[ans] ANS-105 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

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AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-105

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.

In this edition:

* Martlesham Microwave Roundtable on BATC Video Stream (April 15)
* Satellite tracking software for Mac
* Delft University of Technology Delfi-PQ PocketQube Receives IARU
Coordination
* What is a Lilac Doing in Space?
* AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2018 Call for Speakers
* Intercosmos – 40th year of international human flights – SSTV Award
* AMSAT Plans Hamvention Rollout for 2018 “Getting Started”
Satellite Book
* AMSAT Rover Award Certificate
* MiniTiouner-Express Receiver Assembly for ISS HamTV 2.395 GHz
Downlink
* ARISS News
* Satellite Shorts From All Over

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ANS-105 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 105.01
From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.
April 15, 2018
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-105.01

Here is a news item which is more timely released sooner than
the weekend news cycle … some of their topics and techniques
seem applicable to future satellites … microwave construction,
SDR, GNUradio …

AMSAT-UK relayed that the UKGHZ Martlesham Microwave Roundtable
Sunday [April 15] talks  will be streamed live on BATCOnline:
https://beta.batc.org.uk/live/mmrt

The Sunday programe will streamed live. The times are
apparently British Summer Time which I believe is UTC+1
this time of year.

Their programe includes:
09:00 Doors Open
09:50 Welcome and Opening
10:00 UK Microwave Group AGM, Trophy Presentations
10:45 Refreshments & Judging of the Construction Contest
11:00 An introduction to SDRs and GNU Radio – Heather Lomond M0HMO
11:45 Aircraft Scatter using Airscout – John Quarmby G3XDY
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 ATV on 5.6, 10 and 24GHz – Dave Crump G8GKQ
14:15 The Wednesday Digifest – John Worsnop G4BAO
15:00 Refreshments
15:15 UKuG Contest Forum – John Quarmby G3XDY
16:00 Close

[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]

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Satellite tracking software for Mac

Dog Park Software is pleased to announce that MacDoppler Version
2.28 has been released.

What’s New in this release ?
* TS-790A/E driver rewritten (TU IU1KBH).
* Added Country names to 2D map.
* Added Natural Earth III maps.
* Added 2D/3D map snap shots.
* VFO steppers improved. (manual page 11)
* Delete Mode or Satellite from Modes editor.
* 2D Track List check box persistence fixed.
* 2D Draw performance improved.

MacDoppler is used around the world by Amateur Radio operators,
satellite spotters, educators and commercial customers from CBS News
to the International Space Station Amateur Radio Hardware Management
program, Delta Telemetry Tracking and Control at Integrated Defence
Systems, Florida State University and the CalPoly CubeSat Project.

MacDoppler will provide any level of station automation you need
from assisted Doppler Tuning and Antenna Pointing right on up to
fully automated Satellite Gateway operation.

MacDoppler features:
* Full 2D and 3D OpenGL projection model of earth.
* Track List sorted in real-time order of next pass.
* Full predictive dead spot crossing so that a pass is never
interrupted by the beam heading passing a dead spot.
* Speech advisory of next satellite Rise and Maximum Elevation.
* Horizon Window shows elevation of upcoming passes on a time line.
* Tuning Dial Tracking allows you to tune the downlink from your
radio’s front panel while MacDoppler automatically adjusts the
uplink.

MacDoppler must be registered for some features to work and to work
beyond the 15 minute time limit.

This is a free upgrade for all MacDoppler Registered users and can
be downloaded from: http://dogparksoftware.com/MacDoppler.html

[ANS thanks Dog Park Software via Southgate ARN for the above
information]

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Delft University of Technology Delfi-PQ PocketQube Receives IARU
Coordination

Delfi-PQ is an educational PocketQube mission designed by the MSc
and BSc students at the Delft University of Technology in the
Netherlands. The design of this spacecraft has been carried out as
part of their curricula to acquire experience on the field. Students
are involved on all the mission phases and they will also participate
in operations.

The second goal of this mission is technology demonstration, being
this spacecraft one of the smallest ever launched belonging to the
PocketQube class with a size of 50x50x192 mm. It contains all the
required systems to operate in space.

It is one of the first PocketQubes to be launched and it is the
cornerstone for a series of PocketQubes from TU Delft with the aim
to iteratively advance the platform to enable ambitious scientific
objectives with networks of PocketQubes in the future.

Delfi-PQ mainly focusses to demonstrate a reliable core system
(comprising a power system, a communication system, an attitude
control system and an on-board computer). Furthermore, it will
host a few small-scale experiments which can be used for technology
research.

These experiments are related to future propulsion, more advanced
attitude control, navigation, thermal analysis and control. The
orbital life time of Delfi-PQ is currently foreseen to be very short
(only up to 150 days due to the low orbit of deployment). This will
ensure the spacecraft cannot contribute to the space debris problem
and also it will occupy its assigned frequency band for a very short
time, preventing spectrum pollution.

The demonstration of the core spacecraft and its experiments is
expected to take all the mission time, till deployment. The communi-
cation system, in particular, will be tested and the support of
amateurs will also be important.

AX.25 will be used worldwide to deliver telemetry. The protocol was
selected due to the widespread community around the world that make
already use of such a standard. A mode using advanced communication
protocol, using forward error correction, will be tested upon command
(and so receivable over Europe). This new protocol is decoded by the
provided decoding software. The decoding software will enable radio
amateurs to help estimating the performance of the receiver in
different conditions with statistics transmitted back to a central
server

In order to provide a return favor to the radio amateur community
for the use of the frequency bands, this mission will publish all the
instructions for satellite reception and telemetry decoding. A
decoding application will also be provided to radio-amateurs around
the world before launch to allow easy decoding with standard
hardware. This application will also be used to submit the received
frames to a central repository. The contribution from radio amateurs
in receiving the data will greatly enhance the mission.

To make it more exciting to participating radio amateurs, several
challenges will be organized. Examples of challenges are thereception
of the first and the last frame. In particular, the first received
frame will be important for the team to assess the status of health
of the spacecraft. The submitter will receive a prize for it.

Since the satellite will be deployed to only 350 km and the foreseen
operational lifetime is equal to the orbital life time, it will be
very interesting to monitor its deorbiting process. Next to this,
the number of received frames and the global distribution will also
lead to the definition of several challenges. All challenges will
have some small prize and achievement certificate associated with
it.

