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CN78 Rove Sat Feb 15, 2020
by Ron Bondy 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

I'll be roving to CN78 on Sat Feb 15th, 2020. Will be on FM and linear and post passes closer to the date. Will do my best to be on an AO-7 pass for east coast folks. I'll be an hour west of Port Angeles WA. Cheers, Ron, ad0dx

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Re: [amsat-bb] Google Summer of Code - mentorship application from Open Research Institute
by Joshua Ward 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

I’m new to the board but I follow along. I guess I can make the ‘long time listener, first time caller joke’. I know that you follow me on twitter and you know that I’m active in the community, I’m not sure that I recognize any other other posters in this thread and I’m not sure some/most of you have ever uploaded to LOTW. So, greetings I guess. One of my passions is flying high-altitude balloons and the whole reason I got my tech license was to legally carry APRS for tracking. From there I blundered into amsats and was hooked almost instantly. My first launch was Kickstarter funded and I kind of made a promise to my backers that I’d talk to schools and involve myself in promoting STEM though my HAB passion. I genuinely feel I’ve lived up to my end but I still sponsor the occasional senior design project here at the university school of engineering. This usually comes in the form of an ME or EE design and I’ve never dabbled in sponsoring a CS project although I’ve got ideas. Frankly, I’m not sure I have the kind of time it takes to mentor a student right now but can you elaborate when you say: "I believe participation can greatly benefit the amateur satellite service.” And “we have plenty of really interesting and meaningful options for students to work on." -J W3ARD

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AMSAT-BB Acceptable Use
by Robert Bankston 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

Last night, the AMSAT-BB was placed on Emergency Moderation, meaning all posts had to be reviewed before released for public distribution. This was a precautionary measure taken to allow a "cooling off" period. I remind all AMSAT-BB subscribers that while strong disagreements on issues are inevitable, the AMSAT-BB list is not the place for exchanges which become spiteful, unproductive exchanges. If you must have a heated exchange, it should be conducted privately and not in public on a mailing list. Posts must contain appropriate content and are respectful of the members and readers of the AMSAT-BB. All posts should include the author's first name and call sign, or full name if not currently licensed. In general, posts should be related to amateur radio satellites. Examples of on-topic posts include: (1) Announcements of general interest, including, but not limited to, AMSAT news, meetings, satellite availability, and DXpeditions. AMSAT Mailing List AUP; (2) Technical discussions, including the physics of space flight, modulation techniques, satellite design, RF path loss calculations, noise figure, etc.; (3) Inquiries and suggestions about choosing equipment, learning operating techniques, and troubleshooting problems; (4) Discussion of AMSAT plans and policies in ways that foster better understanding of the opportunities, trade-offs, and limitations that AMSAT faces, and constructive suggestions for improvement; and (5) Posting of amateur radio satellite-related equipment and software available for sale. What occurred last night was to the contrary and will not be tolerated. Further violations will result from removal from further use of AMSAT-BB. Please take a moment to review AMSAT's Acceptable Use Policy for the AMSAT Public Mailing Lists (https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/AMSAT_AUP_061819…). 73, Robert Bankston, KE4AL Vice-President, User Services Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT)

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Cowtown Hamfest
by tjschuessler＠verizon.net 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

All, Look for me, N5HYP, on air from the Cowtown Hamfest in Fort Worth, Texas, this weekend. I will be trying all available FM passes on Saturday 1/18 between 7A and 3P central time and hope to have some bystanders along with me. Please give a good showing to allow for a healthy promotion of this exciting part of the hobby.. Tom Schuessler, N5HYP EM12ms

