SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-208.01 HAM RADIO IN SPACE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AO-40 AMSAT News Service Bulletin 208.01 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. July 27, 2003 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-208.01 Its time to celebrate the launch anniversary of an important ham radio satellite. Beginning September 16th, at 0000 UTC and ending November 17th at 0000 UTC AMSAT is sponsoring an on-the-air bash to celebrate A-Oh 40's 3rd Birthday. All hams worldwide are welcome to participate in this on-air bash. The only acceptable modes are SSB, CW and digital operations and the AO-40 command team requests that CW and digital operations be performed with minimal power to keep the AGC down. More information can be found at www.amsat.org and click on the words AO-40 Birthday Bash. [ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-208.02 ARISS Contact Schedule and Successful school List AMSAT News Service Bulletin 208.02 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. July 27, 2003 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-208.02 Check out webpage for live re-transmission URL of Brussels Planetarium contact! Check out Ed Lu's webpage: http://www.edlu.com/ The latest ARISS announcement and successful school list is now available on the ARISS web site. Several ways to get there. Latest ARISS announcements and news http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Successful school list http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf or http://ariss.gsfc.nasa.gov The GSFC website is having problems. Go directly to the RAC site. click on English (sorry I don't know French) you are now at http://www.rac.ca/ariss/ click on News [ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-208.03 AMSAT-UK Colloquium AMSAT News Service Bulletin 208.03 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. July 27, 2003 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-208.03 AMSAT-UK will be holding it's Annual Colloquium over the weekend 25-27th July. On Sunday, 27th, the welcoming address will be given by Robin Haighton, VE3FRH, President of AMSAT-NA A full weekend of lectures, social events and practical satellite operations is planned. A full report will be available on the web site http://www.uk.amsat.org, in due course. [ANS thanks Dave Johnson, G4DPZ, for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-208.04 AMSAT Field Day 2003 Results AMSAT News Service Bulletin 208.04 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. July 27, 2003 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-208.04 Field Day 2003 is over and it was a lot of fun for many. This years 1st place winner in the Emergency Power category goes to the Tampa Amateur Radio Club, N4TP, with 287 points. Following behind them in 2nd place is the Texas DX Society, K5DX, with 253 points. 3rd place goes to Lake County RACES, W9QL, with 215 points. In the Commercial Power category, the winner was Ron, W6ZQ with 90 points. The complete tabulation of all the QSOs and the satellites they were made on as well as pictures and stories will appear in the next issue of the AMSAT Journal. Are you a member? If not, please join so that you can get your copy of the AMSAT Journal. 73...Bruce AMSAT Vice President of User Services [ANS thanks Bruce, KK5DO, for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-208.05 7P8NK DXpedition becomes 3DA0WC on AO-40 AMSAT News Service Bulletin 208.05 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. July 27, 2003 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-208.05 The 7P8NK DXpedition in Lesotho was active this past week on AO-40 CW and SSB. Starting Monday, 28 July 2003 they will be relocating to Swaziland as 3DA0WC. They expect to be operational from the new location for 4 days and will be operating AO-40. [ANS thanks Jim, K0SBH, for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-208.05 This Week's News in Brief AMSAT News Service Bulletin 208.05 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. July 27, 2003 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-208.05 * NASA has chosen the Atlas V expendable launch vehicle provided by Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, Inc. as the launch system for the proposed Pluto New Horizons mission. The mission is scheduled for launch to Pluto in January 2006. As proposed, the Pluto New Horizons mission is a scientific investigation to obtain the first reconnaissance of Pluto-Charon, a binary planet system. [NASA News] * China is on schedule to launch its first manned spacecraft in October, becoming only the third nation to send a human into orbit, officials involved in the program said Wednesday. [Space Daily] * Russia could build a space craft and sell it to a private company offering tourists flights to the International Space Station but only for a very high price, a Russian space agency official said Tuesday. "We can sell a spaceship. They have to understand, however, that it will cost not 20 million or 40 million dollars, but much more," Rosaviakosmos spokesman told Interfax. [Space Daily] * Is there life on other worlds or is planet Earth the only place in our Solar System where living organisms have evolved? ESA is inviting European and Canadian industry to participate in its exciting ExoMars mission in order to provide an answer to this age-old question. [Space Daily] * SpaceDev to Design Lunar Dish Observatory Mission SpaceDev has been awarded a contract by Lunar Enterprise of California (LEC) for a first phase project to begin developing a conceptual mission and spacecraft design for a lunar lander program. The unmanned mission will be designed to put a small dish antenna near the south pole of the Moon. From that location it will be in near-constant sunlight for solar power generation, and should be able to perform multi-wavelength astronomy while communicating with ground stations on Earth. Full story: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030724/lath060_1.html [Greg Beat gregory.beat@comcast.net] [ANS thanks the sources for the above information] /EX