A UHF downlink on 436.650 MHz has been coordinated by the IARU. The
transmission protocol will be GMSK at up to 19k2 bps. Planned for a
launch on a Vector rocket from Kodiak Alaska in August 2018 with
other PocketQubes.

More information available on: http://delfispace.nl
The IARU coordination announcement can be accessed at:
http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=605

[ANS thanks the IARU and AMSAT-UK for the above information]

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What is a Lilac Doing in Space?

Student Built LilacSat-1’s Success with an Amateur Radio

Mission LilacSat-1 accomplished, according to the reports from the
students at the Harbin Institute of Technology.

The student built LilacSat-1 carries an amateur radio 145/436 MHz FM
to Codec2-BPSK digital voice transponder, APRS Digipeater and camera.

The satellite was developed at the Harbin Institute of Technology
and is part of the QB50 mission which aims to study the lower
thermosphere. It was deployed from the International Space Station at
0835 GMT on Thursday, May 25, 2017.

Shortly after deployment LilacSat-1 took a picture of the solar
panels on the ISS. The image was downloaded by the students on
436.510 MHz +/- 10 kHz Doppler Shift using 9600 bps BPSK.

The FM to Codec2-BPSK transponder was activated late afternoon GMT
on Thursday, May 25:

FM Uplink 145.985 MHz with 67 Hz CTCSS (PL Tone)
Codec2 9600 bps BPSK Downlink 436.510 MHz

The first contact using the Codec2 transponder took place on May 31
between Mike Rupprecht DK3WN and John Grant GI7UGV
http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=79889

LilacSat-1 radio information is at
https://tinyurl.com/ANS105-LilacSatRadioInfo

Adam Whitney K0FFY has documented how to receive the LilacSat-1
Codec2 Digital Voice transponder using the FUNcube Dongle Pro+ SDR
http://adamwhitney.net/working-lilacsat-1/

M6SIG live CD for LilacSat 1 and 2
http://chertseyradioclThe main payload is an ion and neutral
particle mass spectrometer (INMS) developed by the University of
London (UCL) to measure the mass and distribution of charged and
neutral atoms.

LilacSat-1 signal received by JA0CAW

In preparation for the deployment HIT students installed new VHF and
UHF antennas for the ground station.

Harbin Institute of Technology Amateur Radio Club BY2HIT
http://www.by2hit.net/
http://weibo.com/by2hit/
http://www.qsl.net/by2hit/
https://www.qrz.com/db/BY2HIT

LilacSat-1 page (use Google translator)
http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/?page_id=143

QB50 LilacSat-1 information https://upload.qb50.eu/detail/CN02/

IARU information
http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=343

Keplerian Two Line Elements (TLEs) ‘Keps’ for new satellites
launched in past 30 days
https://tinyurl.com/ANS105-LiliacSatTLE

Lilacsat 1 and 2 decoder now available on Experimental Raspberry Pi
(3) image with GNU radio / gr-lilacsat
https://tinyurl.com/ANS105-LiliacSatDecoder

LilacSat-1 Codec2 downlink by Daniel Estévez EA4GPZ / M0HXM
http://destevez.net/2016/10/lilacsat-1-codec-2-downlink/

Updated LilacSat-1 Live CD from M6SIG latest link at
https://tinyurl.com/ANS105-LilacSatLiveCD

[ANS thanks Jill Durfee and Satnews for the above information]

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AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2018 Call for Speakers

This is a call for speakers for the AMSAT-UK International Space
Colloquium 2018 which, will be held this year on 13-14 October, in
conjunction with the RSGB Convention at Kents Hill Park Conference
Centre, Milton Keynes, MK7 6BZ, United Kingdom .

AMSAT-UK invites speakers, to cover topics about Amateur satellites,
CubeSats, Nanosats, space and associated activities, for this event.

They are also invited to submit papers for subsequent publishing on
the AMSAT-UK web site or in Oscar News.

We appreciate that it is not always possible to give a firm
indication of attendance at this stage but expressions of interest
would be appreciated.

Submissions should be sent via e-mail to: dave@g4dpz.me.uk

AMSAT-UK also invite anyone with requests for Program Topics to
submit them as soon as possible to G4DPZ. Invitations for any papers
on specific subjects will be included in the future call. Likewise if
anyone knows of a good speaker, please send contact and other
information to G4DPZ.

[ANS thanks Dave, G4DPZ for the above information.]

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Intercosmos – 40th year of international human flights – SSTV Award

Please act now as the deadline is May 15th, 2018.

SSTV from the International Space Station was active April 11-14
worldwide as part of Cosmonautics Day, which takes place on April 12.

Images were related to the Interkosmos project
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interkosmos).

This activity covered most of the world during the operational period.

The images were be transmitted on 145.800 MHz and the mode was PD120.

A special Award has been made available to those posting reception
reports.

To obtain the Award one should receive and decode at least one
picture during the activity period. The quality of the received image
does not have to be perfect, but good enough to identify the picture.
Partial images are acceptable.

The award is in electronic format (JPG). It will be sent by e-mail.

The criteria as follows must be met to obtain the Award:

Load your decoded images on the page:
www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php

Fill in the application form on https://ariss.pzk.org.pl/sstv/
Please act now as the deadline is May 15th, 2018.

Details and a list of ARISS SSTV Award winning stations are
available at: https://ariss.pzk.org.pl/sstv/

[ANS thanks Armand, SP3QFE, for the above information]

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AMSAT Plans Hamvention Rollout for 2018 “Getting Started” Satellite
Book

Gould Smith’s book, “Getting Started With Amateur Satellites”, is
being updated to tell you all about how you can get ready to operate
through the Fox-1 satellites launching later this year. Additional
chapters in the book tell you about tracking software, orbital
mechanics, antennas, radios, Doppler tuning, and operating
techniques. Chapters are also being added to tell you about the new
satellites (and there are many)soon becoming available for amateur
radio.

Going beyond brief descriptions in hamfest flyers, this book will
provide a complete reference for new satellite users to assemble a
basic station and to make your first satellite contacts. Also this
book you will teach you how to incrementally upgrade your initial FM
satellite station, time and budget permitting, to include automated
tracking as well as operating through the CW/SSB linear passband
satellites.

A companion Fox Operating Guide reference sheet is ready for release
at Hamvention 2018. This will be made available for the AMSAT
Ambassadors (formerly FieldOps) team for distribution at hamfests
and satellite operating demonstrations.

