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    "sender_name": "Lee McLamb",
    "subject": "[ans]  ANS-287  AMSAT Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2007-10-14T17:15:24Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-287\n\nANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America, \nThe\nRadio 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:\n\[email protected]\n\n******************* AMSAT 2007 Space Symposium *************************\n\nThe Wireless Association of South Hills Amateur Radio Club announces the\n2007 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held at the Pittsburgh Airport\nMarriott Hotel on Friday, October 26 through Sunday, October 28, 2007.\nThe AMSAT web team has posted informational pages on the AMSAT web site.\nYou can find the announcement with many links at:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/symposium/2007/index.php\n\n**************************************************************************\n\nIn this edition:\n* Certificates for AO-51 Sputnik 50th Anniversary Special Event\n* AO-51 temporarily off the air\n* GO-32 mobile APRS access success\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n* ARISS Status - 08 October 2007\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-287.01\nCertificates for AO-51 Sputnik 50th Anniversary Special Event\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 287.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 14, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-287.01\n\nKevin Schuchmann, WA6FWF, reports that he has started to receive the requests\nfor certificates and is working on getting them out as fast as possible. The\nresponse has been great so far.  People requesting a certificate should keep \nthe\nfollowing in mind:\n\n1) this is not a small QSL card, it is a certificate that is 8.5\" x 11\", if\n    you send a small envelope he will be forced to fold it.\n\n2) make sure you have enough postage\n\n3) if you want to make sure it does not get bent, include a card board backer\n    or use a heavier envelope\n\n4) do not include money or stamps, I appreciate the gesture but it is not\n    necessary,  donations can be sent to Martha directly\n\n5) if you put \"your\" address up in the upper left coner as the return instead\n    of Kevin's then in the event there is not enough postage it will be   \n    returned to the sender instead of Kevin for additional postage!!\n\nKevin observed that, \"based on the fact that my mailbox was full and the \npostman had to leave more at the front door I might need the couple\nweeks we said it might take!\"\n\n[ANS thanks Kevin, WA6FWF, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-287.02\nAO-51 temporarily off the air\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 287.02\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 14, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-287.02\n\n\nAt 1848Z over Europe on 11 October 2007, the software on AO-51 crashed, \nshutting down both transmitters. Subsequently the repeater and BBS will be \ndown for several days while the command stations reload. Sorry for any \ninconvenience.\n\n73, Drew KO4MA\nAMSAT-NA Vice President of Operations\n\n[ANS thanks Drew, KO4MA, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n \n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-287.03\nGO-32 mobile APRS access success\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 287.03\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 14, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-287.03\n\nBob Bruninga, WB4APR reports receiving over 150 packets from GO32 in the \nmobile and gives the following report.\n\nIf you want to impress someone with handheld Satellite Communcications, just\nstand outside during the prime morning or evening pass of GO-32 with your D7 \nHT set for APRS 9600 baud receive on 435.230 (5 KHz high at the start of the \npass) and watch the messages fly by... Switch to .225 and finally to .220 by \nthe end for maximum packets.\n\nTonight I finally remembered to set my D700 in my van to the GO32 \ndownlink.  Was out doing honeydoos around 7:50 PM and heard a few squelch \nbreaks.  This would be the first evening pass.  So that told me to be out 100 \nminutes later for the prime pass of the evening.\n\nI was not disappointed!  Received over 150 packes during the central 6 minutes\nof the pass.  I was just making hash marks on the back of an envelope while\nwatching the packets fly by on the front panel of the radio.  I did tune 3 \ntimes for Doppler since I was just sitting there with nothing else to do.\n\nThis confirms that an unattended D700 or D7 hooked to a simple OMNI antnena \n(and short coax) can make an excellent APRS satellite gateway.  With say a \ndozen of these across the USA, then the APRS-Internet system should get a \nsolid downlink!\n\nAfter the fact, I came in and looked at the pass on Instantrack.  Here is the\nnitty-gritty showing the elevation angle versus number of packets received per\nminute.\n\nTIME  EL  PACKETS\n0933  30  18\n0934  40  23\n0935  46  36\n0936  45  35\n0937  36  24\n0938  26  13\n\nFor an unattended ground station without Doppler tuning, my guess would be \nthat this station would have received the center full 3 minutes of this 45 \ndegree pass.\n\nSo, what is your handy D7 doing sitting on your shelf turned off?  Hook it to \na 19\" vertical whip over a ground plane outside your window  and contribute \nto the National GO-32 APRS downlink system!\n\nI'll get someone to write a simple turn-key APRS IGate background application,\nso you don't have to hasssle with all the other APRS stuff if you dont want \nto.  This way, you can just turn on the D7, hook it to a serial port, run \nthis application in the background, and you too will be a contributor to the \nsolid APRS downlink from GO-32!\n\nOh, On the D700, I had pressed the PACKET MONITOR button so that I was seeing\nall GO-32 downlink packets on the front panel, not just the APRS ones.  The D7\ndoes not have the PMON button, so you will only see the APRS packets.  But I \ndid receive the 3 APRS downlink bulletins perfectly many times, and every 30 \nseconds or so, I did receive the GO-32 TIME STATUS report on the front panel \nof the radio.