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[ans] ANS-299 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin – AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Elects Joe Spier, K6WAO, President

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AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN
ANS-299

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* AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Elects Joe Spier, K6WAO, President

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ANS-299 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin

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AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Elects Joe Spier, K6WAO, President

At it’s annual meeting, held at the Silver Legacy Resort Hotel in
Reno, NV, the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors elected Joe Spier, K6WAO, of
Reno, NV, President, succeeding Barry Baines, WD4ASW, who has retired
after nine years of service as AMSAT’s President. Joe is a Life Member
of AMSAT-NA and has previously served as Executive Vice President and
Vice-President Educational Relations. He also has Life Memberships in
the ARRL, SARA (Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers) and the AFA (Air
Force Association). He holds an Extra Class license as well as
commercial licenses.

Immediate Past President Barry Baines, WD4ASW, said “It has been an
honor to serve as President for the past nine years and as a board
member since 1999. I’m confident that the successes of the past nine
years while serving as President will lead to new opportunities in
AMSAT’s future as Joe assumes the helm working with the new Senior
Leadership Team. I’m also thrilled that Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, and
Clayton Coleman, W5PFG, are new voting members on the Board, including
the assumption of my former slot. I’m excited that the new Board
combined with the new Senior Leadership Team will bring insight,
enthusiasm, energy and commitment to move AMSAT forward.”

Other officers elected by the Board were:

* Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, of Washington, DC, as Executive Vice President
* Jerry Buxton, N0JY, of Granbury, TX, as Vice-President Engineering
* Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, of New Port Richey, FL, as
Vice-President Operations
* Clayton Coleman, W5PFG, of Granbury, TX, as Secretary
* Keith Baker, KB1SF/VA3KSF, of Corunna, ON, as Treasurer
* Martha Saragovitz of Silver Spring, MD, as Manager

[ANS the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors for the above information]

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IARU World ARDF Championship 2020

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Dear IARU Reg.3 ARDF friends,

Please find bellow information about 2010 Worlds ARDF Championships
planed in Serbia.
If you have any comments or objection, let me know.

Regards,

/_____________ GL 73 es 88 TU SK _____________/
de JF1RPZ JN3TMW JA4PHT VR2IZ NE6Z (ex KG6CEH)
Chairman of IARU Reg.3 ARDF Committee
Yoh Hiroshi Izuta Tokyo JAPAN (another QTH: Kobe)
jf1rpz@jarl.com hiroshi.izuta@nifty.com

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From: Jiri Marecek
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Subject: IARU World ARDF Championship 2020
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Dear friends,

just now we are in a process of approving the hosting society of the forthcoming IARU World ARDF Championship. The candidate is SRS (Serbia). You will find all information in the attached Minutes (point 11.2 and appendix F of the 39th PM and point 8 of the 40th PM). Would you please let me know, if you have any comments or objections?

Thank you for your cooperation.

Best ARDF regards/73!

Jiri, OK2BWN
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2017_39th ARDF WG Plenary Meeting Minutes

2017_40th ARDF WG Plenary_minutes

Sputnik 1! 7 Fun Facts About Humanity’s First Satellite

Sputnik 1! 7 Fun Facts About Humanity’s First Satellite
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | October 2, 2017 06:20pm ET

Photo Credit: vitazheltyakov, CC BY-NC-ND
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Introduction

The first-ever artificial satellite took to the skies on Oct. 4, 1957.

The launch of that craft, the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, kicked off the space age and the Cold War space race, the latter of which peaked when Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the surface of the moon in July 1969.

Here are a few fun facts you may not know about Sputnik 1 and its brief but world-changing mission.  [Sputnik 1, Earth’s First Artificial Satellite (Photos)]

Sputnik 1 was the size of a beach ball

Sputnik 1 weighed 184 lbs. (83 kilograms) and was 23 inches (58 centimeters) wide. (This measure refers to the satellite’s body; Sputnik 1 also featured two double-barreled antennas, the larger of which was 12.8 feet, or 3.9 meters, long.)

So, the satellite was quite small compared to the spacecraft of today, such as NASA’s Cassini Saturn orbiter, which was about the size of a school bus. But lofting something as heavy as Sputnik 1 was quite a feat in October 1957. Two months later, the United States tried to launch its first satellite — the 3.5-lb. (1.6 kg) Vanguard Test Vehicle 3 (TV3) — and failed.

The Soviet Union had been aiming bigger

Soviet space officials had wanted the nation’s first satellite to be much bigger than a beach ball. The original plan called for lofting a nearly 3,000-lb. (1,400 kg) craft outfitted with a variety of scientific instruments.

