AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-169

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In this edition: * AMSAT 2012 Symposium Weekend Schedule Posted * Candidates for the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors * Viet Nam F-1 CubeSat Team Invites You to Send Your Name to Space * 1st Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop Video and Presentations Available * Credit Card Sized Raspberry Pi Computer Board Runs Ham Radio Software * Satellite Shorts From All Over * ARISS Status - 21 May 2012

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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 169 01 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD June 17, 2012 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-169 01

AMSAT 2012 Symposium Weekend Schedule Posted

The 2012 AMSAT Annual Meeting and Space Symposium will be held in Orlando, Florida on the weekend of October 26-28, 2012 at the Holi- day Inn, Orlando Airport Hotel

The Symposium weekend will feature:

• Space Symposium with Amateur Satellite Presentations
• Operating Techniques, News, & Plans from the Amateur Satellite World
• Board of Directors Meeting open to AMSAT members
• Meet Board Members and Officers
• Annual General Membership Meeting
• Annual Banquet—Keynote Speaker and Door Prizes

To help you plan your trip to Orlando the 2012 Symposium Committee has posted a high-level schedule of the weekend's events

Preliminary 2012 Symposium Schedule

Thursday 25 October 2012

AMSAT Board of Directors Meeting 8am - 9pm

Friday 26 October 2012

AMSAT Board of Directors Meeting 8am - Noon Trips to SkyCraft 9am - Noon AMSAT Symposium 1pm - 5pm

Saturday 27 October 2012

Symposium 8am - 3pm AMSAT General Meeting 3:30pm AMSAT Banquet 6:30pm - 10pm

Sunday 28 October 2012

7:30am AMSAT Area Coordinator's Breakfast Local trip of Interest TBD

Monday 29 October 2012

Special trip to Kennedy Space Center 8am-6pm Contact Martha if interested

Watch the AMSAT Symposium Web Pages for the latest information: http://www amsat org/amsat-new/symposium/2012/index php

[ANS thanks the 2012 Symposium Committee for the above information]

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Candidates for the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors

There are six candidates running for the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Three of the candidates are current members of the Board whose term expires this year Ballots will be mailed to the membership by July 15th, and must be received at the AMSAT-NA Silver Spring, MD office no later than the close of business on September 15th, 2012

Tom Clark, K3IO * Steve Coy, K8UD Mark Hammond, N8MH Lou McFadin, W5DID * Gould Smith, WA4SXM * Patrick E Stoddard, WD9EWK

• Incumbent

[ANS thanks Alan, WA4SCA, for the above information]

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Viet Nam F-1 CubeSat Team Invites You to Send Your Name to Space

The latest news from the F-1 CubeSat Team, posted on their website blog (http://fspace edu vn/) and on the AMSAT-UK web with additional photos (http://www uk amsat org/8215) reports that the satellite's flight safety review is complete and the FSpace team together with their partner NanoRacks LLC has satisfied the technical requirements and standards set by the launch vehicle provider

F-1 CubeSat is ready for its scheduled launch in July 21, 2012 from Japan If everything goes according to plan, the F-1 CubeSat will be delivered to Japan by the end of June Then along with four other CubeSats (RAIKO, WE-WISH, FITSAT-1 and TechEdSat) F-1 will be loaded onboard HTV-3 “Kounotori” transfer vehicle for integration with the JAXA HII-B launch vehicle

These CubeSats will remain aboard the ISS until September, 2012 when Japanese astronaut and radio amateur Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI should deploy it into space from the ISS using the Kibo robot arm

F-1 carries two Yaesu VX-3R transceivers using 145 980 and 437 485 MHz

The FSpace team are offering the public a chance to send their name/ callsign and a message into space onboard the F-1 CubeSat You will also be presented with a certificate! See this link: http://fspace edu vn/?page_id=31

[ANS thanks the FSpace Team and AMSAT-UK for the above information]

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1st Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop Video and Presentations Available

Video and presentations from the 1st Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop, held in and around MIT and Boston on May 29-30 are available for down- loading See: http://icubesat wordpress com/program/ Copies and videos of all the presentations, posters and ancillary sessions can be found by clicking on their titles

