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    "subject": "[ans] ANS-021 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2018-01-21T01:56:39Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-021\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* Dr. Junior Torres de Castro, PY2BJO SK\n* AMSAT Membership Deal and Getting Started\n* Upcoming club satellite presentations (and hopefully demos...)\n* Zhou Enlai Student Satellite to Launch\n* AO-92 camera results\n* N8RO Logs 488th US Grid - Earns Grid Master Award #8\n* Updates to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for 1-16-2018\n* Fox-1 MPPT Developers Interviewed on HamRadio360 Podcast\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-021.01\nANS-021 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 021.01\n>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nJanuary 21, 2017\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-021.01\n\n\nDr. Junior Torres de Castro, PY2BJO SK\n\nIt is with great sadness that the Directors and Officers of AMSAT-\nNorth America announce the passing of Dr. Junior Torres de Castro,\nPY2BJO.  According to his son, Allan Kardec, Junior passed away on\nJanuary 17, 2018 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.\n\nA very active radio amateur, Junior was a great collaborator of\nLABRE (The League of Brazilian Amateur Radio Transmitters) serving\nfor a time as its President. He was also a founder of BRAMSAT, the\nBrazilian AMSAT group as well as an active member of the AMSAT-NA\nBoard of Directors during the early 1990s.\n\nBut, perhaps what Junior will be best remembered for among the rest\nof the world's amateurs was his work with AMSAT-NA in helping to\nbuild (and financially underwrite) Brazil's very first amateur radio\nsatellite.\n\nCalled \"DOVE short for \"Digital Orbiting Voice Encoder\", the\nsatellite was successfully launched on January 22, 1990 on an Ariane\n4 rocket from the European Space Agency's Kourou Space Center in\nFrench Guiana.  Besides the main payload, that launch also included\nthree other AMSAT MicroSats along with two larger UOSats. Surrey\nSatellite Technology in England built the two larger satellites.\n\nJunior's vision for his DOVE satellite was to provide a strong  2m,\naudio FM downlink signal (\"This is DOVE in Space\") that could be\neasily received by educational institutions around the world.\nDownlink telemetry was via 1200 Baud AFSK, AX.25 packet radio, a data\nformat that was easily decoded with receivers and TNCs that were very\npopular among radio amateurs at the time.\n\nWhen told of Junior's passing, Jan King, W3GEY, a founding AMSAT\nDirector and AMSAT's Vice President of Engineering during the\nMicroSat project said that, \"I'm very sorry to hear about Junior. He\ncertainly made the 4 MicroSat mission happen. He was a very important\npart of AMSAT and a fond memory for me.\"\n\nLikewise, Former AMSAT-NA BOD member Bob McGwier, N4HY, noted that,\n\"This is a sad day. Junior was a great guy, full of life, and he\nloved AMSAT. It was a pleasure for me to help build his MicroSat for\nhim. When I became an AMSAT employee for getting these spacecraft\ndone, Junior paid the bills.\"\n\nAnother MicroSat Project team member, Jim White, WD0E, noted that,\n\"This is indeed sad news. It was a pleasure to work with him on DOVE.\nHe was a very warm and generous person and not only conceived of and\nfunded DOVE, but also a receiver for the 60-foot radio dish that the\nTable Mountain the Deep Space Exploration Society was refurbishing.\nHe was always tinkering and building things at his house near Sao\nPaulo.  He even dreamed of building a round swimming pool that, when\ndrained, would double as a radio astronomy dish!  During the time his\nDOVE satellite was sending \"This is DOVE in space\" audio from orbit\nwe received nearly 200 SWL cards from around the world, all of which\nwe shared with him. Needless to say, he was absolutely delighted.\"\n\nAt ANS deadline, funeral arrangements for Junior were still pending.\nBut word was received that his funeral and interment was to be in at\nthe Gethsemane Cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil.\n\n[ANS thanks Keith KB1SF/VA3KSF for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Membership Deal and Getting Started\n\nJust a few reminders for all the new folks joining us:\n\nAMSAT membership supports the organization and construction of new\nsatellites. Right now, we are offering a free PDF copy of our Getting\nStarted with Amateur Satellites with every new on-line membership.\nThis is -the- primer for getting on the sats, and is updated every\nyear. See https://www.amsat.org/product-category/amsat-membership/\n\nAMSAT also sells both the popular Arrow Antenna satellite models and\nthe M2 LEOpack antennas. Sales also benefit AMSAT projects.\nhttps://www.amsat.org/product-category/hardware/\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUpcoming club satellite presentations (and hopefully demos...)\n\nPhilip N4HF announces a couple of presentations he'll be doing.