AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-272
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In
this edition:
* Experimenter Wednesday Announced for AO-92
* The AMSAT
Hamfests & Conventions Web Page Updates
* 2019 37th AMSAT Space Symposium
and Annual General Meeting
* 2019 AMSAT Symposium On-line Registration Open
Until October 11
* Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne Moves Another Step Closer to
Flight
* ARISS Activities & Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule
* Upcoming
Satellite Operations
* NASA's International Space Apps Challenge Coming
October 18-20
* FO-29 Returns!
* AMSAT-DL Memorandum Regarding QO-100
Operation
* Satellite Shorts From All Over
SB SAT @ AMSAT
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ANS-272 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
AMSAT News
Service Bulletin 272.01
From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.
DATE September 29,
2019
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-272.01
Experimenter
Wednesday Announced for AO-92
The AO-92 Command Team announces that
Experimenter Wednesday will
run on UTC Wednesday (begins Tuesday evening in
North America) when
AO-92 will be commanded to operate in mode L/v for 24
hours. This
new schedule will be followed for an as of yet undetermined
test
period.
The frequencies for AO-92 L/V are:
Uplink:
1267.359 MHz FM with 67 Hz CTCSS tone for access
Downlink: 145.880 MHz FM
(including DUV telemetry)
The mode change is announced by the command
team via Twitter (follow
@AMSAT). You can view AMSAT tweets without needing
an account with
Twitter - go to https://twitter.com/AMSAT
The tweets
flow through to the AMSAT facebook page and and are plan-
ned to include
amsat-bb. Also current status can be found on the
AO-92 health and telemetry
page at:
http://www.amsat.org/tlm/health.php?id=4&port=
[ANS
thanks the AO-92 Command Team for the above
information]
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The
AMSAT Hamfests & Conventions Web Page Updates
Information about AMSAT
activities at important events around the
country is posted on the AMSAT
Hamfests & Conventions web page:
https://www.amsat.org/other-events/
Examples
of these events are radio club meetings where AMSAT repre-
sentatives give
presentations, demonstrations of working amateur
satellites, and hamfests
with an AMSAT presence such as a table or
booth with AMSAT literature and
merchandise, sometimes also with pre-
sentations, forums, and/or
demonstrations.
A copy of the AMSAT hamfest brochure is available for
download from
the page (above) - get the "AMSAT Intro Brochure", a color
brochure
that is designed to be printed double-sided and folded into a
tri-fold
handout. Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office if you need
pre-printed
copies.
To include your upcoming AMSAT presentation and/or
demonstration,
please send an email to ambassadors (at) amsat (dot)
org.
[ANS thanks the AMSAT Ambassadors for the above
information]
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Don’t miss the 50th Anniversary AMSAT Space Symposium
October 18-20 in Arlington, VA.
https://www.amsat.org/amsat-symposium/
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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.
The 2019 AMSAT Space
Symposium and Annual Meeting features:
+ Space Symposium with Amateur
Satellite Presentations
+ Operating Techniques, News, & Plans from the
Amateur Satellite World
+ Board of Directors Meeting open to AMSAT members
(October 16-17)
+ Opportunities to Meet Board Members and Officers
+
AMSAT Annual General Membership Meeting
+ Annual Banquet, Speakers and Door
Prizes !!
The latest news and information is always posted at:
https://www.amsat.org/amsat-symposium/
[ANS
thanks the 2019 AMSAT Symposium Team for the above
information]
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2019
AMSAT Symposium On-line Registration Open Until October 11
An on-line
registration rate for the 37th Annual AMSAT Space
Symposium and General
Meeting, Friday through Sunday, October 18-20,
2019, in Arlington, Virginia,
is available through October 11, 2019
per the following
schedule:
Registration September 16, 2019 – October 11, 2019 .... $65
(on-line)
Registration at the Door ..............................
$70
You can complete your registration on-line via the AMSAT Store:
https://www.amsat.org/product-category/amsat-symposium/
This
year, all registrants will receive a digital copy of the Proceed-
ings on a
thumb drive. Attendees may purchase a hard copy for $25.00.
