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    "sender_name": "Lee McLamb",
    "subject": "[ans]  ANS-274  AMSAT Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2006-10-01T02:46:10Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-274\n\nANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North\nAmerica, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the\nactivities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an\nactive interest in designing, building, launching and communicating\nthrough analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\n\[email protected]\n\nIn this edition:\n* AMSAT Symposium and Office Schedule\n* PCSAT-1 Recovery\n* PCSAT-1 Special Ops\n* AMSAT Represented at NBC4 Connected Expo\n* OSCAR 11 Report - 28 September 2006\n* ARISS Status - 25 September 2006\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-274.01\nAMSAT Space Symposium and Office Schedule\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 274.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 1, 2006\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-274.01\n\nThe annual AMSAT Space Symposium will be held this week at the Crowne\nPlaza Mid-Peninsula conventiently located close to San Francisco\nInternational Airport.  It is roughly equidistant between the cities of\nSan Francisco, San Jose and Oakland.  AMSAT is excited that our 2006\nSymposium Keynote speaker will be astronaut Bill McArthur KC5ACR, ISS\nExpedition 12 Mission Commander and Science Officer.  Commander McArthur\nis well known to ham radio operators and during his six months aboard\nthe ISS he became the most active radio amateur ever to serve aboard the\nISS.  Commander McArthur logged more than 1800 QSOs in space, including\nlogging a Worked All States Award. His impressive track record also\nincluded a record 37 school contacts, Worked All Continents (including\nAntartica) and 130 DXCC entities.  Commander McArthur will present his\nkeynote address during the Symposium Banquet on Saturday October 7. To\nregister for the Symposium and Banquet please visit the AMSAT Online\nStore.  Complete Symposium details are available at:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/symposium/\n\nThe AMSAT Office will be closed on Monday, October 2nd 2006.  The office\nwill reopen on Tuesday and then close again for the remainder of the\nweek on Wednesday, October 4th while AMSAT Office Manager, Martha\nSaragovitz, travels to California for the AMSAT Board of Directors\nmeeting on October 5-6 which proceeds the Space Symposium.  The office\nwill reopen on Monday, October 16th.  \n\n[ANS thanks Emily, N1DID, and Martha for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-274.02\nPCSAT-1 Recovery\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 274.02\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 1, 2006\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-274.02\n\nPCSAT-1 has been recovered as it entered better sun angles.\n\nPCSAT-1 should remain NORMAL OPS for the next few weeks until it\nexperiences an overload and resets.  Then it will be lost until\nDecember.  All users are asked to please adhere to these fundamental\nprinciples:\n\n1) No connections to or through PCSAT-1\n2) UI digipeating and APRS packets only about a 1 minute rate\n3) Watch pcsat.aprs.org for live activity\n4) Use the path of VIA PCSAT-1 or VIA ARISS\n5) Minimize all packets after dark!\n\nEnjoy PCSAT-1 and APRS! Make contacts, QSO, enjoy!\n\nJust remember that ACKS are pretty useless and only add QRM to the\nchannel. So do not expect ACKS via the satellite.  If you see your\noutgoing packet digipeated by PCSAT-1 a few times then you should ASSUME\nthat the other person got it and delete it yourself.  By the same token,\nif someone sends you a message, then ANSWER him in kind, so that he\nknows you got it.\n\n[ANS thanks Bob, WB4APR, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-274.03\nPCSAT-1 Special Ops\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 274.03\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 1, 2006\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-274.03\n\nBob Bruinga, WB4APR, with the US Naval Academy Satellite Lab provided\nthe following update on PCSAT-1 special operations.\n\nWe now welcome routine trackers and unattended beacons so that we can\nbuild up statistics on channel loading and the channel capacity of\nPCSAT-1 and it's follow-on spacecraft.  We do want everyone to include\nbasic info in their packet though.  Please include  PWR,Antenna Gain,\nand RATE.  Such as \"5W,3dbi,5min\" so that the statistics will show us\nwhat works...\n\nPCSAT-1 works like any APRS digipeater so the only thing you have to do,\nto work the satellite is to change your APRS (or packet station) channel\nto 145.825 instead of its normal frequency.  When you get to work, QSY\nto 145.825 during the day, and when you get home.  Its nice to look at\nyour mobile radio and see who else you captured after work or overnight.\n\nFor unattended, set your beacon rate to once ever 5 minutes.  If\nattended and monitoring the channel, you can use 2 minutes.  You can see\nif you got in on http://pcsat.aprs.org .  Watching the capacity of\nPCSAT-1 to carry these data will be usefull for gauging the success of\nour next satellite, ParkinsonSAT. See\nhttp://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/buoy.html\n\nPCSAT-1 responds to most common digipeating callsigns (below) so that no\none should have to change anything when going between terrestrial or ISS\noperation to PCSAT-1, other than their frequency.