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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/STOQYEA3EPEXRMNC5ACVWNB7E4TPKMUN/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "CADDbS5BJAw8pWhmWWVNZVbuLooiPUvvkWXtuJDdyF-tiamVcFw@mail.gmail.com", "message_id_hash": "STOQYEA3EPEXRMNC5ACVWNB7E4TPKMUN", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/STOQYEA3EPEXRMNC5ACVWNB7E4TPKMUN/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "k0jm.mark (a) gmail.com", "mailman_id": "4fa2bb5eca934ca4b14c4ede20ff0c9a", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/4fa2bb5eca934ca4b14c4ede20ff0c9a/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Mark Johns, K0JM", "subject": "[ANS] ANS-051 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for Feb. 20", "date": "2022-02-20T00:00:00Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-051\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information\nservice of AMSAT, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes\nnews related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities\nof a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active\ninterest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog\nand digital Amateur Radio satellites.\n\nThe news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in\nSpace as soon as our volunteers can post it.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor [at]\namsat.org\n\nYou can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service\nBulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see:\nhttps://mailman.amsat.org/postorius/lists/ans.amsat.org/\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* ARISS Europe to Perform Special Digital SSTV Experiment\n* Nayif-1 (EO-88) Celebrates a Fifth Birthday in Orbit!\n* URESAT-1 -- A Chess-Playing Ham Radio Satellite\n* A DX-pedition to the World's Northernmost Habitable Place!\n* Amateur Radio Payloads on Cubesats from Western Australia\n* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for February 17, 2022\n* Message to US Educators: ARISS Contact Opportunity\n* ARISS News\n* Upcoming Satellite Operations\n* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nANS-051 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nTo: All RADIO AMATEURS\nFrom: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation\n712 H Street NE, Suite 1653\nWashington, DC 20002\n\nDATE 2022 Feb 20\n\n\nARISS Europe to Perform Special Digital SSTV Experiment\n\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is planning for a\nspecial SSTV experiment. ARISS is the group that puts together special\namateur radio contacts between students around the globe and crew members\nwith ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS) and\ndevelops and operates the amateur radio equipment on ISS.\n\nAs part of its ARISS 2.0 initiative, the ARISS International team is\nexpanding its educational and life-long learning opportunities for youth\nand ham radio operators around the world. ARISS Slow Scan Television\n(SSTV), which is the transmission of images from ISS using amateur radio,\nis a very popular ARISS mode of operation. To expand ARISS SSTV\ncapabilities, the ARISS Europe and ARISS USA teams plan to perform special\nSSTV Experiments using a new SSTV digital coding scheme. For the signal\nreception, the software \"KG-STV\" is required, as available on internet.\n\nWe kindly request that the amateur radio community refrain from the use of\nthe voice repeater thin this SSTV experiment on 20th of February 2022 over\nEurope.\n\nThis is a unique and official ARISS experiment. We kindly request keeping\nthe voice repeater uplink free from other voice transmissions during the\nexperiment time period. Also note that ARISS is temporarily employing the\nvoice repeater to expedite these experiments and make a more permanent,\nmore expansive SSTV capability fully operational on other downlink\nfrequencies.\n\nThe first experiment in the series will utilize ARISS approved ground\nstations in Europe that will transmit these digital SSTV signals. These\nwill be available for all in the ISS footprint when SSTV transmissions\noccur. The first SSTV experiment is planned for 20 February 2022 between\n05:10 UTC and 12:00 UTC for five ISS passes over Europe. Please be aware\nthat this event depends on ARISS IORS radio availabilities and ISS crew\nsupport, so last-minute changes may occur.\n\nTo promote quick experimental SSTV investigations--to learn and\nimprove--the ARISS team will employ the ISS Kenwood radio in its cross-band\nrepeater mode. The crossband repeater operates on a downlink of 437.800\nMHz. Each transmission sequence will consist of 1:40 minute transmission,\nfollowed by 1:20 minute pause and will be repeated several times within an\nISS pass over Europe.