[jamsat-news:3730] [ans] AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletin ANS-257 for September 13, 2020

Frank Karnauskas via ANS ans @ amsat.org
2020年 9月 13日 (日) 09:09:23 JST


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In this edition:

* Virtual 2020 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting on 
  October 17, 2020 
* AMSAT Virtual Symposium Call for Papers 
* Preparations Continue for World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 
* Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for September 10, 2020
* AMSAT-DL Announces Virtual Satellite Symposium September 26, 2020 
* AMSAT-UK Announces Colloquium 2020 October 11, 2020 
* Upcoming Satellite Operations 
* ARISS News 
* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events 
* Satellite Shorts from All Over 


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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 257.01
>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.
September 13, 2020
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Virtual 2020 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting on
October 17, 2020

The 2020 Virtual AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting 
will be held Saturday, October 17, 2020 from 9:00am CDT - 5:00pm CDT 
(UTC -5). Symposium presentations will be a combination of 
pre-recorded and live video segments along with question and answer 
sessions held via a Zoom meeting. The tentative schedule is:

9:00am CDT
Opening Remarks

9:15am CDT - 12:45pm CDT
General Presentations

1:00pm CDT - 2:00pm CDT
AMSAT Education / CubeSat Simulator

2:00pm CDT - 3:00pm CDT	
ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station)/ 
AREx (Amateur Radio Exploration)

3:00pm CDT - 4:00pm CDT
AMSAT Engineering

4:00pm CDT - 5:00pm CDT	
2020 AMSAT Annual General Meeting

The Symposium will be streamed free of charge on AMSAT's YouTube 
account. Registered attendees will receive a digital copy of the 
AMSAT Symposium Proceedings and will be entitled to join the Zoom 
meeting and participate in the question and answer sessions. 
Registered attendees will also be entered into prize drawings. 
Registration is free and available only for AMSAT members at 
https://launch.amsat.org/Events. 

Registration will close on Friday, October 16 at 5:00pm CDT.

[ANS thanks AMSAT for the above information.]

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AMSAT Virtual Symposium Call for Papers

Proposals for papers and Symposium presentations are invited on any 
topic of interest to the amateur satellite community.  We request a 
tentative title of your presentation as soon as possible. 

Final papers for the Symposium Proceedings must be submitted by 
October 5, 2020 to Dan Schultz, N8FGV at n8fgv @ usa.net. Symposium 
presentations should be limited to 15 minutes of pre-recorded video. 
Video presentations must be submitted by October 10, 2020 to 
Paul Stoetzer, N8HM at n8hm @ arrl.net. We ask that presenters be 
available to take questions via Zoom following the airing of their 
pre-recorded video.

[ANS thanks AMSAT for the above information.]

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         Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the AMSAT office
    is closed until further notice. For details, please visit
  https://www.amsat.org/amsat-office-closed-until-further-notice/

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Preparations Continue for World Radiocommunication Conference 2023

Preparations for World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 
(WRC-23) go forward, the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) 
continues its efforts to protect amateur and amateur-satellite 
allocations. The international conference, which generally takes 
place every 4 years, is sponsored by the International 
Telecommunication Union (ITU).

IARU participated in the first online meeting of Project Team A 
(PTA) of the WRC-23 CEPT Conference Preparatory Group (CPG), 
reporting this week that “a good start was made on items of interest 
to the amateur and amateur-satellite services.”

Agenda Item 1.12 addresses studies stemming from WRC-19 that are now 
underway to consider a new secondary allocation to the Earth 
exploration-satellite (active) service (EESS active) for spaceborne 
radar sounders in the 40 – 50 MHz range, taking into account the 
protection of incumbent services (including in adjacent bands), 
which would include 6 meters. A handful of countries have also 
allocated secondary amateur bands in the vicinity of 40 MHz. 

