Email Detail

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/VF7DAGHBVPL2GYJJITHTJTU5II4FIAE4/?format=api",
    "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api",
    "message_id": "CAM5+sotSO4NzRk71LQxvWT0GHd0LFpbc_N52ZXDpEck=JMBmFQ@mail.gmail.com",
    "message_id_hash": "VF7DAGHBVPL2GYJJITHTJTU5II4FIAE4",
    "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/VF7DAGHBVPL2GYJJITHTJTU5II4FIAE4/?format=api",
    "sender": {
        "address": "mccardelm (a) gmail.com",
        "mailman_id": "147f14b8d896456cbff7f12049b091a2",
        "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/147f14b8d896456cbff7f12049b091a2/emails/?format=api"
    },
    "sender_name": "E.Mike McCardel",
    "subject": "[ans] ANS-103 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2014-04-13T02:12:40Z",
    "parent": null,
    "children": [],
    "votes": {
        "likes": 0,
        "dislikes": 0,
        "status": "neutral"
    },
    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-103\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* March/April 2014 AMSAT Journal is Ready\n* NASA, SpaceX Officials Continue Preparations for 14 April Launch\n* KickSat CubeSat to Deploy Smallest Earth-Orbiting Satellites\n* AMSAT at the Dayton Hamvention - 2nd call for volunteers\n* N8PK appears with students in YouTube video\n* ISS HamTV moves to 2369 MHz\n* FUNcube/AO-73 Transponder plans for the future\n* Upcoming AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-103.01\nANS-103 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 103.01\n>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nDATE April 13, 2014\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-103.01\n\n\nMarch/April 2014 AMSAT Journal is Ready\n\nThe March/April 2014 AMSAT Journal is completed. It is on its way to\nthe print shop and then to your mailbox. Here is what you will find\nin this issue:\n\n+ AMSAT Announcements:\n  Straight Key Night on OSCAR Results\n  Steve Coy, K8UD Joins the AMSAT Board of Directors\n\n+ Apogee View by Barry Baines, WD4ASW\n\n+ G. Gould Smith, WA4SXM - Thank You for Your 25 Years\n  of Accomplishment\n\n+ 2014 AMSAT Board of Directors Election Notice by\n  Alan Biddle, AMSAT Corporate Secretary, WA4SCA\n\n+ Anthony \"Tony\" J. Monteiro, AA2TX Silent Key\n\n+ Upcoming Amateur Radio Cubesats: The Flood Has Arrived\n  by Bryan Klofas, KF6ZEO\n\n+ W5PFG/P: Observations from a roving operator\n  by Clayton Coleman, W5PFG\n\n+ Fox-1 Telemetry Coding and Modulation Design\n  by Phil Karn, KA9Q; Paul Williamson, KB5MU;\n  Michelle Thompson, W5NYV\n\n+ AMSAT Field Day Announcement\n\n+ Meet Jerry Buxton, N0JY AMSAT Vice-President of Engineering\n\n+ AMSAT Field Operations Group Updates Events\n  by Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK\n\n+ AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Meeting Minutes\n  by Alan Biddle, AMSAT Corporate Secretary, WA4SCA\n\nPlease send your operating information, articles, and photos to the\nAMSAT Journal mailbox: [email protected]. Our editors are looking\nforward to working with you to get your items published!\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Journal Team for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNASA, SpaceX Officials Continue Preparations for 14 April Launch\n\nNASA and SpaceX officials decided this morning to continue\npreparations for launch of a commercial resupply run to the\nInternational Space Station on Monday after a computer failed aboard\nthe complex Friday, but managers will meet again Sunday morning to\nmake a final decision on whether to proceed with the launch.\nThe failed computer, called a multiplexer-demultiplexer, or MDM,\nprovides redundancy for the space station's mobile transporter, part\nof the outpost's robotics system that allows the Canadian-built robot\narm to move along the lab's truss backbone.\n\nThe robot arm will be used to grapple the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft\nwhen it arrives at the space station. In a statement issued Saturday,\nNASA said the Canadian-built robot arm has other backup capabilities\nnot affected by the failed computer.\n\nNASA says the failed MDM is known as \"EXT-2\" and measures 10.5 x\n14.9 x 16.4 inches and weighs 50.8 pounds. The computer failed during\na routine health check of the device, according to NASA.\n\n\"Station program officials, flight controllers and teams of\nengineers are working to determine whether there is any risk to\nlaunching the SpaceX cargo craft Monday,\" the statement said. \"They\nwill evaluate whether the station has enough redundancy to permit the\nlaunch to proceed.