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://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 Field Day Submissions Due July
11
* AMSAT Awards Update
* Two Radio Amateurs Set to Head for the
International Space Station
* Australia CubeSat Testing Begins
* AMSAT
Events
* ARISS News
* Satellite Shorts From All Over
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AMSAT
Field Day Submissions Due July 11
If you participated in Field Day
and you plan on submitting your group's score, you have until 23:59 PM on
Monday, July 11th to get those submission sheets in to AMSAT. AMSAT's
deadline is sooner than the ARRL deadline for Field Day. Bruce Paige, KK5DO,
will then prepare the story and send it off to the editor of the AMSAT
Journal who will have it in the upcoming issue that goes to press shortly
thereafter.
Please send your score sheet and photos to Bruce kk5do@arrl.net or kk5do@amsat.org
You will receive an
email back that day or the next day when Bruce has received your submission.
If you do not receive the email, he did not get it. Don't assume that because
you sent it,it was received. Make sure you get the confirmation
email.
[ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director Contests and
Awards for the above
information]
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AMSAT
Awards Update
Congrats to all who have earned an AMSAT Award since
the last posting.
AMSAT Satellite Communicators Award for making their
first satellite QSO
Vin'cius Leite, PU4VLT
Marcos Kazan, PU2MXU
Cleber
Rodrigues PU3IBD
Pitor Gorecki, SP9RXP
Malcolm Harper, VE2DDZ
Italo
Adriano B.C. Marcelino, PU7ASP
Marc-Andre Gingras,
VA2EI
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AMSAT Century Club Award
Carl Noll, KA4H
#46
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AMSAT Robert W. Barbee Jr., W4AMI Award
Ramirez-Ferrer,
NP4JV #86 1000+
To see all the awards visit http://www.amsat.org or http://www.amsatnet.com/awards.html
[ANS
thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards for the above
information]
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Two
Radio Amateurs Set to Head for the International Space Station
Two
Amateur Radio licensees are part of the International Space Station (ISS)
crew increment bound for the orbiting outpost this week. NASA astronaut Kate
Rubins, KG5FYJ, astronaut Takuya Onishi,
KF5LKS, of the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency (JAXA), and cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos will
launch early on July 7 (0136 UTC) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The trio will spend approximately 4 months on station and will return to
Earth in October.
An upgraded Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft will carry
Rubins, Onishi, and Ivanishin into space. They will test modified systems for
2 days - 34 Earth orbits - before docking with the ISS on July 9.
According
to NASA, the modified Soyuz is equipped with upgraded thrusters
that are fully redundant, additional micrometeoroid debris
shielding, redundant electrical motors for the Soyuz docking probe,
and
increased power with more photovoltaic cells on the spacecraft's solar
arrays. This week's launch will mark the first of at least two missions in
which enhanced Soyuz hardware will be tested and verified.
Once the
hatches between the Soyuz and the ISS have been opened, Expedition 48
Commander Jeff Williams, KD5TVQ, of NASA, and Flight Engineers Oleg
Skripochka, RN3FU, and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos will greet their new
crewmates.
The Expedition 48 crew members will continue experiments in
biology, biotechnology, physical science, and Earth science.
Rubins,
Onishi, and cosmonaut Ivanishin will replace Expedition 47 Commander Tim
Kopra, KE5UDN; Flight Engineer Tim Peake, KG5BVI/GB1SS, and Yuri Malenchenko,
RK3DUP, who returned to Earth in mid-June after a little more than 6 months
in space.
NASA TV will cover the launch and the arrival online at,
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public
.
About ARISS
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and
the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the
United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT),
the American
Radio Relay League (ARRL), and the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote
exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew
members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education
venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews
speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before
and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and
communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For
more information, go to:
www.ariss.org
www.amsat.org
www.arrl.org
Also, join us on
Facebook: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS)
Follow us on Twitter: ARISS_status
[ANS thanks the
ARRL and ARISS for the above
information]
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Australia
CubeSat Testing Begins
Satellites are being tested at the Australian
National University Mount Stromlo space facility in Canberra ahead of a mass
satellite launch from the International Space Station later this
year.
The three CubeSats to be rigorously proven as space-ready have been developed by researchers at ANU, the University of Sydney, University of
Adelaide and the University of South Australia.
In one Australian
experiment, space weather and solar activity will be looked at as they
are important to GPS navigation, financial systems and electricity grids.
A second CubeSat will carry new instruments to measure atmospheric water and
carbon dioxide.
The third will carry four separate experiments including
a specially designed receiver and electronics with the ability to
self-repair if hit by radiation and something breaks.
