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Today's Topics:
1. Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-27 17:00 UTC
(aj9n@???.????
2. Office Closed (Martha)
3. Qatar OSCAR 100 (Peter Guelzow)
4. Upcoming ARISS contact with Sonoma County Main Library, Santa
Rosa, CA (n4csitwo@?????????.????
5. Re: Qatar OSCAR 100 (Nitin Muttin)
6. Open Research Institute Phase 3 Space grant application
overview (Michelle Thompson)
7. Rent-a-GEO update! Draft grant proposal (Michelle Thompson)
8. ANS-272 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins (JoAnne K9JKM)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 17:07:19 +0000 (UTC)
From: aj9n@???.???
To: amsat-bb@?????.???
Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-27
17:00 UTC
Message-ID: <1237635666.226401.1569604039334@????.?????.???>
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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2019-09-27 17:00 UTC
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Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:
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UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via A68MBR
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour
Contact was successful for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC (***)
?
The Southwest State University of Kursk, Kursk, Russia, direct via UB3WCL
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin
Contact iwas successful for Fri 2019-09-27 15:25 UTC (***)
?
The Southwest State University of Kursk, Kursk, Russia, direct via UB3WCL
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin
Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 14:35 UTC
?
UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via A68MBR
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour
Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC ?
?
Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin
Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 14:35 UTC
?
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 82 deg
?
UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour
Contact is go for Wed 2019-10-02 09:45 UTC
?
School in Russia TBD direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS
The scheduled astronaut is TBD
Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-08 06:05 UTC
?
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
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AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium
Sat 2019-10-12 to Sun 2019-10-13
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The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ???
Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site.
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The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at
http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ???
ARISS Contact Applications (United States)
?
?
For many years I have on purpose not given the actual hyperlinks; I assume
the user would do a copy/paste into their favorite browser.? I am now
thinking that the browsers have all grown up and most should be able to
handle the link.? Please let me know you experience any issues.? So now you
should be able to directly click on the link.? (***)
?
Note, all times are approximate. ?It is recommended that you do your own
orbital prediction?or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed
time.
All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and
time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
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The complete schedule page has been updated as of?2019-09-27 17:00 UTC.? (***)
Here you will find a listing of all scheduled?school contacts, and
questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and
instructions for any contact that may be streamed live.
?
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt
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The successful school list has been updated as of 2019-09-27 17:00 UTC. (***)
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf
?
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The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ???
Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site.
?
The main page for Applying to Host a Scheduled Contact may be found at
http://www.ariss.org/apply-to-host-an-ariss-contact.html ???
?
ARISS Contact Applications (United States)
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The ARISS webpage is at http://www.ariss.org/ ???
Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site.
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ARISS Contact Applications (Europe, Africa and the Middle East)
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Schools and Youth organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East
interested in setting up an ARISS radio contact with an astronaut on board
the International Space Station are invited to submit an application from
September to October and from February to April.
Please refer to details and the application form at
www.ariss-eu.org/school-contacts.? Applications should be addressed by email
to:? school.selection.manager@????????.???
?
ARISS Contact Applications (Canada, Central and South America, Asia and
Australia and Russia)
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Organizations outside the United States can apply for an ARISS contact by
filling out an application.? Please direct questions to the appropriate
regional representative listed below. If your country is not specifically
listed, send your questions to the nearest ARISS Region listed. If you are
unsure which address to use, please send your question to the ARISS-Canada
representative; they will forward your question to the appropriate
coordinator.
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For the application, go to:? http://www.ariss.org/ariss-application.html.
ARISS-Canada and the Americas, except USA: Steve McFarlane, VE3TBD email to:
ve3tbd@?????.???
ARISS-Japan, Asia, Pacific and Australia: Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ email to:
ariss@???????.???? Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) http://www.jarl.org/
ARISS-Russia: Soyuz Radioljubitelei Rossii (SRR) https://srr.ru/
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ARISS is always glad to receive listener reports for the above contacts.?
ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance.? Feel free to send
your reports to aj9n@?????.??? or aj9n@???.???.
?
Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8? MHz.
?
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All ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise noted.
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Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and
not being able to get in. ?That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/
?
Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site.
?
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Looking for something new to do?? How about receiving DATV from the ISS??
Please note that the HamTV system has been brought back to earth for
troubleshooting.? Please monitor ARISS-EU or ARISS-ON for the very latest
news on the troubleshooting efforts.?
?
If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details.?
Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video.????????????
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http://www.ariss-eu.org/
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If you need some assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be able to
provide some insight.? Contact Kerry at kbanke@?????????.???