Non-attendees may
put their name on a waiting list for a hard copy, if
there are any left over.
The digital version of the Proceedings will
be made available on the online
store shortly after the Symposium
concludes.
Student Registration is
50% off and does not include the Proceedings.
[ANS thanks the 2019 AMSAT
Symposium Team for the above
information]
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Virgin
Orbit's LauncherOne Moves Another Step Closer to Flight
Virgin Orbit
LauncherOne's progress report this week says that the
rocket has been "been
fully integrated, tested, checked, re-checked,
analyzed, and triple-checked".
LauncherOne now is destined for a rig-
orous crucible of engineering
demonstrations and tests at a test site
up in Mojave to begin Virgin Orbit's
first proper launch campaign.
The orbital test flight rocket is currently
being installed into a
newly built test stand in Mojave, where in the coming
weeks it will
run through a number of critical exercises, including loading
and
fueling with our mobile ground support equipment. The Virgin
Orbit
team is prepping and practicing, making sure we know how to do
every-
thing they could conceivably ever need to do. Then, it’s off to
the
skies — first for a captive carry flight, and then for the
launch
itself. The second flight of LauncherOne will carry
RadFxSat-2/Fox-1E
to orbit.
Read the Virgin Orbit press release (with
photos) posted at:
https://virginorbit.com/launcherone-shaping-up-and-shipping-out/
View
a video of captive flight testing of LauncherOne
https://www.instagram.com/p/BybTdllh_z9/
[ANS
thanks Virgin Orbit for the above
information]
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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
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ARISS
Activities & Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule
+ About Gagarin From
Space, Meeting of 30 universities, Plovdiv,
Bulgaria, direct via LZ1KDP.
The contact was successful.
+ ARISS Contact Colorado
University/Northridge Elementary School Suc-
cessful. ARISS Mentor Bob,
WB4SON reported that the September 24
contact between Astronaut Nick Hague
and Northridge Elementary
School (Colorado University in Boulder) was a
complete success. All
16 student questions were asked and answered. One of
the teacher
questions was asked and answered before Claudio, IK6SLD, who's
team
did a fantastic job at the ground station, completed the
contact.
Thanks also to Charlie, AJ9N. who moderated the contact.
Colorado
University Aerospace, The Boulder Amateur Radio Club (BARC),
and
the University of Colorado Amateur Radio Club hosted the event
and
did a wonderful job. (via WB4SON)
+ Sonoma County Main Library,
Santa Rosa, CA, telebridge via K6DUE*
The ISS callsign is presently
scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV
Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-01 19:53:13 UTC
* Ed. note - K6DUE is
located in Maryland, USA so the contact
will be audible over eastern
portions of North America.
+ UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant,
direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS
The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour
Contact is go for Wed
2019-10-02 09:45 UTC
+ AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium
Sat
2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13
+ Watch for MAI-75 SSTV sessions:
Wed
2019-10-09 09:50 to 16:00 UTC
Thu 2019-10-10 08:45 to 16:25
UTC
AMSAT and ARISS are currently supporting a FundRazr campaign to
raise
$150,000 for critical radio infrastructure upgrades on ISS. These
up-
grades are necessary to enable students to continue to talk to
astro-
nauts in space via Amateur Radio. We have reached a great
milestone
with $33,830 raised or about 23% towards our goal. This would not
have
been possible without your outstanding generosity!! For more
informa-
tion and to DONATE TODAY visit:
https://fundrazr.com/arissnextgen?ref=ab_e7Htwa_ab_47IcJ9
[ANS
thanks ARISS for the above
information]
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Upcoming
Satellite Operations
[Ed. note - Twitter URLs can be accessed with your
web browser
even if you do not have a personal Twitter
account.]
Remember to check out W3ZM On the Road for additional
upcoming
activations
+ EM87 Sept 27-30 N4DCW | Twitter: https://twitter.com/MWimages
+ EL07
Sept 29 K5IX | Twitter: https://twitter.com/K5IXdave
+
Brennan, N4QX, England (IO-91), October 1-3
Next week, October 1-3, work
and facilities permitting: QRV on
the FM satellites as M/N4QX from grid
square IO91. QSL *exclus-
ively* via Logbook of the World. Yeah, I know
London isn't rare,
but it's where I will be.