The WRC-19 Resolution (Res. 656), which ordered the studies, noted 
that spaceborne-active RF sensors can provide unique information on 
physical properties of the Earth, and that spaceborne-active remote 
sensing requires specific frequency ranges depending on the physical 
phenomena to be observed. Spaceborne radars are intended to operate 
only in uninhabited or sparsely populated areas with particular 
focus on deserts and polar ice fields, between the hours of 3 AM 
and 6 AM local time. 

Agenda Item 1.14 addresses the Earth Exploration Satellite service 
(passive) (EESS passive) in the range 231.5 - 250 GHz. The Amateur 
and Amateur-satellite services have a primary allocation at 
248?–?250 GHz, and a secondary allocation at 241?–?248 GHz. 

Agenda Item 9.1 will consider and approve the Report of the Director 
of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau on the activities of the 
Radiocommunication Sector since WRC-19. This includes a review of 
the amateur service and the amateur-satellite service allocations 
in the frequency band 1.240 – 1.300 GHz to determine if additional 
measures are required to ensure protection of the radionavigation- 
satellite (space-to-Earth) service (RNSS) operating in the same 
band.

The 1.240 – 1.300 GHz band is allocated worldwide to the amateur 
service on a secondary basis, and the amateur-satellite service 
(Earth-to-space) may operate in the band 1.260 – 1.270 GHz. The 
primary concern is the potential for interference to the Galileo 
Global Navigation Satellite System (GPS) in ITU Region 1 (Europe, 
the Middle East, and Africa). Instances of interference to one of 
the RNSS channels from amateur operations have been reported. IARU 
has said it’s prepared to fully cooperate in any studies. 

The IARU participated in the initial meeting of Project Team C of 
the WRC-23 CEPT CPG, where the preliminary CEPT position on 
international studies on coexistence between the amateur service 
and RNSS was discussed. 

Agenda Item 9.1A concerns spaceweather sensors, which must be 
protected by regulation without placing constraints on incumbent 
services. “The scope of this topic is wide and could cover HF to 
EHF spectrum,” IARU said. “Until studies are progressed, it is not 
certain how the amateur and amateur-satellite services might be 
impacted.”

Agenda Item 9.1C was proposed by a few countries interested in 
the possible use of mobile technologies in frequency bands allocated 
to the fixed service. “In practice, amateur service allocations in 
the range 430 MHz to 250 GHz could be affected where there is a 
primary allocation to the fixed service and a secondary allocation 
to the amateur service,” IARU said, citing 2.3 GHz and 3.4 GHz as 
examples.

Last summer, France raised a proposal to consider 144 – 146 MHz as a 
primary allocation to the Aeronautical mobile service, as part of a 
broader consideration of spectrum allocated to that service. 

IARU pledged to continue “to represent the amateur and Amateur-
satellite services throughout the electromagnetic spectrum 
at meetings of regulatory bodies during the coming months.” 

[ANS thanks the ARRL for the above information.]

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Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for September 10, 2020 

As noted last week, Arianespace launched of 53 new satellites on 
September 3, 2020. This also placed three new satellites carrying 
Amateur Radio transmitters into orbit. They are Amicalsat, TTU-100 
and UPMSAT 2. So far, only UPMSAT 2 has been identified as Object 
46276 (See below).

Based on observations this past week, Nico Janseen has refined his 
identification of UPMSat 2 to be Object 46276, not Object 46277 as 
it seemed last week. Also, OBJECT D (Cat ID 46275) and OBJECT F 
(Cat ID 46277) have been added this week in hope that they may be 
Amicalsat and TTU-100. Watch for further information.

Therefore, the following satellites have been and added to this week's
AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution:

OBJECT D - Cat ID 46275 
UPMSat 2 - Cat ID 46276 
OBJECT F - Cat ID 46277 

Thanks to Nico Janssen, PA0DLO, for verfying Cat ID 46276 is in fact 
UPMSat2.

The following satellite has decayed from orbit and has been removed 
from this week's AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution:

Tanusha-3 - NORAD Cat ID 43597 (Decayed on August 5, 2020 per 
Space-Track).

[ANS thanks the Ray Hoad for the above information.]