\n\nThe used modulation is MSK w/o error correction. For the decoding of the\n320 x 240 px image, the software KG-STV is required. The KG-STV software\ncan be downloaded from the following link: \"\nhttp://amsat-nl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/kgstv_ISS.zip\"\n\nThe ZIP file contains the KG-STV program, an installation and setup manual,\nsome images and MP3 audio samples for your first tests as well as links for\nadditional technical information about the KG-STV use.\n\nThe members of the ham radio community youth and the public are invited to\nreceive and decode these special SSTV signals.\n\nExperiment reports are welcome and should be uploaded to \"\[email protected]\" More information will be available on the\nAMSAT-NL.org web page: \"https://amsat-nl.org/?page_id=568\"\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS Team Member Oliver Amend, DG6BCE for the above\ninformation]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n The 2022 AMSAT President's Club coins have arrived!\n To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its launch on\nOctober 15, 1972, this year's coin features\nan image of AMSAT-OSCAR 6.\n Join the AMSAT President's Club today and help\nKeep Amateur Radio in Space!\n https://www.amsat.org/join-the-amsat-presidents-club/\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nNayif-1 (EO-88) Celebrates a Fifth Birthday in Orbit!\n\nNayif-1 (EO-88) was launched at 03:58 UTC on February 15, 2017, on a PSLV\nlauncher from India. It was part of a world record launch as the C37 flight\ncarried 104 spacecraft into orbit.\n\nThe transmitter was autonomously activated around 04:47 UTC and the first\nsignals were received and decoded a few minutes later by KB6LTY and within\na few hours more than 250 stations around the world had submitted telemetry\nreports to the Data Warehouse.\n\nAfter more than 27500 orbits of the earth, the spacecraft continues to\nfunction nominally. It switches between high power telemetry when in\ndaylight to low power telemetry and transponder when in eclipse.\n\nThe mission was developed by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC)\nand American University of Sharjah (AUS). The UAE’s first Nanosatellite was\ndeveloped by Emirati engineering students from AUS under the supervision of\na team of engineers and specialists from MBRSC within the framework of a\npartnership between the two entities, aiming to provide hands-on experience\nto engineering students on satellite manufacturing.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nURESAT-1 -- A Chess-Playing Ham Radio Satellite\n\nThe Unión de Radioaficionados Españoles reports intensive work is underway\nto make URESAT-1 available before the end of the year. If all goes\naccording to plan, URESAT-1 will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket\nfrom Cape Canaveral in October 2022.\n\nA translation of the post by Spain's national amateur radio society URE\nsays: URESAT-1 is based on the architecture used in the GENESIS, EASAT-2\nand HADES missions but will include significant improvements, such as a\n32-bit computer compared to the 8-bit computers of the previous satellites\nand improvements in the mechanisms of deployment of antennas and batteries.\n\nAs for its functionalities, it will have a VHF / UHF FM repeater and FSK\nframes, like its predecessors. This will allow voice QSOs and digipeating\nof AX.25 and APRS frames.\n\nThe payload is not yet defined, but it could be the same SSTV camera that\nflies in HADES, a thruster or some kind of experiment. Talks with\nuniversities and companies and is expected to be closed in the coming weeks.\n\nOne of the projects that is confirmed is a chess game that will allow radio\namateurs to play having as an opponent the on-board computer sending FSK\nframes with the movements, to which the on-board computer will answer in\nits telemetry. Several radio amateurs are working on the project and if it\nis completed by the time the satellite is due to be delivered, it will be\nincluded.\n\nThe expected orbital altitude is around 525 km and the inclination will be\npolar, probably around 97 degrees, which would place it in the same orbital\nplane as its companions EASAT-2 and Hades.\n\nURE has created a blog in WordPress where the status of the project will be\nreported, including details of the functionalities and technicians.