SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-240.02 HAMSAT Reports Needed AMSAT News Service Bulletin 240.02 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. August 28, 2005 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-240.02 Hi All One of the members of the Mission Management Board at ISTRAC called me this afternoon to enquire about the latest feedback on Hamsat usage around the globe. I request you to kindly send in your feedback reports to reports@amsat.in as this will help the MMB ISTRAC to complie the latest reports & payload evaluation in time before their meeting scheduled for 29 Aug 2005. [ANS thanks VU2POP, Pop, for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-240.03 AMSAT Election Deadline Approaching AMSAT News Service Bulletin 240.03 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. August 28, 2005 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-240.03 Your votes do count. With the deadline for the receipt of ballots for the AMSAT Board of Directors less than a month away, Bill Hook, W3QBC, who heads up AMSAT's Ballot Counting Committee, advises that to date only 609 ballots have been received. This amounts to only 15% of the total number of ballots mailed to members. Votes are needed to select the 4 best qualified to serve among the 8 candidates. The biographical information as submitted by the Candidates can be found on the AMSAT website at http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/AboutAmsat/candidate_bios.php To be counted, ballots must be received at the AMSAT office before the close of business on Thursday, 15 September 2005. [ANS thanks Bill W3QBC for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-240.04 ARISS Status - 28 August 2005 AMSAT News Service Bulletin 240.04 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. August 28, 2005 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-240.04 ARISS Status August 28, 2005 1. Arizona Contact a Success! On Wednesday, August 17, the children at D.W. Higgins Institute in Tempe, Arizona, experienced an ARISS contact with John Phillips, KE5DRY. The astronaut was able to answer 23 of the 24 questions posed to him by twelve students before the ISS went over the horizon. An audience of approximately 200 students, teachers, and others witnessed the contact. Special guests attending the event included the mayor of Tempe, Phillips’ parents and his sister, Maura Mackowski, whose son, Ben, is a sixth grader at the school. Mackowki was impressed with the Q & A session and wrote a thank you note to JSC, expressing her gratitude for a job well done, noting Steve Bible, N7HPR, in particular, for setting up and working his radio during the contact. Among the media present were two television channels (5 and 12) and two news papers, The Arizona Republic and East Valley Tribune. Arizona Republic’s article, “Tempe students radio space station, talk to astronaut,” may be found at: http://www.azcentral.com/families/education/articles/0817t-space-ON.html East Valley Tribune ran a story, “Students use radio to chat with astronaut in orbit.” See: http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=46392 The Channel 12 news video clip of the event, “Students speak with astronauts aboard International Space Station,” is available for viewing. See: http://www.azcentral.com/12news/video/12video_index.html 2. Upcoming School Contacts The Sapporo Junior Amateur Radio Club in Sapporo, Kokkaido, Japan has been scheduled for a contact on Monday, August 22 at 14:26 UTC. The 2005 World Expo in Aichi, Japan has been approved for an ARISS contact. It has been scheduled for Friday, September 2 at 09:45 UTC. 3. ARISS International Meeting ARISS delegate Rosalie White has submitted minutes from the U.K. meeting to the other delegates for comments. Once finalized, they will be posted to the ARISS and AMSAT websites. The next ARISS International Teleconference will be held on Tuesday, August 23. 4. ARRL Article on Krikalev On August 12, the ARRL ran a web story on Sergei Krikalev, U5MIR. “ISS commander sets new space endurance record” is posted on the website. See: http://www.arrl.org/ 5. SSTV Safety Review Held On Friday, August 19, the JSC Payload Safety Review Panel (PSRP) met with members of ARISS-U.S. to discuss the certification of the SSTV/Vox box and two cables which the ARISS-U.S. team is providing to the project. Once the ARISS team submits supporting documentation, the certification document will be signed. The Russian team will provide the webcam and will provide the safety certification for the integrated system. The SSTV is expected to fly on 19P which is scheduled for a September launch. 6. Space Tourist Issued Callsign Greg Olsen took and passed his amateur radio exam on Friday, August 12, and was issued the callsign, KC2ONX. Olsen, slated to be the next space tourist, will fly with Expedition 12 crew members, Bill McArthur, KC5ACR, and Valery Tokarev in October. Sergey Samburov, RV3DR, will provide training on the ARISS radio system and operations so that he may participate in school contacts while on board the ISS. ARRL ran an article on Olsen, entitled, “Next ISS ‘Space Tourist’ Gets Amateur Radio Ticket.” See: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/08/18/3/?nc=1 [ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-240.05 Volunteer Station Needed AMSAT News Service Bulletin 240.05 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. August 28, 2005 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-240.05 Here is your chance to become a viable part of the Amateur Satellite Community. We are looking for a volunteer satellite packet station in Hawaii that is interested in helping with telemetry and sat-gating of PCSAT2 and ARISS packets. Requirements are: 1) General familiarity with packet 2) TNC connected to a cross band radio that can RX on UHF and TX on VHF. 3) modest UHF beam and rotator system. Contact WB4APR for more information. [ANS thanks Bob, WB4APR, for the above information] /EX