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    "subject": "[ans] ANS-229 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
    "date": "2014-08-17T02:56:07Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-229\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* 7 weeks Until Symposium\n* Satellite Road Trip\n* 2014 AMSAT Symposium Trips, Social Events, and Tours\n* 2014 AMSAT Space Symposium Papers Due Septmeber 15\n* Dnepr Launch Planned for October\n* SUWS VHF/UHF/Microwave WebSDR moves to new site\n* LUSAT-1 alive at night!\n* OSCAR NEWS 207 from AMSAT-UK\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-229.01\nANS-229 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 229.01\n>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE August 17, 2014\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-229.01\n\n\n7 weeks Until Symposium\n\nCharm City Space Symposium\n32nd Space Symposium and Annual Meeting\nOctober 10-12, 2014\nBaltimore, Maryland\n\n* Board of Directors meeting on October 9 and morning of October 10.\n* Technical presentations on satellite design/operating begin the\n  afternoon of October 10 and continue October 11.\n* Meet AMSAT Officers and Board members.\n* Meet and greet fellow satellite operators.\n* Satellites on display.\n* Annual general meeting afternoon of October 10.\n\n* Saturday evening annual banquet with door prizes.\n* Sunday morning Area Coordinator's breakfast.\n* Sunday ARISS Operations Team meeting.\n* Sunday and Monday tours.\n\nHotel: DoubleTree by Hilton -- Baltimore - BWI Airport\n890 Elkridge Landing Rd,  Linthicum,  Maryland,  21090\nPhone: 410-859-8400\n\nAsk For: Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation Group or use the Code:\nRAS\nAMSAT Special Room Rate--$99.00 per night\n$10 Breakfast Buffet Coupons--Full Hot and Cold Breakfast*\n\nFREE Parking\nFREE WiFi\nFree Airport and Close-in Transportation\nEasy Train/Light Rail Service to Baltimore Inner Harbor & D.C. Metro\nWalking distance to National Electronics Museum\n\nSpecial Guest Presentations\n\n*Purchase at check-in\n\nA registration form for the Symposium and all events may be\ndownloaded at\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS208-SymposiumRegistration\n\nOnline registration is available through the AMSAT Store\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS208-OnlineRegistration\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Road Trip\n\nRon, N8RO says he started on a vacation road trip on Saturday August\n16, 2014. He plans satellite operation only on SO-50 & FO-29. He will\nattempt to be on one morning and one evening pass of the satellites,\nbut it's a vacation and nothing is set in stone. He plans to return\nhome around September 20, 2014.\n\nThe trip will be divided into three phases:\n\n+ The first phase will include TX, NM, AZ and CA. The first\n  stop will be in DM62 and ending up in CM87 on August 26, 2014.\n\n+ The second phase of the trip will start in AK, BP52, on\n  August 27, 2014 and will end in CN89 on September 6, 2014. A\n  major portion of this part of the trip will be aboard a cruise\n  ship and if he is permitted to operate as N8RO/MM he will only\n  be on SO-50 with a HT and a whip antenna, so contacts may be\n  difficult.\n\n+ The final portion of the trip will start on September 8, 2014\n  and will include CA, NV, UT, CO, NM & TX starting again in CN89\n  and ending in EM00.\n\n[ANS thanks Ron Oldham, N8RO for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2014 AMSAT Symposium Trips, Social Events, and Tours\n\nWe will have two \"working\" events scheduled Sunday morning (October\n12)-the Area Coordinators Breakfast and the ARISS Operations Team\nMeeting.\n\nSimilar to last year's symposium, two opportunities for tours are\nplanned for the 2014 Space Symposium:\n\n1) On Sunday October 12 (Afternoon), several Small Group/Light Rail\ntours are being planned.  