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ANS-217.02 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - 50th Anniversary AMSAT Space Symposium Banquet Speakers Announced, Tickets Now Available
by Paul Stoetzer 05 Aug '19

05 Aug '19

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-217.02 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. You can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service Bulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/ans In this edition: * 50th Anniversary AMSAT Space Symposium Banquet Speakers Announced, Tickets Now Available SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-217.02 ANS-217.02 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin AMSAT News Service Bulletin 217.02 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE August 5, 2019 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-217.02 50th Anniversary AMSAT Space Symposium Banquet Speakers Announced, Tickets Now Available AMSAT is pleased to announce that the AMSAT Symposium Saturday Evening Banquet on Saturday, October 19th will feature a panel of guest speakers presenting “The Foundations of AMSAT” followed by a question and answer period. Guest speakers will include: Lance Ginner, K6GSJ (Project OSCAR) George Jacobs, W3ASK (Author, Diplomat) Dr. Perry Klein, W3PK (Founding President of AMSAT) Dr. Owen Mace (Australis-OSCAR 5 Builder, University of Melbourne) Richard Tonkin (Australis-OSCAR 5 Builder, University of Melbourne) Jan King, W3GEY (Founding member of AMSAT and Australis-OSCAR 5 Project Manager) The 50th Anniversary AMSAT Space Symposium and General Meeting will be held on Friday through Sunday, October 18-20, 2019, in Arlington, Virginia at The Hilton Arlington. Symposium registration is available for $60 from now until September 15th. Banquet tickets are $55. Tickets are now available on the AMSAT Store at https://www.amsat.org/product-category/amsat-symposium/ Tickets are also now available for the Sunday tour. On Sunday, October 20th, a bus tour will take attendees to the the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the National Air and Space Museum. Two large hangars display thousands of aviation and space artifacts, including a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a Concorde, and the Space Shuttle Discovery. Bus capacity is limited to 35 attendees. Tickets are $30 per person. Attendees who wish to drive may also join the tour group. Parking at the Udvar-Hazy Center is $15. On Monday, October 21st, AMSAT President Joe Spier, K6WAO, will lead a walking tour of the National Mall. No reservations are required. Transportation to the National Mall will be via the Washington Metro. Additional information, including hotel reservation information is available at https://www.amsat.org/amsat-symposium/ [ANS thanks the AMSAT Office for the above information] /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. 73 and Remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space, This week's ANS Contributing Editor, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM n8hm at amsat dot org

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ANS-217 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - BRICSAT2 and PSAT2 Designated Navy-OSCAR 103 (NO-103) and Navy-OSCAR 104 (NO-104)
by Paul Stoetzer 05 Aug '19

05 Aug '19

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-217 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. You can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service Bulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/ans In this edition: * BRICSAT2 and PSAT2 Designated Navy-OSCAR 103 (NO-103) and Navy- OSCAR 104 (NO-104) SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-217.01 ANS-217 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin AMSAT News Service Bulletin 217.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE August 5, 2019 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-217.01 BRICSAT2 and PSAT2 Designated Navy-OSCAR 103 (NO-103) and Navy- OSCAR 104 (NO-104) On June 25, 2019, the United States Naval Academy PSAT2 and BRICSAT2 cubesats were launched on a Falcon Heavy launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. PSAT2 and BRICSAT2 were developed by Naval Academy students in the USNA Satellite Lab and operated in cooperation with the USNA Amateur Radio Club. PSAT2 carries a PSK31 transponder, digipeater, SSTV-downlinked camera images, and a DTMF to voice/APRS system. BRICSAT2 carries a digipeater and thruster experiment. Both satellites are currently active. At the request of the Naval Academy Amateur Radio Club, AMSAT hereby designates BRICSAT2 as Navy-OSCAR 103 (NO-103), and PSAT2 as Navy- OSCAR 104 (NO-104). We congratulate the owners and operators, thank them for their contribution to the amateur satellite community, and wish them a long mission and continued success on this and future projects. 73, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA AMSAT VP Operations / OSCAR Number Administrator [ANS thanks AMSAT VP Operations / OSCAR Number Administrator Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, for the above information.] /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. 73 and Remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space, This week's ANS Contributing Editor, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM n8hm at amsat dot org

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ANS-216 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by Mark D. Johns 03 Aug '19

03 Aug '19

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-216 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. You can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service Bulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/ans In this edition: * CAS-7B Designated BIT Progress-OSCAR 102 (BO-102) * AMSAT and ARISS Designing Amateur Radio System for Lunar Gateway * ARISS SSTV Owen Garriott Event Underway * AMSAT Member Named Young Ham of the Year * AMSAT member Wins Alabama Outstanding Youth Ham Award * ARISS Next Gen System Completes Critical Flight Certification Tests * Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule * VUCC Awards-Endorsements for July 2019 * LightSail 2 Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light * Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for August 1, 2019 * Upcoming Satellite Operations * Satellite Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-216.01 ANS-216 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 216.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE YYY To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-216.01 CAS-7B Designated BIT Progress-OSCAR 102 (BO-102) On July 25, 2019, the CAS-7B (BP-1B) microsatellite was launched on a Hyperbola-1 launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Space Center, China. CAS-7B (BP-1B) was developed by the Chinese Amateur Satellite Group (CAMSAT), and in cooperation with the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). CAMSAT completed the project planning, design, build, and testing, and manages the on-orbit operation of the satellite. BIT provided the satellite environmental testing, launch support, and financial support. Many students from BIT were involved with the project, learning about satellite technology and amateur radio. The satellite carries a CW telemetry beacon and FM repeater that has been active since launch. At the request of CAMSAT and the BIT team, AMSAT hereby designates CAS-7B (BP-1B) as BIT Progress-OSCAR 102 (BO-102). We congratulate the owners and operators of BO-102, thank them for their contribution to the amateur satellite community, and wish them continued success on this and future projects. [ANS thanks Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, AMSAT VP Operations and OSCAR Number Administrator, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT and ARISS Designing Amateur Radio System for Lunar Gateway As announced at the AMSAT Forun at the Dayton Hamvention, AMSAT and ARISS are working on the design of a ham radio system for NASA's Lunar Gateway. The Gateway will be a small spaceship in orbit around the Moon that will provide access to more of the lunar surface than ever before with living quarters for astronauts, a lab for science and re- search, ports for visiting spacecraft, and more. First sections of the Gateway are scheduled for launch in 2022. To make this happen we are leveraging the work and expertise of the world-wide AMSAT organizations and the international ARISS community in this endeavor. We have an international team working this and are meeting 2x a month to mature the concept. In May we presented our solid concept to NASA and got great, positive feedback. This was followed up a few weeks later at the ARISS-I meeting at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) in Montreal where we received great feedback from the CSA Gateway Program Manager after he saw our presentation. The AREx (Amateur Radio Exploration) team have done some really good work. The challenge for amateurs will be on the order of a 30 dB signal path loss as compared to LEO. But the link margins on our de- sign seem to close. AMSAT NA, UK & DL and ARISS-together--are working this phenomenal ham radio challenge. Come to the AMSAT-NA Symposium in DC to hear more. [ANS thanks Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, AMSAT V.P. for Human Spaceflight Programs, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ The 50th Anniversary AMSAT Space Symposium will be held October 18-20 in Arlington, VA. For details, see: https://www.amsat.org/amsat-symposium/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS SSTV Owen Garriott Event Underway ARISS celebrates the life and accomplishments of astronaut, scientist and ham radio pioneer Owen Garriott with a commemorative SSTV event featuring images from Garriott's work with ham radio during his missions in space. The event began on August 1 at 09:40 UTC and is scheduled to end at 18:15 UTC on August 4. There are currently twelve separate images being sent at 145.800 MHz FM in the SSTV mode PD-120. As always, activities are subject to change dictated by the crew's schedule. Once received, images can be posted and viewed by the public at http://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php and users can receive a special SSTV ARISS Award for posting images. See https://ariss.pzk.org.pl/sstv/ for details. Also for simplicity, a new information tab for SSTV events has been added to the ARISS website, under the General Contacts pulldown menu at www.ariss.org. The latest updates can also be found at the ARISS Facebook site Amateur Radio On The International Space Station (ARISS) and on Twitter @ ARISS_status. [ANS thanks ARISS and Frank Karnauskas, N1UW, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT Member Named Young Ham of the Year Dhruv Rebba, KC9ZJX, of Normal, Illinois, has been selected as the 2019 Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year. Dhruv, 15, is the son of Hari Rebba, VU2SPZ, and Shailaja Panyam. He is entering his sophomore year at the Normal Community High School this fall. He is a member of the Central Illinois Radio Club. Dhruv earned his Technician Class license in 2013 when he was only 9 years old. He followed it up by passing the test for a General Class license a year later. Dhruv says his interest in amateur radio was sparked by a 2013 visit to the Dayton Hamvention(R) with his father, a long-time amateur radio operator from India who settled in the U.S. "He was going to the Hamvention and so I wanted to tag along," Dhruv recalls. "There I got to see all the cool stuff like the Morse-Code keyers and all the radios and everything and I decided to start study- ing for my Technician class." After getting his license, Dhruv became involved in Field Days and public service events with the Central Illinois Radio Club, including the "We Care Twin Cities Marathon" and the "Hop on for Hope Bike Ride/ Walk." Dhruv says he found a way to combine his interest in space and engineering with his new hobby. He joined AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satel- lite Corporation) and pursued his dream of a school contact with an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. In October 2017, he served as the lead control operator for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact with students at his school - the Chiddix Junior High School in Normal, IL - with astronaut Joe Acaba, KE5DAR. In late July of this year, Dhruv helped to facilitate another ARISS contact with international Scouts attend- ing the World Jamboree in West Virginia and monitored the contact from his home. ARISS presentations at Dayton and Huntsville, his selection as an ARISS mentor and networking with those putting together the ARISS con- tact for the World Jamboree led to his role in the July 2019 contact. In 2018, Dhruv was selected for the Dave Kalter Memorial Youth DX Adventure. He traveled to Curacao Island in July 2018 where the PJ2Y team made a record 6,262 contacts with 135 countries over five days. Dhruv says he enjoyed operating his favorite mode, SSB. Dhruv has earned many accolades for his amateur radio pursuits including the "Young Ham Lends A