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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/YNTSNTGOBOGTUYVX4NF3I65SQZSSP7KG/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "YNTSNTGOBOGTUYVX4NF3I65SQZSSP7KG", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/ZOCGF6E4Q4MQJUMENVO7Q6RA6T6LUHRD/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "wao (a) vfr.net", "mailman_id": "9057def1436c407fa55c4988db05914a", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/9057def1436c407fa55c4988db05914a/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Joseph Spier", "subject": "[ans] ANS-299 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2014-10-26T04:32:44Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/V6TKZ4SAH7UCG32NSO2EBV2D6EOPQIWZ/?format=api", "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/QEPD4NPT2DK43PIYB4J354FLTPK75367/?format=api" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-299\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* AMSAT Journal Deadline Dates for 2015\n* 4M Lunar Payload Update\n* LituanicaSAT-2 Announced\n* Lunar Ham Radio Payload Launched\n* UK Students CubeSat Project\n* GB1SS callsign for International Space Station\n* International African CubeSat WorkShop November 3-4\n* AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-299.01\nANS-299 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 299.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE October 26, 2014\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-299.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Journal Deadline Dates for 2015\n\n\nAMSAT Journal Editor, JoAnne, K9JKM has released the deadline dates\nfor the 2015 issues of the AMSAT Journal. She noted that, \"The AMSAT\nJournal is continuously searching for news, articles, and photos\nrelated to all of the activities of amateur radio in space.\"\n\nIn the past this has included satellite development, satellite\nhistory, ground stations, antennas, hardware development, software.\nWe find that many items related to SDR, VHF, UHF, and microwave\noperating or roving are directly applicable to satellite operations.\nEducational outreach has been identified as a key area which AMSAT\nmay use to leverage launch\nopportunities. The Journal welomes news, photos, and articles of\nARISS contacts, University research and development, and STEM\nprograms.\n\nThe deadlines for each AMSAT Journal, which is published six times\nper year, are:\n\n ISSUE DEADLINE\n--------------------- ----------------\nJanuary/February 2015 December 20, 2014\nMarch/April February 20, 2015\nMay/June April 20, 2015\nJuly/August June 20, 2015\nSeptember/October August 20, 2015\nNovember/December October 20, 2015\n\nSend your input and questions to JoAnne at [email protected]\n\nAdditional opportunities for publication come from amateur satellite\noperators who have the gear and expertise to also receive interesting\ntransmissions from non-amateur spacecraft and EME. Articles discussing\nhow this is done are useful to our readers discovering they can do\nmore with the station they have built.\n\nAMSAT has posted a complete author's guide, \"How to Write for the\nAMSAT Journal\" at:\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?page_id=1709\n\nOur editors will work with you to finalize your article for\npublication.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT Journal Editor, JoAnne, K9JKM, for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n4M Lunar Payload Update\n\n\nOn October 25 Ghislain Ruy LX2RG provided this update on the 4M lunar\namateur radio payload.\nSignals from 4M are quite weak. This is not due to a loss of power\nas telemetry shows normal parameters, but to the attitude of the last\nstage that places a deep of the radiation pattern in the direction of\nthe Earth. I hope that Earth’s movement with respect to the inertial\nattitude of the last stage will give better results in the coming days.\nThe 4M is becoming a real challenge now, and receiving the signals\nduring flyby will be quite an achievement. A little bit away from the\noriginal goal though, but this risk was known.\nOne sure result is the radiation measurement that showed what was to\nbe expected, and the graphs will soon be pubished on the blog.\nI hope you will be able to receive during the AMSAT-DL AGM this\nweekend, but you will have to put 16+dB [antenna] gain at least.\n\nRadio amateurs are encouraged to receive and report the signals\nhttp://moon.luxspace.lu/receiving-4m/\n\nFor tracking information just enter your latitude and longitude at\nhttp://moon.luxspace.lu/tracking/\n\nSee the 4M payload Blog at\nhttp://moon.luxspace.lu/blog/\n\nLunar Ham Radio Payload Launched\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2014/10/23/lunar-ham-radio-payload-launched/\n\n4M Lunar Payload\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2014/10/15/4m-lunar-payload-integrated-keps-\nreleased/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nLituanicaSAT-2 Announced\n\n\nThe LituanicaSAT team has announced on Facebook that the\nLituanicaSAT-2 CubeSat will be coming soon.