\n\nThe blog can be found here https://uresat.ure.es/\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate ARC for the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n Need new satellite antennas? Purchase Arrows, Alaskan Arrows,\n and M2 LEO-Packs from the AMSAT Store. When you purchase through\n AMSAT, a portion of the proceeds goes towards\n Keeping Amateur Radio in Space.\n https://amsat.org/product-category/hardware/\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nA DX-pedition to the World's Northernmost Habitable Place!\n\nDX-Adventure is a joint venture of Max-ON5UR and Erik-ON4ANN, and consists\nof 15 very enthusiastic people with all experience in participating or\norganizing a DX-pedition.\n\nThe first DX-Adventure project is therefore immediately ambitious: The\nArctic Archipelago - Svalbard - IOTA EU026 from April 19-26, 2022,\noperating as JW0X and on satellite as JW100QO.\n\nThe setup is to be active with 5 stations on all HF bands in different\nmodes (CW, SSB, RTTY, FT8-FT4). In addition, we have the ambition to be the\nfirst to activate EU026 on QO-100. Three team members take on the challenge\nof driving a snowmobile all the way to Kapp Linné, about 100km east of\nLongyearbyen.\n\nThis is the only location that allows a \"line of sight\" on the QO-100\nsatellite. In addition, Kapp Linné is also on the edge of the satellite\nfootprint - speaking of a challenge...\n\nEvery contribution is welcome and appreciated.\n\nRead all about the DXpedition at\nhttps://www.dx-adventure.com/en/svalbard-dx-pedition/\n\n[ANS thanks DX-adventure.com for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAmateur Radio Payloads on Cubesats from Western Australia\n\nCurtin University’s Space Science and Technology Centre in Perth Australia\nsays they are planning on launching six more cubesats containing science,\nmaterials engineering, and amateur radio payloads. Their Binar-1 cubesat,\nwhich was deployed from the ISS in 2021, carried a packet radio test to\nverify onboard store and forward functionality for amateur packet radio to\nengage local schools.\n\nBinar-1 frequency coordination page (for reference of their previous\namateur radio payload):\nhttp://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=730\n\nThe entire article citing plans for six additional Binar cubesats can be\naccessed on-line at:\nhttps://particle.scitech.org.au/space/was-homegrown-spacecraft-is-putting-perth-on-space-race-map/\n\n[Thanks to scitech.org.au for the above information]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for February 17, 2022\n\nThe following satellites have been added to this week's AMSAT TLE\nDistribution:\n\nHxxxx - NORAD Cat ID 51080 (Thanks to Space-Track and CelesTrak for ID.)\nEASAT-2 - NORAD Cat ID 51081 (Thanks to Space-Track and CelesTrak for ID.)\n\n[ANS thanks Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMessage to US Educators: ARISS Contact Opportunity\n\nCall for Proposals: New Proposal Window is February 21, 2022 to March 31,\n2022\n\nFebruary 16, 2022 — The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station\n(ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and\norganizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio\ncontact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS anticipates that the\ncontact would be held between January 1, 2023 and June 30, 2023. Crew\nscheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To\nmaximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for\norganizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate\nthe contact into a well-developed education plan.\nThe deadline to submit a proposal is March 31, 2022\n\nProposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal\nguidelines and the proposal form can be found at\nhttps://ariss-usa.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact-in-the-usa/.\n\nAn ARISS Introductory Webinar session will be held on March 3, 2022, at 8\nPM ET. The Eventbrite link to sign up is:\nhttps://ariss-proposal-webinar-spring-2022.eventbrite.com\n\nThe Opportunity\n\nCrew members aboard the International Space Station will participate in\nscheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are approximately 10\nminutes in length and allow students to interact with the astronauts\nthrough a question-and-answer session.\n\nAn ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via Amateur\nRadio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space station and\nclassrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford education audiences the\nopportunity to learn firsthand from astronauts what it is like to live and\nwork in space and to learn about space research conducted on the ISS.