Watch for the 2018 “Getting Started With Amateur Satellites” book
and reference sheet at the AMSAT booth at the Hamvention. The book
will also be available in the AMSAT Store shortly after Hamvention:
https://www.amsat.org/shop/

[ANS thanks AMSAT’s 2018 Hamvention Team for the above information]

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AMSAT Rover Award Certificate

It has been awhile, the voting was in and the certificate has been
created. For those that have earned the award, the certificates will
be going out to the address in your AMSAT online store order soon.

If you would like to see what the certificate looks like, it is on
the AMSAT Rover Award web page.

https://www.amsat.org/amsat-rover

Thanks to everyone that submitted a picture to use on the award.

[ANS thanks Bruce KK5DO for the above information.]

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MiniTiouner-Express Receiver Assembly for ISS HamTV 2.395 GHz Downlink

A receiver suitable for the ARISS/HamTV 2.395 GHz DVB-S downlink
from the ISS is now available for purchase. The MiniTiouner-Express
receiver/tuner/analyzer assembly is a completely assembled and tested
unit contained in a small aluminum enclosure about the size of a 2
stack deck of cards.

The DATV-Express group created the design, construction and sale
of the Minitiouner-Express receiver. It is used with the free soft-
ware by Jean Pierre Courjaud F6DZP. The unit connects between an
antenna(s) and a PC computer USB2 or USB3 port using the Windows 7,
8 or 10 operating system. It receives DVB-S/S2 144MHz to 2420MHz
digital television signals for symbol rates between 100K and 10M
symbols/sec when used with the F6DZP MiniTioune software.

In operation, the computer monitor displays the received video and
graphic landing dot constellation to show the incoming signal level,
quality, FEC, MER and setup information.

The MiniTiouner-Express Receiver/Analyzer unit can be ordered from
the http://www.datv-express.com/ website. You need to first logon
to the website (or first register if you are a new user). Use the
PURCHASE A PRODUCT tab to order the product via PayPal.

The price for the MiniTiouner-Express unit is US$75 + shipping
Shipping for USA is US$7.00
Shipping to the European Union is US$24.00 including the VAT
Shipping anywhere international is US$35.00
Although initial stock has been depleted more units are on the way.

The MiniTiouner-Express User Guide (draft13) can be downloaded from
http://www.datv-express.com/CustomPage/Downloads

Information about the ARISS HamTV project can be found at:
http://www.ariss-eu.org/columbus/ham-video

The HamTV downlink from the ISS has recently only been active for
selected school contacts. HamTV often transmits a “blank signal”
useful for receiver and antenna testing when not in use for school
contacts.

[ANS thanks Daniel Cussen, EI9FHB via the HamTV@yahoogroups.ca list
for the above information]

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ARISS News

+ A Successful contact was made between Pinson Valley HS, Pinson,
AL, USA and Astronaut Ricky Arnold KE5DAU using Callsign NA1SS.
The contact began 2018-04-10 18:02 UTC and lasted about nine and a
half minutes. Contact was Direct via KN4BBD
ARISS Mentor was John K4SQC.

+ A Successful contact was made between About Gagarin from space
Session of radio amateur communication with Vologda branch of PJSC
“Rostelecom “, Vologda, Russia and Cosmoonaut Oleg Artemyev using
Callsign RS0ISS. The contact began 2018-04-10 13:37 UTC and lasted
about nine and a half minutes. Contact was Direct via RN1QC,
ARISS Mentor was Sergey RV3DR.

+ A Successful contact was made between Freeport Public Schools,
Freeport, NY, USA and Astronaut Scott Tingle KG5NZA using Callsign
OR4ISS. The contact began 2018-03-27 17:41 UTC and lasted about nine
and a half minutes. Contact was Telebridge via IK1SLD.
ARISS Mentor was Steve W2AKK.

Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:

Additional information can be found at http://ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/

Salado Intermediate School, Salado, TX, direct via K5LBJ
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Scott Tingle KG5NZA
Contact is a go for: Tue 2018-04-17 16:44:23 UTC 24 deg

Central Islip Union Free School District, Central Islip, NY, direct
via KD2IFR
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Ricky Arnold KE5DAU
Contact is a go for: Wed 2018-04-18 15:57:46 UTC 28 deg
The school will be hosting an ARISS contact on Wednesday April 18 at
15:57:46 UTC. The video stream of the contact will be available
online.

King’s High School, Warwick, UK, direct via GB4KHS
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Ricky Arnold KE5DAU
Contact is a go for: Thu 2018-04-19 12:05:19 UTC 72 deg

Russian school TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS
The scheduled astronaut is Alexander Skvortsov
Contact is a go for Tue 2018-04-24 11:05 UTC

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS
The scheduled astronaut is Alexander Skvortsov
Contact is a go for 2018-04-25 08:35 UTC

[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above
information]

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Satellite Shorts From All Over

+ Video playlist for PocketQube 2018 Workshop at TU Delft

https://tinyurl.com/ANS105-PocketQube

[AMSAT-UK and AlbaOrbital via Twitter]

+ 7X3WPL Sahara DX Club

7X3WPL is now QRV permanently from Sahara DX Club in Laghouat. They
are using a Kenwood TS-2000, G5500 rotor and Wimo X-Quad for 2m and
70cm. (via Abdel M0NPT /7X2TT on amsat-bb)

[ANS thanks Sahara DX Club for above information]

+ The March/April 2018 edition of Apogee View, an update on AMSAT’s
activities from AMSAT President Joe Spier, K6WAO, has been posted to
the AMSAT website.

https://www.amsat.org/apogeeview/

[ANS thanks Paul N8HM for the above information.]

+ NASA e-Book Free Download

The flight directors in charge of the teams that oversee its
systems have written a 400-page book that offers an inside look at
the time and energy the flight control team at the Mission Control
Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston devote to the
development, planning and integration of a mission.

“The International Space Station: Operating an Outpost in the
New Frontier”, is now available to download for free at
https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/index.html.

Additional details are available at:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/ANS105-BookDetails

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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,
This week’s ANS Editor,
EMike McCardel, AA8EM
aa8em at amsat dot org
_______________________________________________
Via the ANS mailing list courtesy of AMSAT-NA
http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/ans

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-049

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-049

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.

