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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/Z556UW3V6UDU4ZQOLKOLRFQ5SF6H34H2/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "Z556UW3V6UDU4ZQOLKOLRFQ5SF6H34H2", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/Z556UW3V6UDU4ZQOLKOLRFQ5SF6H34H2/", "sender": { "address": "ku4os (a) cfl.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Lee McLamb", "subject": "[ans] ANS-134 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2017-05-14T02:23:24Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-134\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* Top 10 Reasons to Come to Dayton\n* Canadian Grid Expedition Announcement\n* Asia Islands on the Air Satellite Activation\n* South Korea Air Force Academy Proposes FM Repeater K2Sat to IARU\n* Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Internships\n* Vector Space Completes First Test Flight\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-134.01\nANS-134 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 134.01\n From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE May 14, 2017\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-134.01\n\nTop 10 Reasons to Come to Dayton\n\n10. Rub shoulders with 25,000 of your best friends at the largest hamfest\nin the United States, including most of the AMSAT Directors and senior\nofficers. See the latest equipment from Icom, Yaesu, Kenwood, Flex,\nAlinco, M2, Arrow, and many other manufacturers of amateur radio equipment\nand accessories. Take advantage of discounted pricing you won't find\nanywhere else.\n\n9. Find out how to organize a contact with the astronauts on the\nInternational Space Station for your local school or youth group from our\nEducation and ARISS experts.\n\n8. Pickup the latest AMSAT golf shirts, T-shirts, and hats. Get your copy\nof the updated \"Amateur Satellite Frequency Guide\" (laminated frequency\nchart) and Gould Smith's just revised \"Getting Started with Amateur\nSatellites\" (book printed in color). We'll also have assembled wide-band\npreamps and antennas that are great for portable operation.\n\n7. See demonstrations of SatPC32 and MacDoppler satellite tracking\nsoftware, and get your operational questions answered. Meet Don Agro,\nauthor of MacDoppler (Friday & Saturday, 2-3 p.m.). See a demonstration\nof the LVB Tracker, a computer interface to the Yaesu azimuth-elevation\nrotors. Talk with Mike Young, who has built more LVB Trackers than anyone\nelse. Assembled LVB Trackers will be available.\n\n6. Hear Carl Laufer talk about “The World of Low Cost Software Defined\nRadio” at the AMSAT Banquet on Friday evening. Carl is the creator and\nauthor of the extremely popular RTL-SDR Blog, author of the book, “The\nHobbyist Guide to RTL-SDR,” and supplier of the RTL-SDR dongle.\n\n5. Hear the latest on the *five* Fox satellites, Phase 5, the\nInternational Space Station, other current and future satellites,\neducation news, and an AMSAT update at the AMSAT Forum Saturday, from\n10:45 to 12:15.\n\n4. Get one-on-one guidance on setting up your satellite station and making\ncontacts at our \"Beginner's Corner\". Witness live demonstrations of\ncontacts through satellites AO-7, AO-73, AO-85, FO-29, SO-50, XW-2A,\nXW-2B, XW-2C, XW-2D and XW-2F using handheld antennas.\n\n3. Meet and interact with some of the Engineering Team members working on\nthe Fox-1 satellites and our new Five and Dime AMSAT ground terminal.\n\n2. Get satellite station and operating tips from some of the best\nsatellite operators in the country, including John Papay K8YSE (1,591\ngrids confirmed), Drew Glasbrenner KO4MA (1,510 grids), Doug Papay KD8CAO\n(1,200 grids), and Paul Stoetzer (904 grids).\n\n1. Receive an updated \"Amateur Satellite Frequency Guide\" (laminated\nfrequency chart) when you join or renew your AMSAT membership at Dayton,\nand take advantage of special pricing on the SatPC32 satellite tracking\nsoftware.\n\n[ANS thanks Steve, N9IP, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCanadian Grid Expedition Announcement\n\nKen, VE3HLS reports he plans for the activation of four never-activated\non satellites grids (as far as he can tell) grids are coming together.\n\nThe expedition takes place next weekend, May 20th and 21st 2017; a\nlong weekend up here in Canada. He will be driving up from his home QTH\nin FN03 and will arrive in Chibougamau QC on the afternoon of Saturday\nMay 20th.\n\nThere are several favorable passes on Saturday evening and hw hopes\nto spend a few hours handing out FN29 to get warmed up. Sunday the 21st\nlooks like a bonanza of great passes! The trouble will be deciding when\nto break so he can move to a different location. The plan at this time\nis to set up on the FN29/39 boundary in the morning and operate there\nfor a few hours. Then he will move to FO20/30 and then FO20/FN29.