\nStudents also will have an opportunity to learn about satellite\ncommunication, wireless technology, and radio science. Because of the\nnature of human spaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities\naboard the ISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate\nchanges in dates and times of the radio contact.\n\nAmateur Radio organizations around the world with the support of NASA and\nspace agencies in Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe present educational\norganizations with this opportunity. The ham radio organizations’ volunteer\nefforts provide the equipment and operational support to enable\ncommunication between crew on the ISS and students around the world using\nAmateur Radio.\n\nPlease direct any questions to [email protected]\n\n(ANS thanks Dave Jordan, AA4KN, ARISS PR Team, for the above information)\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nARISS NEWS\n\nAmateurs and others around the world may listen in on contacts between\namateurs operating in schools and allowing students to interact with\nastronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. The\ndownlink frequency on which to listen is 145.800 MHz worldwide.\n\nRecently completed:\nFH Aachen, University of Applied Sciences, Aachen, Germany, direct via\nDLØFHA with crewmember is Matthias Maurer, KI5KFH, using ISS callsign\nNA1SS. Contact was successful: Mon 2022-02-14 11:40:36 UTC 85 deg.\nCongratulations to the FH Aachen, University of Applied Sciences students\nand Matthias!\n\nUpcoming contacts:\nErasmus-Gymnasium Denzlingen, Denzlingen, Germany AND Goethe-Gymnasium,\nFreiburg, Germany, Direct via DN1EME\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be DPØISS\nThe scheduled crewmember is Matthias Maurer, KI5KFH\nContact is go for: Tue 2022-02-22 10:05:11 UTC 53 deg\n\nSussex County Charter School for Technology, Sparta, NJ, direct via KD2YAQ\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS\nThe scheduled crewmember is Mark Vande Hei, KG5GNP\nContact is go for: Wed 2022-02-23 15:31:11 UTC 74 deg\nWatch for Livestream at: https://youtu.be/U-gPHjI-2JY\n\nThe latest information on the operation mode can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html\n\nThe latest list of frequencies in use can be found at\nhttps://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html\n\n[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, one of the ARISS operation team mentors\nfor the above information]\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\n AMSAT, along with our ARISS partners, is developing an Amateur\n Radio package, including two-way communication capability, to\n be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit.\n\n Support AMSAT's projects today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/\n\n+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+\n\nUpcoming Satellite Operations\n\nEA4NF: March 4-6 IL07, IL17 El Hierro, Canary Islands. If you want to try\nthe QSO, check for mutual footprints and contact Philippe in advance to be\nput in the NA shortlist.\n\nAD7DB & N7JY: DM22, 2/18-2/20 at the Yuma Hamfest!\n\nEvents:\n\nReceived via Email from JoAnne, K9JKM: 4A90, MEXICO (Special Event).\nMembers of the Federacion Mexicana de Radio Experimentadores (FMRE)[Mexican\nSociety]are celebrating their 90th anniversary during January, February and\nMarch 2022 promoting each of the 31 States and Mexico City with the\nfollowing 32 different special event callsigns and 4A90FMRE:\n\n February 15th-March 1st: 4A90NLE, 4A90SLP, 4A90SIN, 4A90SON, 4A90TAM\nand 4A90ZAC\n March 2-16th: 4A90CAM, 4A90CHI, 4A90GRO, 4A90OAX, 4A90QUI, 4A90TAB\nand 4A90YUC\n\nActivity will be on various HF bands using CW, SSB, RTTY, FT8/FT4 and the\nsatellites. Awards are available (see QRZ.com for details). For more\ndetails on the event, see: http://fmre90.puebladx.org\n\nPlease submit any additions or corrections to Ke0pbr (at) gmail.com\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT rover page manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events\n\nAMSAT Ambassadors provide presentations, demonstrate communicating through\namateur satellites, and host information tables at club meetings, hamfests,\nconventions, maker faires, and other events.