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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/T47C2VSV5CFQNAXRJUTYV33OAVTZELXQ/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "T47C2VSV5CFQNAXRJUTYV33OAVTZELXQ", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/T47C2VSV5CFQNAXRJUTYV33OAVTZELXQ/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[ans] ANS-164 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2016-06-12T01:20:37Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-164\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* 2016 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nomination Deadline This Week\n* ARRL Network Maintenance Set for Sunday, June 12\n* 38 Years of Satellite Contacts Nets Satellite WAS for K8BL\n* Special Event Station K1D to Operate Satellites on Field Day 2016\n* K6R Expedition to Santa Rosa Island and CM93\n* Download Planetary Society's LightSail-2 Morse Beacon as a Ringtone\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-164.01\nANS-164 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 164.01\n From AMSAT HQ Kensington, MD.\nJune 12, 2016\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-164.01\n\n\n2016 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nomination Deadline This Week\n\nIt's time to submit nominations for the upcoming AMSAT-NA Board of\nDirectors election. Three director's terms expire this year: Tom\nClark, K3IO, JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM, and Lou McFadin, W5DID. In\naddition, up to two Alternates may be elected for one year terms.\n\nA valid nomination requires either one Member Society or five current\nindividual members in good standing to nominate an AMSAT-NA member for\nDirector. Written nominations, consisting of the nominee's name and\ncall, and the nominating individual's names, calls and individual\nsignatures should be mailed to: AMSAT-NA, 10605 Concord St, #304\nKensington, MD 20895-2526.\n\nIn addition to traditional submissions of written nominations, which\nis the preferred method, the intent to nominate someone may be made by\nelectronic means. These include e-mail, Fax, or electronic image of a\npetition. Electronic petitions should be sent to MARTHA at AMSAT.ORG\nor Faxed to (301)822-4371.\n\nNo matter what means is used, petitions MUST arrive no later than June\n15th at the AMSAT-NA office. If the nomination is a traditional\nwritten nomination, no other action is required. If it is other than\nthis, i.e. electronic, a verifying traditional written petition MUST\nbe received at the AMSAT-NA office at the above address within 7 days\nfollowing the close of nominations on June 15th.\n\nELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS WITHOUT THIS SECOND, WRITTEN VERIFICATION ARE\nNOT VALID UNDER THE EXISTING AMSAT-NA BYLAWS.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA Secretary, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, for the\nabove information]\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARRL Network Maintenance Set for Sunday, June 12\n\nThe ARRL IT Department will conduct network maintenance on Sunday, June 12,\nto improve reliability and security. The work will occur between 1100 UTC\nand 2300 UTC.\n\nDuring this period some or all systems may be temporarily unavailable,\nincluding the website. Among services that will be affected are the ARRL\nStore, the National Parks on the Air (NPOTA) page, Logbook of The World\n(LoTW), the DXCC page, and the ARRL VEC page. E-mail also will be offline,\nbut all messages will be queued for later delivery. Telephone service to\nARRL Headquarters also may be affected.\n\nARRL apologizes for any inconvenience.\n\n[ANS thanks the ARRL for the above information]\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n38 Years of Satellite Contacts Nets Satellite WAS for K8BL\n\nCongratulations are in order to Bob Liddy, K8BL, for achieving Worked\nAll States via satellite and earning WAS Satellite Award #341. The con-\ntacts for his award spanned 38 years. Bob's oldest satellite QSL card\nwas from W7LSV in Oregon, 10/13/78 for an Oscar 8 Mode A CW contact.\nBob's last state contacted was North Dakota W0N for a contact with Wyatt,\nAC0RA, via SO50 FM on 11/13/15.\n\nAn AMSAT member since 1979, Bob wrote via the amsat-bb, \"Earlier this\nyear, I was going through my paper QSL's getting ready to make some\nsubmissions for various ARRL Awards at the Dayton Hamvention. Sorting\nthrough the cards, I made a stack of Satellite QSL's. I started to notice\nthat I had quite a few States confirmed and wondered if I was finally\nclose to WAS even though I wasn't really int he hunt very seriously. Would\nyou believe I had them ALL worked but was only missing a QSL from Vermont?!!