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