+ #AMSATandAngling
(DM15, DM06) October 11-13, 2019
Ed, KN6DBC, is going fishing (literally),
but he is bring gear to
work FM Satellites. October 11 he’ll be in DM15,
and October 12-13
in DM06. Visit Ken’s Twitter feed for specific pass
schedule and
further updates: https://twitter.com/KN6DBC
+
Central California (CM95, CM96, DM05, DM06) – October 19, 2019
David AD7DB
will re-visit the four grids near Kettleman City CA.
AO-91, AO-92, SO-50
will be used, with eastern passes a priority.
Maybe PO-101 if it’s on, and
AO-85 if it’s not too finicky. Con-
tacts will be put on LOTW following
the trip. Updates on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ad7db
+ FP, ST.
PIERRE & MIQUELON (GN17) September 24 to October 8, 2019
Eric, KV1J,
will once again be operating from the Island of Miquelon
(NA-032, DIFO
FP-002 WLOTA 1417, Grid GN17) as FP/KV1J between
September 24 and October
8. This is his 13th trip to the island.
Activity will be on 160-6 meters
(no 60M – not authorized) using CW,
SSB, RTTY, FT8 (but primarily SSB,
RTTY and FT8) and the satellites.
He will generally be on the highest
frequency band that is open
(favoring 12/10m). He will be active in the
CQWW DX RTTY Contest
(September 28-29). ADDED NOTE: Eric will usually try
to be on as
many Satellite passes as he can when the WX is good,
generally
favoring the FO-29, XW-2x, AO-7, and possibly the FM birds.
Eric
states, “Equipment is two FT-817s and an Arrow dual band yagi.
I’ll favor the SSB birds usually higher in the passband, but will
also try
FM if they do not get too busy. Satellite logging is by
paper so may not
get loaded to LoTW until the week after I return
to the USA.” Weekends may
be limited since he will be concentrat-
ing on the low(er) bands and
contests. QSL via KV1J, direct or by
the Bureau. Also eQSL, ClubLog and
LoTW. For more details and up-
dates, check out his Web page at: http://www.kv1j.com/fp/Sep19.html
+
D4, CAPE VERDE (Update/Satellite Op). Harald, DF2WO, will once
again be
active as D44TWO from Praia, Santiago Island (AF-005),
between September
29th and October 13th. Activity will be holiday
style on 160-10 meters
using CW, SSB and mostly the Digital modes.
(FT8, PSK31, JT65 and RTTY)
and slow CW.
Harald has been working hard in the last few months
getting his
satellite station for QO-100 working and is now confident he
will
use it from Cabo Verde. He will be using an Icom 7300, 2
Transvert-
ers with 3 watts output on EsHail using the QO-100
Geostationary
Satellite. He will also have a FT-450D into a homemade HEX
BEAM
and a dipole for 40 meters. Please DO NOT send your card via
the
Bureau it WILL NOT be received - To receive a bureau card you
MUST
request via M0OXO OQRS ONLY! (Via Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin
#1428)
+ WW0, UNITED STATES (Special Event). Members of the Northern
Colorado
Amateur Radio Club (NCARC), WWV ARC, RMHam, and FCCW along with
the
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will
activate
special event station WW0WWV between September 28 and October 2
to
celebrate the 100th anniversary of WWV, the world's oldest
contin-
uously operating radio station.
The WW0WWV station(s)
will be set up adjacent to the WWV transmitter
site in Fort Collins,
Colorado. Operations will be on various HF bands
following typical
propagation, and will include 160 meters as well as
satellites (SO-50,
AO-91, and AO-92) and 6-meter meteor scatter.
