[jamsat-news:3251] [ans] ANS-327 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

Lee McLamb ku4os @ cfl.rr.com
2014年 11月 23日 (日) 15:57:18 JST


AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-327

The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor-
mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite
Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space
including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur
Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building,
launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio
satellites.

The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur
Radio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it.

Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to:
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In this edition:

* ARISS Contact Opportunity Call for Proposals
* Captain Yuri, UT1FG/mm Reported Heading Back to Sea



SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-327.01
ANS-327 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 327.01
 From AMSAT HQ Kensington, MD.
November 23, 2014
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-327.01


ARISS Contact Opportunity Call for Proposals

Proposal Window October 17 – December 15, 2014

The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is 
seeking
formal and informal education institutions and organizations, 
individually or
working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on 
board
the ISS. ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between May 1, 
2015
and December 31, 2015. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the 
exact
contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is 
looking
for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and 
integrate the
contact into a well-developed education plan.

The deadline to submit a proposal is December 15, 2014.

The Opportunity

Crew members aboard the International Space Station will participate in
scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are approximately 10
minutes in length and allow students and educators to interact with the
astronauts through a question-and-answer session.

An ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via Amateur Radio
between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space station and 
classrooms and
communities. ARISS contacts afford education audiences the opportunity 
to learn
firsthand from astronauts what it is like to live and work in space and 
to learn
about space research conducted on the ISS. Students also will have an
opportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless technology, and
radio science. Because of the nature of human spaceflight and the 
complexity of
scheduling activities aboard the ISS, organizations must demonstrate 
flexibility
to accommodate changes in contact dates and times.

Amateur Radio organizations around the world, NASA, and space agencies in
Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe sponsor this educational opportunity by
providing the equipment and operational support to enable direct 
communication
between crew on the ISS and students around the world via Amateur Radio. 
In the
US, the program is managed by AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite 
Corporation) and
ARRL (American Radio Relay League) in partnership with NASA.

More Information

Interested parties can find more information about the program at 
www.ariss.org
and www.arrl.org/ARISS. More details on expectations, audience, proposal
guidelines and proposal form, and dates and times of Information 
Sessions are
available at www.arrl.org/hosting-an-ariss-contact. Please direct any 
questions
to ariss @ arrl.org.

[ANS thanks Debra, K1DMJ, for the above information]


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Captain Yuri, UT1FG/mm Reported Heading Back to Sea

Early reports via e-mail exchanges indicate that Captain Yuri, UT1FG/mm may
be headed back to sea in December. He is reportedly slated to take over the
helm of the MV Greenwing which he will meet in either Canada or the on the
ports of the Great Lakes in the USA. Currently the MV Greenwing is off the
coast of Sicily and appears to waiting for a load to carry back to the USA
or Canada.

For those who want to do so, you will be able to "track" the ship on-line
using websites such as http://www.marinetraffic.com
You may need to provide one of the following identifiers to track the ship:
Ship Name: Greenwing
Ships Call Sign: P3GG9
Ships IMO #: 9230921
Ships MMSI #: 209996000

Historically, Captain Yuri has operated on the satellites with these
parameters:
1) He operates 1/2 duplex with an Icom 706MKIIg rig with an ELK antenna
2) He is VERY good operator and speaks several languages well.
3) He has NO issues with the 1/2 duplex operations.
4) He works ALL of the available satellites, FM, Linear & even AO-7a.
5) He works ALL of the passes he can, EVEN in the middle of the night!

[ANS thanks Frank, K4FEG for the above information]

/EX


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President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining
donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi-
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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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