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2020-01-17 16:30 UTC
by aj9n＠aol.com 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2020-01-17 16:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Morita Junior High School, Fukui, Japan, direct via 8J9MO The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Wed 2020-01-22 08:00:46 UTC 27 deg Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, Canada, telebridge via IK1SLD The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Contact is go for: Wed 2020-01-22 17:21:36 UTC 32 deg Watch for a live stream starting about 15 minutes before AOS at: www.ariotti.com (***) The ARISS webpage is at https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at https://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2020-01-17 16:30 UTC. (***) Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2020-01-14 03:00 UTC. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ARISS webpage is at https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at https://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ARISS Contact Applications (United States) The ARISS webpage is at https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. Message to US Educators Amateur Radio on the International Space Station Contact Opportunity Call for Proposals Upcoming Proposal Window is February 1, 2020 to March 31, 2020 The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS is happy to announce a proposal window will open February 1, 2020 for contacts that would be held between January 1, 2021 and June 30, 2021. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan. The proposal window for contacts between January 1, 2021 and June 30, 2021 will open on February 1, 2020 and close on March 31, 2020. Proposal information and documents can be found at www.ariss.org. Two ARISS Introductory Webinar sessions will be held on November 7, 2019. The first is at 6:00 PM ET and the second is at 9:00 PM ET. The same material will be covered during both sessions, so choose the session that best fits your schedule. The Eventbrite link to sign up is https://ariss-introductory-webinar-fall-2019.eventbrite.com . The Opportunity Crew members aboard the International Space Station will participate in scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are approximately 10 minutes in length and allow students to interact with the astronauts through a question-and-answer session. An ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via Amateur Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space station and classrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford education audiences the opportunity to learn firsthand from astronauts what it is like to live and work in space and to learn about space research conducted on the ISS. Students also will have an opportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless technology, and radio science. Because of the nature of human spaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the ISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate changes in dates and times of the radio contact. Amateur Radio organizations around the world with the support of NASA and space agencies in Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe present educational organizations with this opportunity. The ham radio organizations' volunteer efforts provide the equipment and operational support to enable communication between crew on the ISS and students around the world using Amateur Radio. More Information For proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to www.ariss.org. Please direct any questions to ariss.us.education(a)gmail.com. About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEAM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org. ******************************************************************************** ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from September to October and from February to April. Please refer to details and the application form at www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts. Applications should be addressed by email to: school.selection.manager(a)ariss-eu.org ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Australia and Russia) Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by filling out an application. Please direct questions to the appropriate regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate coordinator. For the application, go to: https://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html. ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to: ve3tbd(a)gmail.com ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to: ariss(a)iaru-r3.org, Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) https://www.jarl.org/ ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/ ****************************************************************************** ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to aj9n(a)amsat.org or aj9n(a)aol.com. Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz. ******************************************************************************* All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted. ******************************************************************************* Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to https://www.ariss.org/ Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site. **************************************************************************** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for troubleshooting. Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest news on the troubleshooting efforts. If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video. http://www.ariss-eu.org/ If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to provide some insight. Contact Kerry at kbanke(a)sbcglobal.net The HamTV webpage: https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/ **************************************************************************** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools: Francesco IKØWGF with 140 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 137 Sergey RV3DR with 131 Gaston ON4WF with 123 **************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed, and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1375. Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1308. Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 48. A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QSL information may be found at: https://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html ISS callsigns: DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS **************************************************************************** Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correcti… Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 **************************************************************************** Exp. 59 on orbit Christina Koch Exp. 60 on orbit Luca Parmitano KF5KDP Alexander Skvortsov Drew Morgan KI5AAA Exp. 61 on orbit Oleg Skripochka Jessica Meir **************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

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Re: [amsat-bb] Google Summer of Code - mentorship application from
by Joshua Ward 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

Guess I'll follow up to your question Joseph: <quote> "Was AMSAT and ORI partnered at all on this work? I'm a bit out of the loop, so my apologies in advance if this is a silly question. W3AB, furthering tech is cool... But as an AMSAT member, if it was promoted and fell through at AMSAT for some reason, then I'm OK with it. But, as a member, i'd still wonder why and would be worried." <end quote> Why is an AMSAT director is holding your own forums and booth at Hamcation? Has there been any disclosure anything about the projects you are apparently working on to the AMSAT board or officers? You understand the concern we might have not knowing which of two masters you are serving? Furthering your own interests at the expense of ours? Or side-stepping the organization you're on the board at expense to further a passion project of your own. Seems kind of antithetical. I'm just trying to understand the map and your path and it's not clear. At all.

