AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-293

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* 2008 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting October 24-26 in Atlanta, Georgia http://www amsat org/amsat-new/symposium/2008/index php *

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In this edition:

• 2008 AMSAT Space Symposium Begins This Week
• 2008 AMSAT Space Symposium Presentations List
• Richard Garriott Amateur Radio Operations Commence From ISS
• Delfi-C3 in Telemetry Mode
• AMSAT Receives CFC Certification for 2008
• WinAPRS Writer Hurt in Balloon Crash

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-293 01 2008 AMSAT Space Symposium Begins This Week

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 293 01

From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD October 19, 2008 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-293 01

The 2008 Harry Yoneda JA1ANG AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting is right on schedule for October 24-26, 2008

Highlights of the weekend include:

• Board of Director's Meeting on October 23 - 24

• AMSAT-NA General Membership Meeting on Saturday, October 25 from 10-12 AM Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4) The AMSAT General Meeting will be broadcast on EchoLink AMSAT Conference, node 101377 Users may ask questions via the chat link

• AMSAT Annual Banquet will be held on Saturday evening October 25
  The banquet speaker is Daniel Schultz, N8FQV who will describe the The Hubble Space Telescope Repair Mission

• AMSAT's Field Operations Breakfast will be held on Sunday morning, October 26

• A free Sunday morning workshop 'Introduction to Digital Signal Processing' presented by Phil Harman, VK6APH

• The grand prize to be given away at the Banquet this year is an ICOM IC-910

The full Symposium Schedule will be posted on-line: http://www amsat org/amsat-new/symposium/2008/index php

[ANS thanks the 2008 Symposium Committee for the above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-293 02 2008 AMSAT Space Symposium Presentations List

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 293 02

From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD October 19, 2008 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-293 02

A list of the 2008 Symposium Talks has been released and includes:

• Anthony Monteiro, AA2TX - Space Radio for Windows

• López Villalobos José de Jesús, XE2N; Álvarez Cárdenas Omar, XE1AO; Dora Luz Candanosa Salazar XE2DLC - Modeling Robot Control for AO-51 Satellite Follower

• Paul Marsh, M0EYT - S-band and X-band deep space reception

• Tim Salo, AB0DO - Proposed Network-Centric Architecture for the ACP

• JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM - AMSAT Opportunities for Communications Interoperability

• Richard Chapman, KC4IFB, Jean-Marie Wersinger KI4YAU; Thor Wilson; John Klingelhoeffer, WB4LNM - AubieSat1:A Student Designed CubeSat Developed at Auburn University

• David Bowman, G0MRF - Medium Earth Orbit - An Affordable Alternative to HEO

• Joe Lynch, N6CL - The Meteor Shower Nobody Saw – Revisited

• Tim Lilley, N3TL - Handheld FM Satellite Stations : Meeting FCC Part 97 1 with a Superb Tool for Recruiting New Operators

• Tom Clark, K3IO - Taking Eagle to New Heights: A Strawman Design for a Geostationary Amateur Satellite

• Frank Bauer, KA3HDO - ARISS

• Lou McFadin, W5DID - SuitSat-2/Radioskaf-2: The second Amateur Radio Space Suit project and stepping stone to future small amateur satellites

• Christian Rodriguez, Henric Boiardt - Using Iridium's satellite network for amateur satellite communications in Low Earth Orbit

• Bill Ress, N6GHZ - ITAR and AMSAT

• Phil Karn, KA9Q - Power-efficient FEC-coded low rate telemetry formats

• Giulio Pezzi, IZ4FVW/AB2VY - HSSDT Project - High Speed Satellite Data Transmitter

• Gould Smith, WA4SXM - AO-51 Operations Before, During and After the No Eclipse Period

• Fred Kennedy, ZL1BYP - KiwiSat, A Communications Satellite for New Zealand (presented by Bill Ress, N6GHZ)

• Hans van de Groenendaal, ZS6ZKV - SumbandilaSat UpOctober 19 (presented by

  Gould Smith, WA4SXM)

• Howard Long, G6LVB - P3E's Software Defined Transponder (SDX)

• Phil Harman, VK6APH - Introduction to Digital Signal Processing

[ANS thanks the 2008 Symposium Committee for the above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-293 03 Richard Garriott Amateur Radio Operations Commence From ISS

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 293 03

From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD October 19, 2008 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-293 03

ARISS International Chairman, and AMSAT-NA V P for Human Spaceflight Programs, Frank Bauer, KA3HDO reported Richard Garriott is now on- orbit after a successful launch The Soyuz crew has completed docking with the ISS as of October 14 All are aboard the ISS

Richard has commenced amateur radio activity from the ISS using FM phone, Slow-Scan Television (SSTV), and packet operations The ARISS team encourages hams to upload their ISS SSTV pictures on the ARISS SSTV Gallery In addition, we are posting late breaking information and pictures on the ARISS SSTV blog