Hand" award at the 2019 Dayton Hamvention Youth Forum; "Presidential Award" from AMSAT; and the "Young Achievers Award" from the Radio Club of America. He also has traveled to India to promote amateur radio awareness and spoke at the ZPH School, NP Kunta, India in January 2018. He discussed the importance of wireless communications and their role during disas- ters. Dhruv started the "Universal Help Foundation" to help underpriv- ileged students on a global scale. Among his first projects was a digi- tal project at a girls' high school in NP Kunta, India this past Jan- uary. Dhruv also has an interest in robotics and has worked as a mentor helping elementary school students build robots. This past April, Dhruv's "MetalCow Robotics" team finished fourth overall in the international competition sponsored by NASA in Detroit. Dhruv says a visit to the AMSAT booth at the 2019 Dayton Hamvention prompted him to sign on for the "Amateur Radio Exploration on the Moon" project. "We're designing an amateur radio system to be on the Gateway Space Station and the Moon," he says. Dhruv will be recog- nized during the Huntsville Hamfest on Aug. 17 in the Von Braun Center, Huntsville AL. The Young Ham of the Year was inaugurated by William Pasternak, WA6ITF, in 1986. Upon his passing in 2015, Bill's name was added to the award as a memorial to his commitment to recognizing the accomplishments of young people to the amateur radio service. Amateur Radio Newsline, CQ Magazine and Yaesu USA are primary sponsors of the award, along with Heil Sound Ltd. and Radiowavz Antenna Company. [ANS thanks CQ Communications, Inc. for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT member Wins Alabama Outstanding Youth Ham Award The 2019 Alabama Outstanding Youth Ham Award goes to Marissa Robledo, W4AQT. This particular Amateur Radio operator gazes at and studies the skies almost daily. She has a deep interest in satellite communication and loves sharing that interest with others. Her passion is evident in awards she has received, forums where she has presented, along with the activities in which she participates. Marissa is a twelve year old General class license-holder who lives in Montgomery, AL and is devoted to consistently learning and growing in the great hobby of Amateur Radio. She exhibits enthusiasm, knowledge, and rapid growth in many areas of Amateur Radio. The formal presentation of this award will take place at the 2019 Huntsville Hamfest on August 17th, 2019 at 12:30 p.m. [ANS thanks Bryant Rascoll, KG5HVO, Alabama Section Youth Coordinator, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS Next Gen System Completes Critical Flight Certification Tests The Interoperable Radio System (IORS), ARISS’ next generation radio system successfully completed a battery of stressful tests required as part of the final certification of the hardware for launch to and operation on the International Space Station. During the week of July 8, the IORS, consisting of the JVC Kenwood D-710GA Radio and the AMSAT developed Multi-Voltage Power Supply, suc- cessfully completed a series of Electro-magnetic Interference (EMI)/ Electro-Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) tests to ensure that the ARISS hardware will not interfere with the ISS systems or other payloads. Testing continued into the following week, where the IORS successfully passed power quality and acoustics testing. These tests verified that the ARISS IORS will not introduce harmful signals back into the ISS power system and is quiet enough to meet ISS acoustic requirements. ARISS Hardware Team members Lou McFadin, W5DID and Kerry Banke, N6IZW were at the NASA Johnson Space Center supporting this two week battery of tests in concert with the NASA test and certification team. Kerry Banke states, “Since the IORS is being qualified to operate on 120VDC, 28VDC and Russian 28VDC as well as transmitting on VHF or UHF, a lot of test combinations were required to cover all cases. Each in- put voltage type was also tested at low, medium and high line voltage. Moreover, additional permutations were required to test the IORS under no load, medium load and full load at each voltage level. So it should not be surprising why the tests took two weeks to complete.” Successful completion of these tests represents a key milestone in preparing the IORS for launch. ARISS can now begin final assembly of the flight safety certification in preparation for launch. ARISS is working towards launch ready status by the end of the year. [ANS thanks ARISS for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT and ARISS are currently supporting a FundRazr campaign to raise $150,000 for critical radio infrastructure upgrades on ISS. The upgrades are necessary to enable students to continue to talk to astronauts in space via Amateur Radio. We have reached a great milestone with $33,250 raised or about 17% towards our goal. This would not have been possible without your outstanding generosity!! For more information and to DONATE TODAY visit: https://fundrazr.com/arissnextgen?ref=ab_e7Htwa_ab_47IcJ9 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule Quick list of scheduled contacts and events as of 2019-07-30 03:00 UTC: Kyoto Tachibana Junior & Senior High School, Kyoto, Japan, direct via 8N3KT. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS. The sched- uled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV. Contact is go for: Thu 2019-08-08 at 10:36:37 UTC 56 degrees maximum elevation [ANS thanks ARISS for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- VUCC Awards-Endorsements for July 2019 Here are the endorsements and new VUCC Satellite Awards issued by the ARRL for the period July 1, 2019 through August 1, 2019. Congratula- tions to all those who made the list this month! CALL Jul 01Aug AA8CH 550 584 WD9EWK 567 575 NS3L 475 505 AE5B ??? 442 K9UO 400 425 W5TD 381 384 KE8FZT 325 350 K5IX 300 325 PS8ET 211 275 WW8W 201 228 AB1OC 184 215 KJ4EU 151 206 AA4QE 102 204 N7EGY 169 200 ND0C 153 200 PR8KW New 200 LW2DAF 125 130 KC9VGG 102 127 KC9UQR New 113 XE2YWH New 102 K5ZM New 101 N4QX New 100 If you find errors or omissions. please contact W5RKN. This list was developed by comparing the ARRL .pdf listings for the two months. It's a visual comparison so omissions are possible. Apologies if your call was omitted. Thanks to all those who are roving to grids that are rarely on the birds. They are doing most of the work! [ANS thanks Ron Parsons, W5RKN, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- LightSail 2 Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light The Planetary Society's crowdfunded LightSail 2 spacecraft is success- fully raising its orbit solely on the power of sunlight. Since unfurling the spacecraft's silver solar sail last week, mission managers have been optimizing the way the spacecraft orients itself during solar sailing. After a few tweaks, LightSail 2 began raising its orbit around the Earth. In the past 4 days, the spacecraft has raised its orbital high point, or apogee, by about 2 kilometers. The mission team has confirmed the apogee increase can only be attributed to solar sailing, meaning LightSail 2 has successfully completed its primary goal of demonstrating flight by light for CubeSats. On Monday, July 29, LightSail 2 sent home a new full-resolution image captured by its camera during solar sail deployment. The perspective is opposite to last week’s full-resolution image and shows the sail more fully deployed. LightSail 2's aluminized Mylar sail shines against the blackness of space, with the Sun peeking through near a sail boom. LightSail 2 uses the callsign WM9XPA and transmits its beacon on 437.025 MHz, AX.25, FSK, 9600 bps. Beacon parameters and more informa- tion on the spacecraft may be found at: https://tinyurl.com/y5r6758v [ANS thanks The Planetary Society for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Purchase AMSAT gear on our Zazzle storefront. 25% of the purchase price of each product goes towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for August 1, 2019 The following Amateur Radio satellite has decayed from orbit and has been removed from this week's TLE distribution. TANYUSHA 1 - NORAD CAT ID 42911 - Decayed 07/30/2019 (per Space-Track) The following Amateur Radio satellites have been added to this week's TLE distribution. PSAT 2 - NORAD CAT ID 44354 (per Space-Track) BRICsat 2 - NORAD CAT ID 44355 (per Space-Track) Oculus-ASR - NORAD CAT ID 44356 (per Space-Track) CP9 - NORAD CAT ID 44360 (per Space-Track) Move-IIb - NORAD CAT ID 44398 (per Nico Janssen, PA0DLO) SONATE - NORAD CAT ID 44400 (per Nico Janssen, PA0DLO) The following Amateur Radio satellites have a name change in this week's TLE distribution. CAS-7B (now been designated as BIT Progress-OSCAR 102 or BO-102) has now been assigned NORAD CAT ID 44443. Note that this is the current best guess CAT ID for BO-102. Also the TLE drag number for BO-102 has been rapidly increasing and is now at 0.01093482. BO-102 is expected to decay from orbit in about eight days. Object A (NORAD CAT ID 44339) is now identified as Prox-1. [ANS thanks Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Satellite Operations +CY9 St. Paul Island (FN97) – July 31 to August 8, 2019 CY9C will be on St. Paul Island July 31st through August 8th. This is an all bands/mode dxpedition, with EME and Sats as well. More info available at http://cy9c.com/index.html. +Florida Keys (EL95) August 4-11, 2019 Philippe, EA4NF will be operating from EL95 (Key Largo and Brickell Key) as KC3NSG, from August 4 to 11, 2019. FM and Linears. QSL via LoTW. Keep an eye on Philippe’s Twitter feed for further updates: https://twitter.com/EA4NF_SAT +Washington Invasion (CN96/96 & DN06/07/17/17) – August 9-10, 2019 Casey, KI7UNJ, will be heading North to invade the State of Washington, August 9th and 10th. Keep an eye on Casey’s Twitter feed for specific pass announcements: https://twitter.com/KI7UNJ +St Pierre et Miquelon (GN16) – August 10-18, 2019 A DXpedition is planned to St Pierre et Miquelon, August 10th through the 18th. The team will operate as T05M will from Ile aux Marins on 6- 160m, but there is a possibility of some FM Satellites. Keep an eye on their website for updates: http://fp2019.net/ +Santa Rosa Island, CA (CM93) – August 12-14, 2019 Ron, AD0DX, is heading back to Santa Rosa Island, August 12th -14th. When not distracted by the feathered-birds, Ron will be on FM and linear satellites as W6R. Keep an eye on Ron’s Twitter feed for updates at the dates get closer. https://twitter.com/ad0dx +Goose Bay, Labrador (FO93) August 12-14, 2019 Chris, VE3FU, will be visiting family / friends and maintenance of his HF remote station in FO93, but he should be on the FM sats as VO2AC. Chris will try to post here before each pass, so keep an eye on his Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/ChrisVE3FU +6Y - Jamaica (FK18) August 12-19, 2019 Philippe, EA4NF will be operating from JAMAICA (IOTA NA-097 – Grid FK18) in Satellite with the special call 6Y4NF from August 12 to 19, 2019. QRV Satellite in FM and SSB. QSL via LoTW. Keep an eye on Philippe’s Twitter feed for further updates : https://twitter.com/EA4NF_SAT. Please submit any additions or corrections to ke4al (at) amsat.org Remember to check out W3ZM On the Road for additional upcoming activations! https://www.amsat.org/events/was-w3zm/ [ANS thanks Robert Bankston, KE4AL, for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts From All Over + The Space Communicator Club of Las Flores, Calif. provide a public website for monitoring Satellite APRS Packets received in the most recent 24 hour period: http://spaceCommunicator.club/aprs (ANS thanks Robert MacHale, KE6BLR, for the above information) + The Federal Communications Commission voted on August 1 to create a new licensing category for small satellite companies that will dramatically reduce launch fees. Full story at: https://tinyurl.com/y4k588ko (ANS thanks Texas Public Radio for the above information) + SpaceX's robotic Dragon cargo capsule arrived at the International Space Station on July 27, setting a new record for SpaceX's reusable spacecraft. The Dragon, which launched July 25 from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, was on its third mission to space. (ANS thanks Space.com for the above information) + W3XO, the call sign held by former AMSAT President Bill Tynan (SK) has been issued to the Hill Country Amateur Radio Club of Kerrville, Texas, as a memorial. Bill was a leading member and past president of that club, as well as of AMSAT. (ANS thanks Ray Soifer, W2RS, for the above information) + Ballots for the 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors election have been mailed. Candidate statements may be found at https://www.amsat.org/2019-board-statements/ + Hackaday, an online journal for technical experimenters, published an article about the history of the AO-7 satellite on August 2. It can be read at: https://tinyurl.com/yyy5oapn (ANS thanks hackaday.com for the above information) --------------------------------------------------------------------- /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu- dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73 and Remember to help keep amateur radio in space, This week's ANS Editor, K0JM at amsat dot org