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Google Summer of Code - mentorship application from Open Research Institute
by Michelle Thompson 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

Open Research Institute is looking to apply as a mentor in the Google Summer of Code program. I believe participation can greatly benefit the amateur satellite service. Special thanks to Wally Ritchie for suggesting this path, and to Bruce Perens and Ben Hilburn for their support and approval. Details about the program can be found here: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ If approved, it would mean we would mentor student(s), at least once a week, coordinating efforts to produce engineering in support of achieving technical goals. This is a significant time commitment, but we have plenty of really interesting and meaningful options for students to work on. In order to apply, we need volunteers that can commit to working with students. As of today, we have four enthusiastic volunteers that cover a wide variety of technical fields. We are looking for more. AMSAT-BB is full of truly wonderful and qualified people. The deadline is 5 February 2020. If you can help with this, let us know! -Michelle W5NYV

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JY1-Sat shows incorrect callsign on ranking
by Loren M. Lang 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

Hello, A while back, I requested a callsign change for the FUNcube data warehouse. It was decided to leave my Site Id as my old callsign, AG7NC, and just change the callsign presented on the warehouse rankings to show as K7IW. However, it still seems that there are some places my Site Id is leaking through. My uploads for JY1-Sat report using my old callsign/site id. If I do a search on the rankings for K7IW, it only shows my contributions for FUNcube-1 and Nayif-1. If I do a search for AG7NC, it returns back two rows, the same K7IW contributions and also a row for AG7NC showing only my JY1-Sat contributions. Can those be moved to show under K7IW with the others? - Loren K7IW

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LUSAT 30 YEARS
by Amsat Argentina 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

On Feb-22-1990 LUSAT/LO-19 was launched along with AO-16, DO-17, WO-18, UO-14 & UO-15. It's our first Argentina Satellite, and one of firsts to use PACSAT protocol. LUSAT is still calling home with her carrier at +/-437.125 saying hey! I am here, http://amsat.org.ar/pass?satx=lusat AMSAT-LU invites to share & celebrate this 30th anniversary, due Jan-22 2020. >From Jan 18 thru 26 several Club Stations and amateurs will be active by radio. Granting thru one contact on any band or mode or Sat a QSL and/or a Certificate. Details: http://amsat.org.ar/?f=30e 73, LU7AA, AMSAT Argentina

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ARISS News Release (ANR) No. 20-01
by n4csitwo＠bellsouth.net 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

ARISS News Release No. 20-01 Dave Jordan, AA4KN ARISS PR January 16, 2020 Message to US Educators Amateur Radio on the International Space Station Contact Opportunity Call for Proposals Upcoming Proposal Window is February 1, 2020 to March 31, 2020 The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS is happy to announce a proposal window which will open February 1, 2020 for contacts that would be held between January 2021 and June 2021. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan. The proposal window for contacts between January 2021. and June 2021 will open on February 1, 2020 and close on March 31. 2020. Proposal information and documents can be found at www.ariss.org. Two ARISS Introductory Webinar sessions will be held on two different date and times. The first is at January 23 at 2100 ET and the second is at Jan 27 at 1800 ET. The same material will be covered during both sessions, so choose the session that best fits your schedule. The Eventbrite link to sign up is https://ariss-proposal-webinar-spring-2020.eventbrite.com . The Opportunity Crew members aboard the International Space Station will participate in scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are approximately 10 minutes in length and allow students to interact with the astronauts through a question-and-answer session. An ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via Amateur Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space station and classrooms and communities. ARISS contacts afford education audiences the opportunity to learn firsthand from astronauts what it is like to live and work in space and to learn about space research conducted on the ISS. Students also will have an opportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless technology, and radio science. Because of the nature of human spaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the ISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate changes in dates and times of the radio contact. Amateur Radio organizations around the world with the support of NASA and space agencies in Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe present educational organizations with this opportunity. The ham radio organizations' volunteer efforts provide the equipment and operational support to enable communication between crew on the ISS and students around the world using Amateur Radio. More Information For proposal information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information Webinars, go to www.ariss.org. Please direct any questions to ariss.us.education(a)gmail.com . About ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEAM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org. Media Contact: Dave Jordan, AA4KN ARISS PR aa4kn(a)amsat.org

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