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AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-238

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

******************* AMSAT 2007 Space Symposium *************************

The Wireless Association of South Hills Amateur Radio Club announces the
2007 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held at the Pittsburgh Airport
Marriott Hotel on Friday, October 26 through Sunday, October 28, 2007.
The AMSAT web team has posted informational pages on the AMSAT web site.
You can find the announcement with many links at:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/symposium/2007/index.php

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In this edition:

* Special Satellite Operating Event on ANDE for August 28 + 30
* G0SFJ Satellite Mini-DXpedition to LZ and YO
* Digital Communications Conference September 28-30
* Satellite Shorts From All Over
* ARISS Status Report For The Week of August 20, 2007

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Special Satellite Operating Event on ANDE for August 28 + 30

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 238.01
>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
August 26, 2007
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-238.01

The US Naval Academy Satellite Laboratory announced a special ANDE 
Operations Event for the Tuesday, August 28 and Thursday, August 30
morning passes over the US East Coast. 

Bob, WB4APR described the operation plans, "On Tuesday, Naval Academy 
stuents will operate ANDE to gather statistics on the success rate 
of the APRS mission.  We invite participation, attended or unattended 
and request these guidelines be followed:
1) Tracking Base stations transmit at 5 minute intervals
2) 50W mobiles transmit at 3 minute intervals
3) 5W HT's transmit at 1 minute intervals

Bob reminds amateurs, "Please do not transmit more often, as it will 
mess up the statistics.  It would be helpful if you put your station 
info in your posit text so we could confirm the validity of the sta-
tistics of your transmit rate".  We recommend something like:
"Base=5min +10 dB"
"50W =3min w 5/8ths"
"HT=1min w 19" ant"

On Thursday, the Naval Academy may activate the packet to voice 
synthesizer.

ANDE operates on 145.825 MHz simplex and responds to packets that
are addressed VIA APRSAT or VIA ARISS.  For more information please
See http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande-ops.html

[ANS thanks the US Naval Academy Satellite Laboratory for the above 
information]


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G0SFJ Satellite Mini-DXpedition to LZ and YO

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 238.02
>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
August 26, 2007
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-238.02

Andy, G0SFJ operated on the FM satellites with an Arrow Antenna and a 
FT51-R from Bulgaria (LZ) on August 12-13 and from Romania (YO) on 
August 18.

>From Belite Brezi, Bulgaria Andy reported working these stations via
AO51:  G7HIA, 9H1FF, F6CDZ, G0VHS, PD1DRE, SW1IXP, OZ1MY, and DG9YIB.

>From Bucharest, Romania Andy worked IW0DTK while operating portable
in Herastrau Park.  Later that evening he worked ON5SA while operat-
ing in a sunflower field.

Photos of Andy's portable satellite operations can be seen at:
http://andythomasmail.googlepages.com/qrpportablewitharrow

[ANS thanks Andy, G0SFJ for the above information]


SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-238.03
Digital Communications Conference September 28-30

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 238.03
>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
August 26, 2007
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-238.03

The 26th Annual ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference to be held
on September 28-30, 2007 in Hartford, CT will feature topics of interest
to amateur satellite operators. AMSAT Director and VP Engineering, Bob 
McGwier, N4HY, will have several presentations.

On September 30 Bob will present the Sunday Seminar, "A Stroll Through 
Software Radio, Information Theory, and Some Applications."  Software 
Radio will be the main theme and a package of tutorials and give away 
software will be a part of the seminar.  

The Software Defined Radio linear transponder system in AMSAT's
spacecraft 
will be discussed. Some necessary information theory will be
discussed 
with examples with the goal of leaving the attendee with a
working know- ledge of the practical use of this theory in thinking
about communication 
systems. As time permits, Bob will show some
software radio systems from 
the $30 softrock40 to GnuRadio/USRP doing
multi megabit per second OFDM 
on the air and then a technical
description of the Flex5000 and DttSP 
will be given.

Additional Software Defined Radio topics among the digital offerings
at the conference include:

+ The FSM Virtual Radio Kernel: Why, What, & How (In That Order);
  Frank Brickle, PhD, AB2KT

+ AMSAT s Phase IV (lite)?; Bob McGwier

+ On A Method for Automatic Image Balancing in IQ Mixer Based Software 
  Defined Receivers; Bob McGwier, N4HY

+ TPSK31: Getting the Trellis Coded Modulation Advantage;
  Bob McGwier, N4HY

+ The Flex 5000 Software Defined Transceiver;
  Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR

And also known to AMSAT members, Bob Bruninga, WB4APR has written a
paper for the conference: The APRS Local Voice Repeater Initiative.

Additional information and on-line registration is at: 
http://www.tapr.org/dcc

[ANS thanks TAPR for the above information]


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Satellite Shorts From All Over

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 238.04
>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
August 26, 2007
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-238.04

+ Satellite operators can find the latest information about New
Zealand's
  KiwiSAT at http://www.kiwisat.org which is upAugust 26d weekly. Terry,

  ZL3QL wrote, "The project is well down the track to completion and
this 
  page will give a good idea of what is still required."  He invited
ama-
  teurs to check out and respond to
http://www.kiwisat.org.nz/funding.html.

+ Matthias, DD1US invites satellite operators to visit his "Sounds from 
  Space" site at http://www.dd1us.de.  He has posted a collection of 
  recordings from various space objects. Most of them are ham radio 
  satellites and space ships.

