station. These were direct contacts performed by\nAmateur radio ground stations IQ5VR, located at \"G. Salvemini - G. La\nPira\" in Montemurlo and IK1SLD located at \"Dante Alighieri\" School in\nCasale Monferrato.\n\nPresentation G. Salvemini - G. La Pira\nThe school \"Salvemini - La Pira\" is in Montemurlo, province of\nPrato, Tuscany region and it is a Secondary Middle School; it has 21\nclasses with pupils aged between 11 and 14. The name of the school\nderives from the fusion of the two schools of the commune. This is\nthe only secondary middle school of the area. The schoolhouse hosts\naround 520 pupils.\n\nPresentation \"Dante Alighieri\"\nThe \"Dante Alighieri\" School is situated a bit off the town centre\nof Casale Monferrato, near the ancient Cittadella, province of\nAlessandria, Piedmont region. It's a modern construction, developed\non two main buildings: one for the school's didactical and\nadministrative activities, one for the sport activities (gym and\npool). It's surrounded by a wide playground, with a little plantation\nof poplars, planted by the pupils of the school. There are 12\nclassrooms (4 at the main floor and 8 at the first floor) and\ndifferent labs: Science lab, Informatics lab, Techno lab, Art lab,\nMaths lab, Languages lab and a coloured and wide library. There is\nalso a lot of afternoon activities, such as Latin courses, Languages\ncourses and sport tournaments (soccer, basket, volley). The Dante\nSecondary I grade School has a current roll of 230 and a teaching\nstaff of 29. In the last few years the school has been enhanced by\nthe richness of its diverse student population.\n\nMentor Francesco De Paolis IK0WGF proposed to the radio coordinators\nMr. Alessandro Tesconi IK5EHI and Mr. Claudio Ariotti IK1SLD to set\nup a combined direct  contact, with the support by IK1SLD back-up\nground station and this was accepted. A phone conference call allowed\nthe full sharing of the events between all the contact sites\ninvolved. The sequence of questions was made alternately by the\nstudents at two schools. ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli IZ0JPA\nparticipating to the event in the Montemurlo school, presented the\nInternational Space Station, talked about his experience aboard and\nbefore the AOS trained the students for thecontact. Great Paolo!\n\nContact was established at 10:51 UTC, 11:51 local time with IR0ISS\nvia IK1SLD and then via IQ5VR, alternately. Mr. Claudio Ariotti\nIK1SLD proposed to astronaut continue the contact during the\nfollowing orbit. ESA Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti IZ0UDF agreed.\nDuring the first scheduled contact Cristoforetti answered 10\nquestions from students. Samantha Cristoforetti was really very\naccurate in giving the answers with many details.\n\nAt 12:29 UTC, 13:29 local time, contact was established again with\nIR0ISS, not on the primary channel, which was interfered, but on a\nback-up channel where the event continued normally without problem.\nDuring the second random contact Cristoforetti answered 11 questions\nfrom students and exchanged greetings with the schools. Signals from\nthe ISS were good during both passes.\n\nBoth contacts established with IR0ISS were webcast live on:\nhttp://www.livestream.com/amsat_italia (from Montemurlo)\nhttp://www.livestream.com/ariss (from Casale Monferrato)\n\nThe Montemurlo event is available at:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egJ72f_I6To\n\nThe Casale Monferrato event is available at:\nhttp://livestre.am/545U4\n\nRegional and Local Televisions and newspapers covered the event\nalso. About 700 students, parents, visitors and media attended the\nevents at contact sites.\n\nThe event was announced on ESA Portal - National News:\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS074-ESAPortalNews\n(Information is in Italian)\n\n[ANS thanks Francesco IK0WGF for the above information]\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between SCHOOL CITY DIVISION\nCOUNTRY and Astronaut FNAME LNAME CALLSIGN using CALLSIGN\nNA1SS/IRØISS. The contact began YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC and lasted about\nnine and a half minutes. Contact was direct/telebridged via CALLSIGN.\nARISS Mentor was CALLSIGN.\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule\n\nCollège Paul Langevin, Saint Junien, France, direct via  F8KFZ/P and\nEcole \"La Malmaison\", Rueil-Malmaison, France, direct via  F6KFA/p\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be IRØISS\nThe scheduled  astronaut is Samantha Cristoforetti IZØUDF\nContact is a go for: Thu  2015-03-19 08:17:56 UTC\n\nARISS  is always glad to receive listener reports for any of the\ncontacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance.\nFeel free to send your reports to\naj9n at amsat dot org or aj9n at aol dot com.\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\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,\nEMike McCardel, KC8YLD\nkc8yld at amsat dot org\n",
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