\n\nMore information about operating schedules will be posted on amsat-bb\nas he gets closer to departure date. He will also post information on\nhis QRZ page at https://qrz.com/db/VE3HLS\n\n[ANS thanks Ken, VE3HLS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAsia Islands on the Air Satellite Activation\n\nOperators Makoto/JI5RPT and Toru/JI5USJ will be active as homecall/1 from\nShikine Island (North Izu Island) between 0000z, May 20th and 0000z, May\n21st. Activity will be on 160/80/40/30/20/17/15/12/10/6 meters using CW,\nRTTY and PSK31. There will also be satellite operations. Please note: In\ncase of heavy rain or other conditions, the operation schedule may vary. For\nQSL info, please check QRZ.com for details.\n\n[ANS thanks the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin #1314 for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSouth Korea Air Force Academy Proposes FM Repeater K2Sat to IARU\n\nThe Republic of Korea Air Force Academy has submitted a coordination \nrequest to\nthe IARU for the K2Sat satellite, a 3U CubeSat Mission.\n\nThe K2Sat's primary mission is to demonstrate satellite imaging and \ntransfer, to\nalso test voice repeating capability.\n\nThe followings are the payloads:\n1. On-board camera\n2. On-board voice repeater proposing a V/U FM voice transceiver\n3. 9k6 BSPK AX25 downlink for data and telemetry and planning\n a 2 Mbit QPSK downlink on S Band.\n\nThe launch is planned for a 500/600km SSO orbit in 2018.\n\n[ANS thanks the IARU for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nLloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Internships\n\nThe Space Studies Board is seeking applicants for the Lloyd V. Berkner Space\nPolicy Internships for autumn 2017. The goal of the program is to provide\npromising undergraduate and graduate students with the opportunity to work\nin the area of civil space research policy in the nation's capital.\n\nEstablished in 1958, the Space Studies Board is the principal advisory group\nproviding independent scientific and programmatic advice to NASA and other\ngovernment agencies on all aspects of civil space research and associated\nground-based activities. Interns typically undertake one or more short-term\nresearch projects designed to assist with or to enhance ongoing study\nprojects.\n\nApplicants must be registered students (undergraduate or graduate) at a U.S.\nuniversity or college who have completed their junior year. Applicants\nshould have long-term career goals in space science research, applications\nor policy.\n\nApplications are due June 2, 2017.\n\nFor more information and a full list of eligibility requirements, visit\nhttp://sites.nationalacademies.org/SSB/SSB_052239.\n\nPlease direct questions about this internship to Dr. David H. Smith at\[email protected].\n\n[ANS thanks NASA Education Express for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nVector Space Completes First Test Flight\n\nVector Space has conducted a crucial test of their Vector-R rocket that the\ncompany hopes will expand the small satellite launch market via small-scale\nlaunchers. As SpaceX has disrupted the large scale market, so does \nVector Space\nhope their new rocket system can disrupt the small scale market by \neliminating\nthe need for ride-share requirements small satellites currently face while\nsignificantly lowering the cost to small satellite customers.\n\nThe first test flight, conducted on 3 May from the Mojave Desert in \nCalifornia,\nused a single-engine scaled-down model of the three-engine Vector-R \nrocket and\nallowed the company to test aspects of launch operations – including its\ninfrastructure-lite launch architecture approach – for their rocket as \nwell as\nportions of its 3D-printed components and pressure-fed engine design.\n\nThe suborbital test flight launched from the Friends of Amateur Rocketry \nsite in\nCalifornia’s Mojave Desert at 12:00 PDT (19:00 GMT) on 3 May and reached a\nmaximum altitude of 1,370 m (4,500 ft).\n\nThe second test flight, expected in July, will radically shift launch \noperations\nto a never-before-used location – the U.S. state of Georgia – and will \nhighlight\nwhat Vector Space says is an innovative solution to various launch \nmarket needs\nwith an ability to launch from locations outside the standard U.S. Ranges.\n\nThis Georgia test will occur from Camden County – the state’s southern-most\ncounty, which borders Florida’s north-eastern most boundary.\n\nFollowing completion of the Vector-R test flight series, Vector Space \nplans to\nintroduce the Vector-R rocket for commercial launch operations in 2018.\n\n From there, the company currently has 12 commercial launches for the \nVector-R\nplanned in 2019, with an eventual eye toward ramping up operations to 100\nlaunches of the Vector-R later in its operational life.\n\n[ANS thanks NASASpaceFlight.com for the above information]\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,\nLee McLamb, KU4OS\nku4os at amsat dot org\n\n", "attachments": [] }