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

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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

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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 309 01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD November 5, 2017 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-014 01

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]

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

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