\n\nIt is hoped the CubeSat will be among 50 satellites launched in the\n1st quarter of 2016 on the Ukrainian Cyclone 4 launcher from the\nAlcantara launch site built by Ukraine and Brazil. The new launch\nsite is located near the Atlantic coast of Brazil just 2.3 degrees\nsouth of the equator.\n\nLituanicaSAT-2 will be more complex than the first and will test a\nnew propulsion system which will enable it to change orbit.\nCurrently CubeSats deployed in very low Earth orbit may only last 3\nmonths before burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere, the propulsion\nsystem could extend that up to 18 months.\n\nRead the 15min.lt article about LituanicaSAT-2 in Google English at\nhttp://tinyurl.com/LituanicaSAT-2-15min\n\nFacebook\nhttps://www.facebook.com/Lituanicasat1\n\nYou can watch a presentation by Gintautas Sulskus on the first\nLituanicaSAT CubeSat at\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2014/presentation-videos/\n\nLituanicaSAT-1\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2014/02/27/lituanicasat-1-cubesat/\n\nQB50 to use Alcantara launch site\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2014/01/28/qb50-cubesat-launch-contract-signed/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nLunar Ham Radio Payload Launched\n\n\nThe 4M amateur radio payload with a WSJT JT65B 145.980 MHz beacon\nwas launched on Thursday, October 23 at 1759 UT.\n\nThe Chang’e-5-T1 mission 4M payload launched on the Chang Zheng CZ-\n3C/G2 rocket from the LC2 launch complex at the Xichang Satellite\nLaunch Center, Sichuan. The first telemetry from the JT65B beacon was\nreceived at 1918 UT in Brazil.\n\nA number of Australian radio amateurs have reported receiving the\nsignals from 4M. Among them was Rob Whitmore VK3MQ at Mount\nDandenong, Victoria (QF22qe) who reports that at best, the strength\nwas -13 on the JT65B scale and could also be totally down into the\nnoise with no decodes.\n\nHe says “I am using the “Before” TLE as published on the Luxspace\nwebsite with Gpredict to stear my 6 element yagi and TS2000. With\nDoppler the frequency is 145.9787 MHz at the time of writing. So far\nthe decodes have included callsign, telemetry and a story of Manfred\nFuchs threading through alternate decodes.”\n\nSam Jewell G4DDK @DXING Tweeted “Had around 40 minutes of near 100%\ncopy from the moon probe 4M transmitter from around 1725z [Oct 24]. 9\nelement Yagi and K3/2m on 2m /JT65B”\n\nThe spacecraft will head into a Lunar Transfer Orbit (LTO), before\nperforming a flyby around the Moon. Radio amateurs are encouraged to\nreceive and report the signals. http://moon.luxspace.lu/receiving-4m/\n\nFor tracking information just enter your latitude and longitude at\nhttp://moon.luxspace.lu/tracking/\n\nSee the 4M payload Blog at\nhttp://moon.luxspace.lu/blog/\n\n4M Lunar Payload\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2014/10/15/4m-lunar-payload-integrated-keps-\nreleased/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUK Students CubeSat Project\n\n\nThe Coventry Telegraph newspaper reports on students at Warwick\nUniversity who are building their own satellite WUSAT-2.\nLucy Lynch writes that eight engineering students are designing\ntheir own satellite which will be sent into space. In February or\nMarch 2015 they and the project director Dr Bill Crofts will don\nwinter woollies and take their creation to a launch site in northern\nSweden, near the town of Kiruna.\nIt is the second student satellite designed at the university. The\nfirst one, last year, was sent up from mid Wales in a high altitude\nweather balloon.\nOnce the current satellite has been launched the next step is to\ncreate a satellite capable of orbiting the Earth.\nDr Crofts said: “This is a stepping stone to a full orbital launch.”\n\nRead the full article at\nhttp://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/meet-warwick-uni-\nstudents-who-7971498\n\nTwitter @WUSAT_Team\nFacebook\nhttps://www.facebook.com/WarwickUniversitySatellite\n\nUK Students Fly CubeSat to 30km\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2013/04/10/uk-students-fly-cubesat-to-30km/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nGB1SS callsign for International Space Station\n\n\nThe RSGB reported that on October 9, 2014 Ofcom confirmed that the\ncallsign GB1SS will be made available for issue to UK astronauts who\nwish to operate from the ISS.\n\nIn May 1991 the first UK astronaut Helen Sharman GB1MIR talked to\nradio amateurs around the world from the Mir space station. After a\ngap of 24 years it looks as though two more UK astronauts may be\nflying to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015.\n\nOne of the UK radio amateurs that Helen contacted all those years\nago was Chris Lorek G4HCL he says: I remember it fondly! I and my\nthree children all chatted with her on 2m using my club station call\nG4SMC (South Midlands Communications in Chandler’s Ford) on her next-\nbut-last Mir pass over the UK before she came down. Steven (10 years\nold), David (8 years old) and Carolyn (5 years old) all said hello to\nher, each giving their name and age, with Steven asking whether there\nwas a particular challenge she may have had. Helen replied, knowing\nit was very young children, that one difficult challenge she’d had\nwas putting her socks on as she floated around the station!