Modes will be CW, SSB
and digital. QSL via ClubLog's OQRS, LoTW,
or direct to the WWV Amateur
Radio Club, 1713 Ridgewood Rd, Fort
Collins, CO 80526, USA. For more
details, visit the following URLs:
http://wwv100.com
https://tinyurl.com/ANS-244-NIST-WWV
(Via Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin #1428)
Please submit any additions or
corrections to ke4al (at) amsat.org
[ANS Thanks Robert Bankston, KE4AL,
for the above
information]
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The digital download version of the 2019 edition of
Getting Started with
Amateur Satellites is now available as a
DRM-free PDF from the AMSAT
Store. Get yours today!
https://tinyurl.com/ANS-237-Getting-Started
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NASA's
International Space Apps Challenge Coming October 18-20
NASA's
International Space Apps Challenge has become the world's largest
global
hackathon, engaging thousands of citizens across the globe to use
NASA's open
data to build innovative solutions to challenges we face on
Earth and in
space.
Space Apps inspires local communities to come together, think
intensely,
and create solutions to important problems. Each year, Space Apps
engages
thousands of individuals in cities around the world to work with
NASA's
open source data in a 48-hour sprint. Teams of technologists,
scientists,
designers, entrepreneurs, artists, and others collaborate to
answer some
of the most pressing challenges on Earth and in
space.
Space Apps 2019 will take place on October 18-20, 2019
See: https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/
On
one weekend each year, with the help of NASA's Global Organizing Team
(fondly
known as the GO Team), hundreds of local leads around the world
host events
in a 48-hour sprint in which their participants hack solutions
to challenges
that NASA proposes, creating games, smartphone and computer
apps, videos,
teaching tools, and much more.
The challenges change each year within the
theme of Earth and space.
https://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/
There
are two ways to find a location to participate near you:
https://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/locations/
https://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/locations/map
Registration
information is posted on the Space Apps web page.
[ANS thanks NASA's
International Space Apps Challenge for the
above
information]
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The Fox-In-A-Box Raspberry Pi SD card for setting up a
Raspberry Pi-based
telemetry station for the Fox-1 satellites
now supports the
Raspberry Pi 4.
Get yours today on the AMSAT Store!
https://amsat.org/product/fox-in-a-box-raspberry-pi-sd-card/
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FO-29
Returns!
FO-29 is reported to be back in operation after being off the
air
since last July:
Modes: Analog - CW, SSB voice
Telemetry:
JA - CW, 100 mW
Uplink: 146.000 MHz - 145.900 MHz LSB/CW
Downlink:
435.800 MHz - 435.900 MHz USB/CW
Telemetry: 435.795 MHz, CW - 100 mW; frame
rate of one frame per
minute. Each frame begins and
ends with
the historic 'HI'. The characters are
sent
at a rate of about 100 characters per
minute.
Sponsor: JAMSAT, JARL
Mineo Wakita JE9PEL offers a nice
FO-29 Satellite CW Telemetry
Analysis Program for free on his web site. The
program is called
"fo29cwts". Mineo's web site is:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/fo29cwts.htm
[ANS
thanks JAMSAT for the above
information]
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AMSAT-DL
Memorandum Regarding QO-100 Operation
AMSAT-DL and QARS asks the users of
the new geostationary QO-100
satellite for radio discipline. During the last
weeks some stations
have been transmitting with much too much power and
sometimes out-
side of the official band limits. Also permanent carriers are
sent
without indication of callsign. This was also critically observed
in
the control center of Es'hailSat in Qatar.
Please do not send louder than
the CW beacon.
Stick to the band plan: No operation is allowed below the
CW beacon
and above the PSK beacon.
The satellite is not a measuring
device: To test your power ampli-
fier in continuous operation, please use a
dummy load and a suitable
measuring device.
Check regularly the
bandwidth of your transmissions, maximum band-
width 2.7 kHz, no
FM.
Qatar has made a great gift to the amateur radio community with
the
Qatar OSCAR 100 satellite. We should act accordingly. Please,
kindly
point this out to other stations on the transponder. If there
are
still violations, in the worst case a temporary shutdown could
be
expected.
A video describing the LEILA-2 power detection system
aboard QO-100
can be accessed at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AabJGt0vzXU&feature=youtu.be
[ANS
thanks Peter Guelzow, DB2OS, and AMSAT-DL for the above
information]
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Satellite
Shorts From All Over
+ AMSAT-DL reports the sad news of the passing of
Hanspeter Kuhlen,
DK1YQ, who died suddenly last weekend. Peter Gülzow,
DB2OS, wrote
on behalf of the Rudak and AMSAT-DL team, "We're going to
miss him.