The Australian
CubeSats will be launched as part of the European Union's QB50 program of
50 satellites from 27 countries including Brazil, China, Europe, Russia and
the USA.
[ANS thanks WIA News and Jim Linton VK3PC for the above
information]
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AMSAT
Events
Information about AMSAT activities at other important events
around the country. Examples of these events are radio club meetings
where AMSAT Area Coordinators give presentations, demonstrations of
working amateur satellites, and hamfests with an AMSAT presence (a table
with
AMSAT literature and merchandise, sometimes also with
presentations, forums, and/or demonstrations).
*Saturday, 6 August
2016 ? Austin Summerfest in Austin TX
*Saturday, 13 August 2016 ? KL7KC
Hamfest in Fairbanks AK
*Saturday, 20 August 2016 ? Spark in the Park in
Wyoming MI
*Saturday, 3 September 2016 - Shelby Hamfest in Shelby, NC
(ARRL North Carolina State Convention) - AMSAT Forum Only
*Saturday
and Sunday, 10-11 September 2016 Boxboro Hamfest in Boxborough, MA (ARRL New
England Division Convention)
*Friday, 23 September 2016 ? presentation at
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Amateur Radio Club in Pasadena CA
*Friday
and Saturday, 21-22 October 2016 ? CopaFest 2016, south of Maricopa
AZ
*Saturday, 12 November 2016 ? Oro Valley Amateur Radio Club Hamfest
in Marana AZ
*Saturday, 3 December 2016 ? Superstition Superfest in
Mesa AZ
*Saturday, 14 January 2017 ? Thunderbird Hamfest 2017 in Phoenix
AZ
*Saturday, 4 February 2017 ? Palm Springs Hamfest in Palm Springs
CA
*Friday-Sunday, 10-12 February 2017 Orlando HamCation in Orlando,
FL
*Friday and Saturday, 17-18 February 2017 ? Yuma Hamfest in Yuma
AZ
[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above
information]
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ARISS
News
Sucessful Contacts
* Science Museum of Virginia,
Richmond, Virginia, telebridge via VK5ZAI
The ISS callsign was scheduled to
be NA1SS.
The scheduled astronaut was Jeff Williams KD5TVQ
Contact was
successful: Wed 2016-07-06 14:28:20 UTC 77 degx
A successful telebridge
contact this morning. All 20 questions were answered, with time to spare for
a round of thanks from the audience and a farewell from Jeff.
* A
direct contact via DN1JKG with students at Justus-Knecht-Gymnasium, Bruchsal,
Germany was successful Fri 2016-07-01.
The Justus-Knecht-Gymnasium is one
of the biggest schools of general education in the administrative district of
Karlsruhe in Baden-Wurttemberg. More than 1,300 students are taught by over
one hundred teachers.
Our focus is on a scientific profile with the
succession of languages being English-French or English-Latin. Furthermore,
science and technology is a major subject starting in year 8. About 85% of
our students opt for this profile.
For four years now the
Justus-Knecht-Gymnasium has been one of 44 model schools in Baden-Wurttemberg
which allow students to take their A-levels at different speeds - either
after eight or nine years of secondary education.
The
Justus-Knecht-Gymnasium is also participating in three different educational
pilot projects. In the last two years leading up to their A-levels, students
may take up Mathematics "plus" (an enhanced version of the subject
Mathematics, six lessons a week) or computer science as a major subject as
well as science and technology as a minor subject.
Additionally, there
are optional subjects for senior students, such as for example psychology,
philosophy, drama, and especially natural sciences like geology, computer
algebra, computer science, and astronomy. The Justus-Knecht-Gymnasium
cooperates with partners in various fields,
especially the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (KIT). In 2015 the town of Bruchsal organized the
"Heimattage Baden-Wurttemberg" (Homeland Days
of Baden-Wurttemberg).
The Justus Knecht-Gymnasium took part in
different projects, e.g. "Heimat Erde" (Homeland Earth). Students of
different years worked on the topic.Moreover there's a study team working
together with the amateur radio operators of Bruchsal. They established radio
communication, built a stratosphere balloon and prepared the radio link to
the ISS.
see: http://www.jkg.ka.schule-bw.de/
(Note:
above link is in German)
BadenTV video link (Also in German)
http://www.baden-tv.com/mediathek/video/iss-funkkontakt-date-mit-einem-raumfahrer/
*
A direct contact vie RZ9WWB with The All-Russian Public Organization Radio
And Radiol?bitel 'Stva" The Russian Amateur Radio Union", in Ufa, Russia, was
successful Thu 2016-06-30.
