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    "subject": "[ans]    ANS-337  AMSAT Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2006-12-03T03:10:59Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-337\n\nANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North\nAmerica,The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the\nactivities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an\nactive interest in designing, building, launching and communicating\nthrough analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\n\[email protected]\n\nIn this edition:\n* Unique Donation Opportunity Through The Pension Protection Act\n* UK Colloquium Dates Set\n* Genesat-1 Launch Information\n* ARISS Status - December 3, 2006\n* STS-116 Launch to Include Cubesats\n* SKN in Memory of K7RR\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-337.01\nUnique Donation Opportunity Through The Pension Protection Act\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 337.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nNovember 26, 2006\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-337.01\n\nRecent legislation passed by Congress and signed by President Bush can\nhelp AMSAT raise the funds needed to build Eagle. The law, called the\nPension Protection Act (PPA), includes a provision enabling AMSAT to\nraise substantially more money than might have been previously possible.\n  However, time is short to take full advantage of this unique opportunity.\n\nSerious construction work must be funded this year to have Eagle ready\nto orbit by the target of 2009.\n\nBasically, here's the story on how the new law can help Eagle fly!\n\nThe PPA provides that U.S. taxpayers with IRAs who have reached the age\nof 70-1/2, may contribute to qualified charities, part or all (up to\n$100,000 per year or $200,000 for married couples filing jointly), of\nthe money they must annually withdraw from their IRAs.\n\nThus, many AMSAT members and other supporters of the amateur radio space\nprogram have a marvelous opportunity to keep the Eagle project on track.\n\nIf you must withdraw a certain amount from your IRA each year, there is\na big advantage to making such withdrawals as direct contributions to\nAMSAT rather than merely receiving the distributions and then\ncontributing in the usual manner. Under PPA, the amount you contribute\ndirectly is NOT counted as income and thus may put you into a lower tax\nbracket. It may also reduce  the percentage of your Social Security\nincome subject to taxation.\n\nKey provisions of the new legislation to keep in mind:\n\n1. Donors must hold either a conventional or Roth IRA.\n\n2. Donors must be at least 70-1/2 years of age.\n\n3. Contributions must be made directly from the IRA to the charitable\norganization not to a donor- advised fund, private foundation, gift\nannuity or trust.\n\n4. Donations may be made this year and next only, and must be made by\nDecember 31, 2006 and December 31, 2007.\n\n5. The maximum amount a contributor may donate each year is $100,000.\n\n6. Direct contributions to qualified charities from IRAs, in accordance\nwith the PPA provisions, are NOT counted as taxable income.\n\nIf you are 70-1/2 or older and have an IRA, you are in a position to\ntake advantage of this potential windfall for the Eagle project. AMSAT\nurges you to first check with your tax advisor for specifics regarding\nyour individual situation, then ask your IRA custodian to transfer to\nAMSAT part or all of what you are required to withdraw. Be sure to have\nthis transfer completed before December 31st.\n\nLet's all of us do our part to get Eagle into orbit.\n\n* Have your IRA custodian call the AMSAT office to get information on\nhow to transfer your contribution. The number 301-589-6062. Office hours\nare 10 AM to 6 PM EST.\n\n[ANS thanks BIll, W3XO, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-337.02\nUK Colloquium Dates Set\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 337.02\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nDecember 3, 2006\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-337.02\n\n  Please make a note in your diaries, etc   The dates for the 2007\nAMSAT-UK Colloquium are 20 through 22 July 2007. We are holding it a\nweek earlier than normal to avoid clashing with the Central States VHF\nEvent. Venue is to be the University of Surrey, as per previous years.\n\n   I hope that lots of you from the other side of the Pond will be able\nto make it!\n\n73\nJim G3WGM\nHon Sec AMSAT-UK\n\n[ANS thanks Jim, G3WGM, for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-337.03\nGenesat-1 Launch Information\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 337.03\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nDecember 3, 2006\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-337.03\n\nGeneSat-1 Launch Planned for December 11\n\nA Star is Flown\nGeneSat-1 will launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS)\nat NASA Wallops Flight Facility on December 11, 2006, about 7:00am EST.\nIt will go into orbit as a secondary payload aboard a Minotaur launch\nvehicle.  GeneSat-1 is a 10 x 10 x 30 cm. spacecraft, which will conduct\na cellular biology technology demonstration.\n\nOf particular interest to the amateur radio satellite community, is the\nGeneSat-1 beacon.  Operating at 437.075 MHz FM, the beacon sends an\nAX.25 packet every 5 seconds; the packet contains data about the\nspacecraft systems operation.  The beacon will initiate transmission as\nsoon as the spacecraft is deployed from its carrier on the 4th stage of\nthe launch vehicle.