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    "subject": "[ans] ANS-234 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2016-08-21T02:07:35Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-234\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* Call for 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Papers\n* AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballots Due by September 15th\n* Happy 20th Birthday to FO-29!\n* 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Registration Reminder\n* Amateur Radio BIRDS CubeSat Constellation\n* RadFxSat-2 (Fox-1E) Launch Scheduled for December 2017\n* Graham Shirville G3VZV to be next BATC President\n* AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-234.01\nANS-234 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 234.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE August 21, 2016\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-234.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCall for 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Papers\n\n\nThe 2016 AMSAT-NA Annual Meeting and Space Symposium will be held on the\nweekend of November 10- 14, 2016. Proposals for papers, symposium\npresentations, and poster presentations are invited on any topic of \ninterest\nto the amateur  satellite community. We request a tentative title of your\npresentation  as soon as possible, but no later than September 15th. The\nfinal copy must be submitted by October 15th for inclusion in the printed\nproceedings. Abstracts and papers should be sent to Dan Schultz at\[email protected]\n\nThe 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting will be held aboard the\ncruise ship Carnival Liberty departing from the port of Galveston,Texas on\nNovember 10, 2016 and returning to port on November 14, 2016.\n\n\n[ANS thanks 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Committee for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballots Due by September 15th\n\n\nBallots have been mailed to AMSAT-NA members in good standing, and\nmust be returned to the AMSAT-NA office by September 15, 2016 in order\nto be counted. Those sent outside North America were sent by air mail.\nIf you have not received your ballot package in a reasonable time for\nyour QTH, please contact the AMSAT-NA office. Your completed ballot\nshould be sent as promptly as possible, and those from outside North\nAmerican preferably by air mail or other expedited means.\n\nThis year there are five candidates:\n\nTom Clark, K3IO\nClayton Coleman, W5PFG\nMark Hammond, N8MH\nBruce Paige, KK5DO\nPaul Stoetzer, N8HM\n\nThe three candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be\nseated as voting Board Members with two year terms. The two candidates\nreceiving the next highest number of votes will be non-voting\nAlternate Board Members with terms of one year. Please vote for no\nmore than three candidates.\n\nPlease take the time to review the candidate statements that accompany\nthe ballot and determine who you wish to see on the Board. Election of\nBoard members is both an obligation as well as an opportunity by our\nmembership to help shape the future direction of AMSAT-NA.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nHappy 20th Birthday to FO-29!\n\n\nHappy 20th Birthday to Fuji-OSCAR 29! FO-29, known as JAS-2 (Japan Amateur\nSatellite #2) prior to launch, was built by the Japan Amateur Radio League\nand launched on August 17, 1996 from Tanegashima Space Center on an H-II\nlaunch vehicle into a 1,323 km x 800 km orbit with an inclination of 98.5\ndegrees. In addition to a 100 kHz wide analog Mode V/u (JA) transponder,\nthe satellite also includes a packet BBS and digitalker. While the packet\nBBS and digitalker are non-functional, the analog transponder continues to\nprovide excellent service to the present day.\n\nWith an apogee of 1,323 km, FO-29 provides satellite operators with \nexcellent\nDX opportunities every few months when the passes over a certain area \nare at\nor near apogee. Intercontinental QSOs are regularly reported, including\nbetween Japan and Alaska as well as North America and Europe. Although the\ntheoretical maximum range at apogee is 7,502 km, the excellent sensitivity\nof the transponder as well as it’s strong and solid 1 watt downlink signal\nallows that distance to be stretched when the conditions are suitable. The\nlongest distance QSO made via FO-29’s analog transponder occurred on\nAugust 27, 2015 with an unscheduled 7,599.959 km contact between KG5CCI in\nArkansas and F4CQA in France.