Our hearts are with his family." Hanspeter was the Project
Manager
for RUDAK on OSCAR-13 and on OSCAR-21/RS-14. He was also part
of
the command station team for OSCAR-10 and OSCAR-13.
+ AO-73's
BPSK telemetry downlink on 145.935 MHz includes text mes-
sages, called
FITTER messages, for announcements, greetings, and
commemorations.
Satellite users can have their message uplinked by
the FUNcube team so
that it can be read globally in the downlink
message stream. Simply email:
operations@funcube.org.uk to
request
FITTER messages to be uploaded. Please keep them short and give
them
a couple of weeks notice if you can. As well as being available
for
download on 2 metres they can be also be seen via the internet
at:
http://data.amsat-uk.org/ui/fc1-fm/fitter
+
Fred Kemerer, AB1OC, has documented a satellite station set-up based
on
the Flex 6000 series radios on his blog at:
https://tinyurl.com/ANS-272-AB1OC-Flex
+
APRS on IO-86 uses aliases of ARISS and YBSAT - APRS operation is
active
on a schedule alternating with the FM repeater and the other
primary
payload of LAPAN A2/ORARI. Typically one in the morning and
another one in
the evening. Please check twitter @lapansat for the
weekly schedule.
(Yono, YD0NXX, AMSAT-ID Technical Team)
+ This article covers available
SDR hardware, software and configura-
tions, but it also teaches a little
radio theory and a taste of the
mathematics to understand what's going
on:
https://arachnoid.com/software_defined_radios/
(via nooelec.com on Twitter)
+ 2019 marks AMSAT’s 50th Anniversary of
Keeping Amateur Radio in
Space. To help celebrate, AMSAT is sponsoring the
AMSAT 50th
Anniversary Awards Program. Full details are available at
https://www.amsat.org/amsat-50th-anniversary-awards-program/
Bruce Paige, KK5DO, Director of Contests and Awards, reported
this week
that the awards are being printed and will be sent
shortly to all those
who have applied.
+ The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2019 for
K-12 students
in U.S. public, private and home schools can enter the Mars
2020
Name the Rover essay contest. One grand prize winner will name
the
rover and be invited to see the spacecraft launch in July 2020
from
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Name the Rover
contest is part of NASA's efforts to engage students in the STEM
enterprise behind Mars exploration and inspire interest in science,
technology, engineering and mathematics. NASA posted all the info
at: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/participate/name-the-rover/
+
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has produced a safety guide for
approaching a black hole. Watch this video before you blast off to
learn
more about black holes and (more importantly) how to stay
safe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMTwtb3TVIk&feature=youtu.be
Brochures, science video clips are available for downloading from:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13322 NASA
has produced a visualization
model of the appearance of a black hole
depending on the observer's
angle of approach https://youtu.be/o-Psuz7u5OI
(NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)
+ AMSAT-SA Space Symposium 2020 in
South Africa is planned for
July 18, 2020. The theme will be: Amateur
Radio in Space – explor-
ing VHF, UHF and Microwaves. The latest
information will be post-
ed at: http://www.amsatsa.org.za/
+ AMSAT
SA has announced that parallel to its analogue Kletskous
CubeSat, the
group is working on a digital project featuring a
Software defined
transponder. Called AfriCUBE, the CubeSat will
use the same space frame as
KLETSKOUS. Anton Janovsky is current-
ly building a prototype transponder.
AMSATSA is inviting persons
interested in becoming part of the development
team to send their
details to admin@amsatsa.org.za.
+ Dance like
nobody's watching! A Boston Dynamics robot performs
its gymnastics floor
routine: https://youtu.be/_sBBaNYex3E
[ANS
thanks everyone for the above
information]
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/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 behave and to help keep
amateur radio in space,
This week's ANS Editor,
JoAnne Maenpaa,
K9JKM
k9jkm at amsat dot
org
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