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ANS-212 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - CAS-7B Designated BIT Progress-OSCAR 102 (BO-102)
by Paul Stoetzer 30 Jul '19

30 Jul '19

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-212 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. You can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service Bulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/ans In this edition: * CAS-7B Designated BIT Progress-OSCAR 102 (BO-102) SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-212.01 ANS-212 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin AMSAT News Service Bulletin 212.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE July 31, 2019 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-212.01 CAS-7B Designated BIT Progress-OSCAR 102 (BO-102) On July 25, 2019, the CAS-7B (BP-1B) microsatellite was launched on a Hyperbola-1 launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Space Center, China. CAS-7B (BP-1B) was developed by the Chinese Amateur Satellite Group (CAMSAT), and in cooperation with the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). CAMSAT completed the project planning, design, build, and testing, and manages the on-orbit operation of the satellite. BIT provided the satellite environmental testing, launch support, and financial support. Many students from BIT were involved with the project, learning about satellite technology and amateur radio. The satellite carries a CW telemetry beacon and FM repeater that has been active since launch. At the request of CAMSAT and the BIT team, AMSAT hereby designates CAS-7B (BP-1B) as BIT Progress-OSCAR 102 (BO-102). We congratulate the owners and operators of BO-102, thank them for their contribution to the amateur satellite community, and wish them continued success on this and future projects. 73, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA AMSAT VP Operations / OSCAR Number Administrator [ANS thanks AMSAT VP Operations / OSCAR Number Administrator Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, for the above information.] /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. 73 and Remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in Space, This week's ANS Contributing Editor, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM n8hm at amsat dot org

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ANS-209 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by Paul Stoetzer 27 Jul '19

