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    "subject": "[ans] ANS-022 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-022\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* Reno, Nevada to Host 2017 AMSAT Space Symposium Oct 27-29\n* Diwata 2's payload includes amateur radio\n* AMSAT News From South Africa\n* JAMSAT Symposium in Kyoto on 11-12 March, Presenters Requested.\n* Kenwood features ARISS in February 2017 Two Page QST Ad\n* AMSAT Phase 4 Weekly Engineering Report\n* US Naval Academy HFsat Receives IARU Frequency Coordination\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-022.01\nANS-022 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 022.01\n>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nJanuary 22, 2017\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-022.01\n\n\n\nReno, Nevada to Host 2017 AMSAT Space Symposium Oct 27-29\n\nAMSAT NA announces that the 2017 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held\non Friday through Sunday, Oct 27, 28, 29, 2017 in Reno, Nevada.\n\nLocation will be at the Silver Legacy Resort , 407 N Virginia\nStreet, in Downtown, Reno.\n\nThe Silver Legacy is a 4 star Resort/Hotel/Casino which is an iconic\n42-story hotel with its massive round dome and spires centered in\ndowntown. The Silver Legacy is typically lit green at night and is\nreferred to by many as the \"Emerald City\" of Reno. In support of the\nUniversity of Nevada Wolf Pack, the Silver Legacy will sometimes\nturn blue.\n\nSome of the perks include\n* Free parking for attendees.\n* Free transportation to and from the airport (10 minutes shuttle\n  ride).\n* Complimentary WiFi.\n* The Silver Legacy has 8 restaurants and 8 different retail shops.\n* Large selection of additional restaurants and casinos (El Dorado,\n  Circus Circus, and the rest of downtown Reno) are in close\n  proximity and within walking distance.\n* Multiple alternate activities and attractions are in the Reno area.\n  Nevada Museum Of Modern Art\n  National Automobile Museum\n  Fleischmann Planetarium (UNR Campus)\n  National Bowling Stadium\n* If you are staying longer in the Reno area, there are several other\n  points of interest close by, including Virginia City and Lake Tahoe.\n\n2017 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting\n\nThe annual AMSAT Space Symposium features:\n* Space Symposium with Amateur Satellite Presentations\n* Operating Techniques, News, & Plans from the Amateur Satellite\n  World\n* Board of Directors Meeting open to AMSAT members\n* Opportunities to Meet Board Members and Officers\n* AMSAT-NA Annual General Membership Meeting\n* Auction, Annual Banquet, Keynote Speaker and Door Prizes !!\n\nSeveral members from The Sierra Nevada Amateur Radio Society (SNARS)\nas well as many other local radio amateurs will be participating in\nhelping with this event.\n\nAdditional information about the 2017 AMSAT Symposium will be posted\non the AMSAT web site,\nwww.amsat.org\nas it becomes available.\n\n\n[ANS thanks Joe Spier, K6WAO, Frank Kostelac, N7ZEV, Linda Kostelac,\n KC7IIT, and the AMSAT-NA Office for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nDiwata 2's payload includes amateur radio\n\nTHE whole world is again set to witness come 2018 a third-world\ncountry launching into space another microsatellite -- this time with\nan amateur or ham radio included in the payload.\n\nAn amateur radio is a communication technology that allows its\noperators to talk or send messages to other people, especially first\nresponders, planners and government agencies whose own communications\nhave been knocked out, in time of disasters and emergencies.\n\nDiwata 2 -- the Philippines' second microsatellite that is currently\nbeing developed by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST),\nthe University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman, Hokkaido University,\nand Tohoku University in Japan -- has this technology, along with a\ntelescope and cameras.\n\nIts predecessor, the Diwata 1, was launched into orbit last April\n2016 and has been sending pictures to DOST-Advanced Science and\nTechnology Institute (Asti); the latest photo posted on PHL-Microsat\nProgram's website shows the swollen Pinacanauan River, as well as\nagricultural areas damaged by flood after Tropical Cyclone Lawin\n(Haima) made landfall in Peñablanca, Cagayan on October 19, 2016.\n\nThe PHL-Microsat said that as of January 13, the \"Diwata 1 has\ncircled the world approximately 4,083 times, taking images not just\nof the Philippines but also of other parts of the Earth.