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ARRL Board of Directors to Meet July 17-18
The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015: Politicians Do Listen, ARRL
President Says
IARU Member-Societies Conducting Second Kosovo Vote; Burundi Admitted
ARISS Initiates Fundraising Effort, Offers "Challenge Coin" Keepsake
SSTV Images from Space Will Commemorate 40th Apollo-Soyuz Mission
Anniversary
Inexpensively Made Satellite Closing in on 2 Years in Orbit and Still
Ticking
Remotely Controlled VY1AAA Puts Northern Territories on the Air for
Field Day, Canada Day
New Horizons Phones Home
In Brief...
The K7RA Solar Update
Just Ahead in Radiosport
Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions and Events
ARRL Board of Directors to Meet July 17-18
The ARRL Board of Directors will hold its second meeting of 2015
Friday and Saturday, July 17-18, in Windsor, Connecticut. Much of the
League's governance work is done by committees between Board meetings.
At this meeting, as usual, the Board will receive reports and consider
recommendations from its committees.
Among these, the Board will hear the recommendations of the HF Band
Planning Committee, based on more than 1000 responses to a web survey
and additional comments from members earlier this year. The ARRL had
asked members to give their opinions on possible changes to the
League's HF Band Plans suggested by the committee. The survey was part
of the committee's efforts to tweak the band plans for the
RTTY/data/CW portions of 80 through 10 meters -- excepting 60 meters.
The committee developed its suggested revisions to the voluntary band
plans after reviewing some 400 member comments solicited last year,
seeking suggestions for using the spectrum more efficiently so that
data modes may coexist compatibly.
In addition, the Board's Strategic Planning Working Group will present
an interim report as it develops a strategic plan to propose for
adoption next year.
The Board will also consider a proposal for a 2016 ARRL National
Convention.
IARU President Tim Ellam, VE6SH/G4HUA, and Radio Amateurs of Canada
President Geoff Bawden, VE4BAW, are expected to attend the July
meeting as guests of the Board.
The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015: Politicians Do Listen, ARRL
President Says
ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, said in the July ARRL Legislative
Update Newsletter that Washington politicians are paying attention to
League members who have contacted lawmakers to urge their
cosponsorship of the Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015. Essentially
identical bills have been introduced in both the US House (H.R. 1301)
and Senate (S. 1685). Both measures would direct the FCC to extend its
rules relating to reasonable accommodation of Amateur Service
communications to private land-use restrictions.
ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN.
"Many visits have been made to the offices of Senators and Congressmen
on behalf of H.R. 1301 and S. 1685 by members of the ARRL Board and
ARRL Headquarters staff," President Craigie said. "ARRL Section
Managers have encouraged members to speak out. ARRL members around the
country have talked with your elected officials in their home-district
offices and town hall meetings. This is a full-team advocacy effort."
To date, H.R. 1301 has attracted 86 cosponsors; the just-introduced
Senate bill, S. 1685, has one original cosponsor.
President Craigie said The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015 is aimed
at helping to ensure the future of Amateur Radio, as more and more
neighborhoods impose deed restrictions that prohibit Amateur Radio
antennas and keep today's youngsters from becoming active radio
amateurs.
"What if their parents have bought houses in neighborhoods with deed
restrictions prohibiting antennas?" she speculated. "Those kids'
interest in ham radio gained from school, Scouts, or family friends
will have no way to blossom into the life-changing experience of being
radio amateurs."
ARRL members, she continued, "are working together so that both
today's amateurs and the kids who will be amateurs in the future have
the chance to operate from their homes." Letters from members urging
support of the bills are what make the difference between being
ignored and being heard on Capitol Hill.
"Earlier this year, I visited a North Carolina Congressman's office
and got a friendly reception -- but no cosponsorship," President
Craigie recounted. "More recently, another ARRL person followed up at
the same office, with the same staff member, but with about 40 letters
in hand. The Congressman became a cosponsor."
