AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-256
In this Special
Bulletin:
* Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) Awards Generous
Grant to
ARISS
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-256.01
ANS-256 AMSAT News
Service Special Bulletin
AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
256.01
From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD
DATE September 13, 2019
To All
RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-256.01
Amateur Radio Digital Communications
(ARDC) Awards Generous Grant to
ARISS
Amateur Radio Digital
Communications (ARDC) has awarded a very
generous grant to ARISS for the Next
Generation radio system. ARDC is
the owner and manager of the Internet
network known as the AMPRNet. In
June of 2019, ARDC initiated a philanthropic
endeavor to provide
monetary grants to organizations, groups, projects, and
scholarships
which have significant potential to advance the state of the art
of
Amateur Radio, and digital communications in general.
The ARISS
Next Generation radio system (or Inter Operable Radio System
- IORS) 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 will support
present and future radio
capabilities and allow wireless experiments to be
conducted.
In July, the Inter Operable 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. Final assembly of the flight safety
certification in
preparation for launch is now underway and ARISS is working
towards
launch ready status by the end of the year.
For more
information on the award please see:
https://www.ampr.org/g2019-09-01a/
To
contribute to ARISS and the IORS please see:
https://www.ariss.org/donate.html
ARISS
and AMSAT thank ARDC for their generosity in supporting this
important
project.
[ANS thanks ARISS, the AMSAT office, and ARDC for the above
information.]
/EX
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receive additional benefits. Application forms are available
from
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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 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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