\n\nSo, even if you are not going to Igate, just hook that D7 to an outside 19\"\nvertical whip (this serves as a 3/4 wave gain vertical on the 435 downlink)\nthrough a short coax (Antnena height does not matter, coax loss does!).  You\nwon't hear anything below 30 degrees anyway...  And just leave the HT on all \nthe time tuned to 435.230.  Every morning and every evening, you will receive \nGO-32 and any other APRS operators playing that evening. \n\nWhen you hear good signals on 435.230, then 2 minutes later, switch to 435.225\nand so on.  When the pass is over, set your radio back to 435.230 for the next\nHIGH pass 12 hours or so later.\n\nYou can leaave this on all the time, since it will not wake you up.  GO-32 \nPEAK passes are within an hour or so of 9 AM and PM local time (maybe an hour \nlater after the change back to standard time)..\n\nThousands of AMSAT folks have these D7's, and I bet that 99% of them are not \nin use most of the time.  All we need are a dozen or so serving this\nspace-diversity ground station function...\n\n[ANS thanks Bob, WB4APR, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-287.04\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 287.04\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 14, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-287.04\n\n+ Henk, PA3GUO, one of the control operators for the ANDE satellite\n  reminds amateurs that the packet-to-voice mode still remains avail-\n  able.  A command from a ground station is required to enable this\n  mode so Henk invites amateurs interested in experimenting to con-\n  tact him by e-mail at [email protected].\n\n+ Drew, KO4MA, AMSAT VP of Operations reminds amateurs interested in\n  experimenting with different modes on AO-51 to submit their request\n  via e-mail to [email protected].  One experimental mode under\n  consideration includes a day dedicated for D-Star testing via AO-51.\n\n+ Special Events Station GB5OSO, celebrating the 50th anniversary of\n  the launch of Sputnik-1 has worked several stations through the\n  SO50, VO52, AO51, AO27, and AO7 satellites.  Robert, G8ATE reported\n  a transatlantic contact between GB5OSO and Jim, VE1ZM on SO-50.\n\n+ Earlier this year the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) sponsored an \n  activity to fly your name to the moon aboard its \"KAGUYA\" (SELENE) \n  lunar probe.  Selene has attained lunar orbit and JAXA reports\n  that messages from 412,627 people around the world are now at\n  the moon.  For more information see:\n  http://www.isas.ac.jp/e/snews/2007/1005.shtml\n\n+ A video featuring the Amateur Radio Mars Orbiter P5-A has been \n  put on the YouTube website. Details at http://www.uk.amsat.org/.\n\n[ANS thanks everyone for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-287.05\nARISS Status - 08 October 2007\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 287.05\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nOctober 14, 2007\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-287.05\n\n1. Anamizu Contact Successful\n\nOn Saturday, October 6, students from seven elementary and junior high schools\nin Anamizu-town, Housu-gun Ishikawa, Japan gathered to ask Clay Anderson,\nKD5PLA, questions via an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station\n(ARISS) contact.  Nearly six hundred students were expected to participate in\nthis event and preparations leading up to and including the contact were to be\ncovered by the media. More information will follow as it becomes available.\n\n\n2. Boy Scouts Participate in ARISS Contact\n\nBoy Scouts from the Prairielands Council who attended the Space Jamboree in\nOakwood, Illinois, experienced a successful Amateur Radio on the International\nSpace Station (ARISS) contact on Saturday, October 6 via the telebridge \nstation VK4KHZ in Australia. All twenty questions which had been planned were \nasked and answered. Clay Anderson, KD5PLA, then answered an additional twelve \nfor a total of 32 questions posed by thirteen of the scouts. Approximately \n300 scouts, leaders, parents and one newspaper reporter attended the event. \nThe audio was fed into the EchoLink AMSAT (101 377) and JK1ZRW (277 208) \nconference room servers, receiving 30 connections, including 4 repeater \nnodes, from 9 countries. Among those countries listening were Poland, \nDenmark, Ukraine, and Thailand. The audio was also fed into the IRLP \nDiscovery Reflector 9010.\n\n*The Prairielands Council contact was the 38th contact made by the Expedition \n15 crew members, tying Expedition 12 for the most contacts made during one\nincrement.*\n\n\n3. Upcoming School Contacts\n\nMalaysian space visitor Sheikh Shukor launched into space with Expedition 16\ncrew members on Wednesday, October 10.  While onboard the ISS, Shukor plans to\nparticipate in the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)\nprogram. He has been scheduled for 5 contacts with Malaysian students. Each\ngroup of students will gather at the National Planetarium in Kuala Lumpur and\nwill speak with Shukor, 9W2MUS, directly via 9M2RPN. The following contacts \nhave been planned:\n\nMalaysian Group of Schools #1, Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 17:17 UTC\nMalaysian Group of Schools #2, Monday, October 15, 2007 at 16:06 UTC\nMalaysian Group of Schools #3, Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at16:28 UTC.\nMalaysian Group of Schools #4, Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 15:39 UTC\nMalaysian Group of Schools #5, Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 14:50 UTC\n\n\n4. ARRL Article on 2008 Spaceflight Participant Richard Garriott, KE5QNX\n\nThe American Radio Relay League (ARRL) ran a story on Richard Garriott, \nKE5QNX, (son of Owen Garriott, W5LFL) who will be a spaceflight participant \nnext year, launching to the ISS in October 2008. Garriott plans to make \nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contacts while \nonboard the ISS.  See: \nhttp://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2007/10/03/100/?nc=1\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 President's\nClub. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project\nFunds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms are\navailable from the AMSAT Office.\n\n73, \nThis week's ANS Editor,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n",
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