The newsletter suggested several ways ARRL members can get involved in
the Amateur Radio Parity Act grassroots effort. One idea is to have a
"letter party" at your next club meeting.
Take pre-addressed copies of letters to all three of your lawmakers --
one in the House, two in the Senate -- and have club members add their
names, addresses, and signatures to letters for each Member of
Congress. Have enough copies, so that each individual can sign his or
her own letter. In some cases, club members in a given area may reside
in more than one Congressional district.
Names and addresses of US House and Senate members are available on
the ARRL website. Mail the collected letters to the ARRL (c/o The
Amateur Radio Parity Act, ARRL, 225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111),
which will collate them for hand delivery on Capitol Hill.
Members also may e-mail their lawmakers, post comments on their US
House or Senate member's website, or call their lawmakers on the
telephone. Be courteous, make your points, and be brief. In all cases,
thank lawmakers for considering your point of view.
"Grassroots politics is about you -- the individual -- making your
voice heard," the July Legislative Update pointed out. "It requires a
good deal of preparation and effort to achieve the end results."
The League now has a combined web page to accommodate activities on
behalf of both the House and Senate bills. The Amateur Radio Parity
Act of 2015 is H.R. 1301 in the US House of Representatives and S.
1685 in the US Senate. The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015 page
provides a clearing house for all information on these identical
pieces of legislation.
IARU Member-Societies Conducting Second Kosovo Vote; Burundi Admitted
International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) member-societies are taking a
second vote on whether to admit Kosovo's national Amateur Radio
association, Shoqata e Radio Amatoreve te Kosoves (SHRAK) to IARU
membership.
"Many of you will recall that Kosovo was proposed for IARU membership
in IARU Proposal 251 in 2014," IARU Secretary Rod Stafford, W6ROD,
explained in an e-mail to members. "Fifty-one affirmative votes were
required for approval; 49 affirmative votes were received prior to the
close of voting, so the proposal failed."
Stafford pointed out, however, that two more affirmative votes arrived
"very shortly after the close of voting" but could not be counted
under IARU rules. "Under the circumstances, IARU Region 1 requested
the International Secretariat conduct a revote for the admission of
Kosovo," Stafford said. He urged member-societies to return their
ballots as soon as possible.
Amateur Radio was revived in Kosovo in 2012, and a training and
licensing program has been established there.
Stafford also announced that a vote on IARU Proposal 253 resulted in
an affirmative vote on the membership application of the Association
Burundaise des Amateurs Radio et Télévision (ABART). Sixty-seven votes
were received in favor of admitting Burundi. "It is a pleasure to
welcome a new member to the IARU," Stafford said. -- Thanks to Rod
Stafford, W6ROD, Secretary, IARU
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ARISS Initiates Fundraising Effort, Offers "Challenge Coin" Keepsake
The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program
has kicked off a fundraising program, and it's offering an ARISS
Challenge Coin as a token of appreciation to those who contribute at a
certain level. ARISS relies on resource support from NASA, ARRL,
AMSAT, and individual donors and volunteers to ensure day-to-day
operation of its programs and to pay for spaceflight equipment
certification. In light of budget cutbacks at NASA over the past 2
years, the funding needed to cover operational expenses down the road
has become more uncertain, however, and ARISS leadership initiated the
fundraising effort with the goal of securing greater financial
stability.
An artist's rendering of the obverse and reverse sides of the ARISS
Challenge Coin.
"To assure the future of the program, we are looking to individuals
and corporate sponsors to provide the resources we will need to
sustain operations and to acquire needed equipment upgrades," said
ARISS International Chair Frank Bauer, KA3HDO.
Plans are under way to develop a new, higher-power Amateur Radio
station for the ISS Columbus module. The current radio is a
lower-power unit that sometimes results in weak signals during
ISS-to-Earth educational contacts. A new radio system will improve
communication capability for students scheduled to participate in
ARISS educational contacts and related activities. The new system also
would allow greater interoperability between the Columbus module and
the Russian Service Module. ARISS said that integration of the
equipment into the ISS infrastructure and the necessary testing and
certification require hours of engineering resources that it cannot
afford.