Upcoming Contacts
* ISS R&D
Conference, San Diego, CA, telebridge via W6SRJ
The ISS callsign is presently
scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Jeff Williams
KD5TVQ
Contact is go for: Thu 2016-07-14 16:03:33 UTC 37
deg
Descriptions of the schools participating in the contact are shown
below.
Lake Elementary School, Oceanside, CA
Lake Elementary School
opened in 1989 in southeastern Oceanside. A top priority continues to be the
use of technology by students and staff to prepare children for 21st Century
College and Career readiness.
Community Montessori Charter School,
Escondido , CA
CMCS currently serves approximately 375 students in grades
K-8. Students attend one of five resource centers located throughout San
Diego county, and are on a Montessori home study program.
Vista Magnet
Middle School, Vista, CA
Students will be literate, reflective and critical
thinkers in all areas of interaction who transfer knowledge and embrace
diversity within a global society.
Monte Vista Elementary School,
Vista, CA
Our vision at Monte Vista Elementary is to ignite a love of
learning and a sense of curiosity in all students. We will promote academic
achievement through high expectations and develop problem solvers who
are technologically proficient.
Lilac School, Valley Center, CA
The
Lilac Learning Community shares a commitment to exploring, developing and
differentiating deliberate, effective strategies and practices for learning
in a dynamic environment of collaboration, inquiry and diversity.
STAR
Prep Academy, Los Angeles, CA
The STAR PREP ACADEMY is an extraordinary
private middle & high school for students who seek an individualized
approach to learning, based on their desired areas of
specialization.
Westminster Christian School, Miami, FL
Founded in
1961, Westminster is an independent, college-preparatory, coeducational
Christian school serving 1,241 students from preschool through 12th
grade.
* Frontiers of Flight Museum's "Moon Day 2016", Dallas
TX, telebridge via W6SRJ
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be
NA1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Jeff Williams KD5TVQ
Contact is go for :
Sat 2016-07-16 15:54:09 UTC 88 deg
* Ufa, Russia, direct via TBD
The
ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS
The scheduled astronaut is
Oleg Skripochka RN3FU
Contact is a go for Thu 2016-07-23 18:50
UTC
Watch http://www.ariss.org/upcoming-contacts.html for
information about upcoming contacts as they are scheduled.
[ANS
thanks ARISS, Dave, AA4KN, and Charlie, AJ9N for the above
information]
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Satellite
Shorts From All Over
Upcoming High Altitude Balloon Flights Include
Amateur Radio
The Amateur Radio High Altitude Ballooning e-mail
list (BALLOON_SKED@yahoogroups.com)
reports that two upcoming flights will include amateur radio payloads beyond
the usual APRS downlinks used for tracking.
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2016-07-23 @
09:00 MST
Arizona Near Space Research to launch: ANSR-101 from
the
Williams Ham Fest, Williams, Arizona (35.2587, -112.185 Grid:
DM35VG)
Website:
http://www.ansr.org, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/
Tracking
via APRS.FI: KA7NSR-6, KA7NSR-7
Telemetry: APRS: 144.340 MHz, Also 445.925,
both digipeated to 144.39
2 crossband repeaters:
Uplink #1:
146.560 MHz CTCSS 162.2
Downlink #1: 445.925 MHz
Uplink #2: 147.560
MHz CTCSS 89.1
Downlink #2: 446.025 MHz
Live video streaming on 440
MHz and 2.4 GHz to ground station at Ham Fest.
Contact: Bill McLean
bmclean1@gmail.com
QRZ:
KA7NSR
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2016-08-06 @ 07:45 CDT
Balloon Assisted
Stratospheric Experiments (DePauw University) to launch BASE 90 from Rantoul
National Aviation Center Airport-Frank Elliott Field Rantoul, IL (100 miles
south of Chicago; 40.294, -88.142 Grid: EN50WH) during the Space Jam 10 Boy
Scout Jamboree
Website: http://www.depauw.edu/academics/departments-programs/physics-astronomy/department-research/base/
Tracking
via APRS.FI: WB9SA-11
Telemetry: APRS: 144.390MHz
Contact: Howard
Brooks
hlbrooks@depauw.edu
QRZ:
WB9SA
Crossband repeater and SSTV downlink frequencies will be
announced.
[ANS thanks the BALLOON_SKED@yahoogroups.com list
for the above
information]
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/EX
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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 6 post-secondary years in
this status. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student
membership information.
73,
This week's ANS Editor,
Joe Spier,
K6WAO
k6wao at amsat dot
org