In this edition:

* Upcoming AO-92 Operations Schedule
* SatPC32 12.8d is released
* ARRL 2018 Teacher Institute to Include Amateur Satellites, Telemetry
* Kettering University Student Brings Ham Radio Hobby, Expertise to
Campus
* AMSAT Argentina Balloon Flight Completes 2nd Trip Around the World
* AMSAT Phase 4 Ground Station Update: FPGA, RFNoC, SDSoC
* AA5UK Announces March 1 Cayman Island Satellite Activation
* Phase 4 Ground Weekly Report!
* Volunteer Opportunity – Openings for News Service Rotating Editor
* ARISS News
* Satellite Shorts From All Over

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-049.01
ANS-049 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 049.01
From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.
February 18, 2018
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-049.01

Upcoming AO-92 Operations Schedule

AO-92 operations are scheduled among the U/v FM repeater, L-Band
Downshifter, Virginia Tech Camera, and the University of Iowa’s High
Energy Radiation CubeSat Instrument (HERCI).

For the week of 18 – 24 Feb 2018, the following mode changes are
scheduled:

Approximately 0200UTC 18Feb we will enable the L band uplink for ~24
hours

Approximately 0255UTC 20Feb we will enable high speed data in order
to download from the HERCI experiment for 40 minutes

Approximately 1540UTC 21Feb we will enable high speed data in order
to download from the VT camera for 40 minutes

Approximately 0215UTC 22Feb we will enable high speed data in order
to download from the HERCI experiment for 40 minutes

All other times the U/v repeater will be open continuously.

[ANS thanks Drew KO4MA for the above information]

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SatPC32 12.8d is released

The English version of SatPC32 12.8d is now available for download on
the author’s web page.

http://www.dk1tb.de/downloadeng.htm

Here’s What’s New in the 12.8d version:

1. The CAT commands of the IC-9100 have been extended again. The
program now also controls the DV mode (DV for ‘Digital Voice’) of the
radio. The operating mode must be entered as DV in the file
Doppler.SQF. With the FT-817 the program now additionally supports
the CWR mode.

2. All SatPC32 programs now process significantly larger Keplerian
element source files. Especially because of the numerous new
Cubesats, the number of data sets contained in the source files has
increased significantly. For example the file Cubesat.txt currently
contains data for nearly 400 satellites. The previous version of the
SatPC32 programs could only read up to 320 data sets (only SatPC32
itself up to 500). All SatPC32 programs have been expanded to handle
sets of up to 1500 satellites.

3. In all programs (SatPC32, SatPC32ISS, Wisat32, WinAOS and
WinListen), the list of satellites contained in the source file
(‘Available’ list in menu Satellites) is now displayed in
alphabetical order to facilitate locating individual satellites.

4. The program SatPC32ISS now also allows the creation of up to 12
satellite groups. The new Cubesats have also increased the number of
‘in-band’ satellites. Originally, in-band operation in amateur radio
was only available at the ISS.

5. In order to accelerate a change between the individual satellite
groups, the ‘Groups’ window can now be called up by clicking on
vacant areas of the main window, except in the Satellite menu. Such
free positions are located on the right and left of the frequency
window. Editing the groups (create or delete a group, add or remove
satellites) can only be done in the Satellites menu.

6. In the Satellites menu the data sets of the satellites contained
in the active source file can now be displayed. When called, the data
set of the currently selected satellite is displayed. The feature
helps you to immediately know the identifier of the satellite. This
allows you to add an entry to the file ‘AmsatNames.txt’ (menu ‘?’
‘Auxiliary files’), so that the satellite can be displayed in the
entire program with its AMSAT name or with a user defined name.

7. The program has improved control of the sub-audible tone required
by some satellites. For many years SO-50 was the only such satellite.
Switching sub tone was no issue. Now we have several (AO-85, AO-91,
AO-92) The program can now automatically switch the sub tone on/off
when switching between PL tone satellites and others, changing
between u/v and v/u satellites, changing the group, closing the
program etc.

8. In addition, numerous minor changes and error corrections have
been made some people have complained about the difficulty of
manually adding a new satellite and its corresponding tuning
information. The Programs menu can now launch the W9KE
DopplerSqfEditor to aid this process.

Please read the instructions before installing or updating the
program. You probably want to run the DataBackup program before
updating an existing version. Existing registration codes work with
the new version.

Thanks to Erich Eichmann DK1TB for donating this software to AMSAT.
Sale of registration codes and CDs is a major fund raiser for AMSAT.
And thanks to Erich for providing user support on amsat-bb and
updating the program for 20 years. No other satellite tracking
program provides such comprehensive radio Doppler tuning.

[ANS thanks Wayne W9AE for the above information]

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ARRL 2018 Teacher Institute to Include Amateur Satellites, Telemetry

As part of its educational outreach through the Education &
Technology Program (ETP), ARRL will offer three sessions of the
Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology this July. The week-long
workshops will be held at ARRL Headquarters in Newington,
Connecticut, and in Dayton, Ohio — hosted by the Dayton Amateur Radio
Association (DARA). The Teachers Institute (TI) is an expenses-paid,
professional development seminar that provides teachers at all grade
levels with tools and strategies to introduce basic electronics,
radio science, space technology, and satellite communication, as well
as weather science, introduction to micro-controllers, and basic
robotics in their classrooms.

The Teachers Institute curriculum is designed for motivated teachers
and other school staff who want to learn more about wireless
technology and bring that knowledge to their students. The goal of
the TI program is to equip educators with necessary foundational
knowledge and — through hands-on learning — generate the inspiration
for teachers to continue exploring wireless technology and adapt what
they learn to their classroom curricula.

Interested educators can apply online. The $100 enrollment fee is
refunded for applicants who are not selected. A qualified applicant
must be an active teacher at an elementary, middle, high school, or
community college/university, or in a leadership or enrichment
instruction role in an after-school program.

Session Location Dates Instructor

TI – 2 Newington, CT July 9 – July 12 Matt Severin N8MS
TI – 1 Dayton, OH July 16 – July 20 Larry Kendall K6NDL
TI – 1 Newington, CT July 23 – July 27 Tommy Gober N5DUX

Topics covered in the TI-1 “Introduction to Wireless Technology”
workshop include basic electronics, radio science, microcontroller
programming, and basic robotics. Among other activities, participants
will learn how to solder and practice by building a small project.
They’ll also learn basic circuit concepts and learn how to use basic
test equipment. In addition, TI-1 attendees will learn about Amateur
Radio, take part in a hidden transmitter hunt, see demonstrations of
Amateur Radio satellite communication, and build and program their
own simple robots.