\n\nThe sensitivity of the transponder and Mode V/U configuration also allow\nfor the effective use of minimal equipment. QSOs have been reported using a\nsingle Yaesu FT-817 transceiver and the stock rubber duck antenna. Taking\nadvantage of the large footprint and ease of use, the K1N DXpedition to\nNavassa Island made a total of 29 QSOs during two passes of FO-29 on\nFebruary 12, 2015 using a single Yaesu FT-817 along with an Arrow antenna,\nactivating that extremely rare DX entity on satellite for the first time\nsince 1978. To this day, FO-29 remains the most widely used linear \ntransponder\nsatellite and an ideal satellite for beginners looking to become active on\nthe linear transponder satellites to try first. The FO-29 control station\nmaintains a blog (in Japanese) at\nhttp://blog.goo.ne.jp/fo-29\nThe JARL also offers an award for confirmed QSOs with ten different \nstations\nvia FO-29.\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?p=5417\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA and Paul, N8HM for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Registration Reminder\n\n-          Booking your Carnival Cruise does not register you for the\nAMSAT Symposium.  There is a charge for each Symposium attendee of\n$40.  This fee applies to those who will attend the technical\npresentations only and includes a copy of the printed Proceedings.\nAdditional guests are entitled to attend all other events. The\nregistration form is available from the AMSAT office or store website.\nOnline Symposium registration:\n\nhttp://store.amsat.org/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=130\n\n-          Ground transportation options have been added to the FAQ\npage on the AMSAT Symposium web page.  Carnival offers round-trip\ntransportation from HOU airport to the cruise terminal at\napproximately $74 per person, IAH airport $94 per person.  If you are\ntraveling to the Board of Directors meeting, you may still utilize the\nCarnival transportation option for your return to the airport from the\ncruise terminal.  However, you will need to obtain other\ntransportation between the airport and the Galveston DoubleTree hotel.\n\nCruise information may be found at:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?page_id=3667\n\n\n[ANS thanks 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium Committee for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAmateur Radio BIRDS CubeSat Constellation\n\n\nThe BIRDS constellation, planned to deploy from the ISS in 2017, will \nconsist\nof four 1U CubeSats (BIRD-B, BIRD-J, BIRD-G and BIRD-M). They are made \nof the\nexactly same design including the radio frequencies to be used and will be\ndeployed together.\n\nThe main mission of the constellation is to do experiments on radio\ncommunication with a CubeSat constellation via a network of UHF/VHF amateur\nradio ground stations all over the world.\n\nThe challenge is to distinguish each satellite from the four satellites\ntransmitting with the same frequency, hand over operation of a satellite \nfrom\none ground station to another and assemble the satellite data, such as\nhousekeeping telemetry, music and the Earth images, obtained at different\nground stations.\n\nAmateur radio enthusiasts are asked to join the network to assist in the \ndata\ndownlink and reconstruction of the patchy satellite data into one meaningful\ndata. Orbit information and operational plan of each satellite will be made\navailable to the amateur radio community in the world. Software to \ndecode the\nsatellite data will be also made available.\n\nThe respective amateur ground stations that can successfully decode the\ntelemetry data, music and the Earth images, shall receive a QSL card \nfrom the\nBIRDS team. The data reconstructed by the effort of the amateur ground \nstation\nnetwork will be made public to share the sense of satisfaction and \nachievement.\n\nA particularly interesting mission of BIRDS project is the SNG mission that\nexchanges music via a digi-singer. It is an outreach-oriented mission. \nFirst,\nmusic in MIDI format is uploaded from ground. Then the MIDI file is \nprocessed\non-board using a vocal synthesizer. Finally, the processed music is sent \nback\nto Earth using UHF antenna as voice FM data.\n\nDuring organized events on space utilization with schools or general public,\nmusic could be heard using a common hand-held receiver and hand-made Yagi\nantenna positioned to track the satellite at each given pass over the \nregion.\nThis has a tremendous effect on awareness of radio communication among \nschool\nchildren and general public, especially in the countries participating \nin the\nBIRDS project, Japan, Ghana, Mongolia, Nigeria and Bangladesh.\n\nProposing to use CW, 1k2 AFSK FM, audio FM and 9k6 GMSK downlinks. \nPlanning a\nJAXA sponsored deployment from the ISS during 2017.\n\nBIRDS project information:\nhttp://birds.ele.kyutech.ac.jp/\nhttp://birds.ele.kyutech.ac.jp/amateur.html\nhttp://birds.ele.kyutech.ac.jp/newsletter.html\nhttps://www.facebook.com/Joint-Global-Multi-Nation-Birds-BIRDS-project-\n171403156542445/\n\nDownload the Paper – IAA-CU-15-01-16 Five-nations CubeSat constellation; An\ninexpensive test case for learning and capacity building\n\nhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/289868265_IAA-CU-15-01-16_Five-\nnations_CubeSat_constellation_An_inexpensive_test_case_for_learning_and_capaci-\n_ty_building\n\nThe IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination pages are hosted by AMSAT-UK at\nhttp://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nRadFxSat-2 (Fox-1E) Launch Scheduled for December 2017\n\n\nAMSAT has been informed that the launch for the NASA Educational Launch of\nNanosatellites (ELaNa) XX mission carrying RadFxSat-2 (Fox-1E) has been\nscheduled for December 2017.