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    "subject": "[ans]  FW:   ANS-066 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2010-03-07T15:10:00Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-066\n\nANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America, \nThe Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the activities of a \nworldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in \ndesigning, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital \nAmateur Radio satellites.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\[email protected]\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* East Coast APRS Satellite Launch 11 March!\n* A new interference threat to the Ham Bands\n* SK: Dave Toth, VE3GYQ\n* Daylight Savings Time\n* AO-51 Survives Close Encounter With FORMOSAT-3\n* A Self adjusting Orbit Scheme\n* ARISS Update\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-066.01\nEast Coast APRS Satellite Launch 11 March!\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 066.01\n>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 7, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-066.01\n \n\nEast Coast APRS Satellite Launch 11 March!\nYou will be able to see it too over most of the mid-atlantic.  I don't see a\nlaunch time or any other info yet.  Here is what I have received:\n-----------------------------------------------------\n\nA sounding rocket with amateur satellite operating on 144.39 MHZ APRS will\nrise to 100 miles or so for an 8 minute mission.  The rocket (I think) is\nthe Hall 12.067.\n\nThe payload is called SOCEM/ADAMASat.  There is a computer program and GUI\nto interface to your PC so you can grab the telemetry live.  It is on:\nhttp://ssl.engr.uky.edu/adamasat_free_gui.exe\n\nIt's a one shot deal, so I'm gonna have a backup TNC and\nHYPERTERM collecting everything.\t\t\nADAMASat is the Antenna Deployment and Mono-filament Actuator Satellite.\nIt's a 2U CubeSat designed by Kentucky Space as part of SOCEM, the\nSub-Orbital CubeSat Experimental Mission.\nADAMASat, which is scheduled to launch on Hall 12.067 out of Wallops Flight\nFacility on 11 March, will fly in space for roughly 8 minutes performing an\nengineering experiment and transmitting data down to Earth via APRS packets.\n\n\nMore information on ADAMASat is available at\nhttp://ssl.engr.uky.edu/suborbital/adamasat Kentucky Space is hereby\nreleasing to the AMSAT-NA community the ADAMASat FREE GUI, a free 32-bit\nWindows binary for amateur radio operators in the Eastern United States who\nare interested in tracking ADAMASat on its launch day. The GUI is a\nstandalone application and upon opening it on his/her computer, the HAM will\nbe greeted with a popup window which explains the steps required to track\nthe payload. \n\nAll that is needed is a Windows machine, a radio and TNC which can receive\non 144.390 MHz, a serial or USB cable, and a suitable location. The GUI\nparses the APRS packets as they are received, graphing temperatures on-board\nthe payload and reporting status of the mission in real-time. It also\nincludes instructions on e-mailing the packet log to Kentucky Space to aid\nin post-processing, and a built-in aggregator for the official ADAMASat\nTwitter RSS feed. \n\nDisclaimer: Kentucky Space provides the GUI \"as is\" without warranties of\nany kind, and shall not incur any liability for any damages connected to the\nuse of the GUI.\n\t\t\n\n[ANS thanks Bob, WA4APR, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-066.02\nA new interference threat to the Ham Bands\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 066.02\n>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 7, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-066.02\n\nFCC to Permit Rescue Radio Robot in the 430 to 450 MHz Band\n\nReports initially carried in the February 26, 2010 edition of Amateur \nRadio NewslineT Report 1698, and on the QRZ.com website say the FCC \nhas issued a waiver of the Part 90 rules to permit a company called \nReconrobotics Incorporated to sell a remote controlled security robot \nthat will operate in the 430 to 448 MHz band.  This is spectrum that \nis primary to the Federal Radiolocation Service but also encompasses \nthe Amateur Service weak signal, satellite and repeater subbands.\n\nThe waiver permits Reconrobitics to manufacture and sell a device \ncalled the Recon Scout.  This is described as a device designed for \nstate and local law enforcement and firefighting agencies, and secur-\nity personnel in critical infrastructure industries. The Recon Scout \ncan be thrown, dropped, or launched into potentially hazardous areas \nand can provide real-time video to an operator located a safe dis-\ntance away. Typical applications will include such things as checking \na building prior to forced entry, searching vehicle undercarriages \nfor explosives and searching for survivors in a burning structure.\n\nThe Recon Scout transmits the analog video signal to the operator on \none of three six megahertz channels.  These are 430 to 436 MHz, 436 \nto 442 MHz, and 442 to 448 MHz.  