"Each ARISS contact offers the opportunity to inspire young people
through ARISS's unique window into space exploration activities,
opening the horizon of possibilities of a career in a STEM field,"
said ARRL Education Services Manager, Debra Johnson, K1DMJ. "Each
contact also introduces students and their communities to Amateur
Radio. The program needs your help to secure these opportunities for
the future."
Individuals may donate to ARISS online via the AMSAT website (select
the "ARISS Donate" button). AMSAT is contributing the necessary
personnel resources to handle gifts to ARISS. Individuals contributing
$100 or more will receive the new ARISS Challenge Coin. Corporate
donors should contact Frank Bauer. -- Thanks to AMSAT News Service,
ARISS, and Debra Johnson, K1DMJ
SSTV Images from Space Will Commemorate 40th Apollo-Soyuz Mission
Anniversary
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz mission, the
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) team will
transmit a series of 12 Slow Scan Television (SSTV) images. The SSTV
transmissions 145.80 MHz will begin on the morning of Saturday, July
18, and continue through Sunday July 19, subject to change.
Apollo-Soyuz represented the first joint US-USSR mission, and it set
the stage for later US-Russia collaboration on the space shuttle, Mir
Space Station, and the International Space Station.
A NASA artist's rendering of the Apollo-Soyuz linkup in 1975.
"The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project would send NASA astronauts Tom
Stafford, Deke Slayton, and Vance Brand in an Apollo Command and
Service Module to meet Russian cosmonauts Aleksey Leonov and Valeriy
Kubasov in a Soyuz capsule," NASA has recounted. "A jointly designed,
US-built docking module fulfilled the main technical goal of the
mission, demonstrating that two dissimilar craft could dock in orbit.
But the human side of the mission went far beyond that."
The Soyuz and Apollo vehicles were docked from July 17-19, 1975.
During that time, the three astronauts and two cosmonauts carried out
experiments and other activities. Apollo-Soyuz was the final mission
of the Apollo program and the last US human spaceflight mission prior
to the inaugural space shuttle mission in 1981.
Submit SSTV images to the ARISS SSTV image gallery, which will post
the best SSTV images received from this event.
The ISS cosmonauts will take time out from the SSTV transmissions on
July 18 to conduct an ARISS contact (starting at approximately 1655
UTC) with students attending the Moon Day/Frontiers of Flight Museum
event in Dallas, Texas. Streaming audio will be available.
ARISS International has expressed thanks ARISS-Russia's Sergey
Samburov, RV3DR, for his leadership on this historic commemoration. --
Thanks to AMSAT News Service via Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, ARISS
International Chair, and NASA
Inexpensively Made Satellite Closing in on 2 Years in Orbit and Still
Ticking
At just a few months shy of turning 2 years old, the $50SAT Amateur
Radio "PocketQube" microsatellite -- also known as Eagle 2 (MO-76) --
is still operating, although it's not entirely well either. The
satellite, which transmits on 437.505 MHz at a power of 100 mW, may be
heard using a handheld transceiver, but it does not include a
transponder. Launched in late 2013 from Russia, $50SAT is a
collaborative education project of Prof Bob Twiggs, KE6QMD, of
Kentucky's Morehead State University, and three other radio amateurs
-- Howie DeFelice, AB2S; Michael Kirkhart, KD8QBA, and Stuart
Robinson, GW7HPW.
Formerly of Stanford University, Twiggs and Jordi Puig-Suari of Cal
Poly are the co-inventors of the CubeSat model. $50SAT's stated
purpose was to evaluate if the PocketQube form factor offered a
cost-effective means for engineering and science students to use in
developing real-world skills. The "$50" is a bit of a misnomer. The
tiny satellite actually was constructed from about $250 worth of
parts. Kirkhart recently offered an update on $50SAT, which measures
just 5 × 5 × 7.5 cm and weights 210 grams.