\n\n1) Blue Ridge ARC (Henderson County NC), Tuesday March 6, 7pm.\nhttp://radioclub.org/  (this club has also started streaming club\nmeetings via TeamViewer; the demo, if it happens, will be outside\nthough)\n\n2) Haywood County ARC (NC), Thursday April 12, 7 pm.\nhttp://kw4p.org/   (Meeting place is incorrect on the website, but\nhopefully that will be updated in the next few days)\n\nPhilip states he will be at one hamfest under the AMSAT banner, and\npossibly two, in the next couple of months. He will be announcing\nthose when the info is finalized.\n\n[ANS thanks Philip N4HF for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nZhou Enlai Student Satellite to Launch\n\nThe 2U CubeSat Zhou Enlai, developed with primary and middle school\nstudents, is expected to launch on Friday, January 19, 2018\n\nThe satellite is named after the first Premier of the PRC. Zhou\nEnlai held office from October 1949 until January 1976.\n\nA report on Xinhua Net says:\n\nThe satellite was sent from its production base in Huai'an Youth\nComprehensive Development Base in east China's Jiangsu Province to\nJiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province\nMonday, where a CZ-11 solid fuel rocket is scheduled to put it into\norbit Friday.\n\nTwenty teenagers who participated in the development project\naccompanied the transport group to the launch center and will witness\nthe lift-off.\n\nZhang Xiang, chief designer of the satellite, said that the nano-\nsatellite, weighing 2 kilograms, is set to run in sun-synchronous\norbit. Equipped with a HD optical camera, it can capture space photos\nwith the highest resolution among those shot by other Chinese\nsatellites for scientific education purpose.\n\nZhang said that the students had taken their spare time to join the\ndevelopment and groundbased simulation performance of the satellite,\nand had learnt to assemble and practice voice data transfer and\ntelecommunication applications.\n\n\"A scientific satellite like this is like a teacher in space,\ncarrying cameras or spectroscopes to study the upper atmosphere or to\nshoot space pictures of the stars. Students can grasp the mystery of\nthe universe through the messages transmitted by the teacher,\" said\nZhang, a professor with Nanjing University of Science and Engineering.\n\nRead the full story at\nhttp://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-01/17/c_136902466.htm\n\nThe IARU satellite pages list a 2U CubeSat called HA-1 with FM\ntransponder and SSTV developed by the Teenagers Amateur Radio Center\nof Activity in Huai'an. Zhou Enlai may well be the new name for this\nsatellite.\nhttp://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=589\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate ARN for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAO-92 camera results\n\n\nFor those that have not been following AMSAT on Twitter or Facebook,\nwe have done a few camera runs with AO-92 with very good results. A\npass this morning yielded 4 good images, two of which I have located\ntheir position on the ground. The images can be seen at:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/tlm/fox1d/images/index1.html\n\nSome side by side comparisons with Google Earth and NOAA images can be\nfound at:\nhttps://twitter.com/AMSAT/status/953294176933896195 and\nhttps://twitter.com/AMSAT/status/953304248162406401 .\n\nCongratulations again to Virginia Tech, and thanks for providing the\ncamera experiments for AO-92 and Fox-1Cliff!\n\n[ANS thanks Drew KO4MA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nN8RO Logs 488th US Grid - Earns Grid Master Award #8\n\nCongratulations to Ron Oldham, N8RO, to log his last grid needed\nto have worked via satellite all 488 grids in the Lower 48 United\nStates. Ron's message on the amsat-bb reads, \"On Sunday [January 14]\nI was able to log the last grid I needed to complete the 488 US grids.\nI would like to publicly thank Doug, N6UA, for going out of his way\nto help me get DN23 in my log. Without the efforts of many portable\nsatellite operators like Doug it would not be possible to achieve\nthis accomplishment. Many thanks to all of the operators that\nhelped me throughout the years.\"\n\nRon also noted the Top 10 portable satellite operators who's efforts\nhave provided opportunities for contacts including:\nND9M -   332\nK8YSE -  273\nAC0RA -  234\nW5PFG -  205\nWC7V -   126\nWD9EWK - 117\nKA6SIP - 108\nNJ7H -   89\nA5CK -   710\nKB5WIA - 610\nKB0RZD - 6\n\nOn January 17 Damon, WA4HFN announced, \"Congrats to Ron,N8RO for\nearning Grid Master Award #8\". The Grid Master Award is given for\nconfirmed satellite contacts with all 488 U.S. Grids.\" These awards\nare available at no cost but Damon requests that you make a donation\nto AMSAT-NA. For more information visit the web site:\nhttp://www.squirtthebirds.com\n\n[ANS thanks Ron, N8RO via the amsat-bb, and Damon, WA4HFN for the\n above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUpdates to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for 1-16-2018\n\nHere is the current tracking status for AO-92 and PICSAT.