Symposium participants can choose one of the\nfollowing tours:  Baltimore Inner Harbor Tour (including the\nAquarium), the B&O Railroad Museum, Edgar Allen Poe House or the\nNational Electronics Museum.\n\n2) On Columbus Day, Monday October 13 we will take a bus to the\nWashington Dulles airport area to tour the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space\nMuseum.  Udvar-Hazy is a phenomenal museum with hundreds of aircraft\nand spacecraft, including the Space Shuttle Discovery, an SR-71, Enola\nGay, and many others.   The plan is to leave the hotel at 9 am and\nreturn around 4 pm.\n\nIn order to get maximum benefit from all the holiday weekend events,\nthe symposium committee suggests that symposium participants consider\nscheduling their airline flights for no earlier than 6 pm on Monday\nOctober 13.\n\nOnline registration is available through the AMSAT Store\nhttp://tinyurl.com/ANS208-OnlineRegistration\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2014 AMSAT Space Symposium Papers Due Septmeber 15\n\nThe 2014 AMSAT Annual Meeting and Space Symposium will be held on\nthe weekend of October 10-12, 2014, at the DoubleTree Hotel by\nHilton, Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI), Baltimore,\nMaryland. (See information above)\n\nProposals for papers, symposium presentations and poster\npresentations are invited on any topic of interest to the amateur\nsatellite community. We request a tentative title of your\npresentation as soon as possible, but no later than August 1. The\nfinal copy must be submitted by September 15 for inclusion in the\nprinted proceedings. Abstracts and papers should be sent to Dan\nSchultz at n8fgv at amsat.org\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nDnepr Launch Planned for October\n\nAccording to an ITAR-TASS report the launch of a Russian-Ukrainian\nconversion rocket Dnepr (RS-20) with Japanese satellites, should take\nplace in early October from the Orenburg region, southern Urals.\n\nOn Wednesday, August 13, when asked by ITAR-TASS whether the plans\nhad not been affected by Japanese sanctions against Russia a source\nin the Russian Military Industrial Commission said \"The launch is\nscheduled for the beginning of October. There have been no\ncancellations so far\".\n\nThe rocket will orbit five Japanese satellites, including four micro\nones. \"The satellites will be brought to Russia on August 20,\" the\nsource said, adding that this year's third Dnepr launch was scheduled\nfor December.\n\nThe Dnepr rocket conversion programme was initiated in the 1990s by\nthe presidents of Russia and Ukraine to convert RS-20 Voyevoda ICBMs\nfor civilian uses.\n\nDnepr rockets are launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and the Yasny\nLaunch Site of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces in the Orenburg\nregion under a joint project commenced by Russia, Ukraine and\nKazakhstan.\n\nThe Dnepr rocket is a three-stage liquid-engine vehicle. Its takeoff\nmass is 210 tones. The first two stages are the regular stages of the\nRS-20 rocket and have not been changed. The third stage has been\nworked on to improve its flight control system.\n\nThe rocket is injected from an RS-20 silo by propellant gases. Its\nengine turns on after the whole vehicle has come out of the silo. The\nrocket is made by the Ukrainian company Yuzhmash in Dnepropetrovsk.\n\nSource ITAR-TASS http://en.itar-tass.com/non-political/744861\n\nThe five satellites are understood to be:\n* ASNARO 1\n* ChubuSat 1\n* Hodoyoshi 1\n* QSAT-EOS\n* Tsubame\n\n\n[ANS thanks ITAR-TASS and AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSUWS VHF/UHF/Microwave WebSDR moves to new site\n\nThe Southampton University Wireless Society SUWS VHF/UHF/Microwave\nWebSDR has now moved to its new site in Farnham.\n\nYou can use the free online SUWS Web Software Defined Radio (WebSDR)\nfrom your PC or Laptop to receive the International Space Station\n(ISS) and the many amateur radio satellites transmitting in the 144-\n146 MHz or 435-438 MHz bands.