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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/QYHJANTABLUWRZTUU4PXKNE3FN4CC3EC/",
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    "sender_name": "Lee McLamb",
    "subject": "[ans]  ANS-266  AMSAT Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2007-09-22T23:44:04Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-266\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\n******************* AMSAT 2007 Space Symposium *************************\n\nThe Wireless Association of South Hills Amateur Radio Club announces the\n2007 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held at the Pittsburgh Airport\nMarriott Hotel on Friday, October 26 through Sunday, October 28, 2007.\nThe AMSAT web team has posted informational pages on the AMSAT web site.\nYou can find the announcement with many links at:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/symposium/2007/index.php\n\n**************************************************************************\n\nIn this edition:\n* AMSAT Board of Directors Election Results\n* New AMSAT VP of User Services\n* GO-32 enabled for experimental APRS access\n* AO-51 Sputnik 50th Anniversary Special Event\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n* ARISS Status - 17 September 2007\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-266.01\nAMSAT Board of Directors Election Results\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 266.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 23, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-266.01\n\n\nThe following candidates were elected to the AMSAT Board of Directors:\n\nBarry Baines , WD4ASW\nDrew Glasbrenner, KO4MA\nRick Hambly, W2GPS\nGunther Meisse, W8GSM\n\nLee Mclamb, KU4OS is the alternate\n\nA total of 871 votes were cast.\n\n[ANS thanks Martha for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-266.02\nNew AMSAT VP of User Services\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 266.02\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 23, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-266.02\n\nIt was with great enthusiasm that AMSAT President Rick Hambly, W2GPS,\nannounced the appointment of Gould Smith, WA4SXM, to the position of\nAMSAT Vice President of User Services. In this position Gould will serve\non the Executive Team and will be responsible for the leadership of a\nteam that will include the management of the AMSAT Journal, the AMSAT\nNew Service (ANS), AMSAT HF radio nets, Field Operations, Awards and\nContests, the Dayton Hamvention and other duties as may be assigned by\nthe President or the Board.\n\n[ANS thanks Rick, W2GPS, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n \n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-266.03\nGO-32 enabled for experimental APRS access\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 266.03\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 23, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-266.03\n\nThe GO-32 Satellite TECHSAT-1B team has announced experimental 9600 baud\nAPRS access for mobile and tactical APRS on a not-to-interfere basis\nwith the existing PACSAT BBS.   \n\nThe uplink is possible with 5 Watts on 2 meters, but the downlink is 9\ndB worse to an omni antenna on UHF and requires tuning 10 to 20 KHz for\nDoppler.  Currently there are no permanent IGates to bring the downlink\ninto the global APRS system, but it is hoped volunteers will surface\nwith permanent satgates.  So initally, do NOT expect to see yourself on\nFINDU.COM.  Enjoy ham radio,  Make a contact instead!\n\nExperimental testing shows that an APRS HT with a 19.5\" whip can get a\nlucky shot into this satellite (but not when there is congestion on the\nuplink).  With a handheld beam, it should be no problem for an HT, and\nthe beam is needed on reception anyway.  Fifty Watt mobiles should have\nno problem using a stock mobile whip.  Due to the absence of APRS\nsignals to date, we do not have good statistics on reception in a mobile\nyet...\n\nOperating on a 9600 baud FULL DUPLEX APRS satellite is MUCH different\nthan ARISS, or any of the other 1200 baud APRS PCSATS. Because the\nturn-around is so fast, you cannot see your own digipeated packets on\nthe same radio (usually)...  Please read and understand this entire\nbulletin before attempting to operate.\n\nThe easiest way to get on GO-32 with 9600 baud APRS is to use a Kenwood\nD7, D700 or D710 radio.  These radios since 1998 have been satellite\n9600 baud ready, just waiting on a satellite!.\n\nRead these notes on how to operate GO-32 with a D7 or D700:\n\nSet APRS Baudrate to 9600 baud.  \nSet A band to uplink on 145.93\nSet B band to receive 435.225 +/- 10 KHz\nSet Path to be via 4XTECH\nSet MYCALL to a unique SSID\nSet TX method to AUTO\nSet TX RATE 1 min for HT. 2 min for D700\nPut something useful in your STATUS text maybe describing your setup:\n\"50W mobile, 1/4 wave, 2m rate\" or \"5W HT, long whip, 1m rate\"\n\nSave in a PM for use anytime you are outside of the terrestrial APRS\nnetwork.\n\nSATELLITE OPERATING NOTES:\n\nThe GO32 uplinks and downlinks are for the PACSAT store and forward\nsystem and users.  APRS use is on a secondary basis and should not be\noperated unattended.  If you see that the BBS PBLIST is full of other\nusers, do not enable your APRS since the uplink will be busy.  Currently\nthe PBLIST is not in APRS format so you cannot see it unless you are\nrunning normal packet mode.