AMSAT NEWS SERVICE<br />ANS-141<br /><br />ANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North<br />America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the<br />activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an<br />active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating<br />through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites.<br /><br />Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to:<br />[]ans-editor@amsat.org[/]<br /><br />******************** AMSAT 2006 Space Symposium **************************<br /><br />The AMSAT web team has posted informational pages on the AMSAT web site.<br />You can find the announcement with many links at:<br />
http://www.amsat-org/amsat-new/symposium<br /><br />**************************************************************************<br /><br />In this edition:<br /><br />* AMSAT Shows Our Stuff at Dayton<br />* Plan for AO-51 Kid's Day on June 17<br />* AO-51 June Schedule<br />* Colloquium and Symposium Opportunities<br />* Latest Version of PREDICT Software Available<br />* ARISS Status May 15, 2006<br />* Reminder: AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nomination Deadline<br /><br />SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-141.01<br />AMSAT Shows Our Stuff at Dayton<br /><br />AMSAT News Service Bulletin 141.01<br />>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.<br />May 21, 2006<br />To All RADIO AMATEURS<br />BID: $ANS-141.01<br /><br />This weekend's annual Dayton Hamvention, May 19-21, gave AMSAT<br />volunteers an opportunity to showcase the exciting future of<br />Amateur Radio in Space.<br /><br />Saturday morning's AMSAT forum presented news of present and<br />future projects including:<br /><br />+ Phase 3-E Satellite Design and Development<br />+ Eagle Project Overview and Status<br />+ Software Defined Transponder, Internal Housekeeping Unit, Energy<br /> Storage Experiments, and Structure Analysis<br />+ ARISS & SuitSat: Current Status & Future Opportunities<br />+ Introduction to AO-51 Operation with a Command Station Update<br /><br />Dr. H. Paul Shuch, N6TX, Director of Education, hosted "Shared<br />Experiences of Using Satellites in the Classroom" at the AMSAT<br />Educator's Forum on Saturday.<br /><br />Live satellite operating demonstrations were conducted by Drew,<br />KO4MA; Keith W5IU and other volunteers on Friday, Saturday and<br />Sunday. Contacts on both the FM and SSB satellites were demonstrated.<br /><br />AMSAT demonstrated operation through the future Eagle and P3E SDX<br />(Software Defined Transponder). Bob McGwier, N4HY, Tom Clark, K3IO<br />and Howard Long, G5LVB had an SDX operating with live displays of<br />signals in the 50 kHz pass band.<br /><br />Thanks to all who helped and to all who visited the AMSAT booth!<br /><br />[ANS thanks Gould, WA4SXM, AMSAT Director Field Operations for the<br /> above information.]<br /><br />/EX<br /><br /><br />SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-141.02<br />Plan for AO-51 Kid's Day on June 17<br /><br />AMSAT News Service Bulletin 141.02<br />>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.<br />May 21, 2006<br />To All RADIO AMATEURS<br />BID: $ANS-141.02<br /><br />Mike, KE4AZN, Amsat VP-Operations, and Echo Command Station says<br />AMSAT-NA, the AO-51 Command Team, and the AO-51 Operations Team will<br />sponsor Kid’s Day on AO-51 on June 17, 2006.<br /><br />The event is open to all kids, worldwide. We ask all amateur radio<br />stations to give this short time window to promote satellite operations<br />with kids, by actually showing a kid how to make contacts via AO-51,<br />providing a station to contact, or stepping aside to allow others to<br />make contacts with the kids.<br /><br />During the event, please limit contacts to stations that are operating<br />with kids at the microphone. This should allow the kids to have a nice<br />QSO and pass some information. Kids can tell their name, age, who is<br />helping them operate on AO-51, where they live, and other information<br />about themselves.<br /><br />AO-51 will be configured in the following mode during the event.<br />Please note we will use the normal AO-51 uplink frequency for the<br />event with the PL tone will be turned ON.<br /><br />Uplink: 145.920 mhz FM voice 67 Hz PL Tone<br />Downlink: 435.300 mhz FM voice<br /><br />The digital transponder on 435.150 will be turned off during the event.<br /><br />See
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/kd-rules.html on the ARRL website for<br />more Kids Day information.<br /><br />[ANS thanks Mike, KE4AZN, Echo Command Station for the above information]<br /><br />/EX<br /><br /><br />SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-141.03<br />AO-51 June Schedule<br /><br />AMSAT News Service Bulletin 141.03<br />>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.<br />May 21, 2006<br />To All RADIO AMATEURS<br />BID: $ANS-141.03<br /><br />June 5 FM Repeater ON<br /> PBBS & Telemetry ON<br /><br />June 12 FM Repeater High Power ON<br /> PBBS OFF<br /><br />June 17 Kid's Day Special Event. Please observe the Kid's Day<br /> Requirements allowing contacts with Kid's Only.<br /><br />June 19 Field Day Configuration<br /> FM Repeater ON - Uplink 145.920 mHz FM with 67 hz Tone<br /> Downlink 435.300 mHz FM<br /><br /> QRP Repeater ON - Uplink 145.880 mHz FM, QRP Power Limits<br /> Downlink 435.150 mHz FM<br /><br />June 26 FM Repeater ON<br /> PBBS & Telemetry ON<br /><br /> FM Repeater Freqencies: PBBS Digital Frequencies:<br />---------------------------------- -----------------------------------<br />Uplink 145.920 mHz FM 67 hz Tone Uplink 145.860 mHz FM 9k6 Digital<br />Downlink 435.300 mHz FM Downlink 435.150 mHz FM 9k6 Digital<br /><br />The current operating mode, including active frequencies for AO-51, can<br />be viewed on-line on the front page at