27 Jul '19

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-209 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat dot org. In this edition: * CAS-7B Launched and Operational * Upcoming ARISS SSTV Events * AMSAT-Chile developing CESAR-1 FM / digital satellites * FO-99 Transponder Activated over North America, Other Activations Scheduled * LO-94 Lunar Impact Expected on July 31st * Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for July 26, 2019 * How to Support AMSAT * Upcoming Satellite Operations * Satellite Shorts from All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-209.01 ANS-209 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 105.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. July 28, 2019 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-209.01 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ The 50th Anniversary AMSAT Space Symposium will be held October 18-20 in Arlington, VA. For details, see: https://www.amsat.org/amsat-symposium/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- CAS-7B Launched and Operational On July 25, 2019, CAMSAT's CAS-7B satellite was successfully launched on the first orbital launch of iSpace's Hyperbola-1 rocket. CAS-7B is in a very low earth orbit with an apogee of 296 km and a perigee of 278 km. The inclination is 42.7 degrees. At this altitude, decay is expected by August 11th. CAS-7B carries a 100 mW CW telemetry beacon at 435.715 MHz and an FM transponder with an uplink of 145.900 MHz (16 kHz bandwidth, no tone required) and a downlink of 435.690 MHz (100 mW). Many QSOs around the world have been reported via the FM transponder. Reports indicate the transponder requires a considerable amount of EIRP to access and that the satellite is spinning fast causing rapid fading of signals. More information about CAS-7B can be found at https://www.amsat.org/camsat-cas-7b-is-ready-for-june-launch/ [ANS thanks CAMSAT and JA0CAW for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming ARISS SSTV Events ARISS Russia plans to activate the MAI-75 SSTV experiment on July 29 with images starting at 13:15 UTC ending at 21:25 UTC, then again starting July 30 at 13:50 UTC ending 19:30 UTC. Downlink frequency is 145.800 MHz FM using the PD-120 SSTV mode. ARISS plans to commemorate Owen Garriott's outstanding accomplishments with ham radio in space during an ISS SSTV event starting 09:40 UTC on August 1 and ending 18:15 UTC on Aug 4. Downlink freq will be 145.800 MHz FM using the PD-120 SSTV mode. However, there is a possible switch out in images for SSTV event scheduled for August 1-4. This may result in planning an additional SSTV event for the end of August that would feature the Owen Garriott commemorative images at that time. We expect an update on this after July 26th [ANS thanks ARISS for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT-Chile developing CESAR-1 FM / digital satellites AMSAT-CE is designing and building five satellites, to be used by radio amateurs around the world, which will allow a series of scientific experiments in the field of digital communications, as well as gravimetric and orbitgraphic studies. Of these five satellites, one will be the engineering prototype, three will be flight units, and the remaining one will be used to check or replicate on the ground the operation of the units that are in space. AMSAT-CE has also promoted the installation of three earth stations, in Iquique, Temuco and Pto. Montt. Technical characteristics *CESAR-1 is of microsat technonogy (cube shape, 23 cm per edge). *The satellite reception frequencies will be in the 145 MHz band (5 channels) and 1,575 MHz (GPS). *The satellite transmission frequencies will be in the 436 MHz band (2 channels). *The modulation will be FSK (AX.25 9.6 kbps) or narrowband FM. *The magnetic stabilization will be by permanent magnets. *It will have a magnetic brake (the rotation due to the photonic spin will be stopped by seven bars of hydrogen steel, which will cut lines of force from the earth's magnetic field). *The estimated useful life is 10 years. *The mass will be approximately 12 kg *The period will be 100 minutes (that's about 14 revolutions a day). *The satellite platform consists of 5 modules made of space aluminum AL6061-T6. *The electrical energy will be stored in a Saft NiCd battery, made up of 8 batteries of 7 Ah each. *The solar cells will be Spectrolab, triple junction (GalnP2-GaAs-Ge), or the like. Contributions of the CESAR-1 Project to the Country AMSAT-CE satellites will be added to the projects already undertaken by the Chilean Air Force (FASAT) and the University of Chile (SUCHAI), but they have as their main characteristic that they are the first ones that are being designed and built entirely in the country, which constitutes a huge challenge, and a scientific and technological contribution. Among the benefits that the country and the amateur radio can obtain from AMSAT-CE satellites are: - Education (interest young people in space radiocommunications) - Support in emergency situations - Scientific experimentation (in the frame for experiments) - Boosting a national aerospace industry - Experimentation with the Internet - National Amateur Radio Unit, and - International recognition for the country. Experiments The CESAR-1 satellite will have five main (E) experiments: E1 A digital transponder between two earth stations, to be used in real time, during the period in which both are being illuminated by the satellite (radio-packets in AX.25 at 9,600 kbps). E2 A digital transponder between two earth stations, to be used in deferred time, as an electronic message box (Store & forward with radio-packets in AX.25 at 9.6 kbps). E3 An analog repeater that will allow two earth stations that are being illuminated by the satellite to be linked, to broadcast audio (voice) in real time, in FM mode. E4 Communication between two terrestrial repeaters, with link to the satellite, which will allow long distance, but temporary, calls to low-power portable stations (voice, FM, 147 MHz access), and E5 An on-board GPS receiver, which will collect information for gravimetric and orbitgraphic research. The orbit of CESAR-1 will be low, polar and heliosynchronous (about 800 km high). *In any case, given the time elapsed, it is possible that both the experiments and the electronic part considered for them must be modernized. Cost of the Project and its Financing The cost of the project, in money, amounts to about USD 700,000 (necessary for the construction of five satellites, launch of one, implementation of two command and control stations, and three terrestrial repeaters). Of that amount, around USD 300,000 have already been contributed by external sponsors, and by members of the AMSAT-CE Foundation. However, we have not yet been able to obtain the financing of the remaining USD 400,000 Additionally, and conservatively, we estimate that the project requires some 36,000 man-hours of managers and specialists. Much of those 36,000 hours have already been or are being voluntarily contributed by the AMSAT-CE partners. Essentially, the monetary resources that are still missing are needed to finance the solar cells of CESAR-1, hire professional services to finish the construction of what is pending, and cover the costs of the tests and the first launch. Project status Although it is a radio amateur project, it does not cease to correspond to a professional and complex project. But the more than 20 years we have been working - without reaching the goal - have exhausted some of our partners, and this has generated a shortage of volunteers. It has not been easy to finish the first satellite - which should have flown in the late 1990s - because in Chile there is still not enough awareness about the possibilities offered by space activity to the country. Despite this, the construction of CESAR-1 is quite advanced (more than 70%): -5 mechanical satellite structures are built. -8 UHF transmitters are finished, and aligned in their working frequencies. -The sources of power are finished. -The receivers have an advance of 90%. -The GPS experiment has an advance of 70%. -In the OBC with its EDAC and RAM disk, the software needs to be refined. -The international coordination of frequencies in the ITU was concluded, but today it would have to be reactivated, for the time elapsed. -There are, yes, the photovoltaic cells, the assembly in Chile and the final tests (which will probably be done in Brazil). -It is also necessary to reactivate the obtaining of the pitcher. Website: https://www.amsat-ce.org/proyecto-cesar [ANS thanks AMSAT-CE for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ New 2019 AMSAT Apparel Now Available on the Web Didn't make it to Hamvention but you want the latest in AMSAT haberdashery? The new 2019 tee-shirts, polo shirts and hats are now available in the AMSAT online store. Browse the styles and sizes online and put your order in today at https://www.amsat.org/product-category/amsat-apparel/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- FO-99 Transponder Activated over North America, Other Activations Scheduled On July 25, 2019, the V/u linear transponder on FO-99 (NEXUS) was activated over North America for the first time. Stations heard include W5CBF, KB4PML, N4QX, AA5PK, KX9X, N8HM, K0FFY, and N2ACQ. FO-99 is active on a schedule. The power budget does not permit full- time transponder operations. Schedule updates can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GsNihonuniv Upcoming North American FO-99 operations: Victoria, Canada - August 17th - 04:28:33 UTC - 04:40:01 UTC Denver, US (SSTV) - August 24th - 03:30:20 UTC - 03:41:50 UTC Topeka, US - August 31st - 02:34:47 UTC - 02:45:45 UTC Operations are performed from about 5 minutes before the listed AOS to 5 minutes after LOS. Transponder frequencies are 145.900 MHz - 145.930 MHz up and 435.880 MHz - 435.910 MHz down, inverting. The SSTV / digitalker downlink is 437.075 MHz. The Nihon University Ground Station asks that stations completing QSOs via FO-99 upload their audio to Twitter or the NEXUS website. http://sat.aero.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp/nexus/E0_Top.html [ANS thanks the Nihon University Ground Station and Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 2019 marks AMSAT’s 50th Anniversary of Keeping Amateur Radio in Space. To help celebrate, we are sponsoring the AMSAT 50th Anniversary Awards Program. Full details are available at https://www.amsat.org/amsat-50th-anniversary-awards-program/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- LO-94 Lunar Impact Expected on July 31st Here is the LO-94 (DSLWP-B) UHF plan for the following days: 29 Jul 00:15 to 02:15 29 Jul 04:30 to 06:30 29 Jul 20:00 to 22:00 30 Jul 05:30 to 07:30 30 Jul 16:20 to 18:20 31 Jul 06:30 to 08:30 31 Jul 13:24 to 15.24 1 Aug 05:30 to 07:30 All time in UTC. GMSK on both freq & JT4G on 435.4. JT4G repeater message on 436.4 TBD. Lunar impact expected to be at about 31 Jul 14:20. Later windows for backup. SSDV album: http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/dashboard/pages_en/pics-b.html Online JT4G telemetry forwarder: http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/dashboard/pages_en/jt4g_forwarder.html JT4G telemetry display: http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/dashboard/pages_en/jt4g.html GMSK telemetry: http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/dashboard/pages_en/telemetry-b.html [ANS thanks Wei Mingchaun, BG2BHC, Harbin Institute of Technology, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for July 25, 2019 The following Amateur Radio satellites have decayed from orbit and have been removed from this week's TLE distribution. NJUST-1 - NORAD CAT ID 42722 - Decayed 07/20/2019 (per Space-Track) AOXIANG-1 - NORAD CAT ID 42735 - Decayed 06/26/2019 (per Space-Track) The following Amateur Radio satellite has been added to this week's TLE distribution. CAS-7B - TEMPORARY CAT ID 99999 (This CAT ID will be changed to a permanent ID later.) The initial TLE supplied by Alan Kung, BA1DU on July 25, 2019 on AMSAT-BB. [ANS thanks Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Purchase AMSAT gear on our Zazzle storefront. 25% of the purchase price of each product goes towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Support AMSAT AMSAT relies on the support of our members and the amateur radio community to Keep Amateur Radio in Space. How can you help? * Join AMSAT Both you and AMSAT will benefit when you join. You get the AMSAT Journal bimonthly and support from AMSAT Ambassadors. Member dues and donations provide AMSAT’s primary support. Join today at https://www.amsat.org/product-category/amsat-membership/ * Become a Life Member Becoming a Life Member has never been easier. Now you can become a Life Member with 12 monthly payments of $74 through our online store. See https://www.amsat.org/product/lifetime-membership/ for details. * Donate to AMSAT Make a one time or recurring donation to AMSAT today. Even as little as one dollar a month can make a difference! Donate today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/ * Purchase AMSAT gear on our Zazzle storefront. AMSAT receives 25% of the price of each sale on AMSAT logo merchandise from our Zazzle storefront located at https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear * Support AMSAT when you make purchases from Amazon! So far, AMSAT has received $3,913.29 from AmazonSmile. Search for "Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation" https://smile.amazon.com/ref=smi_ext_twt_dshb_smi * Volunteer for AMSAT AMSAT relies on volunteers for nearly all of our activities. If you have an idea for how to help, please let us know, Details on volunteering can be found at https://www.amsat.org/volunteer-for-amsat/ [ANS thanks the AMSAT office for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT and ARISS are currently supporting a FundRazr campaign to raise $150,000 for critical radio infrastructure upgrades on ISS. The upgrades are necessary to enable students to continue to talk to astronauts in space via Amateur Radio. We have reached a great milestone with $33,250 raised or about 17% towards our goal. This would not have been possible without your outstanding generosity!! For more information and to DONATE TODAY visit: https://fundrazr.com/arissnextgen?ref=ab_e7Htwa_ab_47IcJ9 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Satellite Operations +J6 St Lucia, (FK94) July 21 – August 3, 2019 Frank, K3TRM, will be operating as J6/K3TRM from Gros Islet, St. Lucia (FK94mb) between July 21 – August 3, 2019. Activity will be on 40-6M using SSB, CW, and Digital (RTTY & FT8) and satellite. More info available on Frank’s QRZ page: https://www.qrz.com/db/J6/K3TRM and Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/k3trm +CY9 St. Paul Island (FN97) – July 31 to August 8, 2019 CY9C will be on St. Paul Island July 31st through August 8th. This is an all bands/mode dxpedition, with EME and Sats as well. More info available at http://cy9c.com/index.html. +West Yellowstone (DN44) August 2-3, 2019 Dennis, N7EGY, will be attending a family reunion August 2-3, and should be able to sneak away for a few FM passes. Keep an eye on Dennis’ Twitter feed for further updates: https://twitter.com/n7egy1 +AZ NV UT (DN25-DN28, DM37-DM38, DM46-DM47) August 3-10, 2019 Ian, K5ZM, will be wandering through the Southwest August 3rd – 10th, mostly operating as W3ZM/7: Aug 03: NV DM25/DM26 line Aug 04: AZ DM36 Aug 06: NV and UT DM27/DM28/DM37/DM38 Aug 07: AZ DM46 + UT DM47 Aug 10: NV DM25/DM26 line Aug 05 & 08: non ham stuff = K5ZM Aug 09: TBD! Watch for updates on Ian’s Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/k5zm_ +Florida Keys (EL95) August 4-11, 2019 Philippe, EA4NF will be operating from EL95 (Key Largo and Brickell Key) as KC3NSG, from August 4 to 11, 2019. FM and Linears. QSL via LoTW. Keep an eye on Philippe’s Twitter feed for further updates: https://twitter.com/EA4NF_SAT +Washington Invasion (CN96/96 & DN06/07/17/17) – August 9-10, 2019 Casey, KI7UNJ, will be heading North to invade the State of Washington, August 9th and 10th. Keep an eye on Casey’s Twitter feed for specific pass announcements: https://twitter.com/KI7UNJ +FP - St Pierre et Miquelon (GN16) – August 10-18, 2019 A DXpedition is planned to St Pierre et Miquelon, August 10th through the 18th. The team will operate as T05M will from Ile aux Marins on 6-160m, but there is a possibility of some FM Satellites. Keep an eye on their website for updates: http://fp2019.net/ +Santa Rosa Island, CA (CM93) – August 12-14, 2019 Ron, AD0DX, is heading back to Santa Rosa Island, August 12th -14th. When not distracted by the feathered-birds, Ron will be on FM and linear satellites as W6R. Keep an eye on Ron’s Twitter feed for updates at the dates get closer. https://twitter.com/ad0dx +Goose Bay, Labrador (FO93) August 12-14, 2019 Chris, VE3FU, will be visiting family / friends and maintenance of his HF remote station in FO93, but he should be on the FM sats as VO2AC. Chris will try to post here before each pass, so keep an eye on his Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/ChrisVE3FU +6Y - Jamaica (FK18) August 12-19, 2019 Philippe, EA4NF will be operating from JAMAICA (IOTA NA-097 – Grid FK18) in Satellite with the special call 6Y4NF from August 12 to 19, 2019. QRV Satellite in FM and SSB. QSL via LoTW. Keep an eye on Philippe’s Twitter feed for further updates : https://twitter.com/EA4NF_SAT. Remember to check out W3ZM On the Road for additional upcoming activations! https://www.amsat.org/events/was-w3zm/ [ANS thanks Robert Bankston, KE4AL, for the above information.] -------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT, along with our ARISS partners, is developing an amateur radio package, including two-way communication capability, to be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit. Support AMSAT's projects today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts from All Over +Ballots for the 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors election have been mailed. Candidate statements may be found at https://www.amsat.org/2019-board-statements/ +AMSAT's RadFxSat-2 / Fox-1E satellite is now expected to launch this fall. RadFxSat-2 will fly on the ELaNa XX mission on the second flight of Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne. +With the newest FM satellite, CAS-7B, now in orbit, we take a look back at the first satellite configured as an FM relay, AO-21 / RS-14, for #ThrowbackThursday #AMSAT50th https://twitter.com/AMSAT/status/1154373271023947777 +Robert Bankston, KE4AL, tweeted about the first "walkie-talkie satellite terminal" used by KB4CRT to work stations through AO-10. https://twitter.com/KE4ALabama/status/1154240267706339331 --------------------------------------------------------------------- /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of six post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT office for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM n8hm at amsat dot org

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ANS-202 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by E.Mike McCardel 20 Jul '19