\n\n+ CubeSat Developers Workshop\nApril 26-28, 2022\nSan Luis Obispo, CA\n\n+ Hamvention 2022\nMay 20, 2022 to May 22, 2022\nGreene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center\n210 Fairground Road\nXenia, Ohio 45385\nhttps://www.hamvention.org\n\n+ 2022 Rocky Mountain ARRL Division Convention\nOctober 7, 2022 - October 9, 2022\nEvent Center at Archer\n3921 Archer Pkwy\nCheyenne, Wyoming 82007\nhttps://wyhamcon.org/site\n\n[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR, AMSAT Events page manager, for the above\ninformation]\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ AMSAT regrets to report the passing of Roy Welch, W0SL. Roy was very\nactive on the satellites and wrote the ORBITS III tracking program. He was\ninstrumental in placing a station in the St. Louis Science Center during\nthe Soviet Space exhibit from mid 1992 to January of 1993. One memorable\nevent during the exhibit was a contact between General Tom Stafford,\nCommander of the Apollo-Soyuz mission and the cosmonauts on board MIR. Roy\nis pictured at the station on the cover of the February 1993 issue of QST.\n(ANS thanks Mike Koenig, N0PFF, for the above information)\n\n+ Two days after launching from Kazakhstan, a Russian Progress cargo\nfreighter docked with the International Space Station on autopilot\nThursday, Feb. 16, with a fresh delivery of food, crew supplies,\nexperiments, and CubeSats that will be released outside the complex on a\nfuture spacewalk. Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, said the Progress MS-19\nspacecraft delivered around 5,562 pounds (2,523 kilograms) of supplies to\nthe station. The arrival of Progress MS-19 at the station marked the first\ndocking at the orbiting outpost this year. Teams at Wallops Island,\nVirginia are preparing for launch of a Cygnus cargo ship Saturday, Feb. 19\non a commercial Antares rocket. If that launch occurs on time, the Cygnus\nspacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the station Monday, Feb. 21. (ANS\nthanks Spaceflight Now for the above information)\n\n+ SpaceX is prepared to shift testing of its Starship next-generation\nlaunch vehicle from Texas to Florida if there are extended delays in an\nongoing environmental review, company founder and chief executive Elon Musk\nsaid Feb. 10. In a long-awaited, and long-delayed, update about development\nof Starship at the company’s Boca Chica, Texas, test site, Musk said he\nthought the Federal Aviation Administration would complete an environmental\nreview and award SpaceX a launch license for Starship launches as soon as\nMarch. One potential outcome of that review, though, is to perform a more\nrigorous environmental impact statement (EIS) that could take months. (ANS\nthanks Spaceflight Now for the above information)\n\n+ Astronomers have identified a Chinese rocket booster as an object on a\ntrajectory to strike the Moon on March 4. The Chinese Chang'e 5-T1 mission\nlaunched in October 2014 on a Long March 3C rocket. This lunar mission sent\na small spacecraft to the Moon as a precursor test for an eventual lunar\nsample return mission. The launch time and lunar trajectory are almost an\nexact match for the orbit of the object that will hit the Moon in March.\n\"In a sense, this remains 'circumstantial' evidence,\" Bill Gray, who writes\nthe widely used Project Pluto software to track near-Earth objects, wrote.\n\"But I would regard it as fairly convincing evidence. So I am persuaded\nthat the object about to hit the moon on 2022 Mar 4 at 12:25 UTC is\nactually the Chang'e 5-T1 rocket stage.\" (ANS thanks ARS Technica for the\nabove information)\n\n+ A company called Halibut Electronics has announced plans to produce and\nmarket a Satellite Optimized Amateur Radio (SOAR) rig. Video announcement\nat https://electronics.halibut.com/ (ANS thanks Halibut Electronics for\nthe above information)\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nJoin AMSAT today at https://launch.amsat.org/\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership to:\n\n* Societies (a recognized group, clubs or organization).\n* Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at\none-half the standard yearly rate.\n* Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status\nshall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary\nyears in this status.\n* Memberships are available for annual and lifetime terms.\n\nContact info [at] amsat.org for additional membership information.\n\n73 and remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space!\n\nThis week's ANS Editor, Mark Johns, K0JM\nk0jm at amsat dot org\n\n\n", "attachments": [ { "email": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/STOQYEA3EPEXRMNC5ACVWNB7E4TPKMUN/?format=api", "counter": 2, "name": "attachment.html", "content_type": "text/html", "encoding": "utf-8", "size": 24599, "download": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/STOQYEA3EPEXRMNC5ACVWNB7E4TPKMUN/attachment/2/attachment.html" } ] }