AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-195

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In this edition:

* 2013 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballot Mailing This Week * 2013 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium This Week * 2013 Central States VHF Society Conference 26-28 July * The Whale's HTs Don't Have PL * Scotland Portable Satellite Operation in August * ARISS News * This Week in Space History

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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 195.01 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. July 14, 2013 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-195.01

2013 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballot Mailing This Week

This year there are eight candidates running for the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors. The four candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be seated as voting Board Members with two year terms. The two candidates receiving the next highest number of votes will be non-voting Alternate Board Members with terms of one year. Please vote for no more than four candidates.

Ballots will be mailed to members in good standing by July 15th, and must be returned to the AMSAT-NA office no later than the close of business on September 15th, 2013. If you have not received your ballot by August 1st, please contact the AMSAT Office. Ballots sent to members outside North America are automatically sent via air mail. It is suggested that they be returned the same way.

AMSAT-NA Board candidates in alphabetical order by last name:

Barry Baines, WD4ASW Alan Biddle, WA4SCA Steve Coy, K8UD Frank Griffin, K4FEG Mark Hammond, N8MH Brian Klofas, KF6ZEO JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM Tony Monteiro, AA2TX

[ANS thanks the AMSAT Office for the above information]

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2013 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium This Week

The 2013 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium will start late afternoon on Friday, July 19 and will run through until the afternoon on Sunday, July 21 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, UK.

It will be preceded by a "Hands-on" CubeSat Workshop. This free workshop will take place at the nearby University of Surrey on Friday, July 19 and this will be followed, at the hotel, by the usual Colloquium "Beginners Session" in the late afternoon.

It is anticipated that both the FUNcube-1 and FUNcube-2 missions will be launched later this year and the FUNcube team will be on hand to talk about the missions and the planned educational outreach. A full demonstration of the Engineering Model, which has been performing flawlessly for almost a year, will also be provided.

For those unable to attend it is planned to stream the presentations on the web to a global audience.

The video streaming should be available on the Live Events section of the BATC website at http://batc.tv/

The Colloquium schedule (times in BST, GMT+1) can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/2013ColloquiumSchedule

Further details and booking information at http://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2013/

[ANS thanks Trevor, M5AKA for the above information]

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2013 Central States VHF Society Conference 26-28 July

The 2013 Central States VHF Society Conference committee invites you to a full weekend of VHF/UHF activity the weekend of July 26th-through-July 28th.

This 47th Annual Conference is being held at the Elk Grove Village Holiday Inn at 1000 Busse Rd located at the South-West corner Route 83 and Landwehr Road in Elk Grove Village.

The activities begin Friday morning at 9AM with antenna range gain measurements and pre-amp noise figure measurement contests. Technical Programs are held Friday afternoon and all day Saturday. The detailed Agenda and full information can be found at; http://www.csvhfs.org/2013conference/index.html

The Society is fortunate to be able to welcome noted VHF/UHF and 10 Ghz enthusiast Mr Dave Sumner K1ZZ, Chief Executive Officer of the ARRL to this year's conference as our Keynote Speaker. Please plan to attend Saturday's Banquet when you sign-up for the Conference.

Registrations for the Banquet will close on Thursday the 18th of July so please take time now to reserve your dinner selection;

http://www.csvhfs.org/2013conference/2013Registration.html

The Forum Speakers and Topics for the 2013 Central States VHF Society Conference - Chicago/Elk Grove Village will include;

James Kennedy, K6MIO(/KH6) Worldwide Es Propagation on 27-29 June 2012

Kent Britain, WA5VJB Unusual Antennas for Unusual Applications

James Froemke, K0MHC Where have all the ROVERS gone

Ed Krome, K9EK Building and Testing VHF/UHF Power Amps based on the Freescale LD-MOS Modules

James Kennedy, K6MIO(/KH6) Solar Cycle Update

Wayne Overbeck, N6NB Building a Tower Trailer for Roving (and Why!)

Jon Platt, W0ZQ Gitchi Gami and the 2012 ARRL 10 GHz Contest

Terry Price, W8ZN 1.5 kW Larcan 222 MHz Amplifier

Keith Pugh, W5IU AMSAT and ARISS Update 2013

Al Ward, W5LUA Working Small Stations on 10 and 24 GHz EME with help of WSJT

Gerald Johnson, K0CQ Multiple "mini"-topics (Antenna Modeling, Test "Tricks" to better your GHz signal, Soldering)

Central States VHF Society Sponsored Activities and Awards - This will be s moderated session that will recognize the 2012-2013 States Above 50 MHz results, Reverse VUCC and the 2013 VHF & Up Spring Sprints. This session will extend into a discussion of the Future of the Spring VHF & Up Sprints.