\n\nThe mission website at http://www.genesat1.org will be fully operational\nas of December 5; look there for general mission and spacecraft\ninformation, for how to contact GeneSat Mission Operations, and for the\nlatest orbit data and other information needed to work the GeneSat-1 beacon.\n\nLet The Games Begin\nTo foster interest in the amateur community, and to support amateur\nradio and space technology outreach to student groups, the GeneSat\nMission Team is sponsoring a contest, with entries made by uploading\npackets received onto the mission website.  Recognition and awards will\nbe made as follows:\n\nGrand Prize: A radio station set up for satellite tracking!  The rig\nwill be donated by the Silicon Valley Center for Robotic Exploration and\nSpace Technology (CREST) at NASA Research Park to the college or\nuniversity of the winner's choice. The honor of choosing the recipient\nschool goes to the station that logs 12 or more data packets each (about\n1 minute's worth of listening) from the greatest number of satellite\npasses during the experiment.\n\nThe recipient school must be approved by CREST management, based on\ndemonstration of suitable infrastructure and licensed amateur(s)\navailable to operate and maintain the station, and available\nconnectivity from CREST for remote support and operation. The station\nwill be installed with the cooperation of CREST staff.  The winners also\nwill receive a commemorative plaque for station team members and\npictures and recognition on the GeneSat-1 website.  In case of a tie the\nstation with earliest initial packet submittal will win the right to\ndesignate the recipient school.\n\nFirst Contact Prize:  The station submitting the first packet after\ninitiation of transmission will receive the First Contact Prize.  They\nwill receive a commemorative plaque and mission pins for station team\nmembers and pictures and recognition on the mission website.\n\nThe First 20 stations to post packets will receive mission pins and a\ncertificate of recognition from the GeneSat Mission Operations Director.\n\nAll Contestants who submit one or more packets will receive an\nelectronic QSL card from the mission web site upon submission of data.\n\n[ANS thanks Mike, KE7EGC and the GeneSat-1 team for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-337.04\nARISS Status - December 3, 2006\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 337.04\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nDecember 3, 2006\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-337.04\n\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Status Report\nNovember 27, 2006\n\n1.\tMannheim Museum Contact Successful\n\nOn Monday, November 20, students attending the Landesmuseum fuer Technik\nund Arbeit (Mannheim Museum) in Mannheim, Germany, for the opening of\nits space exhibition, experienced an amateur radio contact with\nastronaut Thomas Reiter, DF4TR. An audience of two hundred students,\nages 12-20, watched as 13 students asked thirteen questions. Also\npresent was former ESA astronaut Ernst Messerschmid, DG2KM, who\ndisplayed pictures of Thomas’ training and answered questions from the\naudience.\n  Telebridge station VK5ZAI in Australia assisted in the event. The\naudio was fed into the EchoLink servers and received 22 connections\nfrom12 countries, including 1 repeater. Three connections were made to\nthe Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) Discovery Reflector 9010, and\n15 listened to the Shoutcast audio stream on the\nwww.discoveryreflector.ca website.  The audio was also webcast, courtesy\nof Verizon Conferencing.\n\n2.\tCanadian School Contact, a Success\n\n\tCentre Hastings Secondary School experienced a successful contact with\nthe ISS via amateur radio. On November 20, ten students posed 22\nquestions to Michael Lopez-Alegria, KE5GTK, in front of an audience of\n800.  The Ottawa ARISS team provided radio equipment for the contact and\ngave a presentation to the students. Local radio and newspapers covered\nthe event and media students from the local college and university\nattended. Dignitaries making an appearance included a federal member of\nthe Canadian Parliament, an Ontario Member of the Provincial Parliament,\nand local officials from the Township and School Board including\nTrustees and directors. The school webcasted the event on\nwww.hpedsb.on.ca. Audio was fed to EchoLink servers and Internet Radio\nLinking Project (IRLP) Discovery Reflector 9010. EchoLink received 16\nconnections (1 repeater included) from 9 countries, and 5 connections\nwere made to the IRLP server 9010 from Canada and Japan.  Audio was also\navailable through Shoutcast on the website www.discoveryreflector.ca\nwhich received 26 connections.\n\n3.\tCosmonaut Active on Voice\n\nMikhail Tyruin, RZ3FT, has been active on voice.  He has been using the\nISS Ham radio equipment to make general contacts with his friends in Canada.\n\n4.\tAstronaut Training Status\n\nOn November 20, Christer Fuglesang, KE5CGR/SA0AFS, attended an amateur\nradio session at JSC which provided him with user level training on the\nKenwood radio so that he will be prepared to perform a school contact\nwith students in Sweden during his STS-116 mission. He was given\ninstructions on manual configuration as well as normal operations of the\nradio.\n\n5.\tARISS International Team Meeting Held\n\nThe ARISS International Team held its monthly teleconference on Tuesday,\nNovember 21.  SuitSat-2’s design and progress were reported on. Updates\nwere given on the Kenwood radio status and SuitSat-1 certificates.