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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/QEPD4NPT2DK43PIYB4J354FLTPK75367/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "QEPD4NPT2DK43PIYB4J354FLTPK75367", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/ZOCGF6E4Q4MQJUMENVO7Q6RA6T6LUHRD/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "wao (a) vfr.net", "mailman_id": "9057def1436c407fa55c4988db05914a", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/9057def1436c407fa55c4988db05914a/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Joseph Spier", "subject": "[ans] ANS-320 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2014-11-16T13:12:07Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/YNTSNTGOBOGTUYVX4NF3I65SQZSSP7KG/?format=api", "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/CYTUP5J4UJQKW3RV3WG6OCOPNKLB3E26/?format=api" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-320\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* Special-Event Station for 40th Anniversary of OSCAR 7 Launch\n* 4M – End of Mission\n* Predictions App for Deep Space Ham Radio Satellite\n* Allocate Portion of Your eBay Sales as a Donation to AMSAT\n* FUNcube-1's Birthday\n* AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-320.01\nANS-320 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 320.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE November 16, 2014\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-320.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSpecial-Event Station for 40th Anniversary of OSCAR 7 Launch\n\n\nPatrick Stoddard WD9EWK/VA7EWK has secured the special call sign W7O\n(WHISKEY SEVEN OSCAR) for use in commemorating the 40th anniversary\nof the launch of OSCAR 7 on 15 November 1974. He plans on having\nthis call on the air between 15 and 24 November 2014, working\nsatellites and possibly other bands. He will work satellite passes\nfrom Arizona, including AO-7 passes, and hopes to recruit a small\ngroup of operators who can work other passes that cover eastern North\nAmerica along with other places that he can’t work from his home QTH\n(i.e. Europe, north Africa, South America). He may also recruit some\noperators to work HF with this call.\n\nPatrick will handle the QSL requests for W7O during this period.\n\n“I am thinking of incorporating the original QSL card design AMSAT\nused to confirm AO-7 reception reports from the 1970s in the W7O\ncard. (Does anyone have a good scan of both sides of that 1970s QSL\ncard? Not the 30th anniversary AO-7 card – I have those, and there\nis a copyright on that design I do not wish to violate.) The QSL\ncards will be printed after the W7O activity wraps up. I will also\nupload W7O QSOs to ARRL’s Logbook of the World system.”\n\nPlease contact Patrick directly (patrick at wd9ewk dot net) if you\nhave any questions related to this operation, or if you are willing\nto operate on satellites and/or HF as W7O during this 10-day period.\n\n*Late Breaking*\n\nPatrick followed up the original announcement with this\ncommunication of directives via the AMSAT-BB.\n\n“Thanks to all who have posted in public forums and sent me private\ne-mails about the upcoming W7O operation. I am now ready to take\nsign-ups for those who would like to operate as W7O during the 15-24\nNovember (UTC time) period.\n\n“An important point regarding who can operate as W7O… W7O can only\nbe operated from US territory, where amateur radio is regulated by\nthe FCC. It cannot be used from outside US territory, as these 1×1\nspecial calls – just like US club calls – are not covered by any of\nthe arrangements like CEPT, IARP, or other agreements between the USA\nand other countries. I have been asked by some non-USA hams who were\ninterested in operating as xxx/W7O or W7O/xxx in their countries.\nI’m sorry – this is not possible.\n\n“For the HF/6m operating, I will take signups for one-hour\nincrements on the HF bands (excluding 60m) plus 6m, for CW, phone,\nand digital modes. For the 30m band, only CW and digital modes. I\nam wanting to avoid two stations operating on the same band/mode\ncombination as W7O at the same time. If you are willing to operate\nfor 2, 4 or more hours at one time – please feel free to sign up for\nmore consecutive slots. Also, please let me know about your HF\nstation – rig(s), antenna(s), etc. If you do sign up, please follow\nthrough with being on the air at the specified times. Stations will\nbe looking for W7O on the different bands.\n\n“For the satellites, I am looking for operators in different parts\nof the USA. In particular, operators in the eastern USA capable of\nworking Europe, north Africa, and South America along with North\nAmerica will be welcomed. Other operators who are not able to work\nother continents are also welcome, but there has been interest from\nhams outside of North America to work W7O on the satellites –\nespecially AO-7. I plan on working W7O on the satellites during\nweeknights and as much as possible on the two weekends during this 10-\nday period, but would be happy to share the work with others who may\nwant to work as W7O during those times.