\n\n - PCSAT-1\n - RELAY\n - WIDE\n - WIDEn-N\n - ARISS\n - TRACEn-N\n\nWe saw 22 people yesterday on the East Coast and the web page above, is\nshowing about 70 in the last 2 days.  PCSAT-1 should be able to handle\n100 or so per footprint PER PASS!  So lets get the number of users up\nfor the next 2 weeks of useful PCSAT-1 life.\n\nSee web page PCSAT.APRS.ORG  or Google for PCSAT.\n\n[ANS thanks Bob, WB4APR, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-274.04\nAMSAT Represented at NBC4 Connected Expo\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 274.04\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 1, 2006\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-274.04\n\nAmateur Radio and Amsat were represented at the 6th annual \"NBC4\nConnected Expo\" in downtown Washington DC on September 16 and 17. This\nevent is sponsored by local television station WRC channel 4 in\nWashington and hosted by their on-air technology reporter I.J. Hudson,\nK9ICF. \n\n25,000 people attended the event over the two days that it was open. The\nham radio exhibit was located just around the corner from a robotics\ndemonstration that drew a large number of technically inclined young\npeople. \n\nThe general public really has little idea what ham radio is all about\nand often confuses hams with CB operators or thinks of hams as old men\nwho tap out messages in morse code on vacuum tube radios. Many believe\nthat ham radio is no longer useful or relevant in the age of cellular\ntelephones and the internet. Comments that were heard during the weekend\nincluded \"Look at the fancy cell phone!\", \"My father was a ham when I\nwas young\" and \"I didn't know you still did that\". Many visitors were\nsurprised to learn that ham radio is still alive and well and fully up\nto date with modern technology. A few lapsed hams also thought about\ngetting back into amateur radio after stopping at the exhibit.\n\nThe fact that hams build satellites and talk to astronauts in space was\na major part of the exhibit. These are two things that citizens band\noperators and cellular telephone users don't do. A recent ARISS contact\nbetween astronauts and school children played almost continously during\nthe expo to draw people into the exhibit.  \n\nThe exhibit also stressed the technical opportunities that are available\nin ham radio, that hams can design, build and modify their own\ntransmitters and other equipment and that amateur radio provides\npractical electronics experience and is a great way to get a head start\nin a science or engineering career. Displays also showed off the public\nservice abilities of hams and stressed that ham radio still works after\nall other communication systems have failed.\n\nVisitors who were interested in learning more about amateur radio were\ndirected to one of the many local radio clubs in the Washington area\nthat offer licensing classes and exam sessions. Although the outcome of\nthe exhibit cannot be accurately measured, we do know that last year's\nexhibit did produce one new ham that we know of, and possibly more that\nwe don't know about. \n\n[ANS thanks Dan, N8FGV, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-274.05\nOSCAR 11 Report - 28 September 2006\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 274.05\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 1, 2006\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-274.05\n\n                    OSCAR-11 REPORT\n\n                   28 September 2006\n\nNOTHING HEARD FROM OSCAR-11 DURING SEPTEMBER  ... REPORTS REQUESTED!\nPlease post reports to AMSAT-BB or e-mail to [email protected] (replace\nxxxxx by g3cwv).\n\nDuring the period 14 August 2006 to 28 September, the satellite was\nheard from 16 to 26 August.  The beacon was expected to switch ON ten\ndays or 20 later, ie. around 05 or 15 September.  However, it has not\nbeen heard since 26 August.\n\nDuring the last ON period, the real time clock showed various errors.\nThe date on 16 August was 51 July. By 26 August it had incremented to 60\nJuly.  The hours were also showing an erratic behaviour.  Over short\nperiods of time, ie. during a pass,  the minutes and seconds appeared to\nbe incrementing correctly\n\nI am indebted to Jeff KB2M, Peter ZL3TC and Dave G1OCN, for their\nreports and for monitoring the satellite, especially during the last two\nweeks while I have been away on holiday.  Many thanks.\n\nThe status of the satellite, when last heard, was that all the analogue\ntelemetry channels, 0 to 59 are zero, ie they have failed. The status\nchannels 60 to 67 were still working. The spacecraft computer and active\nattitude control system have switched OFF, ie. the satellite' attitude\nis controlled only by the passive gravity boom gradient, and the\nsatellite is free to spin at any speed. When telemetry was last received\nit showed that one of the solar arrays had failed, and there was a large\nunexplained current drain on the main 14 volt bus. After 22 years in\norbit the battery has undergone around 100,000 partial charge/discharge\ncycles, and observations suggest that it cannot power the satellite\nduring eclipses, or sometimes during periods of poor solar attitude.\n\nThe watchdog timer now operates on a 20 day cycle. During the three\nmonths before May (when the eclipses started), the ON/OFF times were\nvery consistent, and the average of many observations show this to be\n20.7 days, ie. 10.3 days ON followed by 10.4 days OFF. However, poor\nsolar attitude may result may result in a low 14 volt line supply, which\nmay cause the beacon to switch OFF prematurely, and reset the watchdog\ntimer cycle. When this occurs, the beacon is OFF for 20.7 days.