\nMinutes have been posted on the ARISS website.  See:\nhttp://www.rac.ca/ariss/arisstel2006-11-21.htm\n\n[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-337.05\nSTS-116 Launch Includes Cubesats\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 337.05\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nDecember 3, 2006\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-337.05\n\nDecember 7 STS-116 Launch Includes Three Amateur Satellites\n\nSpace Shuttle Discovery is scheduled for launch on December 7 at\n9:35 PM EST (UTC-5). During the 12-day mission and three spacewalks,\nthe crew will work closely with flight controllers at NASA's Johnson\nSpace Center, Houston, to install a new segment of the station's\ngirder-like truss and activate the station's permanent, complex power\nand cooling systems.\n\nThe Shuttle will also carry to orbit three new satellites, RAFT-1,\nMARSCOM and ANDE, designed, built, and tested by the Midshipmen of\nthe US Naval Academy's Satellite Laboratory in Annapolis, Maryland.\n\nThe primary mission of the RAFT satellite is tied to the calibration\nof the US Navy Space Surveillance Radar which is the primary source of\nALL satellite tracking data for ALL spacecraft in the USA. Data from\nthis radar is what helps generate the Keplarian Elements used by all\nAmateur Satellites operators.\n\nThe secondary mission of RAFT and MARScom are to provide packet digital\ncommunications relay for mobile units to transmit their GPS coordinates\nand messages via the satellites. This is a continuation of the PCsat,\nPCSAT2 and ARISS missions. The downlink is received by a global system\nof volunteer ground stations that feed the http://pcsat.aprs.org live\nweb page.\n\nThe primary limitation on single channel LEO satellite communications\nis the congestion on the uplink. The RAFT Packet-to-Voice transponder\nsolves this problem by compressing the uplink into a single 1 second\nburst per station, and then expanding it to voice for the FM downlink.\nThis way, students with nothing but a scanner receiver can hear all of\nthe downlink communications (voice) yet the uplinking stations have a\nvery low probabilty of collision due to the short duration of the uplink.\nA voice synthesizer converts the packet to voice.\n\nANDE was developed by the Naval Research labs as an \"Atmospheric Neutral\nDensity Experiment\" to measure the decay from orbit of a perfectly spher\nical 18\" ball. Hearing that it was empty, the Naval Academy under the\nmentoring of Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, proposed an amateur radio transponder\nfor the inside.\n\nThere can be no external antennas and no solar panels or anything that\nwould disturb the aerodynamic performance of the very smooth sphere. The\nspherical satellite is split in half with an insulator and uses the\nspace frame as the antenna for the 2 meter system.  There are 112\nLithinum primary \"D\" cells inside the sphere to power it for a year.\n\nTo keep the current drain to a minimum, the ANDE comms payload sleeps\n90% of the time, only waking up once every 16 seconds to listen for\npackets. Hearing none, it goes back to sleep to convserve power. If\npackets are heard, then it remains awake and serves as an APRS packet\ndigipeater until 1 minute after the last packet. In addition, ANDE has a\nvoice synthesizer and can speak packets addressed to it.\n\nThe telemetry from the satellite will be of a similar form to that of\nPCSAT and PCSAT2 and will be distributed by the APRS-IS network. Dave,\nG4DPZ has been working on the telemetry web site.  Details of the URL\nwill be published after launch.\n\nThe RAFT-1 and ANDE satellite downlinks will be 145.825 MHz.  The MARS\nfrequencies used by MARSCOM are on Navy-Marine Corps MARS frequencies.\n\nFor full technical details please refer to:\nhttp://www.ew.usna.edu/%7Ebruninga/ande-raft-ops.html\n\n[ANS thanks Bob, WB4APR, and the US Naval Academy Satellite Laboratory\n  for the above information]\n\n/EX\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-337.06\nSKN In memory of K7RR\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 337.06\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nDecember 3, 2006\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-337.06\n\n\nSKN on OSCAR 2007 TO BE IN MEMORY OF K7RR\n\nAll radio amateurs, worldwide, are cordially invited to participate\nin Straight Key Night on OSCAR 2007.  This year, the event is dedi-\ncated to the memory of Cliff Buttschardt, K7RR.  Cliff was an enthu-\nsiastic and longtime SKN participant on both OSCAR and HF, as well\nas a perennial Best Fist winner.  He will be sorely missed.\n\nParticipating in SKN on OSCAR 2007 is easy.  No rules, no scoring\nand no need to send in a log.  Just operate CW through any OSCAR\netween 0000 and 2400 UTC on 1 January 2007, using a straight hand\nkey.\n\nIn keeping with the friendly nature of this event, all participants\nare encouraged to nominate someone they worked for \"Best Fist.\"  Your\nnominee need not have the best fist of those you heard, just of those\nyou worked.  Please send your nomination to [email protected].  A list\nof those nominated will appear in ANS and The AMSAT Journal.\n\nCU SKN!\n\n73,\n\nRay W2RS\n\n[ANS thanks Ray, W2RS, for the above information]\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 donors\nto AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits.\nApplication forms are available from the AMSAT Office.\n\n73, This week's ANS Editor,\nDee Interdonato, NB2F\nnb2f at amsat dot org\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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