\n\nUpdates to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution\n\nNico Janssen, PA0DLO, by detailed doppler measurements has confirmed\nthe identity of the AO-92 and PICSAT from the 1-12-2018 0358 GMT\nIndia PSLV-C40 launch. They have been added to the AMSAT-NA TLE\nDistribution:\nPICSAT - NORAD CAT ID 43131\nAO-92  - NORAD CAT ID 43137\n\nThe following objects have been dropped from the AMSAT-NA TLE\nDistribution:\nOBJECT A - NORAD CAT ID 43111\nOBJECT B - NORAD CAT ID 43112\nOBJECT C - NORAD CAT ID 43113\nOBJECT D - NORAD CAT ID 43114\nOBJECT E - NORAD CAT ID 43115\nOBJECT F - NORAD CAT ID 43116\nOBJECT T - NORAD CAT ID 43128\nOBJECT U - NORAD CAT ID 43129\n99934    - NORAD CAT ID 99934\n\nPlease modify your tracking program as required.\n\nTo receive AMSAT's Keplerian Element updates directly to your e-mail\nbox subscribe at:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/keps\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFox-1 MPPT Developers Interviewed on HamRadio360 Podcast\n\nCale, K4CDN, interviewed the Salmi brothers, Brent, KB1LQD, and\nBryce, KB1LQC, on the HamRadio360 podcast. Brent and Bryce are\nthe developers of the Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPT) used\nin the Fox-1B, Fox-1Cliff, and Fox-1D cubesats. The MPPT is the\ncontrolling interface between the solar panel with the electrical\nsystem of the Fox-1 satellites in such a way that the conditions\nfor maximum power are always met when needed.\n\nCale, Brent and Bryce also discuss their Open Source Digital Radio\ncompany, Faraday RF.\n\nListen to the HamRadio360 podcast at:\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS-HamRadio360-Podcast\n\n[ANS thanks Cale, K4CDN, and HamRadio360 for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Higher National School of\n  Computer Science and Systems Analysis (ENSIAS), Rabat, Morocco\n  and Astronaut Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP using Callsign NA1SS. The\n  contact began 2018-01-03 13:52 UTC  and lasted about nine and a\n  half minutes. Contact was telebridge via VK5ZAI].\n  ARISS Mentor was Eskil SM5SRR.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Prva srednja informaticka\n  škola, Zagreb, Croatia] and Astronaut Scott Tingle KG5NZA using\n  Callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2018-01-18 08:46 UTC and lasted\n  about nine and a half minutes. Contact was telebridge via VK6MJ.\n  ARISS Mentor was Marco 9A8MM.\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2018-01-20  01:00 UTC\n\nQuick list of scheduled contacts and  events:\n\nNaka Junior  High School, Kakamigahara City, Japan, direct via 8J25D\nThe ISS callsign is  presently scheduled to be NA1SS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Mark Vande Hei  KG5GNP\nContact is a go for: Mon 2018-01-22 10:23:21 UTC\nContact is direct with 8J25D and should be audible over Japan and\nadjacent areas.\n\nThe English School, Nicosia, Cyprus, telebridge via W6SRJ\nThe  ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS\nThe scheduled astronaut is  Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP\nContact is a go for: Wed 2018-01-24 10:35:45 UTC\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above\n information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+ MONTSERRAT, VP2M.  Daniel, KD9HNL is QRV as VP2MDH until January 29.\n  Activity is on various FM satellites.  QSL via LoTW.\n\n  [ANS thanks ARRL DX news for the above information]\n\n+ AMSAT-NA President Joe Spier K6WAO Interviewed in February QST\n\n  Read Steve Ford's WB8IMY interview of AMSAT-NA President Joe Spier\n  K6WAO in Frebrauary's QST. The interview which, appears on page 69\n  of the issue, covers Joe's amateur radiocCareer, his vision for the\n  future of AMSAT-NA and amateur satelites in general, challenges on\n  the horizon, prospect of HEOs and geostationary amateur satellites.\n\n  [ANS thanks QST for the above information]\n\n+ More background on the satellites aboard the PSLV-C40 flight:\n  https://amsat-uk.org/2018/01/13/ham-radio-cubesat-launch-success/\n\n  [ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n+ NASA Social Media event\n  https://www.nasa.gov/social/state-of-nasa-social-2018\n\n  [ANS thanks NASA for the above information]\n\n+ Jerry Buxton N0JY VP Enginneering On HamTalkLive\n\n  On January 18, Thursday night at 9 pm Eastern time, Jerry Buxton,\n  N0JY the vice president for engineering at AMSAT was interview on\n  the HamTalkLive webcast to talk about the process of building\n  amateur radio satellites, and the latest on the newest bird, Fox\n  1D which just arrived in space last week!\n\n  If you miss the show live, you can listen on demand 24/7/365.25\n  at:\n  https://www.spreaker.com/show/ham-talk-live - select episode #98.\n  or\n  https://tinyurl.com/ANS021-HamTalkLive\n\n  [ANS thanks HamTalkLive.com 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, AA8EM\naa8em at amsat dot org\n",
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