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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/WXFOL5GLVRAJGKJLXHU2AIU5JXCKIGMG/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "6362566.18763.1255268068465.JavaMail.morsesat@mail.srv.lgcyny1.cv.net", "message_id_hash": "WXFOL5GLVRAJGKJLXHU2AIU5JXCKIGMG", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/WXFOL5GLVRAJGKJLXHU2AIU5JXCKIGMG/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "morsesat (a) optonline.net", "mailman_id": "72f51eafcada419487d1a984af73dff5", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/72f51eafcada419487d1a984af73dff5/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "DOMINICK INTERDONATO", "subject": "[ans] ANS-284 AMSAT Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2009-10-11T13:34:25Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-284\n\nANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North \nAmerica, The\nRadio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the activities of a\nworldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest \nin\ndesigning, building, launching and communicating through analog and \ndigital\nAmateur Radio satellites.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\n\[email protected]\n\n\n\nIn this edition:\n* AMSAT Election of new Officers at the Symposium\n* SpaceX Announces Conference\n* AO-51 configuration to support Scouting JOTA\n* US Senate Bill Introduced\n* AO-51 Configured for JOTA\n* ARISS Status - October 4, 2009\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-284.01\nAMSAT Election of Officers\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 284.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 11 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-284.01\n\nAt the Baltimore Symposium the initial actions of the newly elected BOD\nis to elect new officers. The seats were filled as follows:\n\nPresident Barry Baines, WD4ASW\nVP of Engineering Tony Monteiro, AA2TX\nVP of Operations Drew Glassbrenner, KO4MA\nVP of User Services Gould Smith, WA4SXM\nSecretary Alan Biddle, WA4SCA\nTreasurer Gunther Meisse, W8GSM\nManager Martha\n\nCongratulations to the newly elected officers.\n\nAlso, a fine time was had by all that attended the Baltimore AMSAT \nSymposium. Many excellent presentations were given during the event. At \nthe annual meeting, the newly elected officers were introduced and new \npriorities were introduced. AMSAT will offer a DVD of the \npresentations.\nThe Banquet had a great guest speaker, Mr. Collins from the Air and \nSpace museum.\nPlan to attend next years meeting.\n\n(ANS thanks Martha for the above information]\n\n/EX\nSB Sat @ $ans-284.02\nSpaceX announces Conference\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 284.02\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 11, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-284.02\n\nSpace Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has announced a second user \nconference\nfor its commercial product DragonLab™, a free-flying, reusable \nspacecraft\ncapable of hosting pressurized and unpressurized payloads to and from \norbit.\nThe event will focus on the needs of European users and take place on \nOctober\n29th, 2009, in Haarlem, Netherlands.\n\nDragonLab provides a platform for in-space experimentation, including \nrecovery\nof pressurized and some unpressurized payloads, as well as deployment of \nsmall\nspacecraft. As a complete system, DragonLab provides a highly capable\nspacecraft platform that includes propulsion, power, thermal control,\nenvironmental control, avionics, communications, thermal protection, \nflight\nsoftware, guidance, navigation and control, entry, descent and landing, \nand\nrecovery.\n\nThe user conference is an opportunity for potential customers to explore\nDragonLab's capabilities, as well as present customer-specific interests \nand\nrequirements. The agenda includes an overview of the Dragon spacecraft,\nconcept of operations, payload accommodations and cost parameters.\n\nDragonLab is an alternate configuration of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft \nwhich,\nalong with the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, has been contracted by NASA to \nprovide\ncargo resupply services to the International Space Station as early as \n2010.\n\nTo express interest in attending the user conference, visit\nDragonLabUserConference.com.\n\nSpace is limited and all participants must receive confirmation from \nSpaceX in\norder to attend this workshop. For more information or questions \nregarding the\nuser conference, please email [email protected].\n\n\n[ANS thanks Lee for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\nSB Sat @ amsat $ans284.03\nUS Senate Bill Introduced\n\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 284.03\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 11, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-284.03\n\nRADIO LAW: SENATE BILL INTRODUCED TO STUDY HAM RADIO EMCOMM\n\nA companion bill to the Amateur Radio Emergency Communications \nEnhancement\nAct of 2009 was introduced in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, October 6\nby Connecticut Democrat Joe Lieberman and Maine Republican Susan \nCollins.\n\nTitled Senate Bill 1755, it carries the same name as the House measure\nintroduced this past April by Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee. The \nbill,\nif passed, would direct the Department of Homeland Security to undertake \na\nstudy on emergency communications with an emphasis on the role that ham\nradio operators play.\n\nS 1755 points out that \"There is a strong Federal interest in the \neffective\nperformance of Amateur Radio Service stations, and that performance must \nbe\ngiven support at all levels of government; and protection against\nunreasonable regulation and impediments to the provision of the valuable\ncommunications provided by such stations.\n\nIntroduction of S 1755 is the result of many months of groundwork laid \nby\nthe American Radio Relay League and appears to be directly based on the\nbasis and purpose of the service. This as outlined in Section 97.1 of \nthe\nFCC rules. (ARRL)\n\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARRL for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-284.04\nAO-51 Configured for JOTA\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 284.04\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 11, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-284.04\n\nAO-51 configuration to support Scouting JOTA\n\nAMSAT-NA is supporting the 52nd Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) Scouting\nevent by dedicating AO-51 operation to the event.