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The HamTV webpage:? https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/
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ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100
schools:
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Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 136
Francesco IK?WGF with 132
Gaston ON4WF with 123
Sergey RV3DR with 123 (***)
?
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The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date
webpages were removed, and new ones have been added.? If there are additional
ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know.
?
?
?
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1336. (***)
Each school counts as 1 event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1279. (***)
Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot.
Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47.
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A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the
file.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf
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Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed.
?
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The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact:
South Dakota, Wyoming, American?Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and
the Virgin Islands.
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QSL information may be found at:
http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html
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ISS callsigns: DP?ISS, IR?ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS?ISS
?
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Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing
Doppler correction? as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction.r
tf
Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts
?
https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415
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?
Exp. 59 on orbit
Christina Koch
Aleksey Ovchinin
Nick Hague KG5TMV
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Exp. 60 on orbit
Luca Parmitano KF5KDP
Alexander Skvortsov
Drew Morgan KI5AAA
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Exp. 61 on orbit (***)
Oleg Skripochka
Jessica Meir
Hazza Al Mansour (Space Flight Participant)
?
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73,
Charlie?Sufana AJ9N
One of the ARISS operation team mentors
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:39:47 -0400
From: Martha <martha@?????.???>
To: Board of Directors <bod@?????.???>, senior-officers
<senior-officers@?????.???>, AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Office Closed
Message-ID:
<CAPk0USynKobu+HTe+q_jfTZjAOin62JZJwHq8+7Nm9Xom9SuDw@????.?????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
The AMSAT Office will be closed on Monday, Sept 30th. We will reopen on
Tuesday.
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73- Martha
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 22:42:05 +0200
From: Peter Guelzow <peter.guelzow@??????.??>
To: AMSAT-BB <AMSAT-BB@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Qatar OSCAR 100
Message-ID: <39bfa69a-fe90-e6b3-ee9a-33f9744b17aa@??????.??>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
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 outside 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 amplifier in
continuous operation, please use a dummy load and a suitable measuring
device.
Check regularly the bandwidth of your transmissions, maximum bandwidth
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.
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 18:11:42 -0400
From: <n4csitwo@?????????.???>
To: <amsat-bb@?????.???>, <ariss-press@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with Sonoma County Main
Library, Santa Rosa, CA
Message-ID: <C96D25D2B7584E31B0459364C88CE195@???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
An International Space Station school contact has been planned with
participants at Sonoma County Main Library, Santa Rosa, CA
on 01 Oct. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 19:53 UTC. It is
recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this
time. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds.
The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and K6DUE. The contact should
be audible over the east coast of the U.S. Interested parties are invited to
listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be
conducted in English.
The Sonoma County Library system serves 495,000 residents in the cities,
towns, and communities of Cloverdale, Cotati, Guerneville, Healdsburg,
Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Sonoma and Windsor. Through
library services and programs at our 14 locations, online, and through
targeted outreach, we embrace our mission to bring information, ideas, and
people together to build a stronger community.
To support our ARISS project, the Sonoma County Library collaborated with
the Robert Ferguson Observatory (RFO) to bring two unique programs to the
library. Every Saturday in September the library is hosting a Solar Viewing
and Space Crafts event where RFO will provide a telescope (with special
filter) allowing viewers to look directly at the sun and inside the library,
kids can explore space-themed activity stations. Every Monday in September,
the library is hosting the Young Astronomers Club with RFO, where kids will
study the night sky, learn how to use telescopes, meet other kids who are
interested in space, and receive a membership button.
In addition to these programs, the library is hosting two speaking
engagements with NASA Ames Research Center scientist, Wenonah Vercoutere,
Ph.D., sharing the plans NASA has for returning to the Moon. As well as ?S?
is for Space Storytime at ten locations, accompanied by a space-themed
reading list featuring fiction and nonfiction for grades K-8.
Lastly, to encourage countywide participation, the library is holding an art
contest for grades K-9 with the prompt, ?You are looking out the window of
the International Space Station, what do you see?? Every entry will receive
a raffle ticket for a chance to win an Orion SkyQuest XT6 Dobsonian
Telescope, donated by the Active 20-30 Club of Santa Rosa and the Robert
Ferguson Observatory. The winning artwork will be displayed in the Central
Library?s forum room at the ARISS contact.
Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1. Were you scared the first time you went to space?
2. How long have you wanted to be an astronaut?
3. What was it like riding the rocket into space?
4. What is a typical day like on the ISS like for you?
5. When in zero gravity, do you ever get motion sickness?
6. Do you have a clock keeping time from Earth or do you have your own
time in space?