"The good news is [that] it is still operating. The bad news is the
power situation has been degrading, with an apparent step change on or
near May 12, 2015, followed by another on June 23, 2015," he recently
posted.
Kirkhart, who lives in Michigan, said his last full telemetry capture
was on May 27, and the last time he heard $50SAT was on June 6. "I
continued to attempt to listen for it for another week or so, and
heard nothing," he said. $50SAT transmissions repeat about every 75
seconds, starting with an FM slow Morse code call sign beacon, data at
60 WPM Morse, and FSK RTTY data and digital data telemetry.
Michael Kirkhart, KD8QBA, demonstrates reception of MO-76 at Dayton
Hamvention 2015. [Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK, video image]
Since then, Kirkhart has been monitoring the satellite via the WebSDR
site of Anton Janovsky, ZR6AIC, as $50SAT makes daytime passes over
South Africa. "During these passes, where it has already spent a
significant amount of time in sunlight, the battery voltage is below
3400 mV," he said.
Kirkhart speculated that while loss of battery capacity is likely, "it
appears the low battery voltage is due to low solar power output." He
said this could be a result of solar cell damage; since there was no
protective covering on the solar cells, the impact of high-energy
particles could have damaged the solar cells, resulting in a drop in
output. He also said the solar cells could have been damaged through
thermal cycling. A short circuit is another possibility, but, Kirkhart
said that, because of the limited amount of telemetry gathered, "it
may not be possible to determine the exact cause."
He said that if the solar output continues to drop, the battery
voltage may never get above the 3300 mV threshold needed to enable the
transmitter, "at which point we will lose the ability to monitor its
status."
"Even if this does happen," Kirkhart continued, "we never really
thought it would last this long. We would have been happy if it just
worked, and really happy if it lasted a month or two." -- Thanks to
AMSAT News Service and Southgate ARC
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Remotely Controlled VY1AAA Puts Northern Territories on the Air for
Field Day, Canada Day
If you worked VY1AAA in Yukon Territory (Northern Territories or NT
Section) during Field Day 2015 or Canada Day, the operator was
actually in the US. VY1AAA is a Canadian club station call sign for
the station of J Allen, VY1JA, near Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Gerry
Hull, W1VE, was among those operating VY1AAA remotely from the K1B
Field Day site of the Contoocook Valley Radio Club (CVRC) in New
Hampshire. The operation was part of a project to provide remote
control capability for VY1JA, and Hull said the point of the VY1AAA
call sign was not to burden Allen with QSL chores. He said he's been
using Logbook of The World (LoTW) but will have some QSL cards printed
too. He added that he's already received "a ton" of QSL requests as a
result of the Field Day and Canada Day operations.
Gerry Hull, W1VE, operates VY1AAA remotely from the New Hampshire K1B
ARRL Field Day site. [Jim Idelson, K1IR, video image]
"We are up and running with the Ten-Tec Omni VII," Hull told ARRL.
"The antennas are still something in the works. He currently has two
ground planes mounted on power poles. We use the 40 meter antenna on
40, 15, and 10 and the 80 meter vertical on 20 via a high-power tuner.
This gives us 80-10 meter coverage." The project is looking into
additional equipment.
Hull, who worked at ARRL HQ as a technical editor in the early 1980s
under Doug DeMaw, W1FB (SK), said Allen hopes to install a new antenna
-- possibly a V beam or a rhombic -- using recycled utility poles for
supports. "J also has a 105 foot tower and a quad to get back up," he
added.
Allen, who has worked for an electric utility for years, will be
retiring and will have more time for station development, Hull said.
Meanwhile, Andy McLellan, VE9DX, has been working on getting WSJT,
PSK31, and RTTY modes up and running. Hull said he doesn't think
there's been much digital mode activity from Yukon Territory for some
time now.
"We are working out kinks, but, so far, so good," Hull concluded. A
video of the CVRC Field Day operation includes some VY1AAA contacts.
Read more.
