SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-156.01 Call for papers-2005 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting AMSAT News Service Bulletin 156.01 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. June 5, 2005 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-156.01 This is the third call for papers for the 2005 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting to be held October 7 - 9, 2005 in Lafayette, Louisiana. Proposals for papers and symposium presentations are invited on any topic of interest to the amateur satellite program. We request a one-page abstract by June 15, 2005. Camera ready copy on paper or in electronic form will be due by August 1, 2005 for inclusion in the printed symposium proceedings. Abstracts and papers should be sent to n8fgv@amsat.org [ANS thanks Dan, N8FGV for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-156.02 AMSAT Hamvention Wrapup AMSAT News Service Bulletin 156.02 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. June 5, 2005 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-156.02 Dayton Hamvention 2005 is over and it was a great success for AMSAT. On Thursday night over 70 hams interested in satellites attended the AMSAT Pizza n' Suds event. This annual party is growing in popularity as an AMSAT sponsored event. As always, it was a great time to sit back and talk to old friends and plan for the next few days at Hamvention. The AMSAT booth had an excellent year. Sales of books, shirts and other AMSAT items were strong though out the weekend. On Friday morning former astronaut Tony England visited the AMSAT booth and had a chance to meet many of the booth workers and AMSAT members. All AMSAT members owe a great "thank you" to all of the Dayton volunteers who worked at the booth during Hamvention 2005. On Friday evening the AMSAT banquet at the Amber Rose was a great success. Many felt it was the best banquet ever. It was a near sell out with 84 members in attendance. Former astronaut Tony England gave an impressive talk on how knowledge gained from ham radio helped him several times during his career with NASA as an astronaut. Rick Hambly also spoke about AMSAT and our future satellite programs. On Saturday morning the AMSAT forum at the Hamvention was crowded as usual. We had four excellent speakers who talked about the future of the amateur radio satellites. AMSAT Treasurer Gunther Meisse, W4GSM video recorded the AMSAT forum and Dr. Tony England speech on Friday night. There may still be an opportunity for those who missed Hamvention 2005 to see these events. In summary, thanks to all who attended AMSAT parties and the booth at Hamvention 2005. Thank you for the support to AMSAT for those who joined as new members or renewed their membership at the booth. A special thanks to all who worked to make the AMSAT effort at Hamvention 2005 a great success! [ANS thanks Ed, N8NUY for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-156.03 AMSAT Kid's Day Reminder-11 June 2005 AMSAT News Service Bulletin 156.03 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. June 5, 2005 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-156.03 AMSAT-NA and the AO-51 Operations Team will sponsor the second Kid's Day on AO-51 for 2005. The event will run from approximately 1420 UTC 11 June until 0450 UTC 12 June. The event is open to all kids, worldwide. All amateur radio stations are asked to use this short time window to promote satellite operations with kids by actually showing a kid how to make contacts via AO-51, providing a station to contact, or stepping aside to allow others to make contacts with the kids. During the event, please limit contacts to stations that are operating with kids at the microphone. This should allow the kids to have a nice QSO and pass some information. Kids can tell their name, age, who is helping them operate on AO-51, where they live, and other information about themselves. A certificate is available from the AO-51 Team to any kid making a successful Kid's Day contact. Please check the AMSAT Web Site, AO-51 Control Team Page, and other AMSAT news outlets for details on the award. AO-51 will be configured in the following mode during the event. Please note the change in the uplink frequency for the event. Uplink: 145.880 MHz FM voice, 67 Hz tone Downlink: 435.300 MHz FM voice The digital transponder on 435.150 will be turned off during the event. A certificate is available to any kid that makes a contact with another amateur radio station during the AMSAT Kid's Day Event. The contacted station does not have to be operated by a kid. To receive your certificate, please mail a confirmation of contact to the following address: AMSAT Kid's Day Certificate c/o Michael Kingery - KE4AZN 1251 County Road 445 Enterprise, AL 36330 U.S.A. Your confirmation can be a QSL card from you or the amateur control station, a note on a piece of paper, or anything you can come up with. Use your imagination! Please add a short note (a couple of paragraphs) about your experience talking through an operational amateur radio satellite. Some of the best cards and notes will be used for a future AMSAT Journal article. Also, digital pictures and notes can be sent to ke4azn@amsat.org for potential inclusion in the Journal article. The certificate is free, and no SASE is required. The certificate is available to any kid, anywhere in the world. [ANS thanks Mike, KE4AZN and the AO-51 Team for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-156.04 ARISS Status - 30 May 2005 AMSAT News Service Bulletin 156.04 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. June 5, 2005 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-156.04 1.California School Contact Successful On Tuesday, May 24, Phillips' second crew pick, Village Elementary School, in Coronado, California, experienced an ARISS contact via the telebridge station NN1SS in Greenbelt, Maryland. Sixteen students and their teacher asked 20 questions. Adam Phillips, nephew of John Phillips and a third grader at the school, participated in the session. The audio was successfully fed through Echolink and the IRLP Reflector 9010. It was also webcast. The local newspaper, Coronado Eagle & Journal, covered the event. 2.Upcoming School Contacts Zurich International School in Horgen, Switzerland has been approved for an ARISS contact. It will take place on Friday, 10 June at 0910 UTC. 3.ARRL Article on New York School Contact Iroquois Middle School in Niskayuna, New York participated in an ARISS contact on 16 May. ARRL covered the event in an article entitled, "It's Not Really 'Zero Gravity' on Space Station, Astronaut Tells Youngsters." See: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/05/26/1/?nc=1 4.SuitSat Status The SuitSat Educational Proposal has generated interest from several schools. The U.S. team continues to work on hardware which is expected to be shipped to Russia on June 10. Audio has been collected for use on SuitSat. Greetings have been recorded in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Russian. A NASA Explorer School, Eastern Middle School, supplied the voice message for the U.S. English contribution. 5.Astronaut Training ESA French astronaut Leopold Eyharts has been scheduled for U.S. amateur radio license training with Nick Lance and Kenneth Ransom. The training sessions will tentatively begin on 31 May and continue over a two week period. 6.Student Teacher Training Nick Lance participated in the Pre-Service Teacher Institute at JSC where college students were taught how to incorporate math and science into their elementary and middle school curricula. He taught an amateur radio licensing course and twelve students passed the exam and received their Technician Class licenses. [ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI for the above information] /EX