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AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-163
ANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North
America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS 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.
Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to:
ans-editor@amsat.org
In this edition:
* Call for papers-2005 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting
* AMSAT Board of Directors Nominations Due
* AO-51 Configuration for Field Day
* OSCAR-11 Reception Reports Sought
* AMSAT Journal Needs Authors
* Field Day Pictures, Please
* SETTI Express Launch Date
* AMSAT Awards Announcement
* Keplerian Elements Now Available for PDA
* ARISS Status - 06 June 2005
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Call for papers-2005 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 163.01
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
June 12, 2005
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-163.01
This is the third call for papers for the 2005 AMSAT Space Symposium and
Annual Meeting to be held October 7 - 9, 2005 in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Proposals for papers and symposium presentations are invited on any
topic of interest to the amateur satellite program.
We request a one-page abstract by June 15, 2005. Camera ready copy on
paper or in electronic form will be due by August 1, 2005 for inclusion
in the printed symposium proceedings. Abstracts and papers should be
sent to n8fgv@amsat.org
[ANS thanks Dan, N8FGV for the above information]
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AMSAT Board of Directors Nominations Due
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 163.02
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
June 12, 2005
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-163.02
This is a note to remind everyone that the deadline for nominations for
the open Board of Director positions is June 15th. Nominations must be
submitted via regular mail; e-mail is not acceptable in this instance.
Please mail your nominations to Martha Saragovitz in the Silver Spring,
Maryland office.
Regards,
Stephen Diggs
AMSAT Corporate Secretary
[ANS thanks Steve, W4EPI for the above information]
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AO-51 Configuration for Field Day
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 163.03
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
June 12, 2005
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-163.03
AO-51 Field Day Announcement from the Echo Operations Group
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For the ARRL Field Day Event this year AO-51 will be configured in Mode V/S
FM Repeater. The uplink will be 145.920 mHz. The 67 Hz tone will NOT be
used. The downlink will be 2401.200 mHz. There will be a long duration
operating session leading up to Field Day when AO-51 will be configured in
Mode V/S to give users the opportunity to test their Field Day stations. In
June, AO-51 will be in Mode V/S the weekend and entire week before Field
Day. Take advantage of these operating sessions to setup and test your
Field Day station before the actual day arrives.
Working the Mode S downlink on AO-51 does not require a large investment in
equipment for your Field Day station. A satellite dish is not required to
operate this mode. Gould, WA4SXM, copied the S downlink using just his G3RUH
patch feed during the early days of testing the S band transmitter on Echo.
Drew, KO4MA, has operated portable with a Transystems downconverter using
the dipole feed and a corner reflector on numerous occasions. Mike, KE4AZN,
has operated portable with either a 3.5 turn helix feed (feed only, no dish)
or a homebrew K5OE patch antenna, held out the window of the car. Mike has
also operated mobile on Mode V/S by attaching the helix feed and
downconverter to the trunk of the car. Clare, VE3NPC, has reported excellent
receive signals using a 3.5 turn helix and a K5GNA downconverter. Any of
these Amsat members can be contacted at their "@amsat.org" email address and
would be happy to help Field Day users get setup for Mode V/S. If your IF is
on VHF (which most are), an HT or other mobile FM rig will work fine as your
downlink receiver. The large 5 kHz steps of these radios actually make
tuning the fast moving Doppler on S band much easier.
Use the scheduled Mode V/S sessions to practice before heading out for Field
Day. If you have not worked the S band downlink on AO-51 previously, a few
passes monitoring the downlink and practicing the Doppler correction will be
very helpful. The Doppler shift on an AO-51 pass is approximately +/- 50
kHz. There will be lots of activity on Field Day, therefore getting your
Receive capability working well before transmitting to the satellite, will
keep your station from causing unnecessary QRM.
The uplink for AO-51 does not require a large Yagi antenna to be successful.
Any good mobile omni direction whip antenna or other omni directional
antenna will work fine, especially if all stations work together during the
passes and not try to dominate the satellite. Therefore, it should not be
difficult to setup an antenna that will work for the uplink to AO-51. If you
have a Field Day station with Mode V/U capability, you already have the
uplink covered.
A webpage will be setup with a few pictures and text on various AO-51 Mode
V/S station options. This will not include every option available, but will
hopefully assist a new Mode V/S user with some ideas to get started setting
up their station, and show that is it not difficult to get setup and working
the S downlink on AO-51.
Web URL: http://www.graceba.net/~mkmk518/echofieldday.html
With the V/S configuration of AO-51 and the other satellites available, we
will have a nice compliment of modes to operate during Field Day.