\n\nThe WebSDR also provides reception of High Altitude Balloons in the\n434 MHz band and coverage of the microwave 10368-10370 MHz band.\n\nMartin Ehrenfried G8JNJ has equipped the SUWS WebSDR with omni-\ndirection helix antennas for both 144-146 MHz and 432-438 MHz which\nhave proved effective for both high altitude balloon and satellite\nreception.\n\nThe SUWS WebSDR is located at Farnham not far from London, 51.3 N\n1.15 W, listen to it at http://websdr.suws.org.uk/\n\nMartin says this about the special satellite antennas \"I had been\nexperimenting with single turn 'twisted halo' design, and decided to\ntry stacking them to see if I could achieve more gain. Modelling\nsuggested that a stretched 3 turn helix with a helix circumference of\napprox 1/2 wave length and an overall length of 1/2 wave at 70cm, and\nfed with a gamma match at the centre would offer reasonable gain, an\nomni-directional pattern and mixed polarisation.\"\n\nFull details of the antennas are available at\nhttp://g8jnj.webs.com/currentprojects.htm\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nLUSAT-1 alive at night!\n\nPedro, LU7ABF, reported to the AMSAT-BB, \"We knew that our LUSAT\nstart transmitting again a couple of years ago, but only when\nilluminated by sun, and was not heard during the night.\n\nOn the occasion of testing the application\nhttp://amsat.org.ar/sat.htm saw there was a nightly pass, which was\ntried to listen.\n\nWithout much hope tuned 437.125 MHz, surprised to hear the usual\nstrong 900mW continuous carrier +/- Doppler, but this time after 22\nminutes of being LUSAT in the dark.\n\nCommenting locally, several other hams also tried and received LUSAT.\n\nIt's almost a miracle that after almost 25 years, LUSAT vintage Ni-\nCd batteries can receive and hold charge.\n\nIt seems LUSAT is willing to greet hams on his 'Silver Jubilee' due\nnext Jan-22 thru continuing talking with us from space after its more\nthan 128,000 orbits.\n\nThe LO-19, next to Oscar-7 and UO-11 is one of the most long-lived\nactive amateur satellites.\n\nWe have included short report and audio on http://amsat.org.ar/?f=z\n, Amsat-LU logs.\n\nMore information on LUSAT (although in Spanish) on http://lusat.org.ar\n\nReports welcomed at info at amsat.org.ar\n\n[ANS thanks Pedro, LU7ABF, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nOSCAR NEWS 207 from AMSAT-UK\n\nThe Editors of OSCAR NEWS are starting the preparation of the next\nedition - #207.\n\nWe would welcome any articles for this edition which need to be\nsubmitted before the end of August!\n\nLong or short articles about technical, operational or historical\nmatters are all equally welcome.\n\nExciting and/or amusing photographs would also be appreciated.\n\nMany thanks in advance for your support\n\n[ANS thanks Graham G3VZV and Jim G3WGM for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Amino Kita Elementary\nSchool, Kyotango, Japan and Astronaut Gregory Wiseman KF5LKT using\ncallsign NA1SS. The contact began 2014-08-06 10:25 UTC UTC and lasted\nabout nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via 8J3AK.\nARISS Mentor was 7M3TJZ.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Canada Science and\nTechnology Museum Summer Day Camps, Ottawa, ON, Canada and Astronaut\nAlexander Gerst KF5ONO using callsign OR4ISS. The contact began 2014-\n08-13 17:18 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was\ntelebridged via IK1SLD.\nARISS Mentor was VE3TBD.\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contact Schedule\n\nZuni Hills Elementary School, Sun City, AZ, telebridge via  K6DUE\nContact is a go for: Fri 2014-08-22 17:47:05 UTC\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\nHelp AMSAT launch Fox-1C satellite in 2015!\nhttps://fundrazr.com/campaigns/6pz92\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT for the above information]\n\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, KC8YLD\nkc8yld at amsat dot org Relations, AMSAT-NA\n",
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