The blog is at: http://www ariss-sstv blogspot com/

And the gallery is at: http://www amsat com/ARISS_SSTV/

There are links at the Gallery site to submit your SSTV pictures Also included are helpful hints for SSTV operations during Richard Garriott's flight ARISS appreciates your SSTV picture submissions to the gallery

Amateur stations around the world have reported hearing FM voice and SSTV operation while the ISS crew is awake Packet operations are planned for operation during the crew sleep period (20:30-05:00 UTC)

Digital/APRS: Worldwide packet uplink: 145 825 MHz FM Worldwide packet downlink: 145 825 Mhz FM

Voice: Region 1 voice uplink: 145 200 MHz FM Region 2/3 voice uplink: 144 490 MHz FM Worldwide downlink: 145 800 MHz FM

Crossband Repeater: Repeater Uplink: 437 800 MHz FM Repeater Downlink: 145 800 MHz FM

SSTV Robot 36: Downlink: 145 800 MHz FM

[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-293 04 Delfi-C3 in Telemetry Mode

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 293 04

From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD October 19, 2008 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-293 04

Wouter Jan Ubbels PE4WJ, reports the Delfi-C3/DO-64 teama has successfully switched their Delfi-C3 satellite into basic mode

This means Delfi-C3 is currently transmitting 1200bit/s BPSK house- keeping telemetry on the primary downlink frequency of 145 870MHz

In this mode, AX 25 frames containing housekeeping telemetry are transmitted approximately once every 4-5 secs, with the rest of the transmission being filled with idle flags

The Delfi team encourages everyone to receive, decode and forward telemetry using the RASCAL software as previously done during the first three months of science mission The RASCAL telemetry decoding software can be downloaded at: http://www delfic3 nl/rascal

At this moment, the Delfi team does not know how long the satellite will be in this mode, but they are planning on a couple of weeks of telemetry operations You can stay informed on their mission opera- tions page at

http://www delfic3 nl/index php?option=com_content&task=view&id=93&Itemid=12 2

and via the AMSAT-BB They will regularly post on and monitor the OSCAR status page at http://oscar dcarr org/ as well

[ANS thanks Wouter Jan Ubbels PE4WJ for the above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-293 05 AMSAT Receives CFC Certification for 2008

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 293 05

From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD October 19, 2008 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-293 05

The Office of Combined Federal Campaign Operations has approved AMSAT-NA for participation in the 2008 CFC The CFC, or Combined Federal Campaign, is the U S Government equivalent of the United Way in the private sector The campaign affords all US Government employees the opportunity to make donations from their regular paychecks to CFC approved Charities

This stamp of approval means that AMSAT has met the strict standards set by the U S Office of Personnel Management (OPM) assuring donors that our programs of work, financial, and operations meet the standards for eligible volunteer agencies

Those AMSAT supporters who which to make payroll contributions should Select the Radio Amateur satellite Corporation (AMSAT) during their campaign this coming fall The AMSAT CFC Charity number is 10158 Payroll deduction is a simple, convenient way to support your AMSAT

Gunther Meisse W8GSM Treasurer, AMSAT North America

[ANS thanks Gunther, W8GSM for the above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-293 06 WinAPRS Writer Hurt in Balloon Crash

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 293 06

From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD October 19, 2008 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-293 06

ANS received news via Amateur Radio Newsline that a ham known to many in AMSAT has been critically injured in a hot air balloon crash at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta on Friday, October 10th Another passenger aboard the ballon was killed in the crash

Killed in the crash was Stephen Lachendro, of Butler, Pennsylvania
Keith Sproul, WU2Z, was critically injured in the accident when the 'Wings of Wind' balloon hit powerlines near the festival grounds just North of the city

According to news reports, there were gusty winds as the two balloon- ists were trying to land From pictures taken by attendees, it appears as if the basket carrying the men caught fire after hitting the power lines, separated from the balloon envelope and fell to the ground

First responders reported that Lachendro was found lying on the side of a ditch after falling 45 feet to his death Sproul who was report- edly piloting the balloon jumped some 60 feet from the burning gondola WU2Z was unconscious when he was found and was flown by helicopter to a local hospital where he was admitted in critical condition Reports say that he suffered a broken leg and hip, punctured lungs and burns to his face

Keith Sproul is the twin brother Mark Sproul, KB2ICI The two are best known in ham radio circles as the co-authors of the popular WinAPRS, MacAPRS and X-APRS APRS is the multi-faceted position reporting system originally developed by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR It allows the monitoring of real time geographical information such as the position of vehicles, the status of weather, radio direction finding and much more

According to a National Guard spokesman at the scene, the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate this latest crash

[ANS thanks the Amateur Radio Newsline for the above information]

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In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office

73, This week's ANS Editor, JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM K9JKM at amsat dot org

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