\n\nIn September 2015 Sarah Brightman hopes to become the 2nd UK\nastronaut, flying to the ISS on a 10 day mission. She is committed to\nencouraging young women to pursue careers in Science, Technology,\nEngineering, and Mathematics (STEM). In 2012 in conjunction with\nVirgin Galactic, she launched The Brightman STEM Scholarship program.\nIt is not yet clear if she will operate the ISS amateur radio station\nduring her mission.\n\nTim Peake was selected to train as an astronaut in 2009 and hopes to\ngo to the ISS in November 2015. He holds the USA callsign KG5BVI and\nhas recently been learning to use the Ericsson 144 MHz handheld radio\nwhich is installed in the Columbus module of the ISS. On September 18\nTim said “Will be great to chat with schools next year from space\nusing this ham radio on board the ISS.”\n\nThere are two amateur radio stations on the ISS, one in the Russian\nService Module, the other in the ESA Columbus Module. Almost any 144\nMHz FM rig will receive signals from the ISS, you can even use a\ngeneral coverage VHF scanner with an external antenna. As far as the\nantenna is concerned the simpler the better. A ¼ wave ground plane is\na good antenna for the ISS as it has a high angle of radiation. Large\n2m colinears may not work quite as well since the radiation pattern\nis concentrated at the horizon.\n\nYou can receive the ISS outdoors using a 2 metre hand-held with its\nhelical antenna but a 1/4 wave whip will give far better results.\n\nIn the UK we use narrow 2.5 kHz deviation FM but the ISS transmits\nusing the wider 5 kHz deviation used in much of the world. Most rigs\ncan be switched been wide and narrow deviation filters so select the\nwider deviation. Hand-held rigs all seem to have a single wide filter\nfitted as standard.\n\nVoice contacts with astronauts usually take place using “split”\nfrequencies. The astronauts transmit on 145.800 MHz and listen for\nreplies on 145.200 MHz, you just need to activate your rig’s repeater\nshift. Recently, however, they have also been operating simplex\nlistening on 145.800 MHz.\n\nWhen astronauts are not on the air they usually leave the packet\ndigi-peater running on 145.825 MHz so why not listen out for it.\n\nISS status and tracking information\nhttp://issfanclub.com/\n\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/about/history/first-uk-astronaut-helen-sharman-\ngb1mir/\n\nSarah Brightman to fly to ISS\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2014/09/04/sarah-brightman-to-start-space-flight-\ntraining-in-january/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nInternational African CubeSat WorkShop November 3-4\n\n\nThe French South African Institute of Technology at Cape Peninsula\nUniversity of Technology is proud to host the 2nd International\nAfrican CubeSat Workshop 2014.\n\nThe first ever International African CubeSat Workshop was hosted by\nF'SATI at Cape Peninsula University of Technology from 30 September\nto 2 October 2011. This workshop was a resounding success and\nfollowed by the 62nd International Astronautical Congress, held for\nthe first time ever in Africa.\n\nThe Workshop will take place on 3 and 4 November 2014 in the ABC\nBuilding Lecture Theatre on the Bellville Campus of Cape Peninsula\nUniversity of Technology. This year, the first Workshop day coincides\nwith the French Day hosted by F'SATI and CampusFrance South Africa.\n\nRegistration to attend the 2nd International African CubeSat Workshop\nnow open. Registrations close on 27 October 2014.\n\nhttp://www.sarl.org.za/\nhttp://fsati9.wix.com/cubesat-workshop\n\n\n[ANS thanks the South African Radio League and the French South\nAfrican Institute of Technology for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Events\n\n\nInformation about AMSAT activities at other important events around\nthe country. Examples of these events are radio club meetings where\nAMSAT Area Coordinators give presentations, demonstrations of working\namateur satellites, and hamfests with an AMSAT presence (a table with\nAMSAT literature and merchandise, sometimes also with presentations,\nforums, and/or demonstrations).\n\n* Sunday, 25 October 2014 – Hamfest Chattanooga 2014 in\nChattanooga TN (Alhambra Center, near TN-320 and I-75 exit 3)\n* Saturday, 8 November 2014 – Tucson Hamfest 2014 in Marana AZ\n(along I-10 west frontage road, east of exit 236)\n* Saturday, 6 December 2014 – Superstition Superfest 2014 in Mesa\nAZ (Mesa Community College, Dobson Road between Southern Avenue & US-\n60 exit 177)\n* Saturday, 10 January 2015 – Thunderbird Hamfest in Phoenix AZ\n(43rd Avenue, between Greenway and Bell Roads)\n* Friday and Saturday, 20-21 February 2015 – Yuma Hamfest in Yuma\nAZ (Yuma County Fairgrounds, 32nd Street between Pacific Avenue &\nAvenue 3E, south of I-8 exit 3)\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\nUpcoming Contacts\n\n* Bisei Elementary School, Ibara, Japan, direct via 8N4STAR\nContact is a go for: Mon 2014-10-27 08:52:46 UTC 41 deg\n\n* From 2014-11-10 to 2014-12-07, there will be no US Operational\nSegment (USOS) hams on board ISS. So any schools contacts during\nthis period will be conducted by the ARISS Russia team.