\n\n“Operators would need to operate within the limits of their amateur\nlicenses. The W7O call does not grant additional privileges to the\noperator. Operators are required to give their personal call signs\nonce per hour when operating under a 1×1 special call. For example,\nsaying “W7O, operated by (operator’s call)” would satisfy this\nrequirement. On the satellites with passes that are typically 10 to\n20 minutes in length, giving the “W7O, operated by (operator’s call)”\nannouncement around the midpoint of each pass worked would be a good\nthing.\n\n“Once I get some operating commitments from operators, I will\npublish the schedule through a link on my WD9EWK QRZ.com entry and my\nweb page. This way, others will know where and when to look for W7O\nduring this 10-day period.\n\n“After the 24th, W7O operators would need to send me a log of\nstations worked, with the usual bits of data – date/UTC time, call,\nband (or bands, for satellite QSOs), mode, and (for satellites)\nsatellite name. I can handle ADIF log files, Excel spreadsheets,\ntext files, and logs pasted into the body of e-mails. If you are not\nable to send me a file in any of these formats, please let me know,\nso we can work out a way to get the logs. Logs will be uploaded to\nLogbook of the World, and I (WD9EWK) will handle the QSL cards for\nW7O.\n\n“Please e-mail me directly (patrick at wd9ewk dot net) if you’re\ninterested in operating as W7O, or if you have any other questions\nabout this operation.”\n\n\n[ANS thanks Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n4M – End of Mission\n\n\nThe JT65B amateur radio payload, which successfully completed a\nlunar flyby, has fallen silent after transmitting for 438 hours.\n\nDuring the afternoon of November 10 the battery voltage dropped from\n13.1V to 12.1V and continued falling. The last signal was received by\nRein W6SZ at 01:35 UT on November 11 when the battery voltage had\nfallen to 8.4 volts.\n\nGhislain LX2RG posted the following to the Moon Net list:\nHere at Luxspace, we have to thank you all for the reports, for the\ntracking, and we also hope that we provided you with the challenges\nyou expected.\n\n4M may possibly awaken from time to time if illumination becomes\nbetter.\n\nWe shall now endeavor to prepare the next one.\n\nManfred Memorial Moon Mission (4M) LX0OHB-4M\nhttp://moon.luxspace.lu/blog/\n\n4M Lunar Payload\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2014/10/15/4m-lunar-payload-integrated-keps-\nreleased/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nPredictions App for Deep Space Ham Radio Satellite\n\n\nTwo amateur radio satellites ARTSAT2: DESPATCH (437.325 MHz CW) and\nShin’en 2 (145/435 MHz linear transponder + 437 MHz WSJT) should be\nlaunched into deep space at the end of November.\n\nMasahiro JI1IZR has announced that prediction software is available\nfor ARTSAT2: DESPATCH:\nOne of the new deep space small satellites, “ARTSAT2: DESPATCH”,\nwill be launched on the end of this month.\nI developed a predict utilities that display the information got\nfrom the Web API data provided by the “ARTSAT” project team.\n\nYou can get the utilities and information from:\nhttp://ji1izr.air-nifty.com/ham_satellite/in_english/index.html\n\nYou will also have the information of the satellite “ARTSAT2:\nDESAPTCH” from:\nhttp://artsat.jp/en/project/despatch\nhttp://pre.artsat.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/\ndespatch_abstract_en_ver1.0.1.pdf\n\nI appreciate your notice for the project.\nThank you.\nMasahiro Sanada JI1IZR\n\nArt and Ham Radio in Deep Space\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2013/11/03/art-and-ham-radio-in-deep-space/\n\nShin’en 2 has a linear transponder\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2014/09/01/japanese-asteroid-mission-to-carry-\namateur-radio/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAllocate Portion of Your eBay Sales as a Donation to AMSAT\n\n\nIf you are selling items via eBay consider making a donation to AMSAT\nby allocating a portion of your sale.\n\neBay describes their program as, \"Integrated into eBay's regular\nbuying and selling platform, eBay Giving Works makes it easy for\npeople to support important causes, both in the U.S. and abroad. It\nenables sellers to donate a portion of their sales and buyers to shop\nwhile supporting their favorite charities - all the while giving\nnonprofits an opportunity to engage new supporters.\"\n\nHere is a link to AMSAT on the eBay Giving Works program. It includes\ninformation on how to sell via the Giving Works program:\nhttp://tinyurl.com/amsat-ebay\n\neBay users can also make direct contributions to any eBay Giving\nWorks-listed nonprofit using their PayPal account.\n\n\n[ANS thanks eBay for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFUNcube-1's Birthday\n\n\nThe FUNcube Team reports:\nIt seems amazing to us that FUNcube-1 – AO73, was launched nearly\none year ago, in fact at 07:10 UTC on 21 Nov 2013. The very first\nsignals were received by ZS1LS in South Africa at 07:37 UTC and he\nwas even able to upload the resulting data to the Warehouse so the\nresults could be seen immediately.\n\nWe are extremely happy to say that, since then, the satellite has\nbeen performing very satisfactorily, the battery voltage doesn’t drop\nbelow 8 volts, and becomes fully charged within about 7 – 10 minutes\nafter re-entering sunlight from eclipse.