The TI-2 “Remote Sensing and Data Gathering” workshop will
concentrate on analog-to-digital conversion and data sampling.
Participants will receive telemetry from Amateur Radio satellites and
apply it to math and science topics. TI-2 participants will also
construct a marine research buoy equipped with environmental sensors,
build a microcontroller to sample the data, configure it for
Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) transmission, and receive
and upload data to a spreadsheet for analysis.

Holding an Amateur Radio license is not required for the
“Introduction to Wireless Technology” workshop (TI-1), but one is
required by those planning to attend the advanced “Remote Sensing and
Data Gathering” workshop (TI-2), and applicants to the advanced
workshop must have completed TI-1.

The grant to attend a TI covers transportation, hotel, and a modest
per diem allowance to cover meals, instructional resources, and a
resource library of relevant ARRL publications.

Graduate credit is available through Fresno Pacific University,
which may be applied to satisfy professional growth requirements to
maintain teaching credentials. The class is self-contained, and
participants are expected to be able to complete all requirements
during the class time. Graduate credit forms may be requested at the
end of the Teachers Institute.

For more information, contact Ally Riedel ariedel at arrl.org at
ARRL Headquarters.

[ANS thanks ARRL Headquarters for the above information.]

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Kettering University Student Brings Ham Radio Hobby, Expertise to
Campus

Ruth Willet ‘21 has always been fascinated with Morse code,
especially when researching World War II. That fascination grew into
a hobby, and she soon found herself engrained in the amateur radio –
more commonly known as ham radio – community.

Willet, who is double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and
Engineering Physics, first got licensed in June 2015 as a ham radio
operator because of her interest in Morse code. She soon upgraded her
license in order to explore more aspects of the hobby.

Other hams know Willet as KM4LAO (Kilo Mike Four Lima Alpha Oscar),
the call letters of her government-issued ham radio license.

“It’s such a special hobby because there’s so many people that want
to get to know you and want to help you learn and grow. It really has
enabled me to mature into who I am today. I have gained incredible
friends from across the globe,” said Willet, a Georgia native. “This
hobby supplements very well what I’m doing at Kettering because it
has application in a lot of different subjects. I love seeing the
practical application of electronics, solar weather and the way radio
signals propagate around the globe. I am thrilled by the fact that I
can talk to someone who’s driving down the interstate 10 miles away,
bounce signals off of satellites to have conversations hundreds of
miles away, or talk around the world to someone in Africa. It’s
fascinating. You really learn a lot.”

Willet had to pass an exam given by the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) in order to receive her call sign and be allowed to
operate on the air. The three levels of Amateur radio licenses from
entry-level to most advanced are Technician, General, and Amateur
Extra. Willet upgraded to the Amateur Extra level license before she
graduated from high school.

Willet can use a hand-held radio to talk with someone across town,
or she can use a more robust radio that enables her to talk around
the world by reflecting her transmitted signal off the ionosphere.
There are fast-paced competitive events she participates in where she
is supposed to talk to as many people as possible within 24 hours.
She can operate in multiple ways, including Morse code, voice
communication or digital (which is similar to texting through ham
radio).

“The fun thing is that’s only the start. Amateur radio satellites
are orbiting the earth. You can bounce off the satellites and talk to
people halfway around the world,” Willet said. “We can also use our
skills to assist in emergency situations. For example, when Hurricane
Irma recently hit in Puerto Rico, amateur radio operators were some
of the only people who could communicate from the island to the
outside world.”

In 2016, Willet also participated in National Parks on the Air, a
worldwide event organized by the American Radio Relay League. Since
2016 was the centennial of the National Park Service (NPS), hams
wanted to help celebrate history by getting people to national parks,
seashores, monuments, and more. Ham radio operators went out and set
up portable radio stations, got on the air, and helped other hams
around the world conduct “virtual visits” to parks across the country.

When Willet came to Kettering University, she knew she wanted to
continue her ham radio activities. Kettering was appealing to her for
the small classes and the close-knit campus feel, on top of the co-op
experience.

“After coming for the LITE (Lives Improved Through Engineering)
summer program and seeing how personal everybody was at Kettering I
just really felt like it was a great fit. And I can’t turn down the
co-op experience,” Willet said. “I was first interested in Mechanical
Engineering because my grandfather had a book about basic machines
and how they work. I was fascinated with levers to complicated gears.
Then senior year of high school I took Physics and I loved it. Being
able to see the effects of basic physics on daily life was very
interesting to me. I’m learning as much as I can at school and
exploring opportunities both inside and outside the classroom so that
I can make the most of my time here.”

She has found that the skills she learns in classes go hand in hand
with her amateur radio hobby. Willet plans to start up an Amateur
Radio Club on campus in the spring 2018 term to get more students
interested.

“It’s a stress relief for me. I really enjoy sharing this hobby with
other students,” she said. “I would encourage people to consider
exploring amateur radio because it’s a hobby that allows you to
explore anything from technical electronics to international
friendships. Amateur radio is open to anyone. It will help develop
your professional and personal skills, participate in and learn from
fascinating activities, and connect with an incredible community.”

[ANS thanks Sarah Schuch and Kettering University for the above
information]

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AMSAT Argentina Balloon Flight Completes 2nd Trip Around the World

AMSAT Argentina reports that their earth circling El PicoGlobo
WSPR beacon balloon has now completed its 2nd lap around the
world.

After its 2nd crossing of the Pacific Ocean the balloon flew
over Patagonia, then headed north at 12,000 meters altitude to
Buenos Aires during the night of February 11. On February 12
it flew over Uruguay then turned east out over the Atlantic
Ocean to begin its 3rd circle of the Earth.

PicoGlobo transmits a WSPR beacon on 14.0956 MHz.

Flight progress can be followed at:
http://lu7aa.org.ar/wspr.asp
https://aprs.fi/#!call=a%2FLU1ESY-3&timerange=604800&tail=604800

[ANS thanks AMSAT Argentina for the above information]

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AMSAT Phase 4 Ground Station Update: FPGA, RFNoC, SDSoC

Michelle, W5NYV says the latest Phase 4 Ground Station Report
is available for viewing at: https://youtu.be/moKFVagY_Ro

This week you’ll see a video demo of the Voltera V-one system
available for circuit printing, solder paste and reflow to
enable prototype development.

Work has been progressing on the FPGA or field programmable
gate array which is at the heart of many modern software defined
radios. Having powerful reconfigurable digital logic realizes a
lot of the promise of SDRs. Balancing the workload between the
general purpose processor and the FPGA is a big challenge.