73 KE4AZN for the Echo Operations Group
[ANS thanks Mike, KE4AZN for the above information]
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OSCAR-11 Reception Reports Sought
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 163.04
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
June 12, 2005
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-163.04
There is a small chance that OSCAR-11 may have started transmitting
again between 08 June to 10 June.
The frequency is 145.826.
Any reception reports would be appreciated. Please reply direct to
Clive G3CWV (g3cwv@amsat.org), or post reports to AMSAT-BB.
[ANS thanks Clive, G3CWV for the above information]
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AMSAT Journal Needs Authors
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 163.05
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
June 12, 2005
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-163.05
The AMSAT Journal needs the services of writers who have the
talents to interview AMSAT members who have done projects that
need to be shared with all our members.
Such reporters can interview these outstanding people via phone
and develop outstanding articles. Respondents should have a back-
ground in writing and/or reporting with good interview and writing
skills. If you have such a background, and you are willing to help,
please contact Gunther Meisse via e-mail: w8gsm@amsat.org.
[ANS thanks Gunther, W8GSM for the above information]
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Field Day Pictures, Please
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 163.06
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
June 12, 2005
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-163.06
I would like pictures of kids operating satellites on Field Day
2005 for use in our AMSAT printed materials. Please e-mail to
Gunther Meisse, W8GSM at w8gsm@amsat.org. Thanks in advance
for your help.
[ANS thanks Gunther, W8GSM for the above information]
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SETTI Express Launch Date
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 163.07
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
June 12, 2005
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-163.07
Via the weekly news from RSGB: Sunday 5 June 2005
The launch date for SSETI Express and three 'cubesats'
has now been confirmed as 25 August, with the next day,
the 26th, as a back-up.
The satellite has now completed all its pre-launch tests
and is presently back in the clean room where everything
is having a final checkout and where the cubesats are being
loaded into their launchers.
Current plans show that the satellite will be packed and
ready for despatch to the launch site during the last week
of June.
SSETI Express will automatically downlink general telemetry
at 9K6 on 70cm and it will also be possible for amateurs to
request specific downloads.
It is planned that the 38K4 telemetry transmitter on 2.4GHz
will also be available for amateur voice operation as a Mode
U/S transponder after initial tests on the satellite have been
completed.
AMSAT-UK provided the 2.4GHz transmitter for the satellite
and a presentation on SSETI Express will be given at the
AMSAT-UK Space Colloquium to be held from 29 to 31 July at
the University of Surrey in Guildford. All amateurs and SWLs
are welcome to attend.
[ANS thanks RSGB for the above information]
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AMSAT Awards Announcement
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 163.08
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
June 12, 2005
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-163.08
AMSAT Director of Contests and Awards, Bruce Paige, KK5DO, reports
congratulations go out to all of the following:
Amanda Karr, KI4IWS, Satellite Communicators Club and also new member
of AMSAT.
Sebastiano Trovato, IW9HBY, 51 on 51 Award #26
Otfried Fuhrmann, DL2DRD, 51 on 51 Award #27
To see all the awards visit http://www.amsat.org or http://www.amsatnet.com
[ANS thanks Bruce, KK5DO for the above information]
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Keplerian Elements Now Available for PDA
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 163.09
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
June 12, 2005
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-163.09
For those of you using PocketSat or PocketSat+ satellite tracking
program for PalmOS PDAs, the weekly Keplerian elements bulletins from
AMSAT are now available in PDB format for direct import into the
program. The PDB file will be updated automatically each week,
shortly after the Keplerian elements bulletins go out to the KEPS
mailing list. (This is permitted as a secondary redistribution of the
AMSAT Keps bulletins.)
You can get the weekly PDB file with a web browser from:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/amsat.pdb
... or you can use an FTP program to get them from host
ftp.amsat.org, directory /amsat/keps/current, filename amsat.pdb.
Username "anonymous", and use your email address for the password.
Download in binary mode.
For info on PocketSat and PocketSat+, including instructions on how
to import elements from a PDB file, see the BigFatTail Productions
web site at http://www.bigfattail.com (not affiliated with AMSAT).
For other programs, the same directory contains the elements in three
other formats: AMSAT verbose format and NASA two-line format, both
formatted as packet BBS bulletins, and NASA two-line format stripped
of all extraneous text. Here are the URLs for those formats:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/amsat.all
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasa.all
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt
One of these formats should satisfy most satellite tracking programs.