http://www.amsat.org<br /><br />[ANS thanks Mike, KE4AZN, Echo Command Station for the above information]<br /><br />/EX<br /><br /><br />SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-141.04<br />Colloquium and Symposium Opportunities<br /><br />AMSAT News Service Bulletin 141.04<br />>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.<br />May 21, 2006<br />To All RADIO AMATEURS<br />BID: $ANS-141.04<br /><br />AMSAT-UK has issued a call for papers and speakers for the 21st<br />Amsat-UK Colloquium which will be held at Surrey University, Guildford,<br />Surrey, U.K., from Friday 28 July to Sunday 30 July 2005.<br /><br />Requests for more information as well as submissions should be sent to<br />David Johnson, G4DPZ, via []g4dpz@amsat.org.[/] Also see:<br />
http://www.uk.amsat.org/Colloquium/default.php<br /><br />AMSAT-NA invites speakers to submit and present papers dealing with the<br />science of Amateur Radio Satellites and associated technologies for the<br />AMSAT 2006 Space Symposium. The Symposium will be held 5 October to 11<br />October at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Foster City, California, approximately<br />10km south of San Francisco International Airport.<br /><br />Since the 2005 Symposium was cancelled due to hurricane damage caused by<br />hurricanes Katrina and Rita, speakers originally scheduled for the 2005<br />Symposium are invited to re-submit papers for the 2006 Symposium.<br /><br />For more information please refer to:<br />
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/symposium/2006CallForPapers.php<br /><br />[ANS thanks the Colloquium and Symposium Committees for the above<br />information]<br /><br />/EX<br /><br /><br />SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-141.05<br />Latest Version of PREDICT Software Available<br /><br />AMSAT News Service Bulletin 141.05<br />>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.<br />May 21, 2006<br />To All RADIO AMATEURS<br />BID: $ANS-141.05<br /><br />John, KD2BD, author of PREDICT, an Open Source satellite tracking and<br />orbital prediction program for the Linux/Unix operating system, says<br />the latest versionhas been released and is currently available through<br />the AMSAT-NA ftp/web site at:<br />
ftp://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/software/Linux/predict-2.2.3.tar.gz<br />and:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/software.php<br /><br />Further information on PREDICT software is available at:<br />
http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/predict.html<br /><br />[ANS thanks John, KD2BD for the above information]<br /><br />/EX<br /><br /><br />SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-141.06<br />Reminder: AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nomination Deadline<br /><br />AMSAT News Service Bulletin 141.06<br />>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.<br />May 21, 2006<br />To All RADIO AMATEURS<br />BID: $ANS-141.06<br /><br />It is time to submit nominations for the upcoming open seats on the<br />AMSAT-NA Board of Directors. A nomination requires either one Member<br />Society or five current individual members to noninate an AMSAT member<br />for the position. A director serves for a period of two years. Three<br />directors' terms expire this year: Tom Clark, K3IO, Lou McFadin, W5DID,<br />and Paul Shuch, N6TX. Written nominations must be received at the AMSAT<br />office no later than 12 June 2006.<br /><br />Nominations MUST be in writing and mailed to:<br />AMSAT<br />850 Sligo Ave #600<br />Silver Spring, MD 20901<br /><br />[ANS thanks the AMSAT Journal for the above information]<br /><br />/EX<br /><br /><br />SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-141.07<br />ARISS Status May 15, 2006<br /><br />AMSAT News Service Bulletin 141.07<br />>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.<br />May 21, 2006<br />To All RADIO AMATEURS<br />BID: $ANS-141.07<br /><br />1. Yoneda-nishi Elementary School Contact Successful<br />On Thursday, May 11, students from Yoneda-nishi Elementary School in<br />Takasago, Hyogo prefecture, Japan spoke with astronaut Jeff Williams,<br />KD5TVQ. Thirteen students were able to ask 19 questions before the<br />ISS went over the horizon. Over two hundred students and parents wit-<br />nessed the event. The Earth to space contact was covered by one tele-<br />vision station and a newspaper.<br /><br />2. Upcoming School Contact<br />Virgilio Primary School in Mestre, Venice, Italy is planning to have a<br />contact on Monday, May 22 at 13:28 UTC. This event will be integrated<br />into the school’s geography and science curriculum, using poster drawing<br />and letter writing in the lesson plans. Media invited to cover the event<br />includes RAI national television, TG3 Regional, Televenezia and the<br />Gazzettino and La Nuova Venezia newspapers.<br /><br />3. ARISS Annual Report 2005 on AMSAT Website<br />The ARISS Annual Report 2005 is now available on the AMSAT website.<br />See:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/Papers/Annual%20Reports/<br /><br />4. ARRL Article Covers Space Day Event<br />On May 9, ARRL ran a web story on Udvar-Hazy’s Space Day activities.<br />“AMSAT and ARISS staff museum Space Day 2006 exhibit” may be found at:<br />
http://www.arrl.org/<br /><br />5. Student Ham Meets Astronauts<br />Pearl Mahar, KD7TAS, of Peoria, Arizona, was given the opportunity to meet<br />astronauts Andrew Thomas, KD5CHF, Charles Camarda, KC5ZSY, and James Kelly,<br />KC5ZSW at the area's Challenger Center. She was part of a team of five<br />students who designed a space station in the Honeywell Fiesta Bowl Aerospace<br />Challenge.<br /><br />[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI for the above information]<br /><br />/EX