New Horizons Phones Home
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its historic rendezvous with Pluto
this week. While there is no direct Amateur Radio involvement in the
Pluto flyby, many amateurs are curious about how NASA communicates
with New Horizons at a distance of nearly 3 billion miles.
At that vast distance, New Horzions' radio signal is extremely weak --
so weak that only the Deep Space Network's largest 70 meter parabolic
dish antennas and receivers are capable of detecting it. New Horizons
downlink transmissions take place on an X-Band frequency of
approximately 7 GHz. In terms of raw RF output, the traveling wave
tube amplifiers (TWTAs) aboard the spacecraft supply only 12 W to its
2.1-meter high-gain antenna.
New Horizons approaches Pluto. [NASA artist's rendering]
There are two TWTAs aboard New Horizons. Each is connected to a
separate radiating element at the antenna. One element is configured
for left-hand circular polarization and the other for right-hand
circular polarization. The original intent for using two TWTA was for
redundancy.
As the spacecraft was on its way to Pluto, however, engineers
discovered that they could use this cross-polarized configuration to
transmit two signals simultaneously. At the Deep Space Network they
designed a system to detect the separately polarized signals and
combine them for substantially greater gain.
A stronger signal means New Horizons can transmit at a higher data
rate -- about 1.9 times the rate than with a single TWTA.
Unfortunately, New Horizon's nuclear-powered generator has decayed
during its 10-year flight, and there is no longer enough power to run
two TWTAs at the same time, unless the team shuts down another onboard
system.
This is why it will take considerable time to download the treasure
trove of images and other information that New Horizons carries in its
memory. At present, New Horizons is transmitting data at just 1 kByte
per second. A typical image produced by LORRI, the Long Range
Reconnaissance Imager, is about 2.5 Mbytes, even when compressed. At
such a low transmitting data rate, it takes about 42 minutes for New
Horizons to transmit a single image to Earth -- and then there is the
4.5-hour trip at the speed of light! This is why mission scientists
are warning an impatient public that it will be well into 2016 before
all of the data arrives at Earth.
A footnote: In 2005, NASA invited individuals to sign on to the "first
mission to the last planet." Their names -- and sometimes Amateur
Radio call signs -- burned onto a compact disc went into deep space on
the New Horizons spacecraft. Participants, such as ARRL member Angel
Santana, WP3GW, received a certificate of appreciation from NASA. He
wondered how many other hams were among the more than 430,000 who took
NASA up on its invitation to, "Come with us as we complete the
reconnaissance of the solar system and unlock the secrets of Pluto,
its moon Charon, and the Kuiper Belt."
For more details about the New Horizons RF communication system, see
"The RF Telecommunications System for the New Horizons Mission to
Pluto" from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
-- Thanks to Steve Ford, WB8IMY; Angel Santana, WP4GW
In Brief...
ARRL 2015 Hurricane Season Webinar Set for Monday, July 20: A
reminder: The ARRL will host a 2015 Hurricane Season webinar on
Monday, July 20. The session will get under way at 8 PM EDT (0000 on
July 21). The approximately 90-minute session will address the role of
Amateur Radio during the 2015 Hurricane Season, which runs through
November. All who are interested in hurricane preparedness and
response are invited to register for this online presentation. The
program will include presentations by representatives of the National
Hurricane Center and WX4NHC, the VoIP Hurricane Net, the HWN, the
Canadian Hurricane Centre, and the ARRL. Webinar registration is open
to all, but should be of particular interest to radio amateurs in
hurricane-prone areas. The webinar will conclude with a Q&A session.
Register online. -- Thanks to Mike Corey, KI1U, ARRL Emergency
Preparedness Manager
Dayton Hamvention Reports 2015 Attendance Up Slightly Over 2014: The
official attendance at the 2015 Dayton Hamvention® was 25,621. That's
an increase from the official count of 24,873 visitors last year -- or
an additional 748 attendees. The 2013 attendance was 24,542.