For more about Keplerian elements in general, see
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/keps.php
[ANS thanks Paul, KB5MU for the above information]
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ARISS Status - 06 June 2005
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 163.10
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
June 12, 2005
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-163.10
ARISS Status
June 6, 2005
1. Australian School Contact Successful
On Thursday, June 2, students from Brigidine College in Sydney,
New South Wales, Australia spoke directly with the ISS via amateur
radio. Eighteen girls were able to ask their questions of John
Phillips, KE5DRY, as an audience of two hundred gathered in the
auditorium. Two Sydney television stations and other media covered
the event. Matt Ryan, the teacher responsible for organizing the
contact, remarked, "Students were tracking the space craft,
controlling the directional antenna, operating the radio transmitter
and talking to an astronaut. Science doesn't come into the classroom
better than this."
2. Upcoming School Contacts
Ecole De la Source, Mascouche, Quebec, Canada, has been scheduled for
a contact on Friday, June 17 at 13:34 UTC.
3. SuitSat Status
The SuitSat Educational Proposal has been translated into several
languages, and distributed to many schools, worldwide. AMSAT has
carried the proposal on its website.
See: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/articles/SuitsatSchool/
The ARRL has also promoted the project in an article, entitled
"ARISS Seeks School Involvement in 'SuitSat' Project." See:
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/06/03/100/?nc=1
Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO, ARISS International Chairman, and AMSAT V.P. for
Human Spaceflight Programs provided this late breaking update to the
SuitSat project:
I am proud to announce that on June 10 the ARISS-US team delivered
their portion of the Suitsat hardware to the NASA Johnson Space Center.
NASA is in the process of shipping this hardware to Energia in Russia
where it is expected to be certified and integrated with the Russian
team's Suitsat equipment for eventual launch on the 19P Progress launch
vehicle in the August/September 2005 timeframe.
The Suitsat amateur radio system, coupled with a school artwork DVD project
that will be delivered later this month, is planned to be installed in an
outdated Russian Orlon spacesuit in late September. It will then be
deployed from the ISS during an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA, or
spacewalk). The Suitsat amateur radio system will beam down special
messages and an SSTV image from within the Orlon space suit as it floats in
space. Suitsat radio system will allow hams and students to track the suit
and decode special international messages, space suit telemetry, and a
pre-programmed Slow Scan TV image through its specially-built digital voice
messaging system and amateur radio transmitter. As built, Suitsat will be
a transmit-only capability that will run on the space suit's battery
power.
The idea for Suitsat was first conceived by the ARISS-Russia team, led by
Sergey Samburov, RV3DR, and was extensively discussed at the joint AMSAT
Symposium/ARISS International Partner meeting in October 2004. The
project, also called Radioskaf or Radio Sputnik in Russia, is being led by
project manager A. P. Alexandrov and Deputy Project Manager A. Poleshuk
from RSC Energia, located in Korolev (Moscow area) Russia. On the US
side, the hardware project development was led by Lou McFadin, W5DID.
Since October the Suitsat design concept matured and evolved due to the
challenging development time constraints. A joint NASA letter, allowing
the ARISS team to proceed forward with the Suitsat project was signed on
May 10, 2005. In the four short weeks since that letter was signed, the US
project team, has designed, built and tested a simple, yet fully featured
system that we hope will inspire hams and students around the world.
On behalf of the ARISS International team, I want to congratulate the
Suitsat hardware development team for their "Can Do" spirit and ability to
deliver the Suitsat hardware on such a very challenging schedule.
Congratulations!!!!!
4. Astronaut Training
Kenneth Ransom reports that ESA French astronaut Leopold Eyharts
began training for his U.S. amateur radio license. Kenneth has
also set up time to present an ARISS overview to John Grunsfeld,
KC5ZTF, on June 22. Grunsfeld is a backup for Expedition 13.
5. Dayton Hamvention 2005 Presentations
The presentations given at the AMSAT Forum during the Dayton
Hamvention 2005 may be found on the AMSAT website. Inactive
astronaut Tony England's presentation entitled, "Amateur Radio/AMSAT:
A Motivator for a Career in Science & Engineering," is included.
See: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/articles/05DaytonPresentations/index.php
6. Field Day
John Phillips, KE5DRY, and Sergei Krikalev, U5MIR, have been
invited to participate in ARRL's Field Day, to be held on
June 25 - 26. Both Phillips and Krikalev expressed interest in
this event and plan to participate on a limited basis. Kenneth
Ransom has been working on a list of pass times when U.S. amateur
radio operators will be able to contact the ISS crew during this
event; however, there are few favorable passes and some will occur
in the early morning hours.
[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, and Frank KA3HDO for the above information]
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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.
73,
This week's ANS Editor,
JoAnne Maenpaa, WB9JEJ
WB9JEJ at amsat dot org
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