\n\nHappily, it was Nick, KB1RVT who I KNEW was always good for a confirmation\nwhich he quickly returned confirming our contact via SO-50 FM on 1/4/16.\n50 Paper QSL's, 38 Years!! WHEW!! Thanks to all who helped.\"\n\n[ANS thanks -and, congratulates - Bob Liddy, K8BL for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSpecial Event Station K1D to Operate Satellites on Field Day 2016\n\nField Day is always the fourth full weekend of June, beginning at 1800 UTC\nSaturday and running through 2059 UTC Sunday. Field Day 2016 is June 25-26.\n\nIn an effort to encourage more kids and their families to get involved in\nthe hobby, the kids at Ham Radio (dot) World are working to put an all-kids\nSpecial Event ARRL Field Day station on the air in 2016. This station will\nhave the special event call sign of K1D and it will be set-up, operated, and\nput away by kids who are ham radio operators. Kids of all ages and their\nparents (both licensed hams and non-hams alike) are encouraged to come out\nand participate in this exciting event. New hams and even non-hams can\nexperience the excitement of talking to people around the world with the\nGet On the Air (GOTA) station, which will have the callsign K4G. Both \nstations\nwill operate from grid EL99IA in Deland, Florida, USA.\n\nThe kids will be on the HF bands and on the Amateur Radio satellites. \nK1D will\nbe joined by AMSAT’s Vice-President Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, who\nwill be a kid-for-a-day to help get the kids on the linear satellites. Look\nfor them and give them a shout!\n\nThe K1D Special Event Field Day station will be built by the kids prior to\nthe Field Day activities. The kids have built a solar power solution–from\nscratch–to use to power their K1D Special Event Field Day station. Kyocera\nSolar and West Mountain Radio have graciously donated parts to this solar\npower supply – THANK YOU! They also plan on using a Genasun MPPT Charge\nController to manage charging the battery. Emmett of Radiowavz.com is\nproviding a Sentinel Expedition Hex Beam for K1D. Finally, the kids have\nbuilt their own W7FG True Ladder Line antenna with parts provided by\nTrueLadderLine.com and are building additional antennas to use for Field\nDay. Keep watching Ham Radio (dot) World for videos of the kids as they\nbuild their Special Event Station.\n\nJoin WX4TVJ (Zechariah), who was licensed at 12 years old,\nAE4FH (Faith Hannah), who was licensed at 10 years old, KM4IPF (Hope),\nwho was licensed at 8 years old, & 7 year old Grace (KM4TXT)for Field Day\n2016. Listen for them on the air and give them a break by making K1D one\nof your 2016 Field Day contacts.\n\nFor helping to encourage youth in amateur radio, stations who work K1D\nand/or K4G during the 2016 ARRL Field Day will be eligible for a special\nK1D/K4G Commemorative QSL card.\n\nMore information at\nhttp://hamradio.world/\n\n\n[ANS thanks James, WX4TV for the above information]\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nK6R Expedition to Santa Rosa Island and CM93\n\nThe K6R Satellite Expedition to Santa Rosa Island and CM93 is a go for \nSeptember\n16th-18th, 2016. Permissions have been secured and arrangements made to \nget to\nthe island, spend 2 nights camping, and operate on a number of Satellite \npasses\n– as well as some terrestrial and HF too.\n\nUpdates will be on the K6R QRZ.com page at \nhttps://www.qrz.com/lookup/K6R and\nover the coming months FAQs, pictures, and more information will be added.\n\n[ANS thanks Wyatt, AC0RA & Dave, KG5CCI, for the above information]\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nDownload Planetary Society's LightSail-2 Morse Beacon as a Ringtone\n\nOn the Planetary Society's Blog Jason Davis wrote about reception of the \nmorse\ncode beacon from the upcoming LightSail-2 mission ... \"Many off-the-shelf\nCubeSat software packages also have an option to transmit Morse code \nbeacons,\nand for the LightSail 2 mission, we're activating this feature. Every 45\nseconds, the spacecraft will transmit \"L-S-2,\" and radio operators tuned \nin to\nthe spacecraft's 437.325 megahertz frequency should be able to hear it.\"\n\nThe Blog provides details of how to make the LightSail-2 morse code \nbeacon into\na ringtone on your phone:\n\nhttp://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2016/20160609-lightsail-2-morse-\ncode.html\n\n[ANS thanks the Planetary Society for the above information and wishes them\nsuccess with their LightSail-2 mission]\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,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }