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AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-035
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-DC SPACE SEMINAR 2007
* ARISS Weekly Report
* Space Shorts From All Over
* Upcoming ARISS Contacts
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AMSAT-DC MEETING AND SPACE SEMINAR 2007
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 035.01
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
Febrary 4, 2007
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-035.01
Excitement is brewing for the next annual local AMSAT meeting and space
seminar to be held in the Maryland-DC area on Saturday, March 24, 2007.
You are invited!
There will be talks, demos, tutorials and plenty of socializing on
amateur satellites, ground station set up, and high-altitude balloon
experiments in the greater mid-Atlantic USA area.
AMSAT members, students, educators & the public are all invited. No
tickets, no RSVP is needed. Come as you are, but bring a friend and
pass the word!
The event will be held in the Pioneer Hall at the Historical Electronics
Museum (HEM) at 1745 West Nursery Road, Linthicum, Maryland (ZIP 21090)
near BWI airport. Starting time is 11 A.M. local for the day long
event.
Directions to HEM are at the museum web site: http://www.hem-usa.org/
TALK-IN will be on 146.760 MHz with a 107.2 Hz tone in the two hours
prior to the start time.
Your host is AMSAT Area Coordinator Pat Kilroy, N8PK, n8pk@amsat.org,
and others.
Speaker slots are open. More demos are solicited. Coordination help is
sought in advance and also on the day of the meeting. AMSAT members
please contact the host.
This event is sponsored by the local volunteer AMSAT members. All
presenters are volunteers. A pass-the-hat offering will be taken for
donations to help offset the meeting room cost, refreshments and
associated items.
For any late breaking updates go to
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/fieldops/events.php
You won't want to miss this one!
Additional information is available at www.ao27.org
[ANS thanks Pat Kilroy, N8PK, for the above information]
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ARISS Weekly Status Report January 29, 2007
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 035.02
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
Febrary 4, 2007
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-035.02
1.Canadian School Contact Successful
Students from Ecole elementaire publique Le Prelude experienced an
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on
Wednesday,
January 4. The event was held at the Canada Science and
Technology Museum in Ottawa. Sunita Williams, KD5PLB, greeted the
students in both English and French and answered 21 questions put to her
by twelve K-6 graders. An audience of 175 was present for the contact,
including two elected members of Federal Parliament, one City Councilor,
the School Board Chair, and the president of Radio Amateurs of Canada
(RAC). Among the media atten- ding were four major French and English
television stations. Audio was fed into the EchoLink AMSAT and JK1ZRW
conference room servers; seventeen con- nections were made from 6
countries.
2.Winnebago Reservation School Contact Successful
On Thursday, January 25, students at the Winnebago Public School spoke
with Sunita Williams, KD5PLB, via Amateur Radio on the International
Space Station (ARISS). Nineteen students were each able to ask one
question. An audience of approximately 500 students, teachers and
parents listened over the PA system. Television station Channel 9, from
Sioux City, IA and the Sioux City Journal covered the event,
interviewing at least 9 students. The school posted information about
the ARISS activities on its website.
See http://winnebago.esu1.org.
For the Sioux City Journal article,
see:
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/video/video_vid_player.php?v=20070125_
winnebagospace_384
Winnebago is a rural, Title 1 school with 86% of the school population
coming from economically disadvantaged families.
3. ARISS New York Contact to be Rescheduled
The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact
with East Aurora Middle School in New York, originally slated for
Thursday, February 1, has been cancelled due to scheduling issues. The
event will be rescheduled in the near future.
4.ARRL Article Covers ISS Crew
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) ran an article on ISS Hams and
upcoming spacewalks.
See: http://www.arrl.org/?artid=7145
5.Boulder Hill Elementary Prepares for ARISS Contact
Boulder Hill Elementary School in Montgomery, Illinois has been
preparing for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS) contact. The school has a radio club made up of 30 members from
the fourth and fifth grades; two-thirds of the members are girls. The
Fathers Club and PTA are preparing for the contact, making a stage
curtain, and trying to obtain space food and astronaut costumes for the
teachers. They also plan to invite an astronaut to visit the school.
Display cases have been set up publicizing the event, providing
information on the International Space Station, space, solar energy,
(complete with solar panels), and satellite models and rockets. A
documentary is in the works, which will cover all activities related to
the contact. An Illinois state represen- tative and state senator have
been invited to attend the event, tenta- tively planned for the spring.
6. ARRL Article on Students SuitSat-2 Work
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) ran a web story on the college
students who are participating in the SuitSat-2 software defined radio
hardware testing and development.
See: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2007/01/24/101/?nc=1
The two Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) members, who taught
this software defined radio class at The College of New Jersey, have
received an invitation from the Engineering department head to repeat
the course in the fall.
[ANS thanks Pat Carol Jackson, KB3LKI, for the above information]
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Space Shorts From All Over
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 035.03
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
February 4, 2007
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-035.03
+ On February 3, 2007 Craig, KL4E conducted a live amateur radio
communications exhibition for the PQ-13 pilots and support per-
sonnel of the 491st Aviation Regiment, ASDF, at Camp Carroll
on Fort Richardson, Alaska. For the satellite portion of the
demonstration, Craig operated on AO-51 and SO-50.
+ Taking advantage of good operating conditions aboard the recently
recovered AO-27 satellite its controllers have shifted the bird's
schedule to begin 7 minutes earlier than usual and have extended
the transmitter's on-time to 8 minutes. This will allow operators
to contact the satellite DXpeditions currently active aboard cruise
ships in the Carribean. See http://www.ao27.org.
+ Here's a chance to do some space browsing in the shack while
waiting for the next satellite pass. http://sky-map.org/ features
an interactive sky map with point-and-click accessibility. You
can simply point your mouse at any sky object and a small pop-up
appears displaying the name and a brief description of that object.
By clicking on the object you instantly have access to detailed
information about this star.
+ Sources at SpaceDaily.com reported this week the International
Space Station will likely remain operational until 2025 according
to the head of the Russian spacecraft manufacturer Energia. Nikolai
Sevastyanov said Tuesday, "By 2009-2015, Russia will be the only
country able to deliver crews to the station. No one is going to
sink or drop the ISS, as all countries realize that the station is
becoming a full-scale industrial facility in space. Although it is
scheduled for decommissioning in 2015, its operational life could
be prolonged until 2025. Energia has proposed making the station
permanent. If we terminate its existence, it would be hard for man-
kind to implement such a project anew."
[ANS thanks everyone for the above information]
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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2007-02-02
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 035.04
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
February 4, 2007
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-035.04
Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:
Total number of ARISS school contacts is 267.
QSL information may be found at:
http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html
http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's
ISS callsigns: DP0ISS, NA1SS, RS0ISS
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The schedule page has been updated as of 2007-02-02 23:00 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.txt
The successful school list has been updated as of 2007-01-26 04:00 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_correc
tion.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
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There has been a rumor that the ISS was having direct contacts on the
40 meter band. There is no HF radio equipment on board and available
yet. The HF antenna is mounted. Sometimes WA3NAN will retransmit
shuttle audio.
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Expedition 14 on orbit:
Michael Lopez-Alegria KE5GTK
Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT
Expedition 14/15 on orbit:
Sunita Williams, KD5PLB
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[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N for the above information]
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,
Dave Johnson
g4dpz at amsat dot org
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73 de Sam, OH0NC
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