\n\nOn Friday 21 Nov 2014, we will be celebrating the satellite’s first\nbirthday. To mark the occasion, we will be activating the transponder\nearlier than normal – late on Thursday 20 Nov, so that it will be\navailable for use during the whole of Friday. So please make as many\ncontacts as possible through the transponder during Friday, FUNcube’s\nactual birthday. You are invited to make a note of any stations\nworked on this day, or any other comments on the FUNcube Forum.\nPlease use the existing “FUNcube-1's Birthday” topic, under the\nWelcome heading. The URL of the Forum is\nhttp://forum.funcube.org.uk/\n\nPlease also remember the ’73 on 73\" Award which is kindly being\norganized by Paul Stoetzer N8HM. See\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/funcube/73-on-73-award/\nfor more details.\n\nWe would like to take this opportunity of thanking all of our\n'users’, both those who download telemetry and forwarding it to the\nwarehouse, and of course, all users of the transponder. This\ntelemetry data is invaluable, both as an educational resource and to\nenable us to see how the spacecraft systems are performing and\nsurviving. So far we have collected almost 400MB of unique data via\nstations from all around the world.\n\nOf course we are hoping that the satellite continues to function\nnominally for several more years to come even though we may never\nreach AO7’s record!\n\nThe AMSAT-UK Flickr Group is at\nhttps://www.flickr.com/groups/amsatuk/\nPlease upload your pictures of amateur satellites, satellite ground\nstations, satellite demonstrations or any other satellite related\nevent.\n\n73 on 73 Award\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/funcube/73-on-73-award/\n\nData Warehouse – Telemetry Archive\nhttp://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 information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Events\n\n\nInformation about AMSAT activities at other important events around\nthe country. Examples of these events are radio club meetings where\nAMSAT Area Coordinators give presentations, demonstrations of working\namateur satellites, and hamfests with an AMSAT presence (a table with\nAMSAT literature and merchandise, sometimes also with presentations,\nforums, and/or demonstrations).\n\n* Saturday, 6 December 2014 – Superstition Superfest 2014 in Mesa AZ\n(Mesa Community College, Dobson Road between Southern Avenue & US-60\nexit 177)\n* Sunday, 4 January 2015 – Ham Radio University in Bethpage NY\n(Briarcliff College)\n* Saturday, 10 January 2015 – Thunderbird Hamfest 2015 in Phoenix AZ\n(43rd Avenue, between Greenway and Bell Roads)\n* Friday and Saturday, 20-21 February 2015 – Yuma Hamfest in Yuma AZ\n(Yuma County Fairgrounds, 32nd Street between Pacific Avenue & Avenue\n3E, south of I-8 exit 3)\n* Saturday TBD in mid-March 2015 – Scottsdale Amateur Radio Club\nHamfest in Scottsdale AZ\n* Saturday, 28 March 2015 – Tucson Spring Hamfest in Tucson AZ (22nd\nStreet, east of Columbus Blvd.)\n* Saturday TBD in early May 2015 – Cochise Amateur Radio Association\nHamfest in Sierra Vista AZ\n* Saturday TBD in early June 2015 – White Mountain Hamfest in Show\nLow AZ\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\nUpcoming Contacts\n\n* From 2014-11-10 to 2014-12-07, there will be no US Operational\nSegment (USOS) hams on board ISS. So any schools contacts during\nthis period will be conducted by the ARISS Russia team.\n\n\nLatest News\n\n* Lycée Européen Charles de Gaulle, Dijon, France, telebridge\nvia IK1SLD. Contact was successful at 2014-11-13 09:00 UTC 48 deg\n\nThe ARISS team reported:\n\"The Russian telebridge contact with Lycée Charles de Gaule in Dijon,\nFrance went very well. Cosmonaut Elene Serova gave detailed answers\nand 9\nquestions were answered. Signals were loud and clear. Claudio IK1SLD\ndid an excellent job, as usually.\n\nAudience of 150, including school teachers and students as well as\nregional and local authorities listened in. \"\n\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Gaston, ON4WF and Charlie, AJ9N for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nUpdated W7O QSO Information\n\nI'll be on AO-73 this (Friday 11/14) evening as W7O, for\nthe pass around 0458 UTC. On Saturday morning(11/15), I'll\nwork 3 passes before I get tied up with work-related\nstuff...\n\nSO-50 at 1422 UTC\nFO-29 at 1430 UTC\nAO-73 at 1651 UTC\n\n From what I've heard, John K8YSE/7 made the first\nW7O satellite QSO this evening on SO-50 at 0011 UTC.\nChristy KB6LTY was on the W7O mic from southern\nCalifornia for that QSO. I know others have been\nworking HF as W7O, and I'm gaining operators and\nfilling more slots in the W7O HF schedule. Sounds\nlike there have been some interesting stories from\nstations working W7O, including some who worked the\nsatellite in its first lifetime in the 1970s.\n\nThanks to everyone who has volunteered to work as\nW7O, whether on the satellites or the HF bands.\nThe number of W7O lookups on QRZ was reset when I\nput the current information on there, and several\nhundred lookups have been recorded already. There\nis interest among the ham community in this old\nsatellite.\n73!\n\n\n[ANS thanks Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK and the AMSAT-BB for the above\ninformation]\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,\nJoe Spier, K6WAO\nk6wao at amsat dot org\n", "attachments": [] }