\n\nOn the D700 you can press PMON on the front panel and see these\npackets... but they FLY by...\n\nACCESS TIMES:  GO-32 is sun synchronous and so it comes over everywhere\nthree times between about 8 AM to Noon and again between 8 PM to\nmidnight local sun time.  During these two windows at least one pass\neach will be an overhead pass which might also work for an HT.  The\nother passes will be lower to the East or West and will work fine for a\n50W mobile.\n\nWHAT YOU HEAR:  9600 baud sounds almost exactly like open squelch,\nthough the tuned ear can soon distinguish the difference.  Before the\npass, set your squelch normally to quiet the speaker.  When you hear the\nsatellite, the squelch will open and you may see up to 3 bars on your S\nmeter.  Tune to the \"best sounding\" noise.\n\nDOPPLER:  Depending on how low to the horizon you can see, the satelite\napproaches 10 KHz high at 435.235 MHz... But it is maybe 3000 km away.\nAs it gets higher, and 6 dB closer, it will be on 435.230 MHz, passing\nthrough 435.225 published center frequency at the middle point, and then\ndrop down through 435.220 and ending at 435.215.\n\nBut since it is 6 to 10 dB closer (and stronger) towards the center of\nthe pass (800 km overhead), the mobile antenna is probably only going to\nhear the middle 435.230, .225, .220 portion easily.  So I would start my\nreceiption at 435.230...\n\nUPLINK CHANNELS:  GO-32 allows two APRS uplinks.  One is exclusive to\nD7/D700 tactical position reporting and the other exclusive to\nmessaging.  This is in hardware, not policy...\n\n1) All APRS messaging (or fixed station non-Mic-E positions) must use\nthe 145.85 uplink where GO32 only digipeats APRS packets with TOCALLs\nthat begin with the usual \"APxxxx\".  (Even the D7 and D700 use \"APKxxx\"\nfor messages.)\n \n2) All APRS Mic-E position uplinks (D7, D700 and D710s) must be on\n145.93 MHz and they must have the position comment set to \"Committed,\nSpecial or PRIORITY\"...  With those comment settings then the TOCALL\nfirst LATITUDE digit will be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and only these will be\naccepted by GO32 for digipeating from 145.93.\n\nDATA CARRIER DETECT: The D700 and non(g) model D7's will NOT TX if they\nare hearing the downlink at the same time due to CARRIER DETECT.  The\nD7(g) model has DCD IGNORE that *will* let it TX anyway.  So use\nseparate rigs for TX and for RX if you want to see yourself.\n\nOtherwise stick to the receommended TX rates and know that you are\ngetting in if you stick to the protocol.  Sticking to the recommended\nrates also keeps channel loading low, so that everyone gets in with less\ncongestion.\n\nPERMANENT SATGATES:  Here is a great place to use your D7 HT when you\nare not using it otherwise.  Simply connect it to a 19\" whip over a\nground plane and to your APRS IGate system.  The antenna does not even\nneed to be high, since it cannot hear, nor will it be on frequency for\nlow packets near the horizon 3000 km away.  Set it to 9600 baud RX and\ntune to 435.230 (which is 5 KHz high).  This Doppler setting will match\nthe stronger signals.\n\nThis 19.5\" whip (3/4 wave on 435) does not need to see below 25 degrees,\nsince its max gain (almost 7 dB) is between 30 to 70 degrees anwyay.\nThis also protects your HT from lightning, since it can be low, below\nall of your other antnenas.  Yes, your station will only see about 30%\nof all possible packets and only on the best two passes per day, but\ncombined with dozens of other such unattended SATgates, all packets\nshould be heard somewhere by someone and injected into the APRS Internet\nsystem.\n\nBob Bruinga, WB4APR, reports that he hopes to have an APRS-via-GO32 web\npage up in a few weeks.\n\nAdditional information about GO-32 can be found on the AMSAT web site\nat:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=14&retURL=/satellites/status.php\n\nGood luck!\n\n[ANS thanks Bob, WB4APR, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-266.04\nAO-51 Sputnik 50th Anniversary Special Event\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 266.04\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 23, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-266.04\n\nAMSAT-NA will mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik with a\nspecial event on AO-51. AO-51 will rebroadcast original Sputnik\ntelemetry and a congratulatory message to mark the event during passes\nover North America on the evening of Wednesday, October 3rd in North\nAmerica, which is early October 4th UTC. At this time, only the passes\nover North America will be able to carry the special event. Please watch\nANS and the amsat-bb mailing list for further information as the date\napproaches.\n\n[ANS thanks Drew, KO4MA, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-266.05\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 266.05\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 23, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-266.05\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ Make your room reservations for the 2007 AMSAT Space Symposium\n  in Pittsburgh as soon as possible. Any rooms that have not been \n  reserved by October 8th will be released to the hotel.  For the \n  reservation code, go to the AMSAT website and click on the left \n  hand side - AMSAT Symposium. If you have any problems making a \n  reservation, please call Martha in the ASMAST office at \n  (301-589-6062).\n\n+ AMSAT congratulates Ramon Santoyo, XE1KK, who was just elected \n  to the new position of the Secretary for the IARU---Region 2.