\n\n\nLatest News\n\n* A telebridge contact with members of The Explorers Club, New\nYork City, New York, USA via IK1SLD was sucessful on Sat 2014-10-25.\n\nThe ARISS team reported:\n\"Explorers Club Contact went well. 9 questions answered with a\nrepeat on the first question. Apollo astronauts Charles Duke\n(Apollo 16 moonwalker) and Walt Cunningham (Apollo 7 LM pilot) were\namong those who asked questions. 2 ticketholders for Virgin Galactic\nSpaceShip 2 also were among those who asked questions.\n\nOur thanks to Claudio IK1SLD for an outstanding job as the\ntelebridge station for today.\"\n\nThe Explorers Club is an international multidisciplinary\nprofessional society dedicated to the advancement of field research\nand the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore.\nFounded in New York City in 1904, The Explorers Club promotes the\nscientific exploration of land, sea, air, and space by supporting\nresearch and education in the physical, natural and biological\nsciences. The Club’s members have been responsible for an illustrious\nseries of famous firsts: First to the North Pole, first to the South\nPole, first to the summit of Mount Everest, first to the deepest\npoint in the ocean, first to the surface of the moon—all accomplished\nby our members.\n\nThe Explorers Club actively encourages public interest in\nexploration and the sciences through its public lectures program,\npublications, travel program, and other events. The Club also\nmaintains Research Collections, including a library and map room, to\npreserve the history of the Club and to assist those interested and\nengaged in exploration and scientific research. The Club houses a\nradio room and amateur radio station K2XP.\n\nOn Oct. 25, 2014 The Explorers Club will host a special all-day\nevent focusing on the history of human spaceflight at Explorers Club\nheadquarters in New York. This year’s venue will feature astronauts\nand space-flight participants from several missions using the Cold\nWar as a backdrop – Apollo, Soyuz, Space Shuttle and SpaceShipOne.\nThe day will include a mix of straight-up talks, “Exploring Legends”\ninterviews by Jim Clash, and panel discussions. Among confirmed story-\ntellers so far are Gen. Charles Duke, Apollo 16 moonwalker (and\nCapCom for the Apollo 11 lunarlanding); Richard Garriott and Greg\nOlsen, both of whom flew aboard Soyuz to ISS; four-time Shuttle/Soyuz\nveteran Leroy Chiao; Walter Cunningham, Apollo 7 Lunar Module pilot;\nCatherine “Cady” Coleman, who performed a live flute duet with Ian\nAnderson aboard ISS (and who will play at the Club’s event); and\nBrian Binnie, who piloted SpaceShipOne to win the Ansari X Prize in\n2004. The ARISS contact and interview will be an integral segment of\nthis human-exploration experience and public discovery.\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Keith, W5IU and Charlie, AJ9N for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\n* Theoretical Microwave Article Archive Available for Download\n\nMicrowave Review is a publication of national Society for Microwave\nTechnique, Technologies and Systems and Serbia and Montenegro IEEE\nMTT-S Chapter. Free on-line access to all published articles between\n1994-2013 can be found at:\nhttp://www.mtt-serbia.org.rs/microwave_review/home.htm\n\n[ANS thanks Owen Roberts via the Microwave listserv for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n* Beta testers wanted for Heavens-Above Android app\n\nHi all,\n\nWe are looking for beta testers for our new Heavens-Above Android app.\nA few features of the app:\n- Spacecraft visibility predictions based on current GPS location\n- Visibility calculations are done on the device, so you only need\nto go\nonline once every few days to update the list of orbital elements\n- Works on phones and tablets\n- Live Sky Chart, which shows all currently visible satellites\n- Prediction of Iridium flares\n\nThere will be two versions of the app, one will be free of charge\nand will include advertisements, the other will be a paid for version\nwithout ads. The price is still to be determined.\n\nTo participate, just send me an email from your google mail account\n(or let me know the name of your Google account) and I will add you\nto the Heavens-Above testers community. You will then receive an\ninvitation with further instructions on how to download and install\nthe test version of the app. The first official release will be\navailable to all for download from the Google play web site.\n\nWe have also set up a forum on the Heavens-Above site;\nhttp://www.heavens-above.com/forum/default.aspx?g=forum&c=5\n\nChris Peat\[email protected]\n\n\n[ANS thanks Seesat-l mailing list 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,\nJoe Spier, K6WAO\nk6wao at amsat dot org\n", "attachments": [] }