\n\nIn addition to RadFxSat-2, the ELaNa XX mission will carry 12 CubeSats\nconstructed both by NASA and several universities around the United \nStates. The\nmission will be launched by Virgin Galactic on their LauncherOne air \nlaunch to\norbit system from Mojave, CA\n\nRadFxSat-2, like RadFxSat (Fox-1B), is a partnership opportunity between the\nVanderbilt University Institute for Space and Defense Electronics and \nAMSAT and\nwill carry a similar radiation effects experiment, studying new FinFET\ntechnology.\n\nRadFxSat-2 will be the fifth Fox-1 satellite built by AMSAT. Fox-1A, now \nAMSAT-\nOSCAR 85 (AO-85), was launched on October 8, 2015 and is fully operational,\nproviding science data from it's onboard experiments and FM transponder \nservice\nfor the amateur radio community. Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D are scheduled for \nlaunch\nthis fall and RadFxSat is scheduled to launch in early 2017.\n\nThe RadFxSat-2 spacecraft bus will be built on the Fox-1 series but will\nfeature a linear transponder “upgrade” to replace the standard FM \ntransponder\nin Fox-1A through D. In addition, the uplink and downlink bands will be\nreversed from the previous Fox satellites in a Mode V/u (J) \nconfiguration using\na 2 meter uplink and 70 cm downlink. The downlink will feature a 1200 \nbps BPSK\ntelemetry channel to carry the Vanderbilt science data in addition to a \n30 kHz\nwide transponder for amateur radio use.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA and Paul, N8HM for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nGraham Shirville G3VZV to be next BATC President\n\n\nThe British Amateur Television Club (BATC) has announced that Graham\nShirville, G3VZV, has been chosen to be the organization's next \nPresident. He\nfirst joined BATC in the early 1970’s, where he supported the development of\nthe network of ATV repeaters in the UK for many years.\n\nMore recently he has been closely involved with the development of the HamTV\nsystem on the ISS and with the schools contacts with Tim Peake during his\nPrincipia Mission.\n\nGraham has also been a driving force behind AMSAT-UK’s FUNcube satellite\nprojects and was briefly shown working on the FUNcube-1 satellite in the \nRSGB\nYouth video Amateur Radio – a 21st Century Hobby.\n\nHe provided the deployment mechanism for the Slow Scan Television (SSTV)\nsatellite ARISSat-1/KEDR which was released from the International Space\nStation by cosmonauts Sergei Volkov RU3DIS and Alexander Samokutyaev.\n\nBritish Amateur Television Club\nhttp://www.batc.org.uk/\n\nhttps://amsat-uk.org/2016/08/19/graham-shirville-g3vzv-batc-president/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Events\n\n\nInformation about AMSAT activities at other important events around\nthe country.  Examples of these events are radio club meetings where\nAMSAT Area Coordinators give presentations, demonstrations of working\namateur satellites, and hamfests with an AMSAT presence (a table with\nAMSAT literature and merchandise, sometimes also with presentations,\nforums, and/or demonstrations).\n\n*Saturday, 3 September 2016 - Shelby Hamfest in Shelby, NC (ARRL North\nCarolina State Convention) - AMSAT Forum Only\n\n*Saturday and Sunday, 10-11 September 2016 Boxboro Hamfest in Boxborough,\nMA (ARRL New England Division Convention)\n\n*Friday, 23 September 2016 – presentation at Jet Propulsion Laboratory\nAmateur Radio Club in Pasadena CA\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 21-22 October 2016 – CopaFest 2016, south of\nMaricopa AZ\n\n*Saturday, 12 November 2016 – Oro Valley Amateur Radio Club Hamfest in\nMarana AZ\n\n*Saturday, 3 December 2016 – Superstition Superfest in Mesa AZ\n\n*Saturday, 14 January 2017 – Thunderbird Hamfest 2017 in Phoenix AZ\n\n*Saturday, 4 February 2017 – Palm Springs Hamfest in Palm Springs CA\n\n*Friday-Sunday, 10-12 February 2017   Orlando HamCation in Orlando, FL\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 17-18 February 2017 – Yuma Hamfest in Yuma AZ\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\nSuccessful Contacts\n\n*  Daisen Elementary School,  Saihaku-gun, Japan, direct via 8J4DISS\nThe ISS callsign was scheduled to be NA1SS\nThe scheduled astronaut was Takuya Onishi  KF5LKS\nContact was successful: Sat 2016-08-20 08:50:19 UTC 42 deg\nSignal was very clear and strong.\n13 students prepared 26 questions. They got 15 answers.\nNews papers : 4\nTV : 5\nAudience: 210\n\nVideo:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHcoPW5Ex-I\n\nOyama Elementary School is near the Oyama National Park in Tottori\nPrefecture. It is a small elementary school with a population of 76.