\"\n\n\"We will download the images every time the Diwata 1 passes by the\nPhilippines,\" said Dr. Joel Joseph Marciano Jr., program leader of\nPHL-Microsat and acting director of DOST-Asti, in an interview with\nSunStar.\n\nAs to the amateur radio included in the payload of Diwata 2,\nMarciano said it is a very important feature of the second\nmicrosatellite, especially that the country is prone to natural\ndisasters and calamities.\n\n\"So when the satellite passes over in time of disaster, you can get\na ham radio and send messages to another person in other areas in the\ncountry, and even give updates on evacuation using ham radio,\" he\ntold fellows of the 20th Lopez Jaena Community Journalism Workshop\nheld in UP Diliman last November 2016.\n\nThe Philippines has more than a thousand amateur radio operators\nnationwide. Most of them are members of the Philippine Amateur Radio\nAssociation.\n\nAside from the amateur radio, Diwata 2 has a Spaceborne\nMultispectral Imager (SMI) with liquid crystal tunable filter (LCTF)\nfor environmental monitoring; high precision telescope (HPT) for\nrapid post-disaster assessment; and enhanced resolution cameras\n(instead of wide and middle field cameras used in Diwata 1).\n\n\"Medium and wide cameras will be replaced by enhanced resolution\ncameras but there will still be the HPT and SMI with LCTF... Three\ncameras, plus an amateur radio as part of the payload,\" Marciano told\nSunStar.\n\nHe said 11 Filipino scholars are working on the Diwata 2.\n\n\"Mas dumami pa, because we now have 11 scholars. They are in Japan,\nworking with the two universities (Hokkaido and Tohoku),\" said\nMarciano.\n\nThere were only nine Filipino scholars who assembled the Diwata 1.\n\n\"They are considered as scholars because they are under the DOST\nscholarships, and building the microsatellites is part of their\nstudies,\" added Marciano.\n\nHe said that at present, they are working on the engineering model.\n\"We are now in the design phase. We are working on the blocks. They\nare being done here locally and they will be tested in Japan.\"\n\nThe DOST targets to launch the Diwata 2 in the first half of 2018,\nbut Marciano said the launching will also depend on the availability\nof the launching facility.\n\n\"The target overall for the completion of the flight model is in\nDecember 2017,\" he said.\n\nExcept for the amateur radio and enhanced resolution cameras, Diwata\n2 will hover 400 kilometers above the Earth's surface just like\nDiwata 1. It also weighs 50 kilograms, the size of a room air\nconditioner.\n\n\"The characteristics are the same. There will be chances na mag-abot\nsila doon, which is an advantage to us since it will mean that we can\ngenerate more images from them... The idea is they should be operated\non the same constellation. They have to communicate with other\nsatellites to provide us better images,\" said Marciano.\n\nHe explained that the country's microsatellites are not\ngeostationary satellites, which have an altitude of 39,000 kilometers\nand are more expensive.\n\n\"Diwata 2 only has 400 to 600 kilometers altitude,\" he said, adding\nthat because it is a microsatellite, it is only considered a\nsecondary payload.\n\n\"Parang nakikiangkas lang tayo sa paglaunch (We are just hitching a\nride), because it is very expensive to launch big satellites. You\nhave to pay for the rocket,\" he told the Lopez Jaena journalism\nworkshop fellows.\n\nHe also said in November that the challenge of Diwata satellites'\norbit is they can only take images of a certain location if they\npasses by it.\n\n\"Diwata 1 passes every day, but it passes in different places, so\nthere's a challenge of being in the right place at the right time,\"\nsaid Marciano.\n\nAsked about the possibility of a launching failure, Dr. Marc Caesar\nTalampas, project leader in-charge of the microsatellite BUS\ndevelopment, said in a follow-up interview: \"They undergo rigorous\ntesting before they will be launched into space. There is vibration\ntest, radiation testing, etc. We have to comply with all the\nspecifications.\"\n\n\"The failure is more on not responding, not on the launching. But so\nfar, based on our experience with Diwata 1, the communication has\nbeen positive,\" added Marciano.\n\nThe government has allotted P2 billion per year for DOST's space\ntechnology program. This is on top of the P840 million that was\nalready invested for the PHL-Microsat program.