7. What happens if there is a leak in the space station?
8. What are the "dos" and "don'ts" in the space station?
9. Does being in space change you mentally? (If "yes", in what ways?)
10. Have you seen any major, visible changes on Earth from space?
11. How long have you lived in the ISS?
12. What job did you have before you went into space?
13. Do you worry about meteors or "space junk" hitting the station?
14. How intensely did you train to become an astronaut?
15. What is the strangest thing you have ever seen while in space?
16. Is it scary to see natural disasters from space?
17. What is it like to take a shower in space?
18. Why are you in space right now (what is your mission)?
19. Does time move more slowly in space?
20. What is the coolest thing you have seen or done on the ISS yet?
21. What should a student do if they want to become an astronaut?
22. What happens if someone in the ISS gets sick or needs an operation?
23. What do you eat if you want a snack between meals?
24. What is the most interesting experiment you are working on?
PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES:
Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the
International Space Station (ARISS).
To receive our Twitter updates, follow @????????????
Next planned event(s):
1. UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via A68MBR
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour
Contact was successful for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC
2. The Southwest State University of Kursk, Kursk, Russia, direct
via UB3WCL.The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin
Contact iwas successful for Fri 2019-09-27 15:25 UTC
3. The Southwest State University of Kursk, Kursk, Russia, direct
via UB3WCL.The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin
Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 14:35 UTC
4. UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via A68MBR
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour
Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC
5. Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin
Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 14:35 UTC
6. UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour
Contact is go for Wed 2019-10-02 09:45 UTC
7. School in Russia TBD direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RS?ISS
The scheduled astronaut is TBD
Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-08 06:05 UTC
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), the ISS National Lab and 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 public forms. Before
and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and
communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For
more information, see www.ariss.org.
Thank you & 73,
David - AA4KN
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 05:13:36 +0000 (UTC)
From: Nitin Muttin <vu3tyg@?????.??.??>
To: AMSAT-BB <AMSAT-BB@?????.???>, Peter Guelzow
<peter.guelzow@??????.??>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Qatar OSCAR 100
Message-ID: <1739005012.465004.1569647616870@????.?????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Thanks for sharing Peter, I have myself seen such behavior when I monitor
the downlink. This is a great gift to our fraternity and everyone of us who
is using this capability should follow the guidelines, It will be sad to see
a temporary shutdown. Many in our fraternity have devoted their time &
resources to develop the ground segment due to which there are many options
available for those who are technical to build on their own and for some to
be able to buy off the? ? ? shelf,they will be disappointed as well.?
73
Nitin [VU3TYG]
On Saturday, 28 September, 2019, 04:44:36 am GMT+8, Peter Guelzow via
AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@?????.???> wrote:
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 outside 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 amplifier in
continuous operation, please use a dummy load and a suitable measuring
device.
Check regularly the bandwidth of your transmissions, maximum bandwidth
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.
_______________________________________________
Sent via AMSAT-BB@?????.???. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available
to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions
expressed
are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of
AMSAT-NA.
Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!
Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 08:32:43 -0700
From: Michelle Thompson <mountain.michelle@?????.???>
To: AMSAT BoD <bod@?????.???>, AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Open Research Institute Phase 3 Space grant
application overview
Message-ID:
<CACvjz2UbyXnUYtkYF+Dzonj2UbJNUaaB7i4qNC+=0ucW2-bEHQ@????.?????.???>
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Greetings! This letter is addressed to the board and the membership of
AMSAT-NA.
Here is the overview grant document submitted to ARDC, at their invitation,
on 22 August 2019 for the Open Research Institute Phase 4 Space project.
https://openresearch.institute/2019/09/27/open-research-institute-phase-4-spac
e-grant-application-overview/
Phase 4 Space is an open source GEO payload project. It adopts the Phase 4
Ground air interface. This approach has been presented multiple times at
AMSAT events, conferences, and proceedings. Any payload that uses the
DVB-S2/X short-frame GSE TDM downlink, and the channelized 4-ary MSK FDMA
uplink, can freely use this system. It's current technology and is based on
the most widely used downlink in commercial space. Authentication and
authorization are optional. This is not a bent pipe, therefore a lot (not
all, but a lot) of problems with harmful or intentional interference go
away. Adaptive coding and modulation provides maximum bandwidth across a
wide variety of stations, payloads, and link conditions.
Phase 4 Ground team members have gained enough expertise to contribute
cutting-edge advancements to open source in several categories. Along with
the technical achievements, they've obtained promotions, jobs, PhD
appointments, internships, publication credits, and grown in number to over
200. This is a diverse and productive team using amateur radio to advance
the radio arts. All work is open source and published as it is created.