20 Jul '19

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-202 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. In this edition: * AMSAT is proud to announce the relaunch of its AMSAT Ambassador Program * Watch for ISS, SSTV Activity * Nihon University Announces FO-99 US Operation Plan * FO-29 update from JARL * 2019 Mid-Year Fundraising Letter * 2019 37th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting * Upcoming Satellite Operations * ARISS News * Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-202.01 ANS-202 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 202.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. July 21, 20198 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-202.01 AMSAT is proud to announce the relaunch of its AMSAT Ambassador Program The AMSAT Ambassador Program is an opportunity for AMSAT members to share what they've learned about amateur radio in space with others, and, in the process, help inspire the next generation of AMSAT'ers. AMSAT Ambassador Program Goals: - Educate other amateur radio operators and the general public on amateur radio in space related subjects. - Represent AMSAT by sharing enthusiasm for Amateur Radio in Space with others, whether at in-person events, practical demonstrations, online, or in written communications, and share AMSAT’s mission and vision. - Connect volunteers with potential members both in-person and online in a manner encouraging their affiliation by membership with AMSAT. - Offer personal mentoring and coaching to new enthusiasts either in-person or via online means such as email, chat, and social media. - Connect members and potential enthusiasts with proper resources at AMSAT when they seek more knowledge, volunteer to serve, or have concerns with the organization. Become an AMSAT Ambassador and do your part towards making this happen by informing people about the value of amateur radio in space and encouraging their support and involvement. Please visit the AMSAT Ambassador Program webpage for more information: https://www.amsat.org/ambassador/ 73, Robert Bankston, KE4AL Vice-President, User Services, Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT, Director, AMSAT Ambassadors --------------------------------------------------------------------- Watch for ISS, SSTV Activity ARISS SSTV activity is planned for various times during the week of July 29 through Aug 4. As more specific dates and times are determined, they will be made available at the ARISS website ( www.ariss.org) and at the official ARISS facebook page at Amateur Radio On The International Space Station (ARISS). [ANS thanks Dave, AA4KN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ New 2019 AMSAT Apparel Now Available on the Web Didn't make it to Hamvention but you want the latest in AMSAT haberdashery? The new 2019 tee-shirts, polo shirts and hats are now available in the AMSAT online store. Browse the styles and sizes online and put your order in today at https://www.amsat.org/product-category/amsat-apparel/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Nihon University Announces FO-99 US Operation Plan Place Operation Date AOS LOS Max El Washington DC Transponder July 27 02:28:43 02:39:53 35.08 Topeka, KS Transponder Aug 10 03:46:43 03:57:57 31.35 Denver, CO SSTV Aug 24 03:30:20 03:41:50 50.01 All times UTC Operation will be performed from 5 minutes before AOS to 5 minutes after LOS. Total operation time is about 20 min. The operation may be cancelled if uplink is not received. [ANS thanks Nihon University for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 2019 marks AMSAT’s 50th Anniversary of Keeping Amateur Radio in Space. To help celebrate, we are sponsoring the AMSAT 50th Anniversary Awards Program. Full details are available at https://www.amsat.org/amsat-50th-anniversary-awards-program/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- FO-29 update from JARL "Analog transmitters of Fuji No. 3 (FO-29) have been suspended since July 9, 2019. Currently, we are doing situation grasp and information gathering, but we will inform you as soon as the situation is understood. If you have telemetry data after July 8th (UTC), please send it to the following address. [Transmission destination of telemetry data] oper (at) jarl.org Thank you for your cooperation in collecting information on "Fuji No. 3" of many users. JARL Secretariat Member Section Fuji 3 Telemetry Section" Source: https://www.hamlife.jp/2019/07/17/fo29-jas2-silent/ [ANS thanks hamlife.jp for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2019 Mid-Year Fundraising Letter The following funraising letter from AMSAT President Joe Spier, K6WAO, was recently mailed to all AMSAT members. Please consider a one-time or recurring donation today. Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) 10605 Concord St, #304 Kensington, MD 20895-2526 USA July 10, 2019 AMSAT Member, I am writing to provide an update to the membership on AMSAT's activities and invite everyone to our 50th Anniversary AMSAT Space Symposium and General Meeting, to be held October 18-20, 2019. For more details, go to https://www.amsat.org/amsat-symposium/. I hope to see you there! It takes considerable volunteer effort and real dollars to keep Amateur Radio in Space™. AMSAT needs some important assistance in the areas of User Services and Engineering. If you would like to volunteer, please contact me at k6wao(a)amsat.org. You may also assist AMSAT by making a tax-deductible contribution. AMSAT has several fundraising needs. The daily operation of AMSAT is accomplished by donations to the General Fund. This fund is also used to fill other department needs. The other main department needs are the fund for GOLF (Greater Orbit, Larger Footprint) 3U CubeSats design/construction and ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station). AMSAT has had success in the launch of AO-92 (Fox-1D) in January of 2018 and the launch of AO-95 (Fox-1Cliff) in December of 2018. AO-95 achieved orbit and the beacon functions properly, unfortunately the satellite's receiver is not operational. AMSAT Engineering and Operations are trying to determine the cause of the issue. AMSAT partnered with Spaceflight Inc. by contracting and paying for these launches. Fundraising for Fox series satellites have not yet recouped this expenditure, so donations are still being accepted. AMSAT is expecting the launch of RadFxSat-2 (Fox-1E), our partnership with Vanderbilt University, by no earlier than the end of summer. RadFxSat- 2 will launch on the ELaNa XX mission, on Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne, and carry an AMSAT V/u linear transponder and radiation experiments for Vanderbilt University. AMSAT is also partnering with several universities to fly this linear transponder on their CubeSats. The first of these will fly on HuskySat-1, from the Husky Satellite Lab at the University of Washington, later this year. AMSAT has been selected for two CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) opportunities for GOLF-TEE and GOLF-1. GOLF's 3U spaceframe is being designed with versatility to add mission specific radios, power supplies, and experiments. A series of GOLF CubeSats will provide better coverage and a greater footprint will allow more coverage by fewer satellites. GOLF also allows AMSAT to continue and expand partnerships with universities, NASA and others. GOLF will also provide for additional experimental payloads such as GPS, satellite interlinking, and others. Your donations help AMSAT keep GOLF-TEE and GOLF-1 on schedule. The first GOLF CubeSat, GOLF-TEE, will jump start the GOLF program with a launch to LEO as early as 2020. GOLF-TEE will use Attitude Determination and Control (ADAC) and an experimental 5 GHz /10 GHz software defined radio transponder. AMSAT will benefit by gaining knowledge as well as hardware for future missions. GOLF-TEE also provides an opportunity to fly projects that have been developed by AMSAT's Advanced Satellite Communications and Exploration of New Technology (ASCENT) "skunk works" program. GOLF-TEE will carry a Fox-1E design V/u linear transponder and new RadFx (Radiation Effects) experiment like that in AO-85 for Vanderbilt University, but testing FinFET technology. GOLF-1 will aim for higher LEO orbit as the first official "Greater Orbit, Larger Footprint" AMSAT CubeSat. Launch is targeted for 2020- 2021. You may make a one time or recurring donation to AMSAT at https://www.amsat.org/donate/. As of this writing, the ARISS FundRazr has raised $33,250 of the $150,000 for critical amateur radio infrastructure upgrades on ISS to enable students to talk to astronauts in space via amateur radio. ARISS is in critical need of this infrastructure update. Through your donations ARISS seeks the following upgrades: * Next Generation radio system will support easier radio mode transition, to enable new, exciting capabilities for hams, students and the general public including: * New amateur radio communication and experimentation capabilities, including an enhanced voice repeater and updated digital packet radio (APRS) capabilities * Slow Scan TV (picture up and downlinks) in both the US and Russian segments of ISS * New multi-voltage power supply (MVPS) will support present and future radio capabilities and allow wireless experiments to be conducted ARISS is building 10 Next Generation Radio Systems to support our development, on-orbit operations, training and long-term maintenance. This includes units on-orbit (2 units--1 unit each in US and Russian segment), flight spares (2 units), training (3 units), testing (1 unit) and ground-based maintenance & troubleshooting (2 units). ARISS has kicked off a FundRazr campaign for this initiative. The project is scheduled for delivery by the end of this year. AMSAT is also working with our ARISS partners to develop an amateur radio package, including two-way communication capability, to be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit. Stay tuned for more details on this exciting project. You may make a one time or recurring donation to ARISS by clicking the ARISS Donations button at https://www.amsat.org/donate or directly to the FundRazr at https://fundrazr.com/arissnextgen. Help Keep Amateur Radio in Space™ Thanks! Joe Spier, K6WAO President, AMSAT [ANS thanks Joe K6WAO for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2019 37th AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting Please join us for the 2019 AMSAT 50th Anniversary Symposium, to be held in the Washington, DC Metro Area on October 18, 19, and 20, 2019. The Symposium venue will be the Hilton Arlington, located in the heart of the Ballston neighborhood of Arlington, VA. The Hilton Arlington is located at 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, Virginia, 22203, USA TEL: +1-703-528-6000 and the reservation code is AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation). Connected to the Ballston Metro Station, the hotel offers easy and effortless access to Washington DC's top tourist destinations like the National Mall, Smithsonian Museums and historic monuments. The hotel is six miles from Reagan National Airport and the National Mall. There are plenty of restaurants nearby. The Symposium will feature OSCAR Park - a display of satellites from throughout the history of amateur radio in space - paper presentations, and a banquet with speakers celebrating AMSAT's long history, and other events. The AMSAT Board of Directors Meeting will be held on October 16th and 17th at the same hotel. Two guided tours are available. On Sunday, October 20th a bus tour to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum is available for $30 (max 35 people) and on Monday, October 21st, AMSAT President Joe Spier will lead a day tour to the National Mall via the Metro. So please plan on attending the 50th Anniversary Symposium - you will be glad you did and keep checking the AMSAT website for further updates and information. https://www.amsat.org/amsat-symposium/ [ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Satellite Operations As of July 19, 2019 Remember to check out W3ZM On the Road for additional upcoming activations! Wyoming and Montana (DN62, DN63, DN64, DN65, DN54) July 20-27, 2019 RJ, WY7AA, will be roving in DN62 and DN63 for the 16:00-20:00 UTC FM passes, Sat. July 20th. On Sun. July 21st, he will work one pass only from DN65, SO-50 at 16:58 UTC. For the remainder of the week, RJ will be camping in DN64, working holiday style FM and linears, with one side trip during the week for a few FM passes from DN54. RJ will try to get word to Twitter when he plans to do so, but expects to be without Twitter for the trip, and likely out of cell phone range, as well. #unplugged St Lucia, (FK94) July 21 – August 3, 2019 Frank, K3TRM, will be operating as J6/K3TRM from Gros Islet, St. Lucia (FK94mb) between July 21 – August 3, 2019. Activity will be on 40-6M using SSB, CW, and Digital (RTTY & FT8) and satellite. More info available on Frank’s QRZ page: https://www.qrz.com/db/J6/K3TRM and Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/k3trm CY9 St. Paul Island (FN97) – July 31 to August 8, 2019 CY9C will be on St. Paul Island July 31st through August 8th. This is an all bands/mode dxpedition, with EME and Sats as well. More info available at http://cy9c.com/index.html. Florida Keys (EL95) August 4-11, 2019 Philippe, EA4NF will be operating from EL95 (Key Largo and Brickell Key) as KC3NSG, from August 4 to 11, 2019. FM and Linears. QSL via LoTW. Keep an eye on Philippe’s Twitter feed for further updates : https://twitter.com/EA4NF_SAT Washington Invasion (CN96/96 & DN06/07/17/17) – August 9-10, 2019 Casey, KI7UNJ, will be heading North to invade the State of Washington, August 9th and 10th. Keep an eye on Casey’s Twitter feed for specific pass announcements: https://twitter.com/KI7UNJ St Pierre et Miquelon (GN16) – August 10-18, 2019 A DXpedition is planned to St Pierre et Miquelon, August 10th through the 18th. The team will operate as T05M will from Ile aux Marins on 6-160m, but there is a possibility of some FM Satellites. Keep an eye on their website for updates: http://fp2019.net/ Santa Rosa Island, CA (CM93) – August 12-14, 2019 Ron, AD0DX, is heading back to Santa Rosa Island, August 12th -14th. When not distracted by the feathered-birds, Ron will be on FM and linear satellites as W6R. Keep an eye on Ron’s Twitter feed for updates at the dates get closer. https://twitter.com/ad0dx 6Y Jamaica (FK18) AUGUST 12-19, 2019 Philippe, EA4NF will be operating from JAMAICA (IOTA NA-097 – Grid FK18) in Satellite with the special call 6Y4NF from August 12 to 19, 2019. QRV Satellite in FM and SSB. QSL via LoTW. Keep an eye on Philippe’s Twitter feed for further updates : https://twitter.com/EA4NF_SAT. Please submit any additions or corrections to ke4al (at) amsat.org [ANS thanks Robert KE4AL for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT and ARISS are currently supporting a FundRazr campaign to raise $150,000 for critical radio infrastructure upgrades on ISS. The upgrades are necessary to enable students to continue to talk to astronauts in space via Amateur Radio. We have reached a great milestone with $33,250 raised or about 17% towards our goal. This would not have been possible without your outstanding generosity!! For more information and to DONATE TODAY visit: https://fundrazr.com/arissnextgen?ref=ab_e7Htwa_ab_47IcJ9 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS News + 2019-07-16 19:35 UTC between Cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin using ISS callsign RSØISS and About Gagarin From Space. Performing amateur radio communication session with the 8th International Aerospace School. U.N. Sultanova rep. Bashkortostan Aerospace School of. U.N. Sultanova summer camp, Kalinovka, Davlekanovsky, Russia Contact was direct via RZ9WWB. ARISS Mentor was Sergey RV3DR Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule 24th World Scout Jamboree, Summit Bechtel Scout Reserve, West Virginia, telebridge via ON4ISS The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS The scheduled astronaut is Drew Morgan KI5AAA Contact is go for: Sat 2019-07-27 18:27:56 UTC [ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT, along with our ARISS partners, is developing an amateur radio package, including two-way communication capability, to be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit. Support AMSAT's projects today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Shorts From All Over + CAS-7B Launch July 25, 2019 Planned to launch CAS-7B at 05:00:00UTC on July 25, 2019, the launch vehicle Hyperbola-1 will run for 862.0206 seconds and then CAS-7B satellite will be deployed at 05:14:22.0206 CAS-7B(BP-1B) 1 99999U 19206.21831019 -.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00001 2 99999 042.7339 008.2068 0013606 285.8754 218.2911 15.94575754000011 [ANS thanks Alan, BA1DU for the above information] + Tweet from AMSAT-UK AMSAT-UK (@AmsatUK) tweeted at 2:28 PM on Fri, Jul 19, 2019: #Peru: Holders of the 100 watt Novice (Class C) #AmateurRadio license have been granted access to 144-146 MHz (previously just 146- 148) and the entire 70cm band. They are now permitted to use the Satellites https://t.co/lHMwcq0two#hamradio #hamr (https://twitter.com/AmsatUK/status/1152314187344990210?s=03) [ANS thanks @Amsat-UK for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu- dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, EMike McCardel, AA8EM aa8em at amsat dot org