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AMSAT-DL Announces Virtual Satellite Symposium September 26, 2020

Unfortunately, the AMSAT-DL Symposium planned for September 26-27, 
2020 cannot take place this year in the usual manner. Since the 
health of everyone is very close to our hearts and the legal 
framework currently leaves no other option, AMSAT-DL has decided not 
to hold a meeting on site in Bochum this year. A social meeting with 
dinner is not possible, nor is a flea market or other activities such 
as the QO-100 User Meeting which happened for the first time during 
the HAM Radio Fair in Friedrichshafen in 2019.

Instead, AMSAT-DL will broadcast the symposium as an online meeting 
in DATV via the broadband transponder of QO-100 and on the internet 
on the AMSAT-DL YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/amsatdl. 

Due to the international audience, most of the lectures will be held 
in English. The current schedule can be found on the AMSAT-DL 
homepage at https://amsat-dl.org.

AMSAT-DL and its board invites everyone to this year's AMSAT-DL 
online conference and the virtual QO-100 user meeting.

[ANS thanks the AMSAT-DL for the above information.]

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AMSAT-UK Announces Colloquium 2020 October 11, 2020 

There will not be an in-person AMSAT-UK International Space 
Colloquium this year instead they will be holding an Online Event on 
Sunday, October 11, 2020. This is the day after the RSGB’s Radio 
Convention which is also an on-line event. 

The AMSAT-UK Convention will run from 11:00am to approximately 
5:00pm, with a break for lunch and several short breaks during the 
day. (Times are British Summer Time, or UTC/GMT + 1.) Membership in 
AMSAT-UK is not required to attend and the event is free of charge.

The event will be in the form of a Zoom Webinar. Register at 
http://tinyurl.com/amsatukreg2020 and follow the instructions which 
will arrive by email. No special software is installed since a 
browser plug in is used by Zoom.

Those who are registered before the start of the Colloquium will be 
entered for a number of free raffles which will take place during the 
event. The event will be hosted by Graham Shirville, G3VZV and 
Jim Heck, G3WGM and formally opened by our Chairman, Martin Sweeting, 
G3YJO. For those registered it will be possible to pose questions to 
the speakers during Q and A sessions. Informal on-line discussions 
after the official close of the Colloquium, are also planned.

The Colloquium will be live streamed to the AMSAT-UK YouTube channel 
at https://www.youtube.com/user/AMSATUK.

Complete information is available at https://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/.

[ANS thanks the AMSAT-UK for the above information.]

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Upcoming Satellite Operations

CN86; 9/19 & 9/20
John Van Dalen, @N7AME hopes to access the FM satellites AO-91, and 
AO-92 on most passes on September 19 and 20 during the WWDXC Salmon 
Run. If  they count, John will be at Lewis and Clark State Park 
(K-3221) in Washington and in Lewis County which will be Grid CN96. 
Check Twitter @N7AME for updates.

JM08; 9/17 - 9/21 
Philippe Chateau, EA4NF will be @EA6/EA4NF on Formentera Island. This 
counts as DXCC EA6, Grid JM08, and IOTA EU-004.  Philippe will be on  
LEO FM & Linear birds. QSL via LoTW as EA6/EA4NF. For this new 
satellite portable activation, Philippe will bring with him his 
Yaesu FT-818ND and a FT-817ND operating in full duplex with an 
Alaskan Arrow Antenna.

DM06, DM07, DM08, DM16, DM17 and DM18; 9/11 and 9/13
David Bartholomew, AD7DB is heading out to activate DM06, DM07, DM08, 
DM16, DM17 and DM18 on Friday, 9/11/20 and Sunday 9/13. Taking FM 
gear only. Click @AD7DB for details.

[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR for the above information.]

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ARISS News

+ Completed Contacts

College Raymond Sirot, Gueux, France, telebridge via VK5ZAI 
The ISS callsign was NA1SS. 
The astronaut was Chris Cassidy, KF5KDR. 
The contact was successful on Thursday, 9-10-2020 at 08:17:01 UTC.