The Phase 4 Space project described in this grant overview unites the
global amateur radio community with an advanced microwave digital satellite
system. Four geosynchronous amateur radio payloads, and four flight spares,
are the product of the work potentially funded by this grant. All work is
open source and open access and in full compliance with all developer and
participant policies. Satellites to be placed 90 degrees apart for global
coverage. All amateur satellite and amateur radio organizations will be
invited to fully participate.
Detailed documentation of the communications payload development process,
space hardware, and other breakdowns are all under review and will be
published as soon as that review process is complete. All will be submitted
to granting institutions. ARDC is an obvious first choice.
Phase 4 Ground is successful international project that came from AMSAT-NA.
Most of us still consider it an AMSAT-NA project. The team is international
and now has connections to many other amateur satellite groups. The
organization primarily responsible for Phase 4 Ground and Space work is
Open Research Institute. This happened because AMSAT leadership in March of
2018 decided Phase 4 Ground and the just-announced Space segment should get
no priority, no funding, and no resources. There's nothing documented in
the published minutes about this. I received no direct communications about
it. But our email list was deleted, and Bruce Perens said the board told
him that they didn't want the project any more. Trouble was, it was just
too cool to stop working on! And we were making excellent progress.
So, Bruce Perens, myself, and Ben Hilburn (leader of GNU Radio) founded
Open Research Institute, a 501(c)(3), expressly to continue the work and be
an AMSAT member society. We wanted to offer people from AMSAT-NA that
wanted to legally work on open source satellites an option. If the board
didn't want Phase 4 Ground to be a directly reporting project, then a
member society seemed like a really good solution!
At that time, AMSAT-NA ITAR and EAR policies were not compliant with the
public domain carve outs in the law. Efforts to get AMSAT-NA policies
changed to use the public domain carve outs were rejected. AMSAT ITAR and
EAR policies still remain non compliant with the public domain carve outs
today.
However, setting up an independent 501(c)(3) worked. The technical progress
and success in legal international collaboration is clear. Unfortunately,
we got no answer to repeated requests to be considered as a member society
at that time.
Having a member society fully compliant with the public domain and open
source regulatory law would achieve one of the goals of my AMSAT-NA board
of directors candidacy: Open source engineering at AMSAT-NA.
Open Research Institute was founded in order to be a member society of
AMSAT-NA. We renew our request for this to the board and look forward to
this being considered.
Now, there's no process listed in the bylaws for becoming a member society.
Open Research Institute membership would welcome either an executive
declaration or for the status to appear in published meeting minutes.
If you like this project and want AMSAT-NA to support it, let me know! We
have a window of opportunity here. The time is right, you have a team
willing to do it, and an organization that can clearly benefit.
Thank you,
-Michelle W5NYV
If you are unfamiliar with my background, credentials, and campaign, then
information about me can be found here:
https://w5nyv.blogspot.com/2019/05/candidate-statement-amsat-na-board-of.html
https://w5nyv.blogspot.com/2019/06/campaign-statement-21-june-2019-amsat.html
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 15:17:12 -0700
From: Michelle Thompson <mountain.michelle@?????.???>
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Rent-a-GEO update! Draft grant proposal
Message-ID:
<CACvjz2Wwppe74N41ARwoxaKWN7ZnB7xapdGFrjTay1QsZoxJrw@????.?????.???>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Greetings all!
This article also at
https://openresearch.institute/2019/09/28/open-research-institute-phase-4-spac
e-rent-a-geo/
Direct link to proposal at
https://openresearch.institute/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Rent-a-GEO-
Phase-4-Space.pdf
Here is our grant proposal for Rent-a-GEO. The intended audience for this
proposal is organizations such as ARDC, ARRL, and FEMA.
This project provides a way for amateur radio operators to communicate
through a geosynchronous satellite over the continental US, parts of
Canada, and parts of Mexico.
There are two main purposes served by this communications project. First is
enhanced emergency communications support from amateur radio. Second is
research and development of open source hardware that implements advanced
digital communications functions.
Functions include field-configurable polyphase filterbank channelizers,
queueing and multiplexing functions, digital signal processing, open source
implementations of current communications protocols, and geosynchronous
satellite communications best practices.
Comment and critique welcome and encouraged!
Trying hard to pull this together as quickly as possible since EchoStar 9
ain't getting any younger.
-Michelle W5NYV
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 19:01:00 -0500
From: JoAnne K9JKM <k9jkm@???????.???>
To: "amsat-bb@?????.???? <amsat-bb@?????.???>
Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-272 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
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AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-272
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:
* 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 $ANS-272.01
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
@??????. 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 RS?ISS
? 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 G?lzow, 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@???????.???.?? 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 @???????? 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@???????.???.??.
+ 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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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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