The RFNoC, or Radio Frequency Network on a Chip from Ettus Research
for the 300 series USRPs before. RFNoC lets you place blocks that
run on the FPGA in GNU Radio as if they were being run by the host
computer. This lets you use the FPGA to full advantage within GNU
Radio Companion.

A comparison is made with the SDSoC, the Software Defined System
on a Chip ,a tool from Xilinx.

The team is looking for your help! If you can help ease the process
of learning this environment, please let Michelle know:
W5nyv@amsat.org

[ANS thanks Michelle, W5NYV and the AMSAT Phase 4 Ground Station
team for the above information]

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AA5UK Announces March 1 Cayman Island Satellite Activation

ZF2, CAYMAN ISLAND (Satellites, Grids, HF). Adrian, AA5UK, will once
again be operating as ZF2AE from Grand Cayman (between March 1-4th)
and ZF2AE/ZF8 from Little Cayman (between March 5-10).

Activity will be holiday style (usually) on 40-10 meters using a IC-
7300 and vertical antenna.

Operations will be focused on the Digital modes (FT8, RTTY,
PSK and other digital modes upon request)with possibly some SSB, and
the satellites using 2x FT-817s and Arrow Antenna for satellite. Most
of his activity will be in the afternoons and evenings. For the
latest operational updates, watch his Twitter links <@AA5UK and @ ZF2AE>. QSL direct to AA5UK with a SAE/SASE, LoTW or eQSL.

[ANS thanks Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin #1351 for the above information]

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Phase 4 Ground Weekly Report!

Voltera Circuit printer for prototyping is up and running the Hello
World circuit.

Video of this report at https://youtu.be/rdjKZCc9g74

There will be plenty more reports and feedback about the badge
design over coming week as the JoCo Cruise embarks. Several of our
team members are on the cruise and we can’t wait to hear all about
it. Everything that we’ve learned on this effort will be applied to
the Hamvention badge, and to the Phase 4 Ground radios.

We have some Software Defined System on a Chip progress. We have
received our Xilinx specific JTAG Cable. Here it is!

Charles Brain has been battling Petalinux and linux builds for his
environment. Plenty of learning going on there. Some of us have
received additional hardware from LimeSDR and there is more on the
way.

We have received very positive news from from Critical, the makers
of Snickerdoodle, that official board definition files are in
progress and will be available very soon. This means that those of us
that are ordinary tool users, and not necessarily advanced tool
makers, will be able to experiment and make progress with the
Snickerdoodle, Xilinx Vivado, and the Xilinx SDK, more easily.

SDSoC allows you to take functions written in C and C++, evaluate
whether they would be better run on either the general purpose
processor or the FPGA, and then assign them to the proper hardware.

The 5GHz RF team is learning a lot about the impact of connectors on
performance, and are evaluating some higher quality solutions.

Several sets of team members are working on transverter designs.
This is a very active and interesting area of investigation. There’s
a large number of tradeoffs and design patterns involved. We have a
10GHz specific effort, a high-performance multi band effort, the 5GHz
RF team previously featured, and more. If you are interested in RF
designs, then we are here to help.

Ed Friesma at UNLV is taking on more of the correlator design. Our
next report will be all about the progress on the DVB-S2 correlator,
the GNU Radio block, what we can leverage from the GPU
implementation, and next steps.

On the 28th of February, we will have two guest speakers at our
regular ASCENT conference call. Nate and Neal from Ettus Research
will be addressing questions about the Careful COTS design of a USRP
300 series board for use in space. Having a powerful SDR at the heart
of an amateur radio payload would put us in excellent position to
deploy any modulation scheme we want. The Careful COTS version of a
USRP is why Phase 4 Space was founded, and we’ve had a very good week
in terms of outreach and evangelism.

There’s good news in an update to the Phase 4B mission on the Wide
Field Of View satellite, with a launch scheduled for 2020. You can
read about it in the article linked in the notes, from this past June.

Our job on Phase 4 Ground is to make sure that you have a radio that
can use this or any other payload that uses the Five and Dime air
interface. And of course we want to fill up terrestrial microwave
with the same fun and easy to use broadband digital microwave
signals. If you’re interested in learning more, then get in touch.

http://www.losangeles.af.mil/…/final-rfp-released-for-laun…/

Plenty going on and lots of fun to be had. We will have a booth at
Dayton as soon as possible, and we will be asking for time to talk at
the Hamvention SDR forum about the Careful COTS effort, open source
successes, and the impact of SDR advances on licensed and unlicensed
services.

After Hamvention is DEFCON. And we might have something up our
sleeves this year.

I’m working very hard on setting up a workshop and hackfest at GNU
Radio Conference 2018, which will be held September 17-21 in
Henderson, Nevada. This hackfest will focus on developing GNU Radio
receiver blocks for DVB-S2 and S2X. If you are on the team or a
supporter or find yourself interested in all of this, then please
consider coming to the conference and participating in this effort.
Tickets will be available very soon. It’s a volunteer run event made
possible by people just like you.

And, there’s an open space initiative from Lockheed Martin that we
need to take a serious look at, and some new products on the market
that might make our GSE and DVB-S2X manufactured solutions a bit
easier. Howie DeFelice is on that trail and will report back. See you
next week!

[ANS thanks Michelle W5NYV for the above information]

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Volunteer Opportunity – Openings for News Service Rotating Editor

If you’re open to volunteering to help AMSAT this is your chance!
We have openings for a few volunteers willing to help as an AMSAT
News Service editor.

Our editors work on a rotating schedule with each taking turns as
the current week’s news editor. Using input received from members,
the amateur radio community, officers, plus our other editors your
job is to assemble the AMSAT News Service bulletin for your week.
(Template is provided to help you format the message.)

If you can help contact our Senior News Service Editor, Lee McLamb,
KT4TZ via his e-mail: kt4tz at amsat.org

(Ed. note: the need for at least one, hopefully many volunteer
editors, is immediate. K9JKM will be retiring at the end of March
with extensive travel plans, often out of reach of the internet.)

[ANS thanks the AMSAT News Service for the above information]

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ARISS News

+ A Successful contact was made between Naka Junior High School,
Kakamigahara City, Japan and Astronaut Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP using
Callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2018-01-22 10:23 UTC and lasted
about nine and a half minutes. Contact was Direct via 8J25D.
ARISS Mentor was Satoshi 7M3TJZ.