\n\n\"There's an increase in the availability of funding for research in\nspace technology... In 2018, we will come up with a new (budget)\nproposal,\"Marciano said.\n\n[ANS thanks LAUREEN MONDOÑEDO-YNOT and SunStar Philippines for the\n above information.]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT News From South Africa\n\n** Turn your laptop into a 24 MHz to 1,7 GHz receiver. AMSAT SA is\nholding a half-day SDR Workshop in association with the South African\nRadio League at the NARC on 18 February 2017. This is a hands-on\nworkshop where participants will install a VHF/UHF RTL dongle and\nprogramme it to become a VHF/UHF receiver covering 24 MHz to 1,7 GHz.\nAnton Janovsky, ZR6AIC, and Cor Rademeyer, ZS6CR, will present the\nWorkshop. The Workshop fee includes the RTL dongle and a memory stick\nwith all the required software as well as light refreshments.\nRegister before 11 February 2017, all the details and registration\nform are available on www.amsatsa.org.za. Book early to avoid\ndisappointment.\n\n** The 2017 AMSAT SA Space Conference will be held on Saturday 20\nMay 2017 in Pretoria. This is the first call for paper proposals. The\ntheme of the conference is \"Conquering Space as an educational\npastime.\" Proposals for papers should include a brief synopsis of the\nproposed paper. The closing date for proposals is 31 January 2017.\nAuthors will be notified of acceptance of their paper by 15 February\n2017. More details on\nwww.amsatsa.org.za\n\n[ANS thanks the SARL weekly news in English 2017-1-7 for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nJAMSAT Symposium in Kyoto on 11-12 March, Presenters Requested.\n\nMikio Mouri, JA3GEP, JAMSAT announces \"We are going to held our AGM\nand JAMSAT Symposium in Kyoto next March.\n\n\"I hope to have some attendance from AMSAT-NA, even via Skype.\nWe hope to hear some update of activities in US.\"\n\nThe meeting will be held at:  http://hotel-binario.jp/en/ The Hotel\nBinario Saga Arashiyama is located in the beautiful Arashiyama\ndistrict of Kyoto and is perfect for sightseeing.\n\nDate and Time of Symposium:\n14:30-17:30JST(05:30-08:30UTC) March 11(Sat)\n09:00-13:00JST(00:00-04:00UTC) March 12(Sun)\n\nIf anyone has an opportunity to join and present, please let Mikio\nknow the appropriate time of your availability. He will keep the time\nslot for your presentation.\n\nMikio can be contacted via JBH02173 (at) nifty.com]\n\n[ANS thanks Mikio JA3GEP for the above information.]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nKenwood features ARISS in February 2017 Two Page QST Ad\n\nKenwwood features ARISS donations in its two page ad in the February\n2017 QST. Check out the ad on pages 27 and 28.\n\nDuring February the ARRL is running a special slider in their\nrotating banner, on their website home page, with an appeal for ARISS\ndonations.\n\nAlso, The QST Cover story for February teases \"Texas Students Take\nAmateur Radio to the Edge of Space\"\n\nThe article \"To the Edge of Space and Back with Ham Radio\" by\nChase Mertz, KG5KKX is featured on page 76.\n\nMertz highlights \"Student engineers in the Eldorado Space\nProgram design, build, and program instrument packages, sending them\nas high as 120,000 feet using a highaltitude weather balloon.\"\n\n[ANS thanks ARRL for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Phase 4 Weekly Engineering Report\n\nAMSAT Phase 4 Ground Radio prototype with Ettus Research B210 by\nJohn Petrich W7FU can be viewed at:\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oyAe21bWR4g&feature=youtu.be\n\n[ANS thanks Michelle W5NYV for the above information.]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUS Naval Academy HFsat Receives IARU Frequency Coordination\n\nThe US Naval Academy has received IARU satellite frequency\ncoordination for HFsat, a 1.5 U CubeSat with a 15 meter to 10 meter\nlinear transponder with 30kHz bandwidth. The CubeSat will also carry\nan APRS digipeater on 145.825MHz.\n\nHFsat is a project to demonstrate the viability of HF satellite\ncommunications as a backup communications system using existing\nubiquitous HF radios that are usually a part of the communications\nsuite on all small mobile platforms such has ham radio mobiles and\nportable operations frequently used by Amateurs in support of\ndisaster and emergency response communications. The HFsat will be\ngravity gradient stabilized by its long full size 10 meter band\nhalfwave HF dipole antenna with tip masses.\n\nA standardized CubSsat VHF communications card based on the popular\nByonics MTT4B all-in-one APRS Tiny-Track4 module for telemetry,\ncommand and control is under development at the US Naval Academy.