\n  For those who don't know, Ramon is an active satellite op, goes \n  on many dxpeditions taking satellite gear, and is an all around \n  friend of AMSAT.\n\n+ This is a reminder that the 26th Annual ARRL/TAPR Digital Communi-\n  cations Conference will be held September 28-30, 2007 in Hartford, \n  CT.  See http://www.tapr.org/dcc for additional information.  The\n  Sunday Seminar will feature AMSAT VP-Engineering and Director, Bob \n  McGwier, N4HY presenting \"A Stroll Through Software Radio, Informa-\n  tion Theory, and Some Applications\".\n\n[ANS thanks everyone for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-266.06\nARISS Status - 17 September 2007\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 266.06\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nSeptember 23, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-266.06\n\n1. ARISS Contact with M. L. King Academy Successful\n\nOn Wednesday, September 12, students attending M. L. King Academy\n(formerly Alexander Macomb Academy) in Mount Clemens, Michigan\nexperienced an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)\ncontact. Clay Anderson, KD5PLA answered 25 questions put to him by ten\nstudents. A crowd of approximately 350 gathered to watch the contact\nwith several television stations and newspapers in attendance to report\non the event. The school board director was also present and is now\nencouraging other schools to submit applications to ARISS. The audio\nfrom this contact was fed into the EchoLink AMSAT (101 377) and JK1ZRW\n(277 208) servers. It received 33 connections, including 6 repeater\nnodes, from 9 countries. Among those listening were China, Trinidad\nTobago, Uruguay and Thailand.  To view the Macomb Daily article covering\nthe event, see:\nhttp://www.macombdaily.com/stories/091307/loc_students001.shtml\n\n\n2. Successful ARISS Contact with Westbrook Intermediate\n\nStudents from Westbrook Intermediate School in Clear Creek, Texas took\npart in an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)\ncontact on Friday, September 14. The contact was made possible with the\nassistance of telebridge station WH6PN in Hawaii. Twenty-four students\nasked one question each of Clay Anderson, KD5PLA.  The audio from this\nevent was fed into the EchoLink AMSAT (101 377) and JK1ZRW (277 208)\nservers, receiving 28 connections from the U.S., Australia, Thailand and\nEngland, including 4 repeater nodes. \n\n\n3. Upcoming School Contacts\n\nAn Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has\nbeen planned for Art and Pat Goforth Elementary School in League City,\nTexas on Friday, September 28 at 16:04 UTC via the telebridge station\nWH6PN in Hawaii. The school has a student body of which 25% of the\nchildren come from economically disadvantaged families and 12% receive\nspecial education. This event is a crew pick of Clay Anderson, KD5PLA.  \n\nThe Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. has\nbeen scheduled for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station\n(ARISS) contact on Saturday, September 29 as part of its Family Day,\n“Commemorating 50 Years in Space.” It will take place at 16:28 UTC via\nthe telebridge station WH6PN in Hawaii The overall theme of the day will\nbe to celebrate at least one major event and object in the Museum’s\ncollection for each decade of the space age.  This event will focus on\nthe ISS and the Shuttle program, and will acknowledge its sponsor,\nCharles Simonyi, who also participated in ARISS contacts with students\nwhile on the ISS.   Visitors will be encouraged to participate in hands\non activities during their time at the museum.  Approximately 15,000 -\n20,000 visitors are expected to attend throughout the day.  The event\nwill be promoted on the National Air and Space Museum’s website,\n(http://www.nasm.si.edu/events/eventDetail.cfm?eventID=664) advertised\nby e-flyer to a variety of lists, and have newspaper ads in the Express\n(a daily tabloid of the Washington Post with a daily circulation of\n286,000) and The City Paper, an alternate newsweekly, with a weekly\nsubscription of 85,000.)  The audio for this event will be fed into the\nEchoLink AMSAT (101 377) and JK1ZRW (277 208) Conference Room servers\nand into the IRLP Discovery Reflector 9010.  \n\n\n4. Scouts Participate in SuitSat-2 Project\n\nOn Saturday, September 15, approximately 58 boys, ages 6-18, from cub\nscout packs 983, 977, 778, 997, troop 993 and ham radio explorer post\n599 in Maricopa, Arizona met to assemble two non-flight safety boxes for\nSuitSat-2. The scouts also drew pictures to be included on the SuitSat-2\nDVD. Afterwards, the older boys were taught how to solder and lace\ncables. Photos from the explorer scouts may be found on this site:\nhttp://www.briansnapped.com/content/pics/SuitSat_2007/\n\n\n5. ISS Radio Running Packet Operations\n\nOn Tuesday, September 11, the Kenwood radio was turned on and configured\nto run Packet operations. The Amateur Radio community world wide has\nbeen very pleased to have this capability restored.\n\n\n6. Astronaut Training Status\n\nOn Wednesday, September 12, astronaut Koichi Wakata, KC5ZTA,\nparticipated in a simulated amateur radio school contact. Wakata is\nslated to fly on the shuttle STS-126 mission.\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, \nThis week's ANS Editor,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n\n",
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