Hamvention attendance peaked in 1993 at 33,669, before the 1996 change
in date from April to May. While attendance has fluctuated over the
years, Dayton Hamvention has grown to international proportions,
attracting members of the worldwide Amateur Radio community each
spring. The sponsoring Dayton Amateur Radio Association (DARA) already
has begun counting down the days to the next Hamvention, which will
take place May 20-22, 2016. -- Thanks to Henry Ruminski, W8HJR
DeorbitSail CubeSat Put into Orbit, Heard in US: The DeorbitSail
CubeSat, built by researchers and radio amateurs at the Surrey Space
Centre in Guildford, England, was launched into orbit on July 10. It
carries a 1200 bps BPSK beacon transmitting on 145.975 MHz. The first
DeorbitSail packet reports to the Surrey Space Centre came from Ken
Swaggart, W7KKE, in Oregon. Nitin Mutndex going from 8.9 to 12.3.
The geomagnetic field was active on July 11 when the mid-latitude A
index, the high latitude college A index, and planetary A index were
20, 44 and 23. Activity was greater on July 13, when the three indices
were 22, 45, and 32.
The July 11 activity was the result of a G1 class geomagnetic storm
caused by a high-speed solar wind stream; similar events caused the
July 13 activity. There is very little chance at present of solar
flares or geomagnetic storms over the next few days.
Predicted planetary A index is 5 on July 16-30; 18 on July 31; 25 on
August 1, and 12 on August 2. On August 3-5 the planetary A index is
predicted at 5; then 20 and 25 on August 6-7, and 8 on August 8-10.
For August 11 and beyond, the planetary A index prediction is 5.
Predicted solar flux is 100 on July 16-18; 105 on July 19-20; 100 on
July 21-22; 105 on July 23; 110 on July 24-25; 115 on July 26; 120 on
July 27-31, and 115 on August 1-4. Solar flux is expected to rise to
120 again after August 22.
Recently there have been only a few new sunspot groups -- one each on
July 7, 8, 10, and 12.
In Friday's bulletin look for reports from readers and updated
forecasts. Send me your reports and observations.
Just Ahead in Radiosport
July 18 -- Trans-Tasman Low-Bands Challenge (CW, digital)
July 18 -- Feld Hell Sprint
July 18-19 -- North American QSO Party RTTY
July 18-19 -- CQ Worldwide VHF Contest (CW, phone, digital)
July 18-19 -- DMC RTTY Contest
July 19 -- RSGB Low Power Contest (CW)
July 20 -- Run for the Bacon QRP Contest (CW)
July 22 -- SKCC Sprint (CW)
July 22-23 -- CWops Mini-CWT Test (CW)
July 23 -- RSGB 80 Meter Club Championship (Digital)
Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions and Events
July 17-19 -- Montana State Convention, East Glacier, Montana
July 23-26 -- Central States VHF Society Conference, Westminster,
Colorado
July 24-25 -- Oklahoma Section Convention, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
July 31-August 2 -- Rocky Mountain Division Convention, Bryce Canyon,
Utah
August 1 -- Great Lakes Division Convention, Columbus, Ohio
August 7-8 -- South Texas Section Convention, Austin, Texas
August 7-9 -- New Mexico State Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico
August 7-9 -- Pacific Northwest DX Convention, Everett, Washington
August 15-16 -- Alabama State Convention, Huntsville, Alabama
August 16 -- Kansas State Convention, Salina, Kansas
August 21-23 -- New England Division Convention, Boxborough,
Massachusetts
August 22 -- West Virginia State Convention, Weston, West Virginia
August 30 -- Western Pennsylvania Section Convention, New Kensington,
Pennsylvania
September 5-6 -- Roanoke Division Convention, Shelby, North Carolina
September 11-12 -- W9DXCC, Schaumburg, Illinois
September 11-13 -- Southwestern Division Convention, Torrance,
California
September 12 -- Virginia Section Convention, Virginia Beach, Virginia
September 26 -- Washington State Convention, Spokane Valley,
Washington
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