Reconrobotics says that multiple \nchannels are necessary in order to avoid interference during incidents \nwhere multiple Recon Scouts are in use, but that such situations \nshould be rare.\n\nThe company's now approved proposal is that the first unit sold to a \nresponding organization would operate on 442 to 448 MHz. That happens \nto be where thousands of ham radio repeaters operate.  The 436 to \n442 MHz version being sold only to entities that already own the 442 \nto 448 MHz version, and the 430 to 436 MHz version being sold only to \nentities that already own both of the others.\n\nIn approving the waiver, the FCC told Reconrobotics the Recon Scout \nwill have to operate on a secondary basis where it cannot cause inter-\nference and is not protected from interference to all Federal users \nand licensed non-Federal users including radio amateurs.  The FCC \nalso warned prospective users that operation of the Recon Scout in \nan unauthorized manner will subject licensees to Commission enforce-\nment action and license revocation.  It also said that widespread \nimproper use of the device could lead the Commission to stop grant-\ning or renewing Recon Scout authorizations.\n\n[ANS thanks Amateur Radio NewslineT Report 1698 for the above\n information]\n\n\n/EX\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-066.03\nSK: Dave Toth, VE3GYQ\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 066.03\n>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 7, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-066.03\n\nSK: Dave Toth, VE3GYQ\n\nAMSAT received the sad news of the passing of a friend this week\nnoting the passing of Dr David Toth, VE3GYQ. Dave was the President\nEmeritus of Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR) Group. He was an \nearly member of TAPR, a long time supporter of AMSAT and he gave \nof his time and talents to promote technical endeavors in Amateur \nRadio. Former AMSAT President Tom Clark, K3IO remembered Dave, \n\"He was always a friend of AMSAT, giving up personal vacations to \nhelp with the integration of AO-40 in Orlando. For many years, he \nwas the glue that held TAPR together.\"\n\nFormer AMSAT Board Member, Bob McGwier, N4HY recalled that, \"Dave\nwas an important player in the earliest days of packet radio in that \nhe helped promote packet and supported it with on the air hardware.\nAs a board member and President of TAPR, he helped TAPR become the \nprincipal support for Open HPSDR, a project to promote the development \nof hardware and software for software defined radio use by Amateur \nRadio. He will be sorely missed by all who knew him.\"\n\nDr. Toth graduated from the University of Western Ontario Medical \nSchool in 1978. He practiced family medicine in London, Ontario but \nmoved to the U.S. in 1993 to began a career in emergency medicine. \nHe was a partner of Premier Health Care Services, in Dayton, Ohio, \nand worked at Lima Memorial Health System and St. Rita's Medical \nCenter until the time of his illness.\n\n[ANS thanks Tom Clark, K3IO; Bob Bob McGwier, N4HY; Steve Bible,\n N7HPR; ARRL, TAPR, and Amateur Radio Newsline for the above \n information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-066.04\nDaylight Savings Time\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 066.04\n>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 7, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-066.04\n\nNext week, March 14th, our semi-annual time change will occur.  \nAnd of course, do we gain or loose an hour? The words Spring ahead and Fall \nback should come to mind as this is the rule.  More modern Atomic Clocks (as\nthey are called)\nSet themselves without any manual adjustments.  I had a clock that was pre\nprogrammed for earlier\nDST changes and sent me to work late one Monday morning.  Get out your\npencils and mark your calendar\nFor this event.  I'm sure the News media will advise you for several days\nprior to this required\nAdjustment to happen, but, someone will not get the word. Please tell that\nperson. \nThank goodness GMT (UTC) stays the same no matter what time of the year it\nis.  Computers too are\nPre programmed but satellite program users should make sure time was\ncorrected properly.  We\nWouldn't want you to miss that Sat QSO you planned for all week. Don't\nforget the 1.26 micro second \nAdjustment that the Earthquake in Chile has created.\n\n[ANS thanks ANS Editor for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-066.05\nAO-51 Survives Close Encounter With FORMOSAT-3\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 066.05\n>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 7, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-066.05\n\nAO-51 Survives Close Encounter With FORMOSAT-3\n\nAMSAT-NA VP Operations, Drew KO4MA, received notification from the\nUS Joint Space Operations Center, located at Vandenberg Air Force \nBase, California on Sunday, February 28 warning that AO-51 would \nhave a close approach to another satellite, FORMOSAT 3-D, on Monday\nat 1056 UTC. This occurred over the Eastern US, with many stations\non hand capable of receiving telemetry from AO-51 before and after\nthe near miss. Drew said, \"The predicted miss distance was 953 meters, \nwhich is over 3000 feet overall but the radial difference between the\ntwo orbits was only 39 meters.