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ANS-195 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by Paul Stoetzer 13 Jul '19

13 Jul '19

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-195 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat dot org. In this edition: * 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors Election Ballots Sent * New Orbitrack iOS app free for Apollo 11 Anniversary * Help Needed - JAISAT-1 Telemetry * Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for July 11, 2019 * How to Support AMSAT * Upcoming Satellite Operations * Satellite Shorts from All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-195.01 ANS-195 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 105.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. July 14, 2019 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-195.01 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ The 50th Anniversary AMSAT Space Symposium will be held October 18-20 in Arlington, VA. For details, see: https://www.amsat.org/amsat-symposium/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors Election Ballots Sent AMSAT members should expect to see ballots for the 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors election arriving in their mailboxes. The ballots have been sent for printing and will be mailed on or before July 15. The 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors election will be conducted differ- ently than in past elections. In previous years, the balloting process was handled by multiple vendors. This year, AMSAT has contracted with a single, independent party, ElectionBuddy, to conduct and fully manage the election process. You may cast your ballot by visiting a unique URL or utilizing the QR code printed on the mailing. You also have the option of returning your paper ballot in the supplied envelope to the AMSAT office. Please do not include any other correspondence in this envelope. It will be opened only by ElectionBuddy. If you do not receive your ballot, you will need to contact ElectionBuddy via email: amsat(a)electionbuddy.com. Individual candidates’ statement of qualification (biographies) are displayed on the ElectionBuddy website available to voters and are available on AMSAT’s website: https://www.amsat.org/2019-board-statements/ Because AMSAT has contracted ElectionBuddy for a fully managed election, they will be voters’ single point of contact regarding any ballot issues. The AMSAT Secretary or Office Manager may direct you to contact ElectionBuddy in situations deemed part of this fully managed election. Questions will not be answered on the AMSAT-BB or organizational Social Media accounts. In the previous election announcement, it was mentioned that voters would have the option to request a special paper ballot. The election process has been modified to eliminate this need. A single mailing has been designed to better accommodate traditional and online voting. Sincerely, Clayton L. Coleman, W5PFG AMSAT Secretary [ANS thanks AMSAT Secretary Clayton Coleman, W5PFG, for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- New Orbitrack iOS app free for Apollo 11 Anniversary n the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s first manned moon landing, a new iOS app – Orbitrack – lets you explore the universe of spacecraft in orbit around our home planet today, using cutting-edge augmented and virtual reality technology. Better yet: for just one day, July 20th, 2019, Orbitrack (normally $4.99) will be offered for free on the iTunes Store. >From the original developer of the award winning SkySafari™ apps, Orbitrack is the first new release from Southern Stars since 2014. It includes spectacular new graphics, incredibly detailed 3D spacecraft models, fascinating illustrated mission descriptions, and a new database of more than 8,000 satellites updated daily from n2yo.com and celestrak.com. Orbitrack includes many classified military satellites, and SpaceX’s new Starlink mega-communications-satellite constellation. Both visual and radio observers will appreciate Orbitrack’s up-to-date catalog, which includes frequencies and call signs for amateur radio satellites, and predicts satellite passes and Iridium flares. Orbitrack’s brand new voice-controlled virtual reality mode works with any iPhone-compatible VR headset. And its rewritten augmented reaiity (AR) capability lets you identify satellites passing across the sky in real time, using you phone’s GPS, camera, and motion-sensing hardware. Orbitrack supports the latest Apple hardware and showcases the latest iOS technologies. Southern Stars founder Tim DeBenedictis writes, “When Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon, there were only 159 satellites in orbit. Today, there are well over 40,000. The computing power of the entire lunar module would be dwarfed by today’s smallest cell phones. Offering our latest satellite tracking app for free seemed a good way to celebrate the past, while also looking forward to the future of spaceflight, both manned and unmanned.” To download Orbitrack for iOS devices from the iTunes Store, follow this link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/orbitrack/id1092984911?mt=8 Available today for iOS devices, Orbitrack will be available for Android in the 2nd half of 2019. [ANS thanks Southern Stars for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ New 2019 AMSAT Apparel Now Available on the Web Didn't make it to Hamvention but you want the latest in AMSAT haberdashery? The new 2019 tee-shirts, polo shirts and hats are now available in the AMSAT online store. Browse the styles and sizes online and put your order in today at https://www.amsat.org/product-category/amsat-apparel/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Help Needed - JAISAT-1 Telemetry JAISAT-1, a 3U CubeSat developed by the Radio Amateur Society of Thailand was launched on July 5, 2019. The satellite carries a VHF/ UHF linear transponder for amateur radio use. The Radio Amateur Society of Thailand (RAST) and the JAISAT-1 Project Teamare urgently seeking raw data that can be received from all packets worldwide. Please send raw data and KSS files to RAST by email at jaisatonetele(a)gmail.com. The JAISAT-1 beacon signal is transmitted on 435.700 MHz in GMSK Mobitex 4800 bps mode. Two other satellites on this launch also use this engineering frequency. The code for JAISAT-1 frames 1 in row 11 is: 41 (0x29) - JAISAT UHF1 42 (0x2A) - JAISAT UHF2 Example of signals in this format can be found with the the reception of signals from the satellite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FDoE0oaesY JAISAT-1 has been identified as 2019-038F. TLEs are below: 2019-038F 1 44419U 19038F 19190.66730395 .00001667 00000-0 10000-3 0 9996 2 44419 97.4914 152.5407 0020014 233.1737 126.7422 15.12176922 634 [ANS thanks Tanan Rangseeprom, HS1JAN, JAISAT Project Manager for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 2019 marks AMSAT’s 50th Anniversary of Keeping Amateur Radio in Space. To help celebrate, we are sponsoring the AMSAT 50th Anniversary Awards Program. Full details are available at https://www.amsat.org/amsat-50th-anniversary-awards-program/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for July 11, 2019 The following Amateur Radio satellites have been removed from this week's TLE distribution. They are part of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy STP-2 launch of June 25,2019 at 06:30 GMT from launch pad LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center. They have been identified by Space-Track. OBJECT B - NORAD CAT ID 44340 - NPSAT1 (Non-Radio Amateur) OBJECT C - NORAD CAT ID 44341 - OTB (Non-Radio Amateur) OBJECT E - NORAD CAT ID 44343 - FORMOSAT7-3/COSMIC2-3 (Non-Radio Amateur) The following Amateur Radio satellite has been added to this week's TLE distribution. LightSail-2 - NORAD CAT ID 44420 - Separated from PROX-1, CAT ID 44330 [ANS thanks Ray Hoad, WA5QGD, AMSAT Orbital Elements Manager for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Purchase AMSAT gear on our Zazzle storefront. 25% of the purchase price of each product goes towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Support AMSAT AMSAT relies on the support of our members and the amateur radio community to Keep Amateur Radio in Space. How can you help? * Join AMSAT Both you and AMSAT will benefit when you join. You get the AMSAT Journal bimonthly and support from AMSAT Ambassadors. Member dues and donations provide AMSAT’s primary support. Join today at https://www.amsat.org/product-category/amsat-membership/ * Become a Life Member Becoming a Life Member has never been easier. Now you can become a Life Member with 12 monthly payments of $74 through our online store. See https://www.amsat.org/product/lifetime-membership/ for details. * Donate to AMSAT Make a one time or recurring donation to AMSAT today. Even as little as one dollar a month can make a difference! Donate today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/ * Purchase AMSAT gear on our Zazzle storefront. AMSAT receives 25% of the price of each sale on AMSAT logo merchandise from our Zazzle storefront located at https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear * Support AMSAT when you make purchases from Amazon! So far, AMSAT has received $3,913.29 from AmazonSmile. Search for "Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation" https://smile.amazon.com/ref=smi_ext_twt_dshb_smi * Volunteer for AMSAT AMSAT relies on volunteers for nearly all of our activities. If you have an idea for how to help, please let us know, Details on volunteering can be found at https://www.amsat.org/volunteer-for-amsat/ [ANS thanks the AMSAT office for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT and ARISS are currently supporting a FundRazr campaign to raise $150,000 for critical radio infrastructure upgrades on ISS. The upgrades are necessary to enable students to continue to talk to astronauts in space via Amateur Radio. We have reached a great milestone with $33,250 raised or about 17% towards our goal. This would not have been possible without your outstanding generosity!! For more information and to DONATE TODAY visit: https://fundrazr.com/arissnextgen?ref=ab_e7Htwa_ab_47IcJ9 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Satellite Operations +Iceland (HP93, HP94, HP95, IP03, IP05, IP13, IP14, IP15, IP24, IP25, IP35) – July 13-19, 2019 Adam, K0FFY, is taking his family (and his radios) to Iceland. He’ll be staying in HP95 on July 13, IP15 on July 14-15, IP25 on July 16, IP03 on July 17-18, and HP94 on July 19. In total, he’ll be passing through HP93, HP94, HP95, IP03, IP05, IP13, IP14, IP15, IP24, IP25, IP35. There’s a lot to see, so passes will be best effort & announced on Twitter shortly prior. https://twitter.com/K0FFY_Radio +CY9 St. Paul Island (FN97) – July 31 to August 8, 2019 CY9C will be on St. Paul Island July 31st through August 8th. This is an all bands/mode dxpedition, with EME and Sats as well. More info available at http://cy9c.com/index.html. +Washington Invasion (CN96/96 & DN06/07/17/17) – August 9-10, 2019 Casey, KI7UNJ, will be heading North to invade the State of Washington, August 9th and 10th. Keep an eye on Casey’s Twitter feed for specific pass announcements: https://twitter.com/KI7UNJ +St Pierre et Miquelon (GN16) – August 10-18, 2019 A DXpedition is planned to St Pierre et Miquelon, August 10th through the 18th. The team will operate as T05M will from Ile aux Marins on 6-160m, but there is a possibility of some FM Satellites. Keep an eye on their website for updates: http://fp2019.net/ +Santa Rosa Island, CA (CM93) – August 12-14, 2019 Ron, AD0DX, is heading back to Santa Rosa Island, August 12th -14th. When not distracted by the feathered-birds, Ron will be on FM and linear satellites as W6R. Keep an eye on Ron’s Twitter feed for updates at the dates get closer. https://twitter.com/ad0dx Remember to check out W3ZM On the Road for additional upcoming activations! https://www.amsat.org/events/was-w3zm/ [ANS thanks Robert Bankston, KE4AL, for the above information.] -------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT, along with our ARISS partners, is developing an amateur radio package, including two-way communication capability, to be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit. Support AMSAT's projects today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts from All Over +FO-29 has been offline since approximately 22:00 UTC on July 9th. The amateur satellite community awaits word from the satellite's operator, JARL, on the situation. +AMSAT Operations activated the Virginia Tech Camera on AO-92 on July 10th and July 11th in support of the ARRL Teachers Institute. Images captured can be found at http://www.amsat.org/tlm/showImages.php?id=4 +AMSAT Operations reports that AO-85 is shutting down each eclipse. The satellite turns on several minutes after entering sunlight, when voltages reach adequate levels to operate the satellite hardware. +Virgin Orbit conducted a successful drop test of LauncherOne on July 10th. This was the final test prior to the first test flight of the new air launch system. AMSAT's RadFxSat-2 / Fox-1E is scheduled to fly on the second launch of the LauncherOne, as early as late this summer. Details on the test can be found at: https://tinyurl.com/ANS-195-VO +The AMSAT Board of Directors meeting minutes page was updated with recent minutes. https://www.amsat.org/minutes-of-the-board-of-directors/ +AMSAT financial audit/review reports and IRS Form 990 filings can be found at https://www.amsat.org/audit-and-other-financial-reports/ +EA4GPZ's blog contains several updates on images captured by LO-94. See https://destevez.net/ for details. +This week's Flashback Friday Tweet from @AMSAT: https://twitter.com/AMSAT/status/1149667412779786240 In the late 1970s, the AMSAT-GOLEM-80 Microcomputer Project was designed as a low-cost and expandable Z80 or 8080 based microcomputer for amateur radio applications. Details can be found in the Sept 1979 issue of Byte Magazine. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-09/page/n183 --------------------------------------------------------------------- /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the student rate for a maximum of six post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT office for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM n8hm at amsat dot org

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ANS-188 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletin
by Mark D. Johns 06 Jul '19