+ A Successful contact was made between The English School, Nicosia,
Cyprus and Astronaut Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP using Callsign NA1SS. The
contact began 2018-01-24 10:35 UTC and lasted about nine and a half
minutes. Contact was Telebridge via W6SRJ.
ARISS Mentor was Armand SP3QFE.

+ A Successful contact was made between Central Magnet Math &
Science ES/Batesville School District, Batesville, AR and Astronaut
Joe Acaba KE5DAR using Callsign OR4ISS. The contact began 2018-01-31
16:42 UTC and lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was
Telebridged via IK1SLD.
ARISS Mentors was Keith W5IU.

+ A Successful contact was made between Moore Square AIG/GT Magnet
School, Raleigh, NC and Astronaut Scott Tingle KG5NZA using Callsign
NA1SS. The contact began 2018-02-05 18:32 UTC and lasted about nine
and a half minutes. Contact was Direct via KG4AKV
ARISS Mentors were Steve W1HQL and Ryan W4NTR.

+ A Successful contact was made between Vilniaus Jono Basanaviciaus
Gymnasium together with Vilniaus Jono Basanaviciaus Progymnasium,
Vilnius, Lithuania and Astronaut Joe Acaba KE5DAR using Callsign
OR4ISS. The contact began 2018-02-14 12:37 UTC and lasted about nine
and a half minutes. Contact was Direct via LY1BWB
ARISS Mentor was Eskil SM5SRR.

+ A Successful contact was made between Los Angeles Academy Middle
School, Los Angeles, CA and Astronaut Joe Acaba KE5DAR using
Callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2018-02-15 17:45 UTC and lasted
about nine and a half minutes. Contact was Direct via W6RVD
ARISS Mentor was Charlie AJ9N.

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule

“Galaxy – Children and Youth Center for Space Education”, Kaluga,
Russia, direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS
The scheduled astronaut is Alexander Misurkin
Contact is a go for 2018-02-18 10:45 UTC

Agrupamento de Escolas do Fundão, Fundão, Portugal, direct via CS5DBB
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS
The scheduled astronaut is Scott Tingle KG5NZA
Contact is a go for: Wed 2018-02-21 09:38:11 UTC 33 deg

Museum of Science & Technology – Danforth Middle School, Syracuse,
NY, direct via K2MST
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP
Contact is a go for: Fri 2018-02-23 14:08:52 UTC 28 deg

School in Kursk, Russia, direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS
The scheduled astronaut is TBD
Contact is a go for Sat 2018-02-24 08:45 UTC
Watch for possible time update

[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and David AA4KN for the above
information]

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Satellite Shorts From All Over

+ European FOSDEM Talks Playlist

The Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting
(FOSDEM) is a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote
the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. A playlist
of the talks is posted at:
https://tinyurl.com/ANS49-FOSDEM

[ANS thanks FOSDEM for the above information]

+ Congratulations to Mikey White, K7ULS for completing his Worked
All States – Satellite on February 13. Mikey says state #50 was
Rhode Island. Bob Mattaliano, N6RFM provided the connection at
the Rhode Island end. Mikey posted a video at:

[ANS thanks Mike K7ULS via AMSAT North America Facebook]

+ Photos needed for 2018 edition of AMSAT Getting Started With
Amateur Satellites.

Steve Belter, N9IP, recently tweeted that the editors of the 2018
edition of “AMSAT Getting Started With Amateur Satellites” are
looking for action photos of people in the act of operating the
satellites. Submissions with credits should be emailed to Steve
n9ip at amsat dot org.

[ANS thanks Steve N9IP for the above information]

+ The AMSAT Office will be closed on Monday, February 19th in
observance of Presidents’ Day.

[ANS thanks Martha for the above information.]

+ On February 16 Jeff, WB8RJY worked Jose, EB1AO in Spain via AO91.
The satellite was at 0.8 degrees for Jose and at 0.6 degrees for
Jeff for this QSO. Jeff commented, “Thats stretching the old
string pretty tight! Once again, amazing bird!” (via Twitter)

[ANS thanks Jeff WB8RJY 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,
This week’s ANS Editor,
EMike McCardel, AA8EM
aa8em at amsat dot org
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Date: 2018-01-14 18:12 GMT+08:00
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To: ans@amsat.org

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-014.01

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.

In this edition:

* Z-Sat Frequency Coordination Submitted to IARU
* Handy Fox 1D Links
* Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2018-01-12
* Nova Maker Faire
* AMSAT North America has issued a statement formally designating
Fox-1D as AO-92
* AMSAT Office Closed Monday January 15
* Satellite Shorts From All Over

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-014.01
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 309.01
From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.
November 5, 2017
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Z-Sat Frequency Coordination Submitted to IARU

AMSAT-UK reported that the IARU has received a frequency coordination
request from the Komaki Amateur Radio SATCOM Club in Japan for Z-Sat
50kg microsat with two missions:

(1) Mission: BBS service Exchanging messages between amateurs
all over the world in amateur service. Any amateur can use
the space station like a BBS by uploading and downloading
messages. The specific steps includes: An amateur radio
station transmits messages to the space station for indiv-
idual/public and these messages are stored in the space
station. Another amateur radio station transmits a specific
message to the space station and the space station transmits
a reply message whether any message to him exists or not.
If exists, the amateur radio station can receive the message
by transmitting a specific message to the space station.
Frequency band: – UPLINK : 435-438 MHz
DOWNLINK : 145-146 MHz
(Note: The usage of the BBS is shown in the following URL.
same as ChubuSat-2 except frequencies
https://www.frontier.phys.nagoya-
u.ac.jp/en/chubusat/chubusat_satellite2.html
(2) Mission: The Earth observation Imaging particular site with
the infrared camera.
Frequency band: – UPLINK : S-band – DOWNLINK : S-band
No launch defined but planning a sun synchronous LEO.
http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/formal_detail.php?serialnum=580

[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and the IARU for the above information]
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Handy Fox 1D Links

Fox-1D Launch Live Blog
https://www.amsat.org/fox-1d-launch-live-blog/

Fox Telemetry Leaderboard (With links to FoxTelem)
http://www.amsat.org/tlm/

AMSAT Live OSCAR Satellite Status Page (Report Fox-1D reception here)
http://amsat.org/status/

Getting Ready for Fox-1D PDF
https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Getting-
Ready-for-Fox-1D.pdf

Updates will be found on AMSAT’s Twitter
account (@AMSAT). Note that you do not need to be a Twitter user to
view AMSAT’s tweets.
https://twitter.com/AMSAT

The latest Keps can be found in AMSAT’s Keps distribution.
Any tracking software using the AMSAT Keps distribution should
identify new object “99934” after refreshing your Keps.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt

[ANS would like to thank Paul Stoetzer, N8HM for the above
information]

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2018-01-12

Quick list of scheduled contacts and  events:

Prva srednja informaticka škola, Zagreb, Croatia,  telebridge via
VK6MJ
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be  NA1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Scott Tingle KG5NZA
Contact is a go for:  Thu 2018-01-18 08:46:52 UTC 34  deg

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@amsat.org or aj9n@aol.com.