Please note that this conference was an open conference and did not wish to discuss information restricted by ITAR U S citizens and permanent residents were responsible for ensuring that technical data presented was not restricted by ITAR and that ITAR controlled informa- tion was not discussed with non-U S citizens

[ANS thanks the iCubeSat Workshop for the above information]

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Credit Card Sized Raspberry Pi Computer Board Runs Ham Radio Software

AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NA member Dave Johnson, G4DPZ, has been using the Raspberry Pi to run amateur radio satellite software

The £22 ($35) Model B Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized ARM-based computer board that plugs into a TV and a keyboard Based around the 700 MHz ARM11 processor the board has 256 MB SDRAM, two USB ports, Ethernet with composite and HDMI video outputs Low-level peripher- als are GPIO pins, SPI, I²C, I²S and UART

It was developed in Cambridgeshire by a UK registered charity, the Raspberry Pi Foundation, which exists to promote the study of com- puter science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing

Dave’s Raspberry Pi runs Debian Squeeze with Xwindows and is acces- sed using VNC over his shack network

The first amateur radio application he got running was the GPredict satellite tracking software, thanks go to Alex Csete OZ9AEC for mak- ing such a portable implementation Dave found the sofware and up- dates of the Keplerian Two Line Elements from the Internet worked perfectly

More information about the Raspberry Pi can be found at: http://www raspberrypi org/

GPredict free real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction software can be found at: http://gpredict oz9aec net/

See also AMSAT-UK (http://www uk amsat org/8019) for photos and additional information about the Raspberry Pi

[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]

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Satellite Shorts From All Over

• The 13 Colonies Special Event operation needs a satellite operator from the state of Massachusetts If you can help please contact the coordinator Dave Webb, KB1PVH [kb1pvh@gmail com]

• Nick Pugh, K5QXJ posted a video recorded during an AubieSat-1 pass after its recent on-orbit reconfiguration See: http://www youtube com/watch?v=vNM1z7C6l-0

• Plan Ahead! To celebrate Venezuelan Navy Day, members of the Grupo DX Caracas will be active as YW5B from La Blanquilla Island between July 11-16 Activity will be on 160-2 meters using CW, SSB, Satel- lites, FM and the Digital modes (Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No 1065)

• The next Hudson Valley Satcom net date is Thursday June 21, 8PM EDT (UTC-4 UTC) on the 146 97 MHz MBARC Repeater (PL 100) The echolink connection has been experiencing problems so you are invited to send and e-mail to N2OXV@arrl net to make sure that the N2EYH-L EchoLink node is available if you plan to join via this route (Stu, WA2BSS)

• A video of the AMSAT-UK FunCube Dongle receiving the HORYU-2 Satel- lite is posted at: http://www uk amsat org/?p=8016 You will also find links describing the satellite and a link to software for telemetry decoding

• VE7BQH has just updated his 2m and 6m antenna comparison tables and provided additional information on each antenna The changes are explained by him along with links to both text and spreadsheet versions of the tables: http://www bigskyspaces com/w7gj/6mTable htm

[ANS thanks everyone for the above information]

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ARISS Status - 11 June 2012

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Status Report June 11, 2012

1. Japanese Contact Successful

On Wednesday, June 6, students attending Kawatinagano Higashi Junior High School in Kawatinagano, Osaka, Japan took part in an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact with André Kuipers, PI9ISS on ISS At the beginning of the contact the school was experiencing a power blackout, but recovered in time so that all children were able to ask their questions The event supplemented lessons about space and the ISS

1. Astronaut Training Status

Astronaut Jeannette Epps took and passed her amateur radio license exam last week and was given the callsign KF5QNU She is not assigned to any future ISS expedition crews at this time

[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, 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 addi- tional benefits Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office

Primary and secondary school students are eligible for membership at one-half the standard yearly rate Post-secondary school students enrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu- dent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status Contact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership information

73, This week's ANS Editor, Lee McLamb, KU4OS ku4os at amsat dot org

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