\nStandardizing the communications board makes it easy to add the HF\nTransponder mission into Naval Academy’s standard CubeSat bus without\nan all new start. HFsat will continue the long tradition of small\namateur satellites designed by Aerospace students at the US naval\nAcademy. The students are working with Bill Ress, N6GHZ on the HF\ntransponder card.\n\nHF Uplink: 21.40 MHz, 30 kHz wide multi user bandwidth\nHF downlink: 29.42 MHz, the 30 kHz wide downlink passband\nVHF APRS DigiPeater: 145.825 MHz FM 1200 baud AFSK packet\n\nFind additional information on-line at:\n\nhttp://aprs.org/HFsat.html (US Naval Academy)\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/ (search for HFsat in the list of\nsatellites that have been coordinated)\n\n[ANS thanks the US Naval Academy and the IARU for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between High School \"Léon Blum\", Le\n  Creusot, France  and Astronaut Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG  using Callsign\n  NA1SS. The contact began Mon 2017-01-16 11:53:17 and lasted about\n  nine and a half minutes. Contact was Telebridge via K6DUE.\n  ARISS Mentor was Joseph F6ICS.\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2017-01-19  06:30 UTC\n\nQuick list of scheduled contacts and  events:\n\nSouth Street School, Danbury CT, telebridge via VK4KHZ. The ISS\ncallsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS. The scheduled astronaut\nis Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD. Contact is a go for:\nFri  2017-01-27 19:50:18 UTC\n\nSwiss Space Center – EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, telebridge via\nW6SRJ. The ISS callsign is  presently scheduled to be NA1SS. The\nscheduled astronaut is Thomas  Pesquet KG5FYG. Contact is a go for:\nThu 2017-01-26 11:06:29 UTC\n\nARISS  is always glad to receive listener reports for the above\ncontacts. ARISS  thanks everyone in advance for their assistance.\nFeel free to send your  reports to [email protected] or [email protected].\n\nListen for the ISS on  the downlink of 145.800  MHz.\n\nThe  following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact:\nArkansas,  Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam,\nNorthern Marianas  Islands, and the Virgin  Islands.\n\nQSL information may be found at:\nhttp://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html\n\nISS callsigns:  DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS,  RSØISS\n\nCheck  out the Zoho reports of the ARISS  contacts\nhttps://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415\n\nExp.  49 on orbit\nShane Kimbrough KE5HOD\nAndrei Borisenko\nSergey  Ryzhikov\n\nExp. 50 on orbit\nPeggy Whitson\nThomas Pesquet  KG5FYG\nOleg  Novitskiy\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above\n information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ APRS Symbol Look Up Table\n\n  Kenneth Finnegan, W6KWF has created an easy to use lookup table for\n  APRS symbol codes.\n\n  \"I've made a lookup table which has the symbol code, the primary\n  symbol, and the secondary symbol all on top of each other as opposed\n  to the three adjacent tables on the aprs.org page:\n  http://tinyurl.com/ANS-022-APRS-Table\n\n  [ANS thanks Kenneth K6KWF for the above information.]\n\n+ Colloquium Videos for 2009-2012 Posted on YouTube\n\n  AMSAT-UK reports that thanks to Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG and @BATC\n  online videos of talks given at AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2009-2012 are\n  now posted at:\n  https://www.youtube.com/user/AMSATUK/videos\n\n  [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n+ June Page of the 2017 ARRL Calendar Features NPOTA Satellite Ops\n\n  \"Fernando Ramirez-Ferrer NP4JV, overlooks the vastness of Grand\n  Canyon National Park (NP22) in Arizona as he makes contacts via\n  the SO-50 Amateur Radio satellite. This was the sixth NPOTA unit\n  he had activated via satellite.\" (Ruth V Ramirez, photo credit)\n\n  [ANS thanks ARRL for the above information.]\n\n+ UT1FG/MM is departing Finland ~1900 UTC (21 January) heading to\n  Mexico.\n\n  Clean your antennas, de-wax your ears and remember to give others\n  a chance to get through..\n\n  [ANS thanks Jari OH2FQV, Via Twitter, for the above information.]\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, AA8EM\naa8em at amsat dot org\n",
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