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AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-148
ANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America,
The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS 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.
Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to:
ans-editor@amsat.org
In this edition:
* AMSAT Runs SuitSat "Chicken Little" Contest
* ARISS Dayton Presentation Available Online
* ARISS Status May 22, 2006
* Dayton Pictures from Tom Clark, K3IO
* North Scotland Grid Square Opportunity
* ISS Crew Photographs Aleutian Islands Volcano Activity
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AMSAT Runs SuitSat "Chicken Little" Contest
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 148.01
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
May 28, 2006
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-148.01
AMSAT is holding a "Chicken Little" contest to see who can guess when
SuitSat-1 will re-enter the earth's atmosphere. There are three entry
categories: K-8, 9-12 and adult. Certificates will be provided to the
winners of each group. To enter the contest, go to:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/ariss/suitsatContest.php
[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI for the above information]
/EX
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ARISS Dayton Presentation Available Online
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 148.02
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
May 28, 2006
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-148.02
Those that missed Dayton and would like to see what the ARISS team presented
at the forum are welcome to view the charts online. In this set of charts is
a series of photos of the deployment. Go through these quickly and you can
clearly see the rotation of the satellite. See:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/Presentations/Dayton%202006.pdf
Note: Those of you who have a dial-up connection, this is a 10 megabyte
file.
[ANS thanks Frank, KA3HDO for the above information]
/EX
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ARISS Status May 22, 2006
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 148.03
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
May 28, 2006
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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1. Upcoming School Contacts
Salt Brook Elementary School in New Providence, New Jersey has been
scheduled for an ARISS contact on Wednesday, May 31, at 15:07 UTC. Students
will design posters, ID badges, and tee shirts in preparation for the
contact and will also design a web page to include space experiments, ham
radio communications, ISS tracking and space links. Local high school
students, who have obtained Amateur Radio licenses, will be trained to act
as mentors for the elementary school students, and to be Control Operators
during the contact. Coverage of classroom activities by the local media is
planned.
2. ARRL Article on Yoneda-nishi Contact
ARRL's article, "ISS Astronaut Fields Questions from Elementary Schoolers in
Japan" covers the ARISS Yoneda-nishi contact on May 11. To view the story,
see:
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/05/17/3/?nc=1
3. AMSAT-DL Receives Voyager 1 Signal
On March 31, Amateur Radio operators from AMSAT Germany tracked and received
data from Voyager 1 using the 20m antenna at Bochum at a distance of 14.7
billion km. Its data was checked and verified against data from the Deep
Space Network station. See:
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/04/25/2/
and
http://www.amsatdl.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=
4. Dayton Hamvention 2006
The Dayton Hamvention, 2006 was held this past weekend, Friday, May 19
through Sunday, May 21 in Dayton, Ohio. ARISS Chairman Frank Bauer gave a
presentation at the AMSAT Forum entitled, "ARISS and SuitSat: Current Status
and Future Opportunities." To view the presentation, go to:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/Presentations/Dayton%202006.pdf
ARISS member Lou McFadin, W5DID, also gave a talk on SuitSat-1 and 2 at the
AMSAT banquet on Friday evening. Approximately 25,000 amateur radio
operators attended the Hamvention.
5. Popular Science Article on SuitSat
A 2-page photo of SuitSat appears in the June issue of Popular Science. A
short write up, "Tossed in Space," accompanies the photograph.
[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI for the above information]
/EX
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Dayton Pictures from Tom Clark, K3IO
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 148.04
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
May 28, 2006
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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Tom Clark, K3IO, has posted selected pictures from Dayton weekend in his
AMSAT photo album.
Among the picture set you will see AMSAT's newest member (#36161), 11
year-old "Fred," the Dayton Amateur Radio Association presenting a $5000
check to Rick Hambly, W2GPS, and perhaps best of all you will see Russ
(WB4PGT/LU1NR) modelling SuitSat-2 and examining the new 2.6 kilofarad, 6+
kilojoule flux-gate capacitor power source. See:
http://www.pbase.com/tomcat/amsat
[ANS thanks Tom, K3IO for the above information]
/EX
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North Scotland Grid Square Opportunity
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 148.05
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
May 28, 2006
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-148.05
Anyone looking for new grid squares should listen for Paul, 2M1EUB/P, who
will be operating portable from different locations in North Scotland for
seven days beginning May 27, 2006. Paul will be renting a cottage and doing
some backpacking (Yes, walking... said Paul!) so there could be an
interesting signal at times. Paul hopes to work all satellites and modes and
will also be doing some HF work. He requests that qsl's be sent via his home
call.
[ANS thanks Paul, 2E1EUB for the above information]
/EX
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ISS Crew Photographs Aleutian Islands Volcano Activity
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 148.06
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
May 28, 2006
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-148.06
At 3:00 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time on May 23, 2006, Flight Engineer Jeff
Williams of International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 13 contacted the
Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) to report that the Cleveland Volcano had
produced a plume of ash. Shortly after the activity began, he took a
spectacular photograph of the volcano and plume. Astronaut photograph
ISS013-E-24184 was acquired May 23, 2006, with a Kodak 760C digital camera
using an 800 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations
experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center.
See:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17285
The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help
astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to
scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the
Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed
at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. See:
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
[ANS thanks NASA's Earth Observatory for the above information]
/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 additional benefits.
Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office.
73,
This week's ANS Editor,
Al Marote, WA1LBG
wa1lbg at amsat dot org
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