+ Upcoming Contacts

Avellaneda Ikastetxea, Sodupe, Spain, telebridge via ZS6JON
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS. 
The scheduled astronaut is Chris Cassidy, KF5KDR. 
The contact is go for Friday, 9-18-2020 at 12:56:34 UTC.

[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N  for the above information.]

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    AMSAT, along with our ARISS partners, is developing an amateur
    radio package, including two-way communication capability, to
            be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit.

  Support AMSAT's projects today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/

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Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events 

+ Clint Bradford K6LCS has booked his “Work the FM Voice Satellites 
With Minimal Equipment” presentation for the for the following clubs: 

09/14/2020 – North Agusta Belevedere Radio Club
10/27/2020 – Cherryland ARC / Traverse Bay ARC
TBD – Antelope Valley (CA) ARC
TBD – A private presentation for a Boy Scout troop in Danville, PA

These will be Zoom presentations. Everyone is asked to update their 
copies of the Zoom application by directly visiting Zoom.us.

[ANS thanks Robert Bankston, KE4AL for the above information.]

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Shorts from All Over

+ UPMSAT-2 Recordings Wanted

The UPMSAT-2 team would appreciate receiving recordings of their 
satellite. They are especially interested in recordings made from 
outside Spain. UPMSAT-2 transmits on 437.405 MHz using USB, not FM.

Recordings can be send to contacto @ amsat-ea.org

[ANS thanks Felix Paez EA4GQS for the above information.]


+ Route 66 On-the-Air from W6D

Christy Hunter, KB6LTY is happy to report that the COVID-19 pandemic 
is not keeping the 2020 Route 66 On-the Air event off the air. This 
year the event starts September 12 and goes through September 20. 
Christy will be representing W6D on the FM and SSB birds from her 
home not far from Route 66 in DM14. Only paper QSL cards will be 
issued for W6D contacts(no LoTW).  Look for W6D on QRZ.com for her 
mailing address. Complete information on the event can be found at 
http://w6jbt.org/.

[ANS thanks Christy Hunter, KB6LTY for the above information.]


+ Reminder: Annual GNU Radio Conference Begins September 14, 2020

GRCon20 will be held starting September 14, 2020 online as a virtual 
event. Keynote speakers include: Becky Schoenfeld W1BXY, Managing 
Editor of QST magazine, Oona Räisänen [windytan] hacker of signals 
and computer programmer, and Jim St. Leger, Director Open Source, 
Intel.  Full registrations are sold out but free registration 
for all virtual GRCon20 technical talks, keynotes, and lightning 
talks is still available at https://tickets.gnuradio.org/grcon20/.

[ANS thanks GNU Radio for the above information.]


+ NASA, NOAA to Discuss Solar Cycle Prediction

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 
will discuss predictions for the upcoming solar cycle during a media 
teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 15. Tracking the solar 
cycle is a key part of better understanding the Sun and mitigating 
its impacts on human technology and infrastructure. 

During the teleconference, experts on the Solar Cycle 25 Prediction 
Panel will discuss recent updates in solar cycle progress, and the 
forecast for the upcoming cycle, Solar Cycle 25. Complete information 
and registration information can be found at 
https://tinyurl.com/ANS-257-NASA-Live.

[ANS thanks NASA Radio for the above information.]


+ AT&T Seeking Buyers For DirecTV

Well-heeled Amateurs wanting a geosynchronous ham radio satellite of 
their own now have their chance. AT&T purchased DirecTV in 2015 and 
paid some $67 billion overall. With declining viewership and 
increased competition, ATT&T wants to unload the company and decrease 
its debt load. Most observers suggest the price might be a 
flea-market bargain at about $20 billion. The catch? ATT&T would 
retain 50% ownership.

[ANS thanks Satnews for the above information.]

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status.

Contact Martha at the AMSAT office for additional student 
membership information.

73,
This week's ANS Editor,
Frank Karnauskas, N1UW
n1uw at amsat dot org

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