\n\nFor October 17th and 18th, the AO-51 QRP repeater will be allocated\nfor JOTA use. All users are requested to give way to JOTA stations\nor QSOs with JOTA stations.\n\nThe frequencies used for this weekend will be 145.880 FM uplink,\nand 435.150 FM downlink, no PL tone required. The mode change should\noccur at ~00:00 UTC on the 17th (Friday evening in the US) and run\nfor approximately 48 hours.\n\nAMSAT wishes the Scouts good luck operating via the AO-51 satellite\nfor the event.\n\nReports of your JOTA operations should be sent to the AMSAT-BB or\ndirectly to [email protected].\n\nPhoto files up to 5 Mb total are also welcome for possible inclusion\nin an upcoming AMSAT Journal article.\n\n73, Drew KO4MA\nAMSAT-NA VP Operations\n\n[ANS thanks the AO-51 Operations Team for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-284.05\nARISS Report for Oct 4,2009\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 284.05\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 4, 2009\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-284.045\n\n1.\tUpcoming School Contacts\n\nAn Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has \nbeen scheduled for Sint-Michielscollege Brasschaat vzw (SMCB) in \nBrasschaat, Belgium on Wednesday, October 7 at 10:20 UTC. Visits to \nspace and science museums are among the science activities planned for \nthe children. Guest speakers will include a representative from Verhaert \nSpace Systems and Dirk Frimout, Belgium’s first astronaut.\n\nAn Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has \nbeen scheduled with the National Planetarium in Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah \nPersekutuan, Malaysia on Thursday, October 8 at 09:34 UTC. The contact \nwill occur as part of the National Space Challenge, a program that was \ncreated in an effort to instill the talents and desire towards the \nunderstanding of space in primary school aged children. Sixteen schools \nwill participate.\n\nAn Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has \nbeen scheduled for Belmont Elementary School in Langley, British \nColumbia, Canada on Friday, October 9 at 20:20 UTC. Students are working \non projects with a “Mission Control” theme and the Langley Amateur Radio \nAssociation (L.A.R.A.) is working with the school to organize this \nevent.\n\n2.\tThirsk Participates in ARISS Contact with R.T. Alderman Students\n\nAstronaut Bob Thirsk, VA3CSA participated in an Amateur Radio on the \nInternational Space Station (ARISS) contact with students attending R. \nT. Alderman School in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on Monday, September 28. \nAn audience of 615 people gathered, watched and listened as Thirsk \nanswered 15 questions posed to him by the students. Media coverage was \nprovided by a local television station. After the contact, Thirsk \nchanged the ISS radio beacon text to read, “Hello to RT Alderman \nSchool!”\n\n3.\tDe Winne Speaks with Lisbon, Portugal Students via ARISS\n\nOn Thursday, October 1 an Amateur Radio on the International Space \nStation (ARISS) contact was held between the Ciência Viva Museum in \nLisbon, Portugal and Frank De Winne, ON1DWN onboard the ISS. Ground \nstation ON4ISS in Belgium provide the telebridge connection. An audience \nof 300 people gathered and watched as twenty-three questions were asked \nand answered. The ARISS contact at Ciencia Viva was a major event during \nthe nationwide celebrated Space Week. The participating students have \nbeen working on space projects for two years and they were highly \nmotivated to do this science-related activity.\n\n4.\tARISS Contact with University of Liege\n\nAn Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact took \nplace on Friday, October 2 between the University of Liege in Belgium \nand on-orbit astronaut Frank De Winne, ON1DWN via telebridge station \nON4ISS in Belgium. Eighteen questions were answered before losing \ncontact with the ISS. The University of Liege offers the only aerospace \nengineering education program in the French part of Belgium. In the \ncontext of the OUFTI-1 project (www.oufti.ulg.ac.be) that aims at \nbuilding a CubeSat featuring the amateur radio D-STAR technology, an \namateur radio club was formed at the university.\n\n5.\tNicole Stott Participates in ARISS Contact with Italian Students\n\nOn Friday, October 2, students attending Scuola Secondaria 1° Grado \n“Alighieri – Trevigi” in Casale Monferrato, Prov. Alessandria, Italy \nparticipated in an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station \n(ARISS) contact. The youth asked Nicole Stott, KE5GJN 21 questions as an \naudience of 200 students, parents and teachers looked on. Local media \nprovided news coverage. The event was streamed live on the internet and \nthe audio was fed into the EchoLink AMSAT and JK1ZRW servers. The \ncontact motivated the youth to study Science, History, Geography, \nInformation Technology and English.\n\n6.\tARISS Contact with Boy Scouts of Canada\n\nOn Saturday, October 3, Scouts of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario experienced \nan Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact. \nThree hundred scouts and parents were present as Robert Thirsk VA3CSA \nanswered questions about life and work in space. Thirsk turned over a \nfew questions to Mr. Guy Laliberte, Circ De Soleil president and \nspaceflight participant. Audio was fed into the EchoLink AMSAT and \nJK1ZRW servers. The ARISS contact was held in conjunction with the Scout \nScience Badge Award system.\n\n7.\tARISS News on Amateur Radio Newsline\n\nOn October 2, Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1677 reported on Amateur \nRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) astronaut licensing. To \nview “Ham Radio in Space: New Ham Astronaut is KF5DBF,” see: \nftp://ftp.arnewsline.org/quincy/News-A/news.txt\n\n/EX\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nDee Interdonato, NB2F\nnb2f at amsat dot org\n\n\n_______________________________________________\n\n", "attachments": [] }