But development of this satellite, code-named “Object D,” progressed more slowly than expected, and Soviet officials grew increasingly worried that the United States might beat them to space. So, they decided to precede the launch of Object D with a “simplest satellite,” or “prosteishy sputnik” in Russian. Indeed, Sputnik 1 was also known as PS-1, Anatoly Zak noted at RussianSpaceWeb.com. (The literal translation of “sputnik,” by the way, is “traveling companion.”)

Sputnik 1 carried no scientific instruments. However, researchers did learn some things about Earth’s atmosphere by studying the beep-beep-beep radio signals emitted by the satellite.

The hulking Object D reached orbit as Sputnik 3 in May 1958, six months after Sputnik 2, which famously lofted a dog named Laika.

Sputnik 1 came perilously close to suffering the same fate as the United States’ TV3 satellite, which was destroyed in a launch failure on Dec. 6, 1957.

Sputnik 1 was lofted by an R-7 rocket, which consisted of four first-stage boosters — known as Blocks B, V, G and D — strapped onto a core second stage (Block A). During the launch, the Block G booster’s main engine reached its intended thrust levels later than expected.

“As a result, 6.5 seconds after the launch, the rocket started to pitch, deviating around 1 degree from the nominal trajectory 8 seconds after the liftoff,” Zak wrote. “In the effort to correct the increasing pitch angle, steering engines No. 2 and [No.] 4 on the core stage rotated as much as 8 degrees; similar engines on strap-on boosters of Block V and D rotated as much as 17-18 degrees, while tail air rudders rotated 10 degrees.

“Only a split second remained, after which the flight control system would terminate the flight of the underpowered rocket,” he added. “Fortunately, the engine finally reached normal performance, and [the] rocket fully returned to nominal trajectory some 18-20 seconds after the liftoff.”

Sputnik 1 eventually settled into an elliptical orbit, which took the satellite as close to Earth’s surface as 142 miles (228 kilometers) and as far away as 588 miles (947 km). The satellite zipped around Earth every 96 minutes.

Its mission was brief

Sputnik 1 was powered by three silver-zinc batteries, which were designed to operate for two weeks. The batteries exceeded expectations, as the satellite continued sending out its radio signal for 22 days.

The spacecraft continued lapping Earth in silence for a few more months, its orbit decaying and sending the craft steadily closer to the planet. The satellite finally burned up in the atmosphere on Jan. 4, 1958.

Photo Credit: Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty

Most Sputnik spotters actually saw its rocket

Though Sputnik 1 was small, it was quite reflective and therefore visible from Earth through a pair of binoculars (and perhaps even with the naked eye, if you had good vision and knew exactly where to look).

Many people reported seeing the satellite overhead in late 1957, but experts think most of these sightings actually involved the R-7. The rocket’s 85-foot-long (26 m) core stage also reached orbit, and it was covered with reflective panels to make tracking it easier. This rocket body fell back to Earth on Dec. 2, 1957, according to Zak.

Sputnik 1 led to the creation of NASA and DARPA

The launch of Sputnik 1 famously shook the United States.

“As a technical achievement, Sputnik caught the world’s attention and the American public off guard,” NASA historians wrote in 2007, in a piece marking the milestone’s 50-year anniversary. “Its size was more impressive than Vanguard’s intended 3.5-lb. payload. In addition, the public feared that the Soviets’ ability to launch satellites also translated into the capability to launch ballistic missiles that could carry nuclear weapons from Europe to the U.S.”

Such worries didn’t dissipate after the U.S. launched its first successful satellite, Explorer 1, on Jan. 31, 1958. American officials took several measures to boost the nation’s technological capabilities. These included creating the Advanced Research Projects Agency (later renamed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA) in February 1958 and NASA in October of that year. (NASA’s precursor organization, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, had been around since 1915.)

The satellite inspired the world ‘beatnik’

Sputnik 1’s huge cultural impact can be seen in the spate of “nik” neologisms its launch spurred, a few of which remain in use today. “Peacenik” is one well-known example, but the most famous is undoubtedly “beatnik,” which San Francisco newspaper columnist Herb Caen coined in 1958. (And beatnik, in turn, sparked another coinage — “neatnik.”)

Though Sputnik 1 raised “nik” to prominence in the U.S., the launch didn’t actually introduce the suffix — which is roughly equivalent to “er” in English — into the American lexicon; select Russian and Yiddish words had already done that. The term “no-goodnik,” for example, has been around since at least 1936, according to Merriam-Webster.com.

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