\nThis school contact will involve 13 students in the sixth grade\n(ages 11 and 12), who will interview astronaut Onishi.\n\n*  Kopernik Observatory & Science Center, Vestal NY, direct via K2ZRO\nThe ISS callsign was scheduled to be NA1SS\nThe  scheduled astronaut was Jeff Williams KD5TVQ\nContact was successful: Thu  2016-08-18 16:24:42 UTC 29 deg\n\n*  A telebridge contact via IS1SLD with students attending Space Camp at \nthe\nU.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville AL, USA, was successful Thu \n2016-08-11\n14:48:24 UTC 83 deg.\n\n*  A direct contact via OK2KET with the OK2KJT Radioclub, Valasska Polanka,\nCzech Republic, was successful Wed 2016-08-10 18:56:17 UTC 90 deg.\n\n\nUpcoming Contacts\n\n*  The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis IN, direct via  N9DR\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS\nThe scheduled  astronaut is Kate Rubins KG5FYJ\nContact is a go for: Tue 2016-08-23  15:09:15 UTC 42 deg\n\nFounded in 1925, the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis creates immersive,\ninterdisciplinary experiences that promote inquiry-based family learning\nacross the arts, sciences, and humanities. The museum is a 473,000 square\nfoot, five-level facility that houses 11 permanent exhibit galleries, two\ntraveling exhibit spaces, a children’s theater, a planetarium, a public\nlibrary, a preschool, and a collection of more than 115,000 artifacts and\nobjects. Most recently, the Children’s Museum opened Beyond Spaceship \nEarth,\nand immersive exhibit focused on human space travel.  Beyond Spaceship \nEarth\nfeatures three components: a recreation of portions of the inside of the\nInternational Space Station (ISS); a one-of-a-kind, immersive space object\nexperience called the Schaefer Planetarium & Space Object Theater; and an\nAstronaut Wall of Fame, which will pay tribute to more than 30 astronauts\nwith ties to Indiana.\n\nHosting more than one million visitors each year, the museum has received\nnumerous accolades, including being named one of the top 3 science centers\nin the country by Family Fun magazine. The museum has been ranked as the\nnumber one children’s museum by Forbes.com. Through a variety of free and\ndiscounted admission programs for under-served populations, as well as its\ncommunity outreach efforts targeting local neighborhood residents and\nurban public schools, the Museum ensures that its visitor population is\ndiverse.\n\n\nWatch\nhttp://www.ariss.org/upcoming-contacts.html\nfor information about upcoming contacts as they are scheduled.\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Dave, AA4KN, and Charlie, AJ9N for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nInternational Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend - Satellite operation\n\nOn the AMSAT-BB, Ken, GW1FKY reports:\nWith reference to the question about satellite operation for this years\n\"International Lighthouse /Lightship \"\nevents  ( ILL ) dates Saturday 20 th and Sunday 21st august  2016.\nOver here in Wales ( United Kingdom ) the \" Barry Amateur Radio Society \"\nwill be operating from a twin pair of lighthouses located at \"NASH POINT\"\nsituated on the coast of the Bristol Channel -  South Wales.\nWe will be limited to operation during approx. 0700 -1600 hrs GMT only I\nregret to say.\n\n\" In addition to operating on the HF and VHF bands I also plan to set up\nmy portable satellite equipment for operation and contacts during suitable\npasses\"\n\nCallsign /Lighthouse and details as follows\nGC6BRC - Lighthouse ( High ) Ref:  UK0071:\nGC4BRS - Lighthouse ( Low )  Ref:  UK0072\n\nLocator Ref: IO81FJ\nQSL Manager : MW0DHF (Philip King)\nWeather is not looking to good - hopefully it will not deter our plans  for\noperation.\n\n[ANS thanks Ken, GW1FKY and AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\nYX0V DXpedition to Aves Island to Include Satellite Operations\n\nThe YX0V DXpedition to Aves Island, scheduled for August 31, 2016 –\nSeptember 10, 2016, will include satellite operations. Aves Island, a\ndependency of Venezuela located west of Dominica and Guadeloupe in the\nCaribbean Sea (grid FK85eq), is currently the 17th most wanted DXCC entity\non the Club Log DXCC Most-Wanted List and was last on the air in 2007. It\nwas active on satellite during the YV0D expedition in 2004, but only three\nQSOs were made before the DXpedition was cut short due to rain.\n\nSatellite plans are yet to be finalized. YX0V information can be found on\ntheir website at\nhttp://yx0v.com/,\non Twitter at\nhttps://twitter.com/yx0v2016,\nand on Facebook at\nhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/yx0v2016/\n\n[ANS thanks Paul, N8HM for the above information]\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,\nJoe Spier, K6WAO\nk6wao at amsat dot org\n",
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