+ NASA's two venerable Voyager spacecraft are celebrating three decades 
  of flight as they head toward interstellar space. Their ongoing
odysseys 
  mark an unprecedented and historic accomplishment. Voyager 2 launched
on 
  Aug. 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 launched on Sept. 5, 1977. They continue
to 
  return information from distances more than three times farther away
than 
  Pluto.

+ Zarya, the International Space Station's first component to go into 
  space, passed the 50,000th orbit mark this week on August 14. Zarya, 
  which is Russian for "Sunrise", was funded by the United States and 
  built by Russia. It launched atop a Proton rocket from Baikonur 
  Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Nov. 20, 1998.

+ An interactive guide to the International Space Station can be found
  on-line at: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/ISSRG/index.htm.

+ Google Earth software has now added the capability to view images of
  the sky.  Using the new "Sky in Google Earth" feature you can zoom in
  Hubble images.  Version 4.2 of the software at
http://earth.google.com/
  contains the additional sky watching features.

+ While not quite amateur radio related, many hams enjoy learning about
  scientific work in other fields. The events taking place today at
CERN's 
  Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, Switzerland by one of the
world's 
  largest assembled teams of scientists attempting to discover what is 
  considered the "Holy Grail" of particle physics, the Higgs Boson, and 
  recreate the conditions that existed a few seconds after the Big Bang 
  are highlighted in an interesting on-line BBC video at:
  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6454521153918323669

[ANS thanks everyone for the above information]


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ARISS Status Report For The Week of August 20, 2007

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 238.05
>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
August 26, 2007
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-238.05

1. University Students Radio ISS

Fifteen students who attend Kursk State University in Russia experienced
 a successful ARISS contact on Thursday, August 9.  The students spoke 
with cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, RN3FI, on board the ISS from Mount 
Elbrus in the Caucasus Mountains, Russia.

2. ARISS Contact with Teacher Barbara Morgan, Successful

The McCall-Donnelly School District in McCall, Idaho participated in an 
ARISS contact on Thursday, August 16, via the telebridge station VK5ZAI 
in Australia. The school district consists of two high schools, one
middle 
school, and two elementary schools and approximately 900
students. During 
the contact, eleven students asked one question each
of Barbara Morgan, 
KD5VNP, in front of an audience of 300. Local media
outlets in McCall, 
Idaho were present to cover the news. 
 
The event was aired live on NASA TV and can be heard online and via
podcast at:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/STS118_morgan_radio.html

Space.com ran an article on Morgan s space activities including the
ARISS 
contact with the McCall-Donnelly School District. See:
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/070816_sts118_morgan_idaho.html

3. Upcoming School Contacts

Nanjing No. 3 High School in Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China has been
sched- uled for an ARISS contact on Sunday, August 26 at 10:49 UTC. To
prepare 
for the contact, elective courses will be offered on amateur
radio and 
contests will be held to determine the best essays and
cartoons concerning 
ARISS. Other schools in the area will be invited to
the event. The school 
has an active amateur radio club which was
established in 1992 and has 
been a five time winner of the national
youth amateur radio contest. Local 
hams and businesses will support the
students with the contact. Extensive 
media coverage is expected from
newspapers, television and radio stations 
and the internet. The audio
for this event will be fed into the EchoLink 
AMSAT (101 377), the JSDXC
(337 784) and JK1ZRW (277 208) servers.  The 
audio from this event is
also planned to be fed into the IRLP Discovery 
Reflector 9010.  

Amagasaki Child Science Hall, located in Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan has
been 
scheduled for an ARISS contact on Tuesday, August 28 at 08:27 UTC.
The 
children will learn the history of Amagasaki, its economic growth
and 
the problems associated with its growth, such as pollution. They
will 
cover environmental issues and weather patterns that occur
globally, 
and will discuss the purpose of the ISS. An engineer will be
invited 
to speak to the children and will arrange for a tour at his
company s 
research institute to increase the children s interest in
space.  

An ARISS contact has been planned for Ashland Greenwood High School 
in Ashland, Nebraska on Wednesday, August 29 at 15:59 UTC. A NASA
committee 
was formed at the school, comprised of teachers from grades
K-12, in order 
to promote earth and space science. The school will
present one space fact 
per day to the students over a five week period
and at the end of this time 
a contest will be held to see who remembers
the most facts. Clay Anderson, KD5PLA, is an alumnus of the school and
visited students there in March 
2007. Information about him has been
posted to http://www.agps.org/. This event is expected to receive
newspaper and television coverage. This 
contact is a Clay Anderson crew
pick. 

4. Gail Borden Public Library to Contact ISS via Amateur Radio 

The Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin, Illinois, has been tentatively 
scheduled for an ARISS contact during the week of September 3. Gail
Borden 
Public Library has posted its press release on the event. 
See: http://www.gailborden.info/LivewithISS.html

5. ARISS Video to be Presented at AMSAT Symposium

The Orlando, Florida Area Coordinator for AMSAT is currently working on 
a presentation to be given at the 2007 Radio Amateur Satellite
Corporation 
(AMSAT) Space Symposium which will be held in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania on 
October 26- 28. The presentation will include video
from the July 17 ARISS 
contact with the Arnold Palmer Hospital for
Children.

[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI 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,
JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM
K9JKM at amsat dot org
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Via the ANS mailing list courtesy of AMSAT-NA
http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/ans
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73 de Sam, OH0NC

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