[ANS thanks Kermit, W9XA, for the above information]

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The Whale's HTs don't have PL

HamRadioNow episode 85, released July 9 features an interview with a pair of AMSAT VP's discussing AMSAT's Fox-1 Satellite.

Getting a launch date for a new satellite ­ even a date more than a year out ­ is exciting at AMSAT. In this episode, we talk to a pair of AMSAT VP's. Tony Montiero AA2TX handles Engineering, and Mark Hammond N8MH does Education.We talk about what Fox-1 will do (an FM crossband repeater that will also relay data from onboard science experiments). And we learn how AMSAT must transition from a bunch of hams who put up satellites that we can talk through, to a provider of the physical platform and communications for educational experiments for school grades K thru Post-Grad.... that also has transponders and repeaters that hams can use.

And the Whale's HTs? Well, you're just going to have to watch.

http://arvideonews.com/hrn/HRN_Episode_0085.html

[ANS thanks Gary Pearce KN4AQ and HamRadioNow for the above information]

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Scotland Portable Satellite Operation in August

Paul, 2E1EUB, will once again be active as 2M1EUB for 14 days beginning August 5th. He will be driving around Scotland for anyone looking for new grids or grids they have not worked yet. Activity will be on 160m, 80m, and the satellites (mostly AO-7 B/A mode), as well as 2m SSB. He does accept E-mails and will arrange skeds to work him at 2e1eub@amsat.org. Check out QRZ.com under 2M1EUB for more info and updates.

[ANS thanks the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin for the above information]

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ARISS News

Successful ARISS Contacts

+ A Successful contact was made between Scout Canada Jamboree, Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Canada and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP using callsign NA1SS. The contact began 16:31 UTC 2013-07-08 and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was telebridged via VK5ZAI.

CJ'13 was a gathering of up to 6500 youth, leaders and volunteers in Sylvan Lake, Alberta from July 6-13. This wass the largest gathering of scouts in Canada. CJ'13 brought people from across the country and around the world together for the ultimate scouting experience. Scouts shared friendship and adventure while experiencing personal development that only a jamboree experience can bring. Scouts hiked near glaciers, dug for bones, learned about the challenges of space exploration, raided a castle, and dove for buried treasure. The week was one scouts will never forget!

+ A Successful contact was made between Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu', Rome, State of Vatican City and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP using callsign IRØISS. The contact began 12:36 UTC 2013-07-10 and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was dirct via HV2VO.

Created in 1869 through a generous initiative of the Salviati family, and donated to the Holy See in 1924, the Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital is now a comprehensive children's polyclinic. In 1985, it has been formally recognized by the Italian Ministry of Health as "Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico" IRCCS (Research Hospital), and it is now one of the three Paediatric IRCCS in Italy, and the only one for Central and Southern Regions. The Hospital is a reference point in Italy and abroad and it is connected to the most important paediatric centres in Europe and the United States. Healthcare and research.

Upcoming ARISS Contacts

+ Boy Scouts of America, 2013 National Jamboree, K2BSA, Mount Hope, WV, direct via K2BSA Contact is a go for: Sat 2013-07-20 15:34:46 UTC

+ Colegio Urugua, El Pinar, Uruguay, via LU8YY Contact is a go for: Sat 2013-07-20 19:05:21 UTC

ARISS is requesting listener reports for the above contacts. Due to issues with the Kenwood radio that are not fully understood at present, the Ericsson radio is going to be used for these contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance.

[ANS thanks Charlie, AJ9N for the above information]

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This Week in Space History

July 14 1965 Mariner 4 completes first successful flyby of Mars 1967 Surveyor 4 Launched 2008 MESSENGER first Mercury flybay

July 15 1975 Apollo 18 Launched Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Last Apollo mission 2009 STS-127 Endeavour Launched

June 16 1969 Apollo 11 Launched 2011 Dawn Spacecraft orbits Vesta

June 17 1975 Apollo-Soyuz dock in orbit 1984 Soyuz T-12 Launched 100th human space flight

June 18 1921 John Glenn Born 1966 Gemini X Launched 1980 India becomes 7th nation to launch its own satellite

June 19 1967 Explorer 35 Launched 1985 NASA selects Christa McAuliffe as first private citizen to travel in space

June 20 1969 First Humans Walk on Moon (Apollo 11) 1976 Viking 1 Lands on Mars 1999 Liberty Bell 7 capsule recovered from Atlantic Ocean after 28 years

[ANS thanks The Planetary Society for the above information]

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73, This week's ANS Editor, Lee McLamb, KU4OS ku4os at amsat dot org