Listen for the ISS on  the downlink of 145.8Ø  MHz.

All  ARISS contacts are made via the Kenwood radio unless otherwise
noted.

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.

Looking  for something new to do?  How about receiving DATV from the
ISS?

If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for  complete
details.  Look for the buttons indicating Ham  Video.

http://www.ariss-eu.org/

If you need some  assistance, ARISS mentor Kerry N6IZW, might be
able to
provide some  insight.  Contact Kerry at  kbanke@sbcglobal.net
ARISS  congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored
over 100

schools:

Francesco IKØWGF with 132
Satoshi 7M3TJZ with  127
Gaston ON4WF with 123
Sergey RV3DR with  100

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.

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

The  complete schedule page has been updated as of 2018-01-12 00:00
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

Total  number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 1201.
Each school counts as 1  event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 1150.
Each  contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot.
Total number of  ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 47.

A complete year by year  breakdown of the contacts may be found in the
file.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf

Please  feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are
needed.

The  following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact:
Arkansas,  Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam,
Northern
Marianas  Islands, and the Virgin  Islands.

QSL  information may be found at:
http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html

ISS callsigns:  DPØISS, IRØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS,  RSØISS

The  successful school list has been updated as of 2018-01-04 09:00
UTC.

http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf

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_cor
rection
.rtf

Listing  of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30
UTC.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf

Check  out the Zoho reports of the ARISS  contacts

https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415

Exp.  53 on orbit
Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP
Alexander Misurkin
Joe Acaba  KE5DAR

Exp. 54 on orbit
Scott Tingle KG5NZA
Norishige  Kanai
Alexander  Skvortsov

[ANS would like to thank Charlie Sufana, AJ9N for the above
information]

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Nova Maker Faire is coming up March 18th. This year, the venue will
be the
GMU campus. Attendance last year was over 4000.

Last year’s AMSAT presence at the faire was a big hit. I hope you
guys can
exhibit again.

The organizers would like a placeholder application filled in by Jan
14.
Let me know if you need help with registering.

https://nova.makerfaire.com/cfm/

[ANS would like to thank AMSAT.org Office (Martha) for the above
information]

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Fox-1D was successfully launched at 03:59 UTC on the PSLV-C40 mission
from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. UA9UIZ received
and uploaded the first telemetry to AMSAT servers at 05:28 UTC.
Initial telemetry values appear nominal.

The first set of post-launch Keplerian elements are reproduced below:

Fox-1D
1 99934U 1801D    18012.18036412  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    15
2 99934  97.6514  74.0671 0008545 308.1824 275.3575 15.22876478    16

[ANS would like to thank Paul Stoetzer, N8HM for the above
information]

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AMSAT North America has issued a statement formally designating
Fox-1D as AO-92:

Fox-1D, a 1U CubeSat, is the third of AMSAT’s five Fox-1 CubeSats
to reach orbit, being preceded by AO-85 (Fox-1A) and AO-91 (RadFxSat/
Fox-1B). Fox-1D carries the Fox-1 U/v FM transponder, with an uplink
of 435.350 MHz (67.0 Hz CTCSS) and a downlink of 145.880 MHz. In addi-
tion, Fox-1D carries several university experiments, including a MEMS
gyro from Pennsylvania State University-Erie, a camera from Virginia
Tech, and the University of Iowa’s HERCI (High Energy Radiation Cube-
Sat Instrument) radiation mapping experiment. Fox-1D also carries
the AMSAT L-Band Downshifter experiment which enables the FM trans-
ponder to be switched to utilize an uplink of 1267.350 MHz (67.0 Hz
CTCSS).

Fox-1D was sent aloft as a secondary payload on the Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO)’s PSLV-XL rocket as part of the PSLV-C40
mission. Fox-1D was one of thirty-one satellites successfully deploy-
ed on this launch.

Since Fox-1D has met all of the qualifications necessary to receive
an OSCAR number, I, by the authority vested in me by the AMSAT
President,
do hereby confer on this satellite the designation AMSAT-OSCAR 92 or
AO-92. I join amateur radio operators in the U.S. and around the
world
in wishing AO-92 a long and successful life in both its amateur and
scientific missions.

I, along with the rest of the amateur community, congratulate all
of the volunteers who worked so diligently to construct, test and
prepare for launch the newest amateur radio satellite.

William A. (Bill) Tynan, W3XO
AMSAT-NA OSCAR Number Administrator

[ANS would like to thank JoAnne, K9JKM for the above
information]

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AMSAT Office Closed Monday January 15

The AMSAT Office will be closed on Monday, January 15th in
observance of
Martin Luther King Jr Day.

[ANS would like to thank AMSAT.ORG (Martha) for the above
information]

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Satellite Shorts From All Over

+ ARRL is picking up on Fox-1D news.
http://www.arrl.org/news/view/fox-1d-satellite-set-to-launch-this-
week-china-to-launch-five-new-cubesats

[ANS Joanne K9JKM, for the above information]

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+ AMSAT’s next Fox-1 satellite, Fox-1D, is scheduled for launch on
January 12, 2018 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota,
India.
Fox-1D will launch as part of the PSLV-C40 mission on board a Polar
Satellite Launch Vehicle with Cartosat, an imaging satellite for the
Indian government, and 30 other payloads.”

[ANS Jerry Buxton, N0JY for the above information]

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+ KK5DO reports we just issued Rover Award #005 to KG5GJT. Congrats
and keep on roving. Find details of the AMSAT Rover Award at:
https://www.amsat.org/amsat-rover-award/

[ANS Joanne K9JKM, for the above information]

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/EX

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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,
This week’s ANS Editor,
Chris Bradley, AA5EM
aa5em at amsat dot org
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