\"\n\nSteve, W3HF noted, \"Given the orbital uncertanties of both satellites,\nan orbit separated by only 39 meters could mean that distance may become \neaten up rather quickly!\"\n\nIn preparation for the close encounter, Drew shut off the S band tran-\nsmitter and turned on the digital downlink at 2 watts, with telemetry \ntransmitted every 5 seconds. The next morning, on March 1, Drew was able \nto post a message that AO-51 was alive and well, \"It looks like we are \nfine. A second warning email this morning from the Air Force called it \neven closer, but everything was working at LOS this pass.\" \n\nFORMOSAT-3 is a constellation of satellites launched on April 15, 2006.\nIt is a joint U.S.-Taiwanese project with major participants including \nthe University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the National \nScience Foundation, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), the Air Force \nResearch Laboratory (AFRL) on the U.S. side and the National Space \nOrganization (NSPO) on the Taiwanese side.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA VP Operations, Drew KO4MA, and Steve, W3HF for the\n above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-066.06\nA Self adjusting Orbit Scheme\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 066.06\n>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 7, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-066.06\n\n>From the IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination pages at\nhttp://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/formal_detail.asp?serial=168 \n\nPOPACS-RR a 2U cubesat will use self-contained, warm gas, propulsion system\nto adjust satellite's initial circular orbit of 450 km to eccentric orbit\nwith apogee of 1500 km and perigee of 450 km. Demonstrate use of 3D printing\n(a.k.a. rapid prototyping) for manufacturing small satellites. Measure flux\nof energetic particles in lower Van Allen Belt. Test radiation-hardened\nelectronic components and high performance solar cells in high radiation\nenvironment over a period of five years. Test radiation hardened components\nfor a Plug and Play satellite. Proposing a UHF downlink of 9k6 GMSK AX25\npacket and also an S Band downlink of BPSK at 9k6 or 38k4. Planning a launch\non the first flight of SpaceX Falcon 1E not earlier than May 2011 with a 45\ndeg inclination. Will apply for a FCC part 5 Experimental licence for this\nproject.\n\nIARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination pages\nhttp://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/\n\n73 Trevor M5AKA\n\n[ANS thanks Trevor, M5AKA, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-066.7\nARISS Update\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 066.07\n>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nMarch 7, 2010\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-066.07\n\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Status Report\nMarch 1, 2010\n\n1.\tSchool Contact\n\nExpedition 22 astronaut Soichi Noguchi, KD5TVP Participated in an Amateur\nRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact with Hamasuka\nJunior High School in Chigasaki City, Kanagawa, Japan on Thursday, March 4.\nThis is a direct contact and was scheduled for 10:09 UTC. Noguchi is an\nalumnus of the school.\n\n2.\tTimothy Creamer Chats with Doncaster Students via ARISS Contact\n\nOn Thursday, February 25, Timothy Creamer, KC5WKI spoke with Doncaster\nPrimary School students in Doncaster, Victoria, Australia via an Amateur\nRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact. The connection was\nmade through telebridge ground station VK4KHZ in Queensland. Two hundred\nfifty guests attended the event and watched as the students asked nineteen\nquestions of the on-orbit astronaut. The students were involved in many\nactivities leading up to the contact in their Physics, Space, Geography, and\nEnglish classes. During one such activity, the students researched a place\nin the solar system and created a short television program for the\nintergalactic travel show \"Postcards.\"\n\n3.\tARISS Annual Report 2009 Posted\n\nThe Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Annual Report\n2009 has been posted to the AMSAT Web site. See:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/Papers/Annual%20Reports/ARISS_Annual_Report\n_2009_Final.pdf\n\n4.\tARISS News on Amateur Radio Newsline\n\nThe February 26, Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1698 includes one item about\nthe ARISS program.  The \"Ham Radio in Space\" article summarizes the ARISSat\nDesign Review meeting held in Orlando, Florida.  See:\nftp://ftp.arnewsline.org/quincy/News/news.txt\n\n\n[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the\nPresident's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors\nto AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits.\nApplication forms are available from the AMSAT Office. \n\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nDee Interdonato, NB2F\nnb2f at amsat dot org\n\n\n\n",
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