06 Jul '19

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-188 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. You can sign up for free e-mail delivery of the AMSAT News Service Bulletins via the ANS List; to join this list see: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/ans In this edition: * 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors Election Update * Candidates for the AMSAT Board of Directors Announced * Frank Karnauskas, N1UW Appointed as AMSAT VP for Development * First Ever Contact via Moon Orbiting Transponder on LO-94 * First Call for Papers for the 50th Anniversary AMSAT Symposium * Take W3ZM on the Road! * ARISS-International Delegates Meet in Montreal * JAISAT-1 telemetry beacon downlink on 435.325 MHz FM 4k8 GMSK * Additional Amateur Radio Payloads to Launch with JAISAT-1 * VUCC Awards-Endorsements for July * * Upcoming Satellite Operations * Satellite Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-188.01 ANS-188 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 188.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE: 2019 July 7 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-188.01 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors Election Update The 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors election will be conducted dif- ferently than in past elections. In previous years, the balloting pro- cess was handled by multiple vendors. This year, AMSAT has contracted with a single, independent party, ElectionBuddy, to conduct and fully manage the election process. A ballot card will be mailed to all current members in accordance with the organization’s by-laws by or on July 15, 2019. You may cast your ballot by visiting a unique URL or utilizing the QR code printed on the card. If you do not receive your ballot, you will need to contact ElectionBuddy. ElectionBuddy will be responsible for distributing ballots, collecting ballots, and tallying votes. Individual candidates’ statement of qualification (biographies) will be published on AMSAT’s website and will be displayed on the ElectionBuddy website available to eligible voters. AMSAT believes this voting system will result in greater election integrity as it removes the potential for any perceived conflicts of interest. ElectionBuddy will manage AMSAT’s voter list and interaction with members regarding the election. This ensures voter anonymity. Individual ballot responses will never be shared with any volunteer or paid AMSAT staff. Because AMSAT has contracted ElectionBuddy for a fully managed elec- tion, they will be voters’ single point of contact regarding any ballot issues. The AMSAT Secretary or Office Manager may direct you to contact ElectionBuddy in situations deemed part of this fully managed election. Questions will not be answered on the AMSAT-BB or organizational Social Media accounts. In the event that you are unwilling or unable to cast your ballot via the online mechanism, ElectionBuddy will mail you a specific ballot that must be returned to them within the parameters of our election time frame so that it is received by the office no later than Sept- ember 15, 2019. If you choose this option, please understand it is at an increased cost to the organization. Sincerely, Clayton L. Coleman, W5PFG AMSAT Secretary [ANS thanks Clayton L. Coleman, W5PFG, AMSAT Secretary, for the above information]] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidates for the AMSAT Board of Directors Announced The corrected list of 2019 candidates, in alphabetical order by last name are: Jerry Buxton, N0JY Howard (Howie) Defelice, AB2S Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA Jeff Johns, WE4B Brennan Price, N4QX Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK Paul Stoetzer, N8HM Michelle Thompson, W5NYV This year AMSAT membership will select four candidates to the Board of Directors. The four candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be seated as voting members of the Board of Directors. Two alternate directors will be selected based on the next highest number of votes received. Ballots will be mailed to the AMSAT membership by July 15, 2019. The election closes September 15, 2019. [ANS thanks Clayton L. Coleman, W5PFG, AMSAT Secretary, for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Karnauskas, N1UW Appointed as AMSAT VP for Development The AMSAT Board of Directors has elected Frank Karnauskas, N1UW, Vice President - Development This position carries the responsibility for fund raising, marketing and public relations for AMSAT programs. In addition to enhancing the AMSAT and ARISS brands within their tradi- tional spheres, this position is expected to broaden the appeal of its activities to a wider market. This includes the educational, corporate and philanthropic sectors. Joe Spier explains, "The cost of planning, building and launching satellites has risen exponentially over the past years. It is essential that we not only raise the Amateur Radio community's financial participation in these programs, we need to enlist the support of outside entities. We can only do this by demonstrating the value that Amateur Radio satellites bring to society's best interests. This is especially true for youth and educational programs where AMSAT's and ARISS' growth lies." Frank comes to this position with a forty-five year career as a sales and marketing executive in the consumer and industrial markets. He was first licensed in 1963 and has been a long-term member of AMSAT and the ARRL. Frank also contributes to AMSAT as an AMSAT News Service Rotating Editor. [ANS thanks AMSAT President Joe Spier, K6WAO for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 2019 marks AMSAT’s 50th Anniversary of Keeping Amateur Radio in Space. To help celebrate, we are sponsoring the AMSAT 50th Anniversary Awards Program. Full details are available at https://www.amsat.org/amsat-50th-anniversary-awards-program/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- First Ever Contact via Moon Orbiting Transponder on LO-94 Daniel Estevez, EA4GPZ, reported on the details of the first contact via a lunar orbiting repeater that was accomplished via China's DSLWP-B (LO-94) satellite. EA4GPZ wrote, "In parallel [with the solar eclipse testing], the GMSK to JT4G repeater onboard DSLWP-B was used to make a QSO between BY2HIT, the Harbin Institute of Technology Amateur radio club, and Reinhard Kuehn DK5LA. This is the first ever Amateur radio QSO made through a lunar orbiting repeater. It was reported by Wei Mingchuan, BG2BHC." Continuing, "Using the GMSK to JT4G repeater is not easy, in terms of the signal power needed for the uplink. There were plans to make a QSO between BY2HIT and Reinhard since many months ago, but previous attempts didn't work out. My congratulations to the people at both sides of the QSO, who have achieved it a month before DSLWP-B crashes against the lunar surface. "The GMSK to JT4G repeater works by sending commands to the satellite which embed a 13 character message, using the same frequency and a similar protocol to the one used to command the camera and other sat- ellite functions. The precise definition of this mode is a 7.8125 baud FSK modulation with a shift of 394.53125Hz. Each FSK tone is "spread" with a 250 baud GMSK 32 bit syncword. The CCSDS 32 bit syncword is used to mark the beginning of a packet, and a Reed-Solomon (64,32) code is used for FEC, together with CCSDS scrambling. Such a message takes a bit longer than one minute to transmit. The uplink is in the 2m Amateur satellite band. "The repeater downlink is the usual JT4G downlink of DSLWP-B in the 70cm Amateur satellite band. The 13 character messages sent in the uplink command replace the usual JT4G telemetry, being repeated as a free-form JT4G message. In the case of this QSO, the B1 radio at 436.400MHz was used. This radio was also used to transmit the images using GMSK SSDV." Access EA4GPZ's full report at: https://destevez.net/2019/07/analysis-of-dslwp-b-eclipse-test-run-again/ [ANS thanks Daniel Estevez, EA4GPZ for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- First Call for Papers for the 50th Anniversary AMSAT Symposium The 50th Anniversary AMSAT Annual Meeting and Space Symposium will be held on the weekend of October 18 – 20 at The Hilton Arlington, 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, Virginia. Proposals for papers, symposium presentations, and poster presentations are invited on any topic of interest to the amateur satellite community. We request a tentative title of your presentation as soon as possible, with final copy to be submitted by September 23rd for inclusion in the printed proceedings. Abstracts and papers should be sent to Dan Schultz at n8fgv(at)amsat.org [ANS thanks AMSAT for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Take W3ZM on the Road! Leading up to the 2019 AMSAT 50th Anniversary Space Symposium and Gen- eral Meeting, to be held in Arlington, VA, October 18 – 20, 2019, AMSAT’s call sign, W3ZM, will operate from all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Not only is this your chance to get Worked All States-Satellites under the W3ZM call sign, but, also, your chance to be a part of this historic effort. Note: When operating outside of the “3” call area, operators will append the W3ZM call sign with “/(call area).” As an example, someone operating from Texas will use W3ZM/5; from Hawaii, W3ZM/KH6; from Alaska, W3ZM/KL7; and from Puerto Rico, W3ZM/KP4. To make this happen – We need your help! Please volunteer to get on the air and activate your State, using AMSAT’s W3ZM call sign, as well as to cover those States without an active AMSAT Member. Activations of other United States Territories (i.e. Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) are also welcome. To volunteer and operate using AMSAT’s W3ZM call sign, you must: - Be a current member of AMSAT - Obtain permission by emailing AMSAT VP of User Services, specifying the requested date(s) and location(s) - Submit an ADIF log of contacts made for upload to LoTW by AMSAT, as instructed in your notice of approval to use the W3ZM call sign Additional information and a schedule of operations may be found at: https://www.amsat.org/events/was-w3zm/ [ANS thanks Robert Bankston, KE4AL, AMSAT VP of User Services, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS-International Delegates Meet in Montreal Nine nations were represented as Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) held its 2019 “face-to-face” meeting of interna- tional delegates at the Canadian Space Agency in Montreal, June 26–28. ARISS-Canada was the host for the gathering. A high point of the con- ference came when Kenwood software manager Shin Aota, JL1IBD, present- ed two Kenwood TM-D710GA transceivers to ARISS-Russia delegate Sergey Samburov, RV3DR. One of the TM-D710GA radios will replace aging Amateur Radio equipment currently in use on the International Space Station, while the other will remain on Earth as a spare for training cosmonauts. For more than a year, these radios have undergone detailed NASA qualification testing followed by final software configuration and verification. “With today’s transfer of the radios to ARISS-Russia, we are one step closer to an enhanced Amateur Radio system on board the ISS, support- ing various operations such as SSTV, voice communication, APRS, and a variety of experiments,” ARISS-International said in announcing the presentation. The ARISS Hardware Team met on June 25. Those on hand for the event included Radio Amateurs of Canada President (RAC) and ARISS-Canada Delegate for RAC Glenn MacDonell, VE3XRA; AMSAT-NA President Joe Spier, K6WAO, and AMSAT-Italia President Emanuele D’Andria, I0ELE. ARRL Southeastern Division Director Greg Sarratt, W4OZK, attended in his role as chair of the ARRL Board’s new ARISS Committee. Rosalie White, K1STO, represented ARRL as an ARISS-US delegate and handled the duties of ARISS-International Secretary. The other ARISS-US delegate was Dave Taylor, W8AAS. The French government’s proposal to consider 144–146 MHz for possible allocation to the Aeronautical Mobile Service drew some discussion. Other topics included ARISS’ future participation in NASA’s Deep Space Gateway (DSG) program. ARISS is the only noncommercial entity whose ideas are under study by the program. The ARISS plan focuses on Amateur Radio communication, including optical communication channels, as well as equipment development, team cooperation, education, and public out- reach. Canadian Space Agency Program Manager of the Lunar Gateway Program Ken Podwalski noted that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada will go to the moon. CSA provided the “Canadarm” robotic arm for the space shuttle and contributed the Mobile Servicing System, a sophisticated robotics suite that plays a critical role in ISS oper- ations. White and Taylor presented the ARISS-US Region Report, highlighting many of the accomplishments of the US team since the last ARISS face- to-face meeting. Dave Honess of the European Space Agency presented some ideas for en- hanced ARISS educational outreach. A future SSTV session to honor Owen Garriott, W5LFL (SK), also came in for some discussion. Garriott was the first space traveler to use Amateur Radio from space. — Thanks to Dave Jordan, AA4KN, ARISS Public Relations, and Rosalie White, K1STO [ANS thanks ARRL for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- JAISAT-1 telemetry beacon downlink on 435.325 MHz FM 4k8 GMSK JAISAT-1 was launched on July 5, 2019 at 05:41:46z along with a total of 33 satellites from 12 countries. The JAISAT-1 telemetry beacon is at 435.325 MHz. The telemetry signal format is 4k8 GMSK Mobitex (same as Dstar one Sparro and iSAT CMX990 Mobitex Format) in accordance with the details from the IARU satellite co-ordinator site: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=521 This is keplerian element from simulated orbit the following as below: JAISAT-SIM 1 77777U 19001a 19186.41724769 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00015 2 77777 098.5564 148.1307 0015651 161.6334 118.6706 15.15099188000017 All amateur radio operators capable of receiving signals from the JAISAT-1 satellite are invited to send the data by email to: jaisatonetele(a)gmail.com The Radio Amateur Society of Thailand will have a SWL card to confirm reception. [ANS thanks Tanan Rangseeprom, HS1JAN, Project Manager of JAISAT-1, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Amateur Radio Payloads to Launch with JAISAT-1 When JAISAT-1 launches in July from the Vostochny Cosmodrome it will fly with additional amateur radio payloads, summarized below. Berlin Technical University (Germany) Beesat-9 Coordination details at: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=657 A 1U Cubesat, BEESAT-9 is an educational, experimental satellite. The main objective is to verify 3- axes stabilization using a GPS receiver, reaction wheels and magnetorquers. A camera will take pictures of Earth to verify the attitude of the satellite. A new attitude control actuator, developed in a PhD thesis, will be first flown on BEESAT-9. The operations of the spacecraft will be conducted in lecture courses under the guidance of licensed radio amateurs. The satellite will have a digipeater function to mirror a signal to another satellite or ground station. Furthermore, it will provide a beacon signal for radio amateurs, including telemetry. The amateur radio community is highly encouraged to collect telemetry data pack- ets, plans for special operations e.g. experiments shall be announced to the amateur radio community on the Internet. It is also planned to include the amateur radio community to receive parts of pictures, which will then be put together by TU Berlin and published on the Website and on social networks. proposing to use a UHF downlink with 4k8 or 9k6 Mobilex GMSK modulation. A downlink on 435,950 MHz has been coordinated by the IARU. BEESAT-9 Will fly with BEESAT10-13 and MOVE-2B. More info from: http://www.raumfahrttechnik.tu-berlin.de/menue/ forschung/aktuelle_projekte/beesat-4/parameter/en/ https://tinyurl.com/ANS-188-BEESAT-9 Munich Technical University (Germany) will demonstrate their inno- vative cubesat bus by launching MOVE-IIb. Coordination details at: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=645 A 1U CubeSat. Proposing a VHF QPSK 12k5 Bit/s downlink for telemetry and mission data with a UHF uplink capability for a cross band repeat- er. A downlink on 145,840 MHz has been coordinated. No additional amateur radio repeater operation is available at press time. The IARU release suggests to monitor for updated information on the mission website at: https://www.move2space.de/ Tallinn Technical University (Estonia) - an educational satellite TTU101 developed to test Earth observation cameras and a novel high speed X-band communication system. Coordination details at: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=660 The mission of TTU satellite is to perform remote sensing in visible and IR electromagnetic spectrum from 500-600 km polar orbit with 1U cubesat for educational and technology demonstration purposes. Another mission task is to test amateur 10.450 - 10.500 GHz band frequencies for high-speed data downlink operations. Proposing a 435 MHz downlink with data rates up to 9k6 GFSK/GMSK and also OQPSK downlink on 10.45 GHZ at data rates up to 20Mbs. Downlinks on 10460.000 MHz and 435.450 MHz with a beacon on 435.500 MHz have been coordinated. More info at: https://www.ttu.ee/projects/mektory-eng/satellite-programme-3/ Royal Institute of Technology KTH (Sweden) - SEAM-2.0 scientific spacecraft for measuring the magnetic field of the Earth. http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=584 A 3U CubeSat intended to test a deployable boom carrying miniature sensors for measuring magnetic fields. A commercial S Band transceiver will operate in addition to a UHF transceiver using 9k6 GMSK. A down- link on 437.250MHz has been coordinated. University of Wuerzburg (Germany) - SONATE, a cubesat for technology demonstration, and orbital verification of various satellite compon- ents and autonomous payloads. Coordination details at: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=572 The educational objective of this mission includes opportunities students to build and operate radio communication systems of space and ground segment systems. Such a system is the amateur payload of this satellite, a transceiver which is currently built by several students over the course of their theses. This transceiver will initially provide regularly SSTV downlinks with images from one of the on-board cameras. Other thesis for instance address the antenna deploy mechanism. The following downlink frequencies have been coordinated: 9k6 GMSK/GSFK AX25 telemetry 437.025 MHz and for SSTV 145.840 MHz SkyFox Labs (Czech Republic) - Lucky-7 cubesat will demonstrate innovative solutions for 1U cubesat platform. Coordination details at: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=452 In addition to radio frequency operation the satellite includes high power LEDs transmitting in visible spectra (blue) to demonstrate EPS high power handling capability. Also included is a Digital Color cam- era module which will be used aboard the satellite to capture the images of Earth to confirm ADCS stabilization functionality and "high" data transfer throughput capability of the custom-built FSK onboard radio. A downlink on 437.525 MHz has been coordinated for a FSK downlink at variable bit rates up to 9k6. Data format information will be made available at http://www.lucky7satellite.org Additional launch information can be found at: https://tinyurl.com/y39pxhel [ANS thanks the IARU and parabolicarc.com for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- VUCC Awards-Endorsements for July Here are the endorsements and new VUCC Satellite Awards issued by the ARRL for the period June 1, 2019 through July 1, 2019. Congratulations to all those who made the list this month! CALL 01 Jun 01 Jul 2019 K5OE 1008 1079 K6FW 794 801 Correction WD9EWK 550 567 N3GS 454 525 NS3L 457 475 K9UO 351 400 W5TD New 381 MI6GTY 281 354 KE8AKW 258 329 W7JSD 279 309 G0ABI 305 306 AD0HJ 250 282 KC9ELU 229 233 AJ4A 225 230 AB1OC 177 184 N7EGY 100 169 PU8RFL 157 166 PS8MT 156 165 AA8CH/N8R New 113 KC9VGG New 102 N6REK New 100 WD9EWK (DM45) New 100 [ANS thanks Ron Parsons, W5RKN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Satellite Operations Hawaii (BL20) – July 5-8, 2019 Mark, N8MH will be operating as N8MH/KH6 and as W3ZM/KH6 July 5-8 from BL20, FM and linears. Possibility of other grids once there. Watch the Twitter feed for further announcements: https://twitter.com/N8MH Wabakimi Provincial Park, Ontario (EO50) – July 4-10, 2019 Fred, VE3FAL, is heading off to Wabakimi Provincial Park July 4th-10th and will activate EO50 via FM satellites. Keep an eye on Fred’s Twitter feed for further updates: https://twitter.com/Fred_VE3FAL UP and Ontario (EN85, EN86, EN87) July 6-13, 2019 Chris, AA8CH, is heading back up north MI July 6th. Staying in EN85, will also hit EN86 if any requests. July 13 going to stay in EN76/VE3, with activation of EN86/EN87 planned. DM or email Chris, if you need one of ’em. Keep an eye on Chris’ Twitter feed for further updates: https://twitter.com/charliehotel10 Montana (EN55) July 8-10, 2019 Dennis, N7EGY, will be in DN55 starting the evening of July 8th thru ~1800z July 10th. First priority is moving his daughter & family into their new home, but he’ll sneak away to play on the birds as able. Keep an eye on Dennis’ Twitter feed for specific pass announcements: https://twitter.com/n7egy1 Iceland (HP93, HP94, HP95, IP03, IP05, IP13, IP14, IP15, IP24, IP25, IP35) – July 13-19, 2019 Adam, K0FFY, is taking his family (and his radios) to Iceland. He’ll be staying in HP95 on July 13, IP15 on July 14-15, IP25 on July 16, IP03 on July 17-18, and HP94 on July 19. In total, he’ll be passing through HP93, HP94, HP95, IP03, IP05, IP13, IP14, IP15, IP24, IP25, & IP35. There’s a lot to see, so passes will be best effort & announced on Twitter shortly prior: https://twitter.com/K0FFY_Radio For more information on the latest satellite roves and special events: https://www.amsat.org/satellite-info/upcoming-satellite-operations/ [ANS thanks KE4AL for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Shorts From All Over + Several AMSAT members will be operating on satellites during the 13 Colonies Special Event this weekend: N2OA will be operating as K2A from FN03 KG4AKV will operate as K2J from North Carolina N3CAL will represent Maryland from FM18 as K2F For more information see: http://www.13colonies.net/ (ANS thanks N2OA, KG4AKV, and N3CAL for the above information) + An ARRL video introducing amateur radio to the public includes AMSAT Members N8HM, KM4LAO, and NP4JV: https://www.facebook.com/ARRL.org/videos/576779882849805/ (ANS thanks ARRL for the above information) + Lunar-OSCAR 94 successfully imaged the solar eclipse from lunar orbit on July 2. The images were downloaded by BY2HIT and PI9CAM. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-ifQaaXsAAGBwd.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-iDwjdUcAA8ehc.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-iNUXCX4AEzjmQ.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-iGqg9W4AAT3ue.jpg (ANS thanks Nico Janssen, PA0DLO for the above information.) + A nicely detailed description of equipment needed for access to the geosynchronous QO-100 by Tobias Mädel, DL4TMA was recently posted at: https://tbspace.de/qo100eshail2.html (ANS thanks Tobias Mädel, DL4TMA, for the above information) + NASA will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon mission and look to the future of exploration on the Moon and Mars with a live, two-hour television broadcast Friday, July 19, and partner-led events taking place across the country from July 16 through July 20. For details, see: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/apollo50th/index.html (ANS thanks NASA for the above information) + The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft sprang loose from its Prox-1 carrier vehicle as planned on July 2, and sent its first signals back to mission control at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in Cali- fornia. The satellite, with callsign WM9XPA, sends AX.25 FSK telem- etry at 9600 bps on 437.025 MHz. Full news release at: https://tinyurl.com/y6dtauv2 (ANS thanks The Planetary Society for the above information) + A reminder that AO-85 is in a low battery voltage condition. Please do not use the satellite while it is in eclipse, even if you hear it. Please send reports to the AMSAT-BB. They are welcome and helpful. (ANS thanks Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA for the above information.) + On July 1, 1976, the main exhibition hall of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC opened. AMSAT was on site with a portable satellite station on the steps of the museum and President Ford's dedication speech was transmitted through AO-7. Photos of this event were posted by AMSAT at https://twitter.com/AMSAT/status/1145679438744608769 + The submission deadline for AMSAT Field Day scores is July 8th. --------------------------------------------------------------------- /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu- dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73 and Remember to help keep amateur radio in space, This week's ANS Editor, K0JM at amsat dot org