\n\nThe Beacon frequencies are -\n\nVHF 145.826 MHz.  AFSK FM  ASCII Telemetry\n\nUHF 435.025 MHz.  OFF\n\nS-band 2401.5 MHz. OFF\n\nListeners to OSCAR-11 may be interested in visiting my website. If you\nneed to know what OSCAR-11 should sound like, there is a short audio\nclip for you to hear. The website contains an archive of news &\ntelemetry data. It also contains details about using a soundcard or\nhardware demodulators for data capture.  There is software for capturing\ndata, and decoding ASCII telemetry.  The URL is\nwww.users.zetnet.co.uk/clivew/\n\nIf you place this bulletin on a terrestrial packet network, please use\nthe bulletin identifier $BID:U2RPT125.CWV, to prevent duplication.\n\n73 Clive G3CWV   [email protected] (please replace xxxxx by g3cwv)\n\n[ANS thanks Clive, G3CWV, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-274.06\nARISS Status - 25 September 2006\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 274.06\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 1, 2006\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-274.06\n\n1.  Swiss School Contact Successful\n\nThomas Reiter, DF4TR, spoke with students from the Gymnase Intercantonal\nde la Broye at the Musee de l'aviation militaire in Payerne, Switzerland\non Friday, September 22. Eight students' questions were answered as 50\npeople gathered around the radio.  Another 300 witnessed the contact in\nthe hall where the event was transmitted on screen by amateur television\n(ATV).  Media coverage included newspapers and television.\n\n\n2.  George Washington University Contact Successful\n\nSpace visitor Anousheh Ansari participated in a contact with her alma\nmater, George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C. on Friday,\nSeptember 22. As Ansari was Japanese participant, Dice-K Enomoto's back\nup on the Soyuz flight, she did not have time to get her U.S. license.\nJeff Williams, KD5TVQ, acted as the control operator during the contact.\nStudents from several area schools participated in the event: Eastern\nMiddle School, Silver Spring, Md. (a NASA Explorer School); School\nWithout Walls Senior High School, Washington, D.C.; Stevens Elementary\nSchool, Washington, D.C.; and Thomas Jefferson High School for Science\nand Technology, Alexandria, Va. Six students were able to have their\nquestions answered. The event was held in the GWU Marvin Center\namphitheater where approximately 125 people gathered. Television\nstations Fox TV 5, ABC WJLA 7 and news channel 8 provided coverage of\nthe GWU ARISS contact as did the Washington Post and some other local\npapers. See:\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/22/AR2006092201496.html\n\nPhotos of the event may be viewed on: \nhttp://artemis.crosslink.net/~pk/AMSAT/AMSAT-ARISS-9-22-06/\n\nThe contact video may be seen here: \nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1789656846413123353\n\nThe university posted a press release of the event. \nhttp://my.gwu.edu/mod/calendar/default.cfm?event_id=9660&option=view&day=09/22/06\n\n\n3.  ARISS - Illinois Contact, a Success\n\nAstronaut Jeff Williams, KD5TVQ, had his own contact scheduled for\nSeptember 22 with his crew-pick school, Crete-Monee Intermediate Center\nin Crete, Illinois. Nineteen students asked one question each as the\nentire student body of 800 children looked on.  The Kankakee Amateur\nRadio Society provided streaming audio via W9AZ 146.94 repeater on\nhttp://www.w9az.com. Two television channels, 7 and 2 covered the event.\nCrete's local newspaper, The Star, posted an online article:\nhttp://www.starnewspapers.com/star/spnews/cup/24-cup3.htm\n\n\n4.  Upcoming School Contacts\n\t\nThe ARISS team continues to work on scheduling the Expedition 14 school\ncontacts.\n\n\n5.  ISS Makes General Contacts\n\nBesides making the scheduled ARISS school contact with George Washington\nUniversity, Anousheh Ansari has been making general contacts with\nstations in the USA and Canada using the callsign RS0ISS.  News of her\ncontacts has already hit the media. See:\nhttp://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=852560db-b97c-4565-afaf-01a1ca1e4fce&k=82481\n\n\n6.  ARRL Article Covers Hams Onboard ISS  \n\nARRL ran a story on the shuttle astronauts visiting the ISS. The amateur\nradio payload PCSAT2 was picked up during an EVA and returned to Earth.\n\"Five Radio Amateurs Now Aboard ISS; Power Upgrade, PCSat2 Retrieval\nSet\" may be viewed on:\nhttp://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/09/11/101/?nc=1\n\n\n7.  ARRL Covers Expedition 14 Launch\n\nARRL ran an article on the launch of the Expedition 14 crew. The story,\nentitled, \"Shift Change: New Two-Ham Crew, First Female Civilian Visitor\non Way to ISS\" may be found at:  \nhttp://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/09/18/102/?nc=1\n\n\n8.  ARRL Press Release on Three ARISS Contacts\n\nOn Friday, September 22, three ARISS contacts were performed by three\ndifferent people onboard the ISS. \"ARISS Plans Triple Header of Ham\nRadio School Contacts\" may be viewed on: \nhttp://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/09/21/100/?nc=1\n\n\n[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI for the above information]\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 donors\nto AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits.\nApplication forms are available from the AMSAT Office.\n\n73, This week's ANS Editor,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n\n",
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