\"\n\nNASA says a separate team is planning a contingency spacewalk to\nreplace the failed computer box, but no date for the spacewalk has\nbeen set.\n\n[ANS thanks Spaceflightnow.com for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nKickSat CubeSat to Deploy Smallest Earth-Orbiting Satellites\n\nWhen the third SpaceX ISS resupply mission launches on April 14 from\nCape Canaveral, it will carry the 3U KickSat CubeSat into orbit. NASA\nTV is scheduled to broadcast the launch live. If all goes according\nto plan, KickSat, in turn, will release 200 \"Sprite\" satellites --\neach about the size of a small cracker -- into orbit. They will become\nthe smallest Earth-orbiting satellites ever. Zac Manchester, KD2BHC --\na Cornell University PhD student in aerospace engineering -- is\nheading up the project, which was funded via Kickstarter.\n\n\"Our goal is to dramatically lower the cost of spaceflight, making\nit easy enough and affordable enough for anyone to explore space,\"\nthe KickSat project website proclaims. \"We can do this by shrinking\nthe size and mass of the spacecraft, allowing many to be launched\ntogether.\"\n\nThe tiny Sprite spacecraft will be single-function, short-lifespan\nunits operating on 437 MHz. Each is essentially a double-sided\nprinted circuit board measuring 3.5 cm × 3.5 cm, incorporating a\nmicrocontroller or two, radio, and solar cells. Each can carry single-\nchip sensors, such as thermometers, magnetometers, gyroscopes, and\naccelerometers.\n\nAll Sprites operate on the same frequency -- 437.240 MHz -- and use\nCode Division Multiple Access (CDMA). Transmitters run 10 mW output\nof minimum shift keying (MSK) modulated binary data, with each data\nbit modulated as a 511 bit pseudo-random number (PRN) sequence (The\nITU emission designator is 50K0G1D).\n\nAndy Thomas, G0SFJ, points out that the Sprites will only operate\nwhen in sunlight. \"Characteristically they have a 60 kHz bandwidth,\nand so narrowband receivers are not of any use to receive them,\" he\nexplained in a tutorial that describes plans for a simple Earth\nstation. \"Therefore, the receiver of choice is a software defined\nreceiver.\"\n\nWhen KickSat reaches orbit, it will perform a \"de-tumble\" maneuver\nand establish communication with Cornell University's ground station.\nAfter everything has been checked out, the spacecraft will be put in\na sun-pointing attitude and spun up to maintain that attitude. Then a\ncommand signal from the ground will trigger deployment, and the\nSprites will be released as free-flying spacecraft. The Cornell\nground station in Ithaca, New York, will monitor telemetry and sensor\nmeasurements from the individual Sprites, with assistance from\nseveral other Amateur Radio ground stations around the world.\n\nDue to their low orbit, the Sprites will have short lifetimes,\nperhaps as long as six weeks in a best-case scenario but possibly a\nlot shorter, depending on atmospheric conditions.\n\nKickSat is being planned as a technology demonstration mission for\nthe Sprite spacecraft. It's being launched through NASA's Educational\nLaunch of Nanosatellite (ELaNa) program. The KickSat project was\nfounded in 2011 by members of the Space Systems Design Studio at\nCornell University and is an outgrowth small spacecraft research that\nhas been conducted there since 2007.\n\n[ANS thanks ARRL for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT at the Dayton Hamvention - 2nd call for volunteers\n\n\nThe Dayton Hamvention is less than five weeks away!\n\nIt is time to be creating your shopping list and making your travel\nplans.  If you can stay for more than a day and you want to stay with\nat the AMSAT hotel, contact Martha ASAP.\n\nLast year, we had 41 people assist with the AMSAT booth at the\nDayton.  We've had a good response so far to our call for volunteers,\nbut we could really use another 10-15 people.   The interaction with\nAMSAT members, satellite operators, designers, and builders makes the\nwhole experience a lot of fun.  Meet or renew acquaintances, exchange\noperating tips, and find out what antennas, software and equipment\nother AMSAT members use.  We currently expect all of the AMSAT senior\nofficers and 6 of the 7 board members to be there too.\n\nThe 2014 Hamvention is May 16-18.  Would you consider helping AMSAT\nat Dayton this year?\n\nIf you're an experienced operator, great!  We can use you and your\nexperience.\n\nIf you've never operated a satellite before, but want to learn more,\nthat's OK.  