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ANS-175 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - CORRECTION BoD Candidates
by JoAnne K9JKM 24 Jun '19

24 Jun '19

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-175 * CORRECTION: 2019 Candidates for the AMSAT Board of Directors SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-175.01 ANS-175 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 175.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. June 24, 2019 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-175.01 CORRECTION: 2019 Candidates for the AMSAT Board of Directors ANS-174, as originally published, omitted one of the candidates for the upcoming AMSAT Board of Directors Election. We apologize for this omission. The corrected list of 2019 candidates, in alphabetical order by last name are: Jerry Buxton, N0JY Howard (Howie) Defelice, AB2S Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA Jeff Johns, WE4B Brennan Price, N4QX Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK Paul Stoetzer, N8HM Michelle Thompson, W5NYV This year AMSAT membership will select four candidates to the Board of Directors. The four candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be seated as voting members of the Board of Directors. Two alternate directors will be selected based on the next highest number of votes received. Ballots will be mailed to the AMSAT membership by July 15, 2019. The election closes September 15, 2019. Sincerely, Clayton L. Coleman, W5PFG AMSAT Secretary /EX

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ANS-174 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
by E.Mike McCardel 22 Jun '19

22 Jun '19

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-174 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: ans-editor at amsat.org. In this edition: * Candidates for the AMSAT Board of Directors Announced * Help Celebrate AMSAT’s 50th Anniversary – Take W3ZM on the Road! * Lightsail-2 Scheduled for Launch June 24 - Beacon on 437.025 MHz * NASA Lightsail-2 PR and TV Coverage * Listening to Lightsail-2 Co-passengers * AMSAT President Joe Spier Speaks With SIP Interns * Upcoming Satellite Operations * ARISS News * How to Support AMSAT * Shorts From All Over SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-174.01 ANS-174 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins AMSAT News Service Bulletin 174.01 >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. June 23, 2019 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-174.01 Candidates for the AMSAT Board of Directors Announced The 2019 candidates, in alphabetical order by last name are: Jerry Buxton, N0JY Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA Jeff Johns, WE4B Brennan Price, N4QX Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK Paul Stoetzer, N8HM Michelle Thompson, W5NYV This year AMSAT membership will select four candidates to the Board of Directors. The four candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be seated as voting members of the Board of Directors. Two alternate directors will be selected based on the next highest number of votes received. Ballots will be mailed to the AMSAT membership by July 15, 2019. The election closes September 15, 2019. [ANS thanks Clayton L. Coleman, W5PFG, AMSAT Secretary, for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Help Celebrate AMSAT’s 50th Anniversary – Take W3ZM on the Road! Leading up to the 2019 AMSAT 50th Anniversary Space Symposium and General Meeting, to be held in Arlington, VA, October 18 – 20, 2019, AMSAT’s call sign, W3ZM, will operate from all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Not only is this your chance to get Worked All States-Satellites under the W3ZM call sign, but, also, your chance to be a part of this historic effort. Note: When operating outside of the “3” call area, operators will append the W3ZM call sign with “/(call area).” As an example, someone operating from Texas will use W3ZM/5; from Hawaii, W3ZM/KH6; from Alaska, W3ZM/KL7; and from Puerto Rico, W3ZM/WP4. To make this happen – We need your help! Please volunteer to get on the air and activate your State, using AMSAT’s W3ZM call sign, as well as to cover those States without an active AMSAT Member. Activations of other United States Territories (i.e. Guam, American Samoa, the U. S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) are also welcome. To volunteer and operate using AMSAT’s W3ZM call sign, you must: Be a current member of AMSAT Obtain permission by emailing AMSAT VP of User Services, specifying the requested date(s) and location(s) Submit an ADIF log of contacts made for upload to LoTW by AMSAT, as instructed in your notice of approval to use the W3ZM call sign [ANS thanks Robert Bankston, KE4AL, AMSAT VP of User Services for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 2019 marks AMSAT’s 50th Anniversary of Keeping Amateur Radio in Space. To help celebrate, we are sponsoring the AMSAT 50th Anniversary Awards Program. Full details are available at https://www.amsat.org/amsat-50th-anniversary-awards-program/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lightsail-2 Scheduled for Launch June 24 - Beacon on 437.025 MHz LightSail is a citizen-funded project from The Planetary Society. This cubesat will be propelled solely by sunlight, to Earth orbit. LightSail 2 is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy on June 24, 2019, and we will attempt the first, controlled solar sail flight in Earth orbit. LightSail 2 will ride to space aboard the Department of Defense Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission which will send 24 spacecraft to 3 different orbits. LightSail 2 itself will be enclosed within Prox-1, a Georgia Tech-designed spacecraft originally built to demon- strate close-encounter operations with other spacecraft. Prox-1 will deploy LightSail 2 seven days after launch. After a few days of health and status checks, LightSail 2's four dual-sided solar panels will swing open. Roughly a day later, four metallic booms will unfurl four triangular Mylar sails from storage. The sails, which have a combined area of 32 square meters [344 square feet], will turn towards the sun for half of each orbit, giving the spacecraft a tiny push no stronger than the weight of a paperclip. For about a month after sail deployment, this continual thrust should raise LightSail 2's orbit by a measurable amount. LightSail 2 will fly in a 24-degree inclination, 720 km, circular orbit. At latitudes of 42 degrees north it will reach a maximum elevation of 10 degrees above the horizon. Lightsail-2 has been issued an experimental radio license WM9XPA and transmit on 437.025 MHz. A morse beacon will transmit the callsign every 45 seconds. A packet beacon will transmit AX.25, FSK 9K6 bps data. Beacon information is available at: http://tinyurl.com/ANS-153-Lightsail-Morse-Beacon Documentation of the downlink telemetry data structure is posted at: http://tinyurl.com/ANS-153-Lightsail-Telemetry [ANS thanks the Planetary Society for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- NASA Lightsail-2 PR and TV Coverage NASA Television coverage is scheduled for an upcoming prelaunch activity and first nighttime launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, which will be carrying four agency technology missions to help improve future spacecraft design and performance. The launch window for the Falcon Heavy opens at 11:30 p.m. EDT Monday, June 24, from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch, as well as a live technology show, will air NASA Television and the agency's website. SpaceX and the U.S. Department of Defense will launch two dozen sat- ellites to space, including four NASA payloads that are part of the Space Test Program-2, managed by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The four payloads include two NASA technology demon- strations to improve how spacecraft propel and navigate, as well as two NASA science missions to help us better understand the nature of space and how it impacts technology on spacecraft and the ground. Full NASA TV coverage is as follows: (all times EDT) Sunday, June 23 . Noon - NASA prelaunch technology TV show from Kennedy. Subject matter experts will explain each NASA mission and answer questions. Monday, June 24 . 9:30 p.m. - Live NASA TV coverage begins of the return to Earth of NASA astronaut Anne McClain and two other International Space Station residents, with landing scheduled at 10:48 p.m. (Public Channel) . 11 p.m. - NASA TV launch commentary begins ahead of the targeted 11:30 p.m. launch. NASA TV will simulcast the SpaceX STP-2 webcast starting about 15 minutes before liftoff. (Media Channel) Prelaunch and launch day coverage will include blog updates as milestones occur: http://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex Learn more about the NASA technologies aboard this launch: https://www.nasa.gov/spacex [ANS thanks NASA for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Listening to Lightsail-2 Beacon Co-passengers Here are some of the "amateur radio in name only" beacont co- passengers on the LightSail launch Monday night. Unless otherwise noted, most are downlink-only satellites. TBEX-A 437.485 MHz 9K6 AX.25 GMSK TBEX-B 437.535 MHz 9K6 AX.25 GMSK Oculus-A SR 437.200 MHz 9K6 AX.25 GMSK CP9 437.505 MHz 9K6/19K2/38K4 AX.25 FSK BRICSat-2 145.825 MHz 1K2/9K6 APRS digipeater 437.975 MHz Telemetry PSAT-2 145.825 MHz 1K2 APRS digipeater 28.120 up/435.350 PSK-31 Armadillo 435.525 MHz 38K4 GMSK + CW telem Prox-1 437.345 MHz up/2.3 GHz non-amateur downlink Be aware that the two new APRS digipeaters, BRICSat-2 and PSAT-2 are being launched into a 28 degree inclination orbit which might limit their accessibility over many populated areas. That said Bob Bruninga WB4APR supplies the following information: PSAT2 on 145.825 MHz with: * APRS-to-Voice, * DTMF-to-Voice/APRS, * PSK31 HF up - UHF 435.350 down * SSTV camera down on same UHF audio And, her sister USNAP1 (APRS digi) on 145.825 Initially, only telemetry once a minute, and PSK31 every 20 secs. Launch window begins at 1130 PM EDT (4 hour window). http://aprs.org/psat2.html [ANS thanks JoAnne K9JKM and Bob WB4APR for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Purchase AMSAT Gear on our Zazzle storefront. 25% of the purchase price of each product goes towards Keeping Amateur Radio in Space https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMSAT President Joe Spier Speaks With SIP Interns AMSAT president Joe Spier recently addressed the Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Internship Project (SIP) at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. During the June 17 event students in the program were provided with two opportunities to learn about space communications from widely different perspectives. The first session was led by Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) president Joe Spier – the second by Dave Israel, the Exploration and Space Communications (ESC) projects division’s lead architect. With Spier, SCaN interns got the chance to learn about AMSAT, a volunteer organization that designs, builds, launches and commands amateur radio payloads on satellites. SCaN intern and “ham” Caitlyn Singam was required to pass a rigorous FCC exam to be given her unique callsign, AC3AG, at the highest level of certification, ‘Amateur Extra-class’. Given her history with amateur radio the talk was particularly inspiring. “I actually ended up talking to Mr. Spier afterwards about getting involved in AMSAT,” Singam said. “It was really exciting.” Singham enjoyed learning about Spier’s unconventional route to AMSAT, which she related to in her own academic career. “I’ve had an interesting route myself, with biological sciences and a master’s in systems [engineering] in the fall,” she said. Spier’s route took him from a background in geology to becoming a leader in the small satellite community. He had early dreams of becoming the first to climb Olympus Mons, the highest peak on Mars. Today, he refers to the interns as the ‘Mars generation,’ hoping that an intern today might summit that peak in the near future. He shared his personal strategy on making big NASA dreams come true: “I always clarified it by saying, ‘If I can’t be that person, I want to help someone else be that person.’” In the afternoon, SCaN interns met with ESC’s lead communications architect for an overview of division projects. Israel’s work at NASA spans 30 years. Interns heard about topics ranging from the development of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS) in the late 1980s to the Space Mobile Network, a concept for an interplanetary internet that Israel envisions coming to fruition in the near future. Israel, like Spier, offered the SCaN interns in attendance some advice: “Never keep any good ideas to yourself, and don’t worry about asking questions from a different perspective,” Israel said. “A question from a different perspective gets people to think about it in a different sort of way.” "Never keep any good ideas to yourself, and don't worry about asking questions from a different perspective." Dave Israel, ESC Communications Architect To Grace McFassel, a SCaN intern who attended the talk, Israel’s story was not only interesting, but inspiring. “He [has] this specific skillset that he dearly loves, and he’s used that to carry himself through by finding niches where he can be useful,” McFassel said. “It’s a good lesson to carry forward.” To learn more about SIP or SCaN, visit NASA.gov/SCaN. To apply for internships, visit intern.nasa.gov. The full article can be viewed at: https://tinyurl.com/ANS174-SIP [ANS thanks Emily Cavanagh, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, via their Explorations & Space Communication Website for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT, along with our ARISS partners, is developing an amateur radio package, including two-way communication capability, to be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit. Support AMSAT's projects today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Satellite Operations as of June 21, 2019 Post Hot Rod Power Tour Rove (New York to Wyoming) – June 15-27, 2019 Following the Hot Rod Power Tour, RJ, WY7AA, will be heading to FN02 for a few days and plans to work FN01/11 gridline around June 17-18. Details to follow. He will be heading as far east as FN32 and then eventually working his way back to DN71. Specifically looking for EN01/02 along the way. Details will be posted to Twitter and his QRZ page as the trip plans unfold. Follow RJ on APRS.fi as WY7AA-9, as he will not have Twtter access along the road. Lost in the Hertz (DN06/07/16/17) – June 23, 2019 Kell (KI7UXT) and John (KC7JPC) will rove to DN06/07/16/17 grid corner (plan A) or DN06/07 grid line (plan B) and work FM satellites and if time/pass permits work a few linear satellites. Expect a 18:00 UTC start time. Check out Kell’s Twitter feed for specific passes: https://twitter.com/KI7UXT #JosephOrBustRove (DN04, DN05, DN15) – June 28-30, 2019 Casey, KI7UNJ, will be wandering around Eastern Oregon and decided to do a little grid activating. Look for Casey on FM passes in DN04 mid-Friday, June 28th, in DN15 Friday night to Saturday evening, and DN05 Sunday morning. Specific passes to be posted on Casey’s Twitter feed https://twitter.com/KI7UNJ Hawaii (BK29, BL20) – June 27 to July 8, 2019 Mark, N8MH will be operating a bit as N8MH/KH6 June 27-July 3 from BK29 and July 5-8 from BL20, FM and linears. Possibility of other grids once there. Watch Mark’s Twitter feed for further announcements: https://twitter.com/N8MH mini-Route 66 Rove (DM94/95, EM05/15, EM14, EM23/24) June 28 – July 5, 2019 John, AB5SS, will be driving east from DM85 on a mini-Route 66 trip starting June 28, staying/passing through DM95/94, EM05/15, stopping in EM14 for July 2-4th, then head home thru EM24/23 on July 5th. Operating holiday-style, as family allows, posting activations to Twitter: https://twitter.com/TxRadioGeek South Dakota (EN04, EN05) – July 2-3, 2019 Lucky for us, Mitch, AD0HJ, will be stopping at the EN04/05 gridline from July 2nd 22:37z to July 3rd 13:27z, on his way to Iowa. Mitch will working the FM Satellites (SO-50, AO-91, AO-92). Check Mitch’s Twitter feed for further announcements: https://twitter.com/AD0HJ Iceland (HP95 IP15 IP25 IP03 HP03) – July 13-19, 2019 Adam, K0FFY, is taking his family (and his radios) to Iceland. Tentative schedule is HP95 July 13, IP13 and IP15 July 14-15, IP25 July 16, IP03 or HP93 July 17-18, and HP94 July 19. There’s a lot to see, so passes will be best effort and announced on Twitter shortly prior. https://twitter.com/K0FFY_Radio Please submit any additions or corrections to ke4al (at) amsat.org [ANS thanks Robert KE4AL for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ARISS News + 2019-06-13 11:10 UTC between Nick Hague KG5TMV using ISS callsign NA1SS and Peninsula Grammar, Melbourne, Australia Contact was telebridge via VK4KHZ. ARISS Mentor was Tony VK5ZAI. + 2019-06-15 10:39 UTC between Cosmonaut Oleg Konenenko using ISS callsign RSØISS and GBPOU RM "Saransk Polytechnic College", Saransk, Russia Contact was direct via R4UAB. ARISS Mentor was Sergey RV3DR. + 2019-06-15 18:11 UTC between Nick Hague KG5TMV using ISS callsign NA1SS and Smithsonian Air and Space – Udvar-Hazy, Chantilly, VA, USA Contact was telebridge via W6SRJ. ARISS Mentor was Dave W8AAS. + 2019-06-19 08:49 UTC between David St-Jacques KG5FYI using ISS callsign OR4ISS and King Island District High School, Currie, TAS, Australia Contact was telebridge via IK1SLD. ARISS Mentor was Shane VK4KHZ. + 2019-06-20 12:48 UTC between Nick Hague KG5TMV using ISS callsign NA1SS and Rowan Preparatory School, Claygate, United Kingdom Contact was direct via GB4RPS. ARISS Mentor was Ciaran MØXTD. Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule Traverse Area District Library, Traverse City, MI, direct via W8TCM The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV Contact is go for: Fri 2019-06-28 14:02:16 UTC 25 deg Watch for live stream at: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCVyQOrBooJxzLFNGiyz9i2w [ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above information] --------------------------------------------------------------------- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AMSAT and ARISS are currently supporting a FundRazr campaign to raise $150,000 for critical radio infrastructure upgrades on ISS. The upgrades are necessary to enable students to continue to talk to astronauts in space via Amateur Radio. We have reached a great milestone with $26,200 raised or about 17% towards our goal. This would not have been possible without your outstanding generosity!! For more information and to DONATE TODAY visit: https://fundrazr.com/arissnextgen?ref=ab_e7Htwa_ab_47IcJ9 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Support AMSAT AMSAT relies on the support of our members and the amateur radio community to Keep Amateur Radio in Space. How can you help? * Join AMSAT Both you and AMSAT will benefit when you join. You get the AMSAT Journal bimonthly and support from AMSAT Ambassadors. Member dues and donations provide AMSAT’s primary support. Join today at https://www.amsat.org/product-category/amsat-membership/ * Become a Life Member Becoming a Life Member has never been easier. Now you can become a Life Member with 12 monthly payments of $74 through our online store. See https://www.amsat.org/product/lifetime-membership/ for details. * Donate to AMSAT Make a one time or recurring donation to AMSAT today. Even as little as one dollar a month can make a difference! Donate today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/ * Purchase AMSAT gear on our Zazzle storefront. AMSAT receives 25% of the price of each sale on AMSAT logo merchandise from our Zazzle storefront located at https://www.zazzle.com/amsat_gear * Support AMSAT when you make purchases from Amazon! So far, AMSAT has received $3,913.29 from AmazonSmile. Search for "Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation" https://smile.amazon.com/ref=smi_ext_twt_dshb_smi * Volunteer for AMSAT AMSAT relies on volunteers for nearly all of our activities. If you have an idea for how to help, please let us know, Details on volunteering can be found at https://www.amsat.org/volunteer-for-amsat/ [ANS thanks the AMSAT office for the above information.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shorts From All Over + Richmond, BC Radio Club Field Day Article Here is a nice article announcing Richmond (British Columbia) ARC satellite presence for Field Day: https://tinyurl.com/ANS174-RARC [ANS thanks Alan Campbell / Richmond News for the above information] + JAISAT-1 to Launch July 5 JAISAT-1, built by the Radio Amateur Society of Thailand and carrying a VHF/UHF linear transponder, is scheduled to launch on July 5, 2019 from Vostochny Cosmodrome on a Soyuz/Fregat launch vehicle. [ANS thanks JM3LGF via Twitter for the above information] + New Distance Record via AO-91 News received via the South Africa Radio League's SARL Weekly News in English 2019-6-22 report that a news distance record was set via the AO-91 satellite. On Friday 21 June at 12:07 UTC Andre, ZS2BK in grid KF26SB made a FM QSO with Richard, 9G5AR in grid IJ95VN and the distance is 5243.9 km. Well done to Andre and Richard! [ANS thanks SARL News for the above information.] + Congratulations AE4FH, WX4TVJ, KM4LAO & AI6V on receiving scholarships awarded by ARRL Foundation! https://tinyurl.com/ANS174-Awards [ANS thanks ARRL for the above information.] + The AMSAT Journal Editor-in-Chief Joe Kornowski KB6IGK would like to share your Filed Day Satellite setup pictures. Please send your pictures in TIF, GIF or JPG format accompanied with a text description. Please do not embed graphics or photos in your manuscript. Please snd submissions to journal at amsat.org. Selected photos will apear in a futire edition of The AMSAT Journal. The AMSAT Journal reserves the right to selct materials based on suitability of content and space considerations. [ANS thanks Joe KB6IGK for the above information.] + The May/June edition of The AMSAT Journal has been mailed and members should be receiving them. In this issue: Apogee View by Joe Spier K6WAO AMSAT CubeSat Simulator Part 3: Failure Simulations and Troubleshooting by Alan B. Johnston KU2Y and Pat Kilroy N8PK Tom Clark, K3IO, and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), By Bob McGwier RF Generator Techniques for Space Applications by Jurgen Vanhamel ON5ADL DM31 Activation, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument by Patrick Stoddard WD9EWK/VA7EWK Hamvention 2019 in pictures To receive a copy of The AMSAT Journal join AMSAT today: https://www.amsat.org/join-amsat/ [AMSAT thanks The AMSAT Journal editorial staff for the above information. --------------------------------------------------------------------- /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi- tional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu- dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information. 73, This week's ANS Editor, EMike McCardel, AA8EM aa8em at amsat dot org

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