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AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-263
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 Board Election Results
* Anonymous donor issues challenge
* ISS Update
* Card Checking at Symposium
* This Week's News in Brief
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AMSAT BOD Election Results
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 263.01
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
September 18, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-263.01
As a result of the 2004 AMSAT Board of Directors elections, W3IWI,
W5DID and N6TX will serve on the Board for two years. The first
alternate is KK5DO and the second alternate is W4EPI. The results of
the voting are:
Tom Clark, W3IWI - 769
Lou McFadin, W5DID - 628
Paul Shuch, N6TX - 465
Bruce Paige, KK5DO- 450
Steve Diggs, W4EPI - 313
Lee McLamb, KU4OS - 268
Other AMSAT-NA Board members include President Robin Haighton,
VE3FRH; Executive Vice President Rick Hambly, W2GPS, Gunther Meisse,
W8GSM, and Barry Baines, WD4ASW.
[ANS thanks Martha Saragovitz - AMSAT Manager for the above
information]
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Anonymous donor issues challenge
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 263.02
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
September 18, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-263.02
An anonymous donor has challenged Echo users and supporters. He
will match dollar for dollar all donations received from now until
the end of the 2004 AMSAT Space Symposium when we will retire the
Echo thermometer. This is an opportunity we can't afford to lose.
Show your support and contribute now!
[ANS thanks Martha Saragovitz - AMSAT Manager for the above
information]
/EX
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ISS Update
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 263.03
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
September 18, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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1. Kingston School Contact Successful
On Friday, September 10, at 0752 UTC, Kingston Community School in
Kingston SE, South Australia experienced a successful contact with
Mike Fincke, KE5AIT, via the telebridge station, NN1SS in Greenbelt,
Maryland, with Dave Taylor, W8AAS, at the controls. Students were
able to ask and have answered fifteen questions while an audience of
150 parents and other guests as well as many students looked on. The
event was covered by WIN TV and 5TCB Community Radio as well as the
local press. ABC radio spoke with ARISS Australia team member, Tony
Hutchison, VK5ZAI, on Thursday, ran his interview the evening before
the contact, and followed up by carrying the contact live, state wide
on Friday.
2. Upcoming School Contacts
Aoyama Gakuin Elementary School in Tokyo, Japan has been scheduled
for a contact with the ISS. It will take place on Friday, September
17, at 07:38 UTC.
The Investigator Science and Technology Centre in Adelaide,
Australia has also been scheduled for an ARISS contact. It will take
place via the telebridge station, WH6PN, in Hawaii on Thursday,
September 23, at 0913 UTC.
3. Astronaut Speaks to all 7 Continents
On Saturday, September 11, at 1504 UTC, Mike Fincke, KE5AIT, made
contact with Chuck Kimball, N0NHJ, at the Palmer Research Station in
Antarctica, KC4AAC, making Fincke the first crewmember on the ISS to
work all 7 continents. He joins astronauts Dave Leestma and Kathy
Sullivan, who also worked the 7 continents from space on STS-45.
4. Fincke Makes Request for Repeater Mode
Astronaut Mike Fincke asked for and received permission to return
the Kenwood to repeater mode on Saturday, September 11. Fincke had
been heard on the radio last weekend (September 5) over North
America, and after switching modes, he had hams buzzing again as he
was heard over Europe. The radio will remain in crossband repeater
mode (437.80 up, 145.80 down with no tone) until the next school
contact, scheduled for Japan on Friday, September 17 at 0738 UTC.
The radio will return to packet mode after the contact.
5. Mike Fincke to Participate in Upcoming Event
"The Long Night of the Stars," is an open house at the control
center of ESA ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany, which will be held on
Saturday, September 18. Fincke has been scheduled for a contact with
the control center during the event at 1854 UTC. Mike has also
expressed interest in participating in a contact during the Marina
Air Fair, which will be held in Marina, California on Saturday,
October 16. His participation in these events will be handled as
informal dialog, similar to that of Field Day.
6. Expedition 10 Training at Energia
On September 6 -8, RSC Energia held training sessions for Expedition
10 crew members Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov and the backup
crew, Valery Takarev and Willliam McArthur. Cosmonaut Yury Shargin,
who will be the visiting crew member on the next Soyuz flight, also
attended the sessions. Shargin will be involved in photography and
videography, and plans to make a few ARISS contacts while on board
the ISS. For more information and photos of the sessions, see:
http://www.energia.ru/english/energia/iss/iss10/photo_09-09.html
/EX
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Card Checking at Symposium
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 263.04
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
September 18, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-263.04
Bruce Paige, KK5DO says that those that need to get cards checked
for W.A.S. or VUCC, may do so during the upcoming symposium. He asks
that you have your application filled out correctly ahead of time.
Your list for VUCC should be computer generated with Grid Square
followed in the next column by the Callsign. No other information is
needed for VUCC on your work sheet.
For W.A.S., a computer list sorted by states followed by the
Callsign is all you need.
For additional questions please contact KK5DO via email.
[ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO and the AMSAT-BB for this information]
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This Week's News in Brief
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 263.05
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
September 18, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS BID:
$ANS-263.05
** On Saturday, September 11, astronaut Mike Fincke, KE5AIT, became
the first International Space Station crew member to contact all
seven of the world's continents via Amateur Radio. Fincke worked
KC4AAC at Antarctica's Palmer Research Station for his last contact--
a bonus continent not required to earn the International Amateur
Radio Union's Worked All Continents award. -ARRLWeb
** Web metrics suggest that the software giant's Internet Explorer
has been losing a significant number of users in the past nine months
to open-source browser Mozilla and its offspring, Firefox. The gains
for the two browsers, which are both produced by the Mozilla
Foundation, are most noticeable at Web sites popular among geek-chic
early adopters. W3Schools.com, a Web development tutorial site, found
that 18 percent of its visitors in September used Mozilla-based
browsers, compared with 8 percent in January. Internet Explorer use
dropped to 75 percent from 84 percent in the same period. --CNET
** When the Ariane 5 ECA qualification flight lifts off in October,
one of the 'passengers' will be 33.5 litres of water. Onboard will be
the experimental Sloshsat-FLEVO satellite, designed to help European
scientists find out more about the movement of water in microgravity
and its effects on satellites. Sloshsat-FLEVO is aptly named: slosh
for the movement of water, sat for satellite and FLEVO, the project's
acronym: Facility for Liquid Experimentation and Verification in
Orbit. Flevo is also the name of the latest province in the
Netherlands to be reclaimed from the sea, and one of the sites of the
Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR), the main contractor for
this project. The cube-shaped Sloshsat-FLEVO is a mini satellite with
a mass of just 129 kg. It will be launched on top of the cylinder-
shaped Maqsat-B2 structure and placed in the lower passenger position
under the Ariane 5 fairing. --ESA
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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.
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73,
This weeks ANS Editor,
Jeff Davis, KE9V
ke9v at amsat dot org
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