We can use your help too.\n\nWhether you're available for only a couple of hours or if you can\nspend the entire weekend with us, your help would be greatly\nappreciated.\n\nPlease send an e-mail to Steve, n9ip at amsat dot org if you can\nhelp.\nThank you!\n\n[ANS thanks Steve N9IP for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nN8PK appears with students in YouTube video\n\nPat Kilroy, N8PK makes a brief appearance in a recently released\nvideo on YouTube.  In it, he is working with a couple of his students\nworking the AMSAT satellites as practice for future NASA engineers.\nThey get a whole minute of the seven-minute limelight starting at\nabout the 2:07 mark.  And get a little chuckle at the tail end during\nour thank you's:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AbG1ZiVi5Y\n\nThat video was shot, at the same time the follwing was recorded,\nlast summer and released last fall:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TQufCcxLkc\n\n[ANS thanks Pat N8PK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nISS HamTV moves to 2369 MHz\n\nThe Digital Amateur TV (DATV) station in the Columbus module of the\nInternational Space Station has changed frequency to 2369 MHz\n\nPresently, Ham Video is transmitting permanently a \"blank\" image and\nno audio in configuration 5:\n* ARISS antenna 43\n* Frequency 2369 MHz\n* Symbol rate 1.3 Ms/s\n\nReports on reception of blank transmissions are very welcome.\nReports can be filed via this webpage:\nhttp://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_FSTV/submit.php\n\nParticipants using the Tutioune receiving software can record as\nwell as stream detailed parameters of the received signal. Please see:\nhttp://www.vivadatv.org/\n\nReports are available at\nhttp://www.vivadatv.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=294&p=785#p785\n\nThank you for your participation to the Ham Video testing campaign.\n\n[ANS thanks Gaston Bertels, ON4WF for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFUNcube/AO-73 Transponder plans for the future\n\nFollowing the 48 hour test last weekend, we have concluded that the\nbattery temp does reduce slightly during full time transponder mode,\nbut only by a degree C or so; it remains within specification. Hence\nwe have decided in future to switch the satellite into 'forced\neclipse mode', ie full time transponder and low power beacon at\nweekends. The aim is tosignificantly increase the availability of the\ntransponder to radio amateurs. We will continue with this plan until\nfurther notice.\n\nWe plan to switch to full time transponder mode during the first\nsuitable pass over the UK on Friday evenings, normally between 19:30\nand 22:30 UTC. If for some reason this is not possible, then the\nswitch will be done on the first suitable pass on Saturday, normally\nbetween 09:30 and 12:00 UTC. We plan to switch the full time\ntransponder mode off during a suitable pass on Sunday evenings (UK\ntime), which normally occur between 1930 and 22:30 UTC. Again, if\nthis is not possible the switch off will be made on Monday mornings,\napprox. 09:30 to 12:00 UTC.\n\nDo PLEASE NOTE that this schedule is totally reliant on the\navailability of command stations, who will do their very best to\nensure it is maintained. We will not normally announce successful\nfull time transponder mode on/off commands, but if it proves not\npossible to make one of them, then we will make a note here and on\nthe FUNcube web site at\nwww.funcube.org.uk/news.\n\nSo please do enjoy the transponder, and use it any time you hear it\non. We are always pleased to hear of your activity, so either leave a\ncomment on the website, or email g3wgm -at- amsat.org.\n\nA recent QSO made by Paulo PV8DX can be seen at\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMVetMKnCMQ\nThanks for the report, Paulo!\n\n[ANS thanks Jim G3WGM for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUpcoming AMSAT 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\nMonday, 28 April 2014 - presentation at Franklin County Amateur\nRadio Club meeting in Greenfield MA by Barry Baines WD4ASW (AMSAT\nPresident)\n\nSaturday, 3 May 2014 - Cochise Amateur Radio Association's Larry\nWarren Hamfest in Sierra Vista AZ (southeast of Tucson) - AMSAT will\nhave a table at this hamfest, and satellite demonstrations are\nplanned.\n\nFriday through Sunday, 16-18 May 2014 - Dayton Hamvention\nAMSAT will have their usualy booth set-up with a sales area, display\nof Engineering and Education activities, outside satellite\ndemonstrations and will present anAMSAT Forum. Set-up is Thursday 15\nMay 2014.