SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-040.01 OSCAR Straight Key Night Best Fists AMSAT News Service Bulletin 040.01 From AMSAT HQ Silver Spring, MD. February 9, 2003 To All Radio Amateurs BID: $ANS-040.01 Many thanks to all who participated in Straight Key Night on OSCAR 2003. Participation was up this year, producing a record 11 Best Fist winners, all nominated by at least one operator they worked. Here's the list: Dave Rowan, G4CUO Lee Collins, K1LEE Jerry Brown, K5OE Cliff Buttschardt, K7RR Keith O'Brien, N4ZQ Mike Rudzki, N8MR Mal Preston, NP2L Stan Holden, W3QBK Andy Mac Allister, W5ACM Ron Cade, W6ZQ Alan Lyday, WC9C See you all next year! [ANS thanks Ray, W2RS, for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-040.02 AO-40 Schedule Update AMSAT News Service Bulletin 040.02 From AMSAT HQ Silver Spring, MD. February 9, 2003 To All Radio Amateurs BID: $ANS-040.02 AO-40 continues to maintain a nominal attitude of ALON/ALAT = 0/0. N QST AMSAT AO-40 SCHEDULE @=VARIABLE 2003-02-01 MA 010 040 126 132 140@ 156 210 244 010 ---------7-----1-----6-----4-----3-----2-----5-----0-----7 S2/K-Tx | S | S | S/K | S | S | S | S | S | MB | * | * | * | * | | * | * | * | RUDAK | | | | | * | | | | V/U-Rx | U | U | U | U | V | U | U | V | Uplink | | UL | UL | UL | | UL | | | [ANS thanks Stacey, W4SM, for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-040.03 Martha's 25th Anniversary with AMSAT AMSAT News Service Bulletin 040.03 From AMSAT HQ Silver Spring, MD. February 9, 2003 To All Radio Amateurs BID: $ANS-040.03 Saturday night, February 1, the DC-area folks had a little party to commemorate Martha's 25th anniversary with AMSAT at W3PK's QTH. Tom Clark has made photos of the festivities available at: http://www.pbase.com/tomcat/marthafest. Although no official attendance was taken, Tom provided the following list of participants. Bob Carpenter (W3OTC) Tom & Elizabeth Clark (W3IWI) Dick & Jackie Daniels (W4PUJ) Marty Davidoff (K2UBC) Art Feller (W4ART) Rick & Elaine Hambly (W2GPS and N3HMW) Ken & Peggy Nichols (KD3VK) Jim Randall (N3YDT) Barbara Saragovitz (& John Gannon) Dan Schultz (N8FGV) Martha & John Shew (N4QQ) Perry & Suzy Klein (W3PK) [ANS thanks Tom, W3IWI, for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-040.04 Guadeloupe active on AO-40 AMSAT News Service Bulletin 040.04 From AMSAT HQ Silver Spring, MD. February 9, 2003 To All Radio Amateurs BID: $ANS-040.04 FG (Guadeloupe), February 21-26. Wayne Estes W9AE plans to operate AO40 as FG/W9AE from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. The tentative plan is to operate starting ~2300 UTC on February 21, 22, 25, and 26 for windows to the Americas and the Pacific. Also on Sunday February 23 from 1500- 2000 UTC for a window to Europe and central Asia. Exact operating times will depend on the RUDAK schedule and vacation activities. QSL to Wayne Estes, 18673 W. Meadow Lane, Mundelein IL 60060, U.S.A. [ANS thanks Wayne W9AE for the above information.] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-040.05 Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule AMSAT News Service Bulletin 040.05 From AMSAT HQ Silver Spring, MD. February 9, 2003 To All Radio Amateurs BID: $ANS-040.05 Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2003-02-04 06:00 UTC The ARISS (a joint effort of AMSAT, the ARRL, NASA, the ARISS international partners including Canada, Russia, the European Partners, and Japan) operations team wishes to announce the following very tentative schedule for ARISS school contacts. This schedule is very fluid and may change at the last minute. Remember that amateur radio use on the ISS is considered secondary. Please check the various AMSAT and ARISS webpages for the latest announcements. Changes from the last announcement are noted with (***). Also, please check MSNBC.com for possible live retransmissions (http://www.msnbc.com/m/lv/default.asp). Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.80 MHz. For information about educational materials available from ISS partner space Agencies, please refer to links on the ARISS Frequently Asked Questions page. If you are interested in supporting an ARISS contact, then you must fill in an application. The ARISS operations mentor team will not accept a direct request to support an ARISS contact. You should also note that many schools think that they can request a specific date and time. It does not work that way. Once an application has been accepted, the ARISS mentors will work with the school to determine a mutually agreeable date. Websites that may be of interest include: http://www.arrl.org/sarex http://www.arrl.org/ariss http://www.amsat.org http://ariss.gsfc.nasa.gov http://spacelink.nasa.gov/index.html http://ehb2.gsfc.nasa.gov/edcats/educator_guide/ Your completely filled out application should be returned to the nearest coordinating ARISS region if your specific region is not listed. E-mail is the preferred method of submitting an application. Here are the email addresses: ARISS-Canada and all other countries not covered: ve2ka@rac.ca (Daniel Lamoureux VE2KA) ARISS-Europe: jh.hahn@gmx.net (J. Hahn, DL3LUM / PA1MUC) ARISS-Japan and all Region 3 countries: iaru-r3@jarl.or.jp (Keigo Komuro JA1KAB) ARISS-Russia: n2ww@attbi.com (Valerie Agabekov N2WW/UA6HZ) ARISS-USA: ARISS@arrl.org (The American Radio Relay League) ISS Expedition 6 crew: Kenneth Bowersox KD5JBP Nikolai Budarin RV3FB Donald Pettit KD5MDT Field School Park Ridge, Illinois TBD Hochwald-Gymnasium, Wadern, Germany, Direct via DL0WR TBD due to scheduling conflict with resupply mission (***) Hirano Elementary School, Kobe, Japan direct via 8N3HES TBD Cowichan Secondary School, Duncan, BC, Canada, Direct via VE7POH TBD 2003-02 Oregon State University Option #1 Fri 2003-02-21 20:07 UTC telebridge via NN1SS ISIS Malignani, Cervignano del Friuli, Italy TBD Lounsberry Hollow Middle School, New Jersey TBD Krueger School of Applied Technology, San Antonio, Texas TBD Saint Ursula's College, Toowoomba, Australia TBD The latest ARISS announcement and successful school list in now available on the ARISS web site. Several ways to get there. http://ariss.gsfc.nasa.gov click on English (sorry I don't know French) you are now at http://www.rac.ca/ariss/ click on News Currently the ARISS operations team has a list of over 60 schools that we hope will be able to have a contact during 2003. As the schedule becomes more solidified, we will be letting everyone know. Current plans call for an average of one scheduled school contact per week. [ANS thanks Charlie, AJ9N, for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-040.06 News in Brief for This Week AMSAT News Service Bulletin 040.06 From AMSAT HQ Silver Spring, MD. February 9, 2003 To All Radio Amateurs BID: $ANS-040.06 ** There is a very active joint effort by RACES and SKYWARN to aid government agencies (FBI, NASA, etc) with the identification, GPS location cataloging and recovery of space shuttle components. Some of the activities being conducted over the W5NAC repeater in Nacogdoches TX. You can monitor the activity using Echolink's EDU_NET conference. -- Rick, W2GPS ** The Intelsat 907 satellite was integrated atop its Ariane 4 in the launch zone, marking the final major step in the vehicle's build-up. Liftoff of Flight 159 is on schedule for the early morning hours of February 12. --SpaceDaily ** Working in collaboration with David Altman, currently president of Space Propulsion Group, and Brian Cantwell, a professor at Stanford, Arif Karabeyoglu figured out a way to make paraffin burn three times faster than had ever been achieved before--fast enough to serve as rocket uel. --SpaceDaily ** Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego and its San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Eureka-based Silicon Defense, the University of California, Berkeley, and the nonprofit International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, found that the Sapphire worm doubled its numbers every 8.5 seconds during the explosive first minute of its attack. Within 10 minutes of debuting at 5:30 a.m. (UTC) Jan. 25 (9:30 p.m. PST, Jan. 24) the worm was observed to have infected more than 75,000 vulnerable hosts. --SpaceDaily /EX