\n\nSaturday, 7 June 2014 - Kachina Amateur Radio Club's White Mountain\nHamfest in Show Low AZ (eastern Arizona, south of US-60/AZ-77/AZ-260)\n- AMSAT will have a table at this hamfest, and satellite\ndemonstrations are planned.\n\nFriday and Saturday, 13-14 June 2014 - Ham-Com in Plano TX (north of\nDallas)\n\nThursday through Sunday, 17-20 July 2014 - ARRL Centennial\nConvention in Hartford CT.  AMSAT will host a day-long Satellite\nWorkshop on Thursday, and have a booth at the convention along with\nan AMSAT Forum and demonstrations throughout the convention.\n\nSaturday and Sunday, 30-31 August 2014 - Shelby Hamfest in Shelby NC\n(west of Gastonia and Charlotte) - Barry Baines WD4ASW (AMSAT\nPresident) will host an AMSAT Forum on Saturday of this weekend\n\nFriday through Sunday, 12-14 September 2014 - ARRL Southwestern\nDivision Convention 2014 in San Diego CA (north of the city center,\nnear Montgomery Field airport & I-805/CA-163 interchange) - AMSAT\nwill have a booth at this convention, there will be on-air\ndemonstrations using satellites throughout the convention, and a\npresentation on amateur satellites and AMSAT\n\nAMSAT maintains and updated list of known upcoming events at\nhttp://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=218\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above announcement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\nDue to Koichi Wakata's, KC5ZTA, increased work load beginning 2014-\n03-11, ARISS has had to move 3 schools back to our long term waiting\nlist. We hope to get to them in the fall of 2014. There are also\nseveral other schools that are on the list  for possible postponement\nto the fall.\n\n>From 2014-05-12 to 2014-06-15,  ARISS will be going into a period of\nno contacts as there will be no hams  onboard.\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, and Charlie AJ9N for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ GNURadio Code and other stuff for setting up a Sprite ground station\n\n  https://github.com/zacinaction/kicksat-groundstation\n\n  [ANS thanks Zac Manchester KD2BHC for the above information]\n\n+ KickSat Technical Summary\n\n  http://www.bis-space.com/2013/03/09/9301/kicksat-technical-summary\n\n  [ANS thanks Andrew Vaudin and The British Interplanetary Society\n   for the above information]\n\n\n+ Funcube's Jim Heck talks to Tx Factor about Transponder tests\n\n  Project Manager Jim Heck G3WGM has given an exclusive audio\n  interview to the TX Factor's Bob McCreadie, G0FGX which explains\n  what the tests were all about.\n\n  Will these tests lead to more time being made available to\n  amateurs wanting to communicate via the satellite?\n\n  Listen to the interview at www.txfactor.co.uk\n  (click on the link under 'TX Factor Exclusive!')\n\n  [ANS thanks Southgate ARN for the above information]\n\n+ SatMagazine and MilsatMagazine now online\n\n  April edition of SatMagazine is now online\n  http://www.satmagazine.com/download.php\n\n  March edition of MilsatMagazine in now online\n  http://www.satmagazine.com/download.php\n\n  Free Satnews Subscriptions\n\n  Satnews allows you to choose which of our free services you wish\n  to receive. Our news coverage includes all aspects of the commercial\n  and military satellite industry. We value your privacy and will not\n  sell or share your email or other information with any other\n  company.\n\n  http://www.satnews.com/register_new.php\n\n  [ANS thanks ANS Editors for the above information]\n\n+ Make a #GlobalSelfie with NASA on Earth Day\n\n  NASA invites you -- and everyone else on the planet -- to take\n  part in a worldwide celebration of Earth Day this year with the\n  agency's #GlobalSelfie event.\n\n  The year 2014 is a big one for NASA Earth science. Five NASA\n  missions designed to gather critical data about our home planet\n  are launching to space this year. NASA is marking this big year\n  for Earth science with a campaign called Earth Right Now, and as\n  part of this campaign the agency is asking for your help this\n  Earth Day, April 22.\n\n  While NASA satellites constantly look at Earth from space, on\n  Earth Day we're asking you to step outside and take a picture of\n  yourself wherever you are on Earth. Then post it to social media\n  using the hashtag #GlobalSelfie.\n\n  See details at\n  http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/globalselfie/#.U0gmGfldWSo\n\n